Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-08-15 | Page 4 | Local News

' i I J v ' -J i 1 r The prospect of a universal .railroad strike of the employees is something to make one shudder. Imagine the railroad transportation of the United States stopped for a single month I A great many cities would ba starving, and in a great many cities there would be no fuel with which to cook food. Men could not travel. It would in effect be like a cataclysm, which would atop the business of the earth, and tha matter ia so serious that tha government govern-ment should interpose and make such a situation impossible, because the very life of a nation might rest upon the freight' transportation over ita rail-' roads, which, stopped for a single week, might end in disaster and prolonged war. It is the biggest argument in favor of government ownership of railroads ever advanced, but that would not be b,est and so the government ought to interpose and the laws be made so clastic that in ease of a calamity of that kind the wrong could be righted in tha least possible time, for the very life of a modern nation rests on its transportation facilities.