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Show WHAT TRANSPORTATION MI ;S. What Mr. Stubbs said in atocal paper yesterday yes-terday about a possible tie-up of the railroads of the country for a single week is quite true and is at the same time a startling reminder of how closely the transportation of this country is linked with the country's very life. The' stoppage of the roads for two weeks would place several large cities on the verge of starvation, for it is true that the masses of the people in large cities live literally from hand to mduth, from day to day, and the stocks of those who supply the people with food are always limited in many of the' essentials. What would New .York City do were its milk and vegetable supply shut off for a week? What -would the snimals in that city do were their supplies. suspended for a fortnight? The city could not support the living or bury its dead. Then as to general business: We read yesterday how one great railroad company had 500 of its cars stranded on the tracks of other companies because, through washouts, those companies have been unable to move their trains. Suppose all were to stop for two weeks; the roads could not catch up in six months for they have more than they can do by pressing their work every day. . The situation is so full of peril that we are sure the managers, will in some way avert a strike, but if they do, that wilTnot remove the peril that all the time hangs over the people of our large cities. |