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Of the 90,000,000 people in the United States, there are, as already pointed out, about 4,000,000 interested directly as railway-owners and their dependent families; 6,000,000 as railway employees and their dependent families, leaving 80,000,000 as railway-users, with an indirect interest in the prosperity of the railway. Some of these 80,000,000 are vitally interested, because they work for industries dependent upon the purchasing power of the railway for their success; others because they have their savings in banks and trust companies; others because they hold life-insurance policies for the protection of their families, and fire-insurance policies for the protection of their homes and business; and all are interested in having enough transportation and good and safe transportation.

The railway-user, however, is too apt to think that his interest lies in having railway rates constantly reduced, railway wages constantly raised, and railway taxes constantly Rh