Show canadas railway experiment fails canada is becoming weary of the load it carries in III added taxes because ot of the failure allure ot of its experiment in carrying on its publicly owned canadian national railways system says the san francisco chronicle the question of 0 dropping out ot of the railroad business may be the real issue in the coming general election the the canadian senate has been conducting inquiries looking for a way out of the mess five concrete proposals have been submitted but the one most favorably considered involves the willingness of the canadian tic fic privately owned and operated to consider an amalgamation or merger of 0 its paying lines with the dominions losing lines under a joint board ot of directors canada Canad 1 is yearly adding to its public debt for the privilege of owning a railway system it may call its own in the last six years the operation of 0 these lines has added an aggregate of 0 to the do minions obligations the people are beginning to cry out loud the prewar debt ot of the dominion was less than it is now nov about and the deficit ot of its publicly owned railway system adds yearly to the burden here in the united baited states we can appreciate the canadian difficulty during the world war we also tried an experiment in national operation ot of railroads it cost us something like it will take us a 10 long 9 time to forget this costly les son |