Show A when oni one rani reas s oi er the of 0 the union railroad it gives him ahot santa feeling that thai it does to road or ol a crippled elephant such tremendous forces such mighty revenues and let id all absorbed in the charges and tile the management perpetually crippled because of obligations which hamper its every movement and prevent improvements which the ilia system imperatively demands every one in this thin regi region on knows that had bad tho the union pacific flo lt last year he had a hundred hund roil more locomotive w blikh I 1 alth would have cost a million of 0 dol do larf and extra freight cars coiling halt half as much it could havo have doubled its ita bustness business over the oregon short line and mightily increased lucro ased its business over the little branch to thiele and yet that amount would hue have been lets less than 4 per cent of tile the receipts ot of the iho road and still the company was not able with w h all al Us its tro revenues and with all the credit that it could command to obtain that addition to its rolling stock block I 1 and all the trouble on tho the road now originated iway away back when ilia build on are of the road piled up tip tho the feat ful indebtedness debt edness against it and divided the profits among themselves lier since tho the road has had a dotibee and treble handicap ever since it has been forced to charge high fire barei and freights ever dver since it has been forced to work vs ork men over hours and to economize to the point ol of extravagance whistle what we mean by economizing to the point of extravagance Is that is bore three locomotives have been needed the effort has been to do the vor work kIth alth two and so tile the lles lives of the machines have been shortened and that thai promptness and expedition which Is 13 the iho life of every blis business mess has been lost again the track has been run over after it 11 ought to have been thrown away and replaced by now nov material and the result has been a continuous line of v m rocks until tho the road had tho the wrecks not been removed could have been traced by the debris left by those wrecks reeks again the road as originally built was riot not always on the best grades or on in tho the shortest linesa prominent am employee of the road told thu tho writer of this eighteen months ago that by building forty miles of now new road a heavy grade could be avoided one most costly and dangerous bridge gone round and some thirty miles of distance saved and the company was too poor to build that forty miles so it his has gone on for years and the people have blamed the management when in fact the manage luent could DO more demonstrate demon strato what hat it had the ability to perform under the conditions thin than would a prize fighter have tho the opportunity to display what was in him it if both his hands bands were tied it ought to be a warning tor for all time to como come to the people in a now new country coats try who need railroad facilities they should insist on having it built tor for a fair price prica and so important Is this that the states should interpose and make say any charter that it gives to a railroad company subject to the condition that whatever road should bo be built it should not exceed in expense the estimates of competent engineers and one of those engineers should bo be employed by the state the union pacific railroad system ought to be tho the finest in all tho the west it if it ft Is not it Is simply duo to the fact that it was loaded up by is a debt that was heavier than all the locomotives and cars on the road and tho the debt handicaps the work of every cry orea locomotive tor for it makes it haul one ton bior tho public and ten tons to go on account of the interest or tho the principal of the debt |