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Show States each year. A minority are hoboes. Many are respected citizens. A goodly number are school children. Using the track as a "shortcut" home or to work often proves a "short cut" to the grave. Were these 5,000 killed in one accident, the public would rise as one man to stop it. Occuring as they do, one by one, the public is lamentably different. More lives could be saved by the enforcement of such laws than by providing steel cars, installing in-stalling block signals, and abolishing ab-olishing grade crossings, which, , if required at one time would bankrupt every railway in America. Amer-ica. The an'ti-trespassing law will cost nothing and will afford immediate relief, leaving the other oth-er remedies to be provided as the needs of the communities and the financial ability of the interested parties may determine. One life is as precious as another. Why throw all the safeguards around the passenger and hone around the tresspasser? The way to protect the passenger is to transport him safely ; the trespasser, tres-passer, to keep him from becoming becom-ing one. Warn, therefore, all who walk on railway tracks that they are in great danger. 5,000 Trespassers Killed The Salt Lake Route is sending out the following to its employees employ-ees relative to trespassers. During the past eight years this line, altho running from six to a dozen thru-passenger trains, has not destroyed the life of a single passenger. This is certainly cer-tainly an enviable record for one of the leading railroads of the United States and is worth the consideration of the traveling public. The Salt Lake Route is a safe road to ride upon. In the last eight years no passengers have been killed in train accidents. It is a very unsafe road to walk upon. During the same period, one hundred and one tresspasers have been killed. When the railway is used for the purpose intended, it is a good place to be, when the public uses it for any other purpose, it does so at its peril Please make it your business to at once acquaint the employees at your station, your friends and neighbors, school teachers, editors edi-tors and ministers, with the following fol-lowing facts: Five thousand (5,000) trespassers tres-passers are killed in the United |