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Rh way that a healthy development of the country will be promoted.

Individually, the railway-owner, the railway employee, and the railway-user, when they discuss the subject, are fair and agree there should be fair treatment to all. There is, however, a school of politicians who make wild and extravagant statements and who are assuming, without knowing the facts and without adequate study of the situation, that great injustices are being done. It is important for the railway employee and the railway-user to post themselves about this general subject if they are to continue to exercise their present control in the management of the business of the railway-owner. His business is now an open book, and every transaction is recorded in plain black and white and reported at frequent intervals to railway commissions, state or national. The charges that he makes for service performed are largely decided by statute or by railway commissions. Many of the rules under which he conducts his business are made by law, or by various boards. The railway-user, Rh