Excerpt from Suggestions Concerning the Railroad Problem It is one of the characteristic qualities of the American people to learn quickly. One year's experience has sufficed to demonstrate to the people at large that government operation of railroads means deterioration in service, higher cost, lessened eagerness to please the shipper and study his convenience - not to mention the menace of politics becoming a determining factor in the fixing of wages, in new construction, betterments, etc. I believe that a decisive majority of the farmers, the shippers and the consumers in general have made up their minds that in this country government operation of railroads is not wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.