The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-27
ROAD HEADS ARE
TOLD1OCHfERUP
PRESIDENT INGALLS, or THE BIG
FOUR SEES BETTER DAY
FOR OUR RAILROADS.
AGITATION SPELLS RUIN
He Declares But Has High Hopes
That Present Conditions viii
soon Give Way to squarer
and Fairer Dealings.

Pitsburg, April2G.-- Two hundred
or more railroad presidents. vice
presidents and other officials he
sides manufacturers and all classes
Of shippers Of freight were the guests
Of the Traffic club Of Pittsburg TO.
night at the annual banquet. w. Al.
Terry. president OF the club In his
address Of welcome presented many
suggestions TO both shippers and
carriers as to their duties toward
each other to further spirit OF CO.
operation and also advised that each
interest be represented on the inter
state commerce commission.
Melville f. ingalls,, chairman Of the
b0ard Of directors OF the Hig Four
railroad in his address said in part:
Better Times Coming.
Now, what of the future? And il Ia
one OF the most important questions
that the American republic has ever
faced. You may abuse the railway
menyou may by chance force into
bankruptcy railway lines, but YOU
cannot wipe ont the great Transports
ton industry, the great business rep
resented by the railways, without de-
stroying the business Of your coun
try. There Is nothing else that |
know Of that so permea es the life,
the health and the happiness Of the
nation as It's transportation interests.
Over a million CT men are employed
directly by the railways; at least 81
100000 are employed by the railways
and the companies. which are sub
sidiary and producers for the rail-
ways. Twenty millions Of peop'e, or
one-fourth of all the inhabitants Of
this land are dependant for their
taily bread, their health and their
happiness upon the prosperity of the
railways.
Therefore, he is a very careless
man and no lover of his country who
turns In and joins the crowd Of dcma
gogues who today are bowling and
abusing the railways Your congress.
your legislatures, your courts, must
consider that this Il an enormous
question and one of those which goes
70 the very yitals of the life of the
country.
Present Conditions Spell Panic.
If the present condition Of affairs
IS prolonged. il means panic, It means
suffering, II means dull times, long
hours and poor wages for the working
people, Never is the country so pros
porous as when the railways are
prosperous. The talk that their
tariffs must be reduced that tho rail-
ways are charging too much, is the
most foolish of all Your railway
rates are less than those OF any coun-
cry known TO civilized man. A trihing
reduction which you would be abe to
get would not secure happlno or
comfort to the great mass OF people.
but might cause great suffering TO
those very same ones. 1t might mean
I trifling sum of money to some ship
oers. but it would be productive OF
'oss 10 the great mass Of working
men.
If you can get public rates and the
same rates to all. that is what YOU
need What you desire for the good
II the country at large is more good
tracks. good equipment and good
service; and you can only get them
by allowing the railways to charge
air prices for their services
6enefaetors Not Psr.ahs.
4 new evangel must be preached
in reference TO the railways: they
must be placed upon a higher plane.
and instead of being considered by
the ordinary people as pariahs. they
must be considered by al as bene-
factors and you who have struggled
along 50 faithfully during the past
Years. doing many things that have
been criticised. but doing them only
for your company and no for your
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. yon are the
men to preach this new gospel and
produce a higher and better caHd.-
ton of affairs.
You would think today from The in
erviews emanating from Wall street
hat the railways were ruined you
would think from he interviews or
The politicians and the demag sgucs
that railway honor had departed fro1
this earth; yoH would think from the
Interview that you real in foreign
Dapcrs where probably tAe wish i
the father Of the thought. that the day
Of American expansion and develop
ment had goue-thst We we're uaabie
to manage such large afsirs-but II
ysu have integrity as ! believe you
have. sou viii ouilive al these At
.acks-aH these severe criticisms.
r1 sce n i.cfter dav dlpn To- tie
-ailuay Interests u This country. ami
.oI yourselves a. ranzgc-s q ih1sc
interests