The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-27
INGALLS, OF THE BIG FOUR
 ADDRESSES TRAFFIC CLUB
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ottlctals. You must
 "Take up the white mans burden
 No royal rule of kings,
 But toll of serf and sweeper
 The toll of common things.
 The resentment of the politicians in time will die away. The shipper will soon forget that his right to receive re- bates was not inalienable, and that the railways at least have not wronged him in stopping them; the members of congress and the legislatures who have been so accustomed to the free use of transportation that the purchase of a ticket seems like flying in the face of Providence will find that 1t has been decreed by the people, and not by the railways, that they must receive no more free transportation, and they will in time stop abusing the railways for this change.
 You must manage. your railways so as to placate the public. While being conservative and protecting your in terests, you must give the public the consideration that is due them. You must reason and explain your situa- tion to congress, to legislatures, to city governments to commercial bodies
 Above all, you must make your do- ings public; you must show (what believe 1t is perfectly easy to show) that tie railways of this country are not over-capitalized; that not for an instant could they be produced for their present bonds and stocks.
 Above all things, the interstate com merce commission at Washington must be strengthened; its numbers should be enlarged; the salary of its members should be increased; it should be filled with the ablest men of this country, and you must cultivate them and act in harmony with them, and show that you want nothing that is wrong, but want and must have your rights.
 desire to say that, from years of experience with the members of the interstate commerce commission, who have been there so long, I can testify to their worth aud abllity-to the un- selfish manner in which they have tried to serve both the people and the rail- ways-and when I say that the com mission sltould be strengthened I imply . no disrespect of them, but they have so many new duties and so much more is expected of them than formerly that it will require a large additional force to do the work, and that force should be strengthened by good men.
 I believe in time your position, in- stead of being looked upon as one of disgrace, as it has been for the last year, will gradually get back into pub lie esteem until you will be looked up- on, as you ought to be, as the best in the land-as the men on whose judg- ment and exertions the public prosper ity of the country depends.
 You have only got to be honest and to your own selves true, bearing for a little while the abuse and contumely of the present, and the future will be yours.
 By patience and time the legislation of congress and of the states in refer ence to the railways must be harmon ized It will not do to have forty-six states passing forty-six different acts. So far as it is possible, all legislation in reference to rates should be left to congress, but the states should exer- else their full power as to repairs and the conditions of the property, etc.
 Above all, you must have legislation giving you authority to contract and make agreements between yourselves which can be enforced. These agree ments must be public, and, in case of complaint, passed upon by the inter- state commerce commission. You must have legislation providing that no new railways shall be built or new stock and bonds issued, except with the ap- proval of the interstate commerce com mission. I know this will cause storm among some railway promoters but, gentlemen, you have got to submit and you might as well make up your minds now that you are no longer a private industry, and he who is not prepared to manage his railway as a public institution, in accordance with law, should resign and seek other busi- ness.
 A new evangel must be preached in reference to the railways they must be placed upon a higher plane, and in stead of being considered by the ordin- dIy peOplo dS pebl ASbllS, LHS3 Iliuot p0 considered by all as benefactors, and you who have struggled along so faith fully during the past years, doing many things that have been criticised, but doing them only for your company and not for your personal aggrandizement, you are the men to preach this new gospel and produce a higher and bet ter conditions of affairs.
 You would thing to-day from the in terviews emanating from Wall Street that the railways were ruined; you would think from the interviews of the politicians and the demagogues that railway honor has departed from this earth; you would think from the in- terview that you read in foreign pa- pers, where probably the wish is the father of the thought, that the day of American expansion and development had gone-that we were unable to man. age such large affairs-but if you are faithful to your trust; if you have patience; if you have integrity, as l be- lieve you have, you will outlive all these attacks-all these sewers criti- cisms and see a better day dawn for the railway interests of this country, and for yourselves as managers of those interests.
 To this end every man--whether a shipper or an individual-every man