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Rh correct and that mislead and prejudice the unthinking. Every individual can do some good by encouraging decent newspapers and by frowning upon yellow journalism and muck-raking magazines. The schools of the country are teaching daily eighteen and one half million boys and girls, and every individual interested in the welfare of his country should exercise some influence in seeing that common sense, industry, and self-denial are taught as well as some other things.

For a long time it has been very fashionable to attack the railroads. They are a big target. The men engaged in other forms of business have looked on and to some extent have sympathized with such attacks, not realizing that sooner or later their turn will surely come, if the crusade against large forms of business continues. The railroad business represents more than 1,500,000 employees, receiving more than $1,000,000,000 a year in wages; and about 1,000,000 security-holders. The employees and the numerous small owners of the railroad as a whole are hard-working, Rh