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PAGE 1 <br> <br> <br> Post Card <br> CORRESPONDENCE <br> <br> <br> PAGE 2 <br> <br> <br> Interesting Quotations <br> <br> <br> “The latest figures available show that the charge for the transportation of freight is much lower per ton mile in the United States than it is in other countries. Glancing over comparative figures for recent years we find that the ton mile revenue in various countries is: <br> <br> <br> United Kingdom of Great Britain <br> Germany <br> France <br> Austria <br> Norway <br> Belgium <br> Switzerland <br> New South Wales <br> South Australia <br> <br> <br> while for the United States it was in 1913, 7.29 mills.” - E.E. Clark, Member Interstate Commerce Commission <br> <br> <br> “Small margin for dividends. Low rates and adequate facilities are demanded by the public, but the granting of one is often the denial of the other. In the year 1912, 88 cents out of every dollar paid to the railways, by the public, went for operating expenses, taxes and interest before there was a cent for new facilities or dividends.” - United States Senator Underwood, before the Sphinx Club, New York, March 9th, 1915 <br> <br> <br> “The railroads are only too happy to remove all grade crossings, to equip every mile of track with automatic block signals, to make every car of all-steel construction, but to do these things is utterly impossible without the money with which to pay for them.” <br> <br> <br> “Railway taxes have risen by leaps and bounds. Each mile of line in the country paid $199 in taxes in 1890 and $431 in 1919.” <br> <br> <br> “We must regulate so as to secure all necessary railroad facilities for both the present and the future” - Senator Underwood, before the Sphinx Club, March 19, 1915 <br> <br> <br> “Wise policy requires that a railroad property should be kept up to the level of its highest reasonable efficiency at all times.” - L.C.C. in Eastern Rate Case <br> <br> <br> “Of all the factors that have contributed during this century to the growth of wealth, to the increase of material comfort, and to the diffusion of information and knowledge, the railway plays the most prominent part.” <br> <br> <br> “In its aggregate it (the railway) represents a larger investment of capital than any other branch of human activity; and the service that it renders and has rendered to society is both from industrial and commercial points of view, greater than is rendered by any other single service to which man devote their activities” <br> <br> <br> “Under private ownership, the railroads of the United States, built and operated for profit, have grown far beyond the measure of growth in other countries, where, for the most part, railroads have been the care of the government.” <br> <br> <br> “The railroad, generally speaking, adds a percentage to the farmers’ prices that is not large.” - Hon. James Wilson, Ex-Secretary of Agriculture <br> <br> <br> “The railroads are in a large sense but a clearing house for labor and supplies. They collect, to pay out again.” <br>