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Show Reform Needed. No phase of the President's message is of much greater impoit.iucc than that bearing on the pievention of rail-load rail-load accidents. In the past year theie have been killed in tailway accidents no less than i:,000. To this iccoid. must be added .11, ai:i who wore Injured. Injur-ed. In 1D0J the number of killed and Injuied ran up to T.l.iio.and this number num-ber has not been appicclably less for yeais back. It Is time to call a halt. Such wanton wan-ton sacrillce of life and limb should not be tolerated. It Is not tolerated any place on the globe except in the United States. Tlie railway accidents in Euiopo arc at a minimum and of absolute inslgnllicance In comparison with the record in our own country. Hold the piopcr people responsible for the accidents and tlley will cease to occur. The Individual employe is not always the one, but rather the "hlgh-inuck-a-nuiclc" who sits In his New York otilce and docs nothing but draw his unearned dividends fiom the toad. Through his insistence that the load bo conducted on an economical economic-al basls.ioad-bcds are not built as they should be, bridges arc not constructed so that theie Is absolutly no danger of a bicak, two men aro made to do the woik of three, schedules are made which the condition of the load will not justify, and trains aie run con-j con-j tlntiously ove- jioitlonsof the lino that i are known U jm dangoious. italhoad ptcsldentsatid dlrectoisare frequently more culpable than Individuals and the responsibility of accidents should rest where It belongs. j Let the great railroad magnates, presidents and directors be held ie-sponsible ie-sponsible for accidents on their lines and they vylll sec to It that the block signal system Is In perfect operation, that every safety appliance Is In use, that both load-bed and lolling stock aie in pel feet condition, that only tnc most cxpei icnced and trustworthy men aie h icsponslble positions. Until Un-til this Is done there will be little improvement. |