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Show ARE YOU XX AMERICAN Are you proud of your country? Are you proud of American achieve-mnns? achieve-mnns? Listen: There Is no greater notional Institution In-stitution than the American railway system, run bv railroad men. The West has been built by the transcontinental railroads. A little over n hundred years ago all the country west of the Mississippi Mississ-ippi River belonged to France. Spain and No Man. Kven'ln ISr.o there were less than inn.OOn people in this territory. To-; To-; day there are l o.OoO.nOO. Shacks , have become skyscrapers. The dosert ! has been made to bloom. Western ln-; ln-; dustries serve the world. It was Lincoln who urged the enn-! enn-! structlon of continental railways. He Insisted that the Government help to build "not only as a military necessity" ne-cessity" -as George Dodge had said "but. n a means of holding the Pacific Coast to the Union." From this Id,,,, of a United Republic Re-public came the nnni0 nf (hn rnnn Pacific. Since the completion nf the road, jf.-l years ago, the West has won pros-Parity. pros-Parity. The stMes have won solidity. solid-ity. The railroads have won the pub-He's pub-He's gratitude. Today the nationalized transcontinental transconti-nental railroads u,.ie t,n EIlsl and West - boulnv rds of steel for pas-sengers pas-sengers and freight. |
