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Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 5 | Suspects Plot to Discredit M'adoo

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Date 1918-02-03
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Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Suspects Plot to Discredit M'adoo
Type article
Date 1918-02-03
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 5
OCR Text SUSPECTS PLOT TO " DISCREDIT M'ADOO Fy Tntrnatioral News S rvi. . WASUINOTON, b. 2.-( i.arp-vs thai raiirou 1 of fi-rialb are tr lmr t" r..a!.e ;t failure of $o ernn:ei.t cpf rat 'en of railroads rail-roads a re contained in s-or s of letters r,-ioived by William G. McAdoo. dirpctr-c;neral dirpctr-c;neral of Tailrcfids. Similar lettrrn. It wa leanicd tonlsht. have t-en received by memlT of t:ic house Interstate and foreicn commerce conn nil te, some of which have been turnl over to M :Adco. Copies of some1 of 1! letters were Kiven out tonight by j officials of the povenmient railroad ad- j mini ;t rat ion witl:oit comment. He- 1 quet was n,ade that the names of the writers be withheld. A typical letter, from a business man of Han born. Iowa, follows: I cannot say that I am an enthusiast enthu-siast for povci nmcnt opera t ion of all public utilities, but I am interested In war-lime efficiency and if I Set the proper impression of your a'-tinns this accords with your views. Feln.T located In a railroad division town, I hear a preat deal of talk anions railroad rail-road men and.it seems that the general gen-eral opinion is that thos tn charce of train operation are peeking- to discredit dis-credit po e in men t operation for fear of the future. What is done with the railroads after the war dees not interest me. at tlds Lime, btit 1 believe that men who will stoop to such methods and thereby interfere with the moving of supplies which may win or lose this conflict are thereby endangering our national future, are just as guilty as the anti-American, or I. W. , who places an obstruction on tho track io wreck h train. At the local shops engines aro ordered, and after several tons of coal are consumed in petting them ready, they are ordered canceled. This Is hardly conservation of fuel. Equipment repaired sta nds on the track for several days at a time because be-cause tra ins have been abandoned or taken off entirely. In the meantime, it takes five or six days to get freight only a few miles. T-oss of revenue does not concern them, as the government will take care of tha t. Sometimes It does seem that the so-called rich have a, way of evading their duty and I believe be-lieve that the a t tent ion of those responsible re-sponsible should be called to this matter in no uncertain terms. Newspapers, among ot her apencles, . are doing their best to help the administration ad-ministration and with but few exceptions ex-ceptions without regard to political differences, but that work can not - help much if other interests of great power do not at least "do their bit."
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