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Show LAEOEE EARNINGS. One hundred and fifty millions of dollars is a large sam for any industry to earn in one year, and yet this sum, great as it is, represents repre-sents not the gross earnings, but the increased earnings of the railroads in this country last year. What the business of the people of America amounts to may be imagined from the fact that they paid 1150,000,000 mora money for freight charges in 1905 than they did in 1904. It takes a great many tons of freight at an average charge of one cent per ton per mile to pile up $150,000,000. and that, as above noted, is not the amount of business done, but merely the increase of that business in 1905 as compared with 1904, and the railroads are not doing all the carrying for the American people by a long chalk. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. |