Show CA CANT CAN'T T KI-J KI KEEP KEElS P UP U WITH ITJI IT Railroad men are arc to blame In seine som measure If It th the public grows Impatient with them for tor a failure allure to transport trans port needed merchandise promptly Th They have performed s such ch miracles In America that the average man not Inducted Into the marvels of or steam haulage mn may b be pardoned If Ir he asks ask for or stilt still more Utah Is not riot alone alono In suffering Inco Inconvenience from a condition wherein demand has so w considerably outrun supply Tho The region usually called tho the Northwest st is IH H In even en 1 less 1058 8 fortunate position From St. St Paul to the coast coant from rom Omaha to the mountains the th complaint Is the same me The Tho railroads can not keep kop up up with their Increased business When hen the electric lines first Invaded New England the tho New York and New Haven Railroad company fought tt them cm In the tho bitterest st manner Later that company bought hought the trolley roads and used them handling their transient poss passenger travel developed and ond extended the tho S-S S S. S L r t ep of or the tho old lines and made them an Important part system reached out far ar ahead Once tho the railroad companies had land grants and of ot the th line lino of or settlement They other ether Inducements Induce induce- various free tre right of ot way and nOli bonuses s 's and anel meats ments but hut 01 as a n rulo ruin they hail had to go through tho hands 0 of a receiver or two before hore th they found the tho region them businesS in the thA line lino developed to provide pro the tIne business that I Is Now tho tine railroads can not handle bandit Imposed upon them That Is the tho cold fact of oC the tho t m matr r r. keep up wU with It Tho The NOW New NewYork They mayo havo not been able to J. J lull Hill and his York Tribune speaking of at Mr Ir James of ot his roads quoted his desire to Increase the equipment statement that It would require a n billion dollars a u year In adequate shape shapo for tor forthe forthe to put time tho roads of tho the country countr the work they had to do and adds from official figur figures s o of tho the In Interstate In- In I Mr Ir Hill lh then n quotes 8 rom showing that while the tho Commerce commission In tIne the thoten Increased 21 per cent mileage of or railroad has hns only and 1905 and locomotives and anel andears ten pars bc between 1895 ears cars from rom 12 to 2 25 per cent passenger mileage has hIls in increased In- In creased d 95 96 per cent anel freight ton mileage per cent It needs more moro roads road Tho The old roads must ho bo double double- tracked The Tho rolling stock vastly as It hn has Increased Is Imperative e than all else elso Is still But Dut more moro the need of oC mor Anti And that can not be secured time lime nud money lots money lots of with a Pr Presto sto It requires the latter It requires a rearrangement of pre present ent But It will havo o to come The nation Is Q j without the aid o of the tho roads Tho The railroads 1 are ht helpless ss without the tho aid of or tho the nation There la in a mutuality both bolh In tho the obligation antI and In tho the benefit The nation has hns provided the business Now can ln the railroad men work again the wonders of accomplishment with which the they once so o vastly outran the demand for tor their services q Then they rl risked kel everything c Now t tiro ro Is 19 business for or them certain certain assured and permanent |