The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-19
years ago to enter upon their min
istry in the new country in the un-
broken west.

Among the Men Who Make America.
One time Napoleon, before he
reached the height of his imperial
i dreams, was passing along narrow
mountain path in the Alps with some
distinguished women who laid claim
i to royalty, when they were con
fronted with a workman, bowed be-
meath a great bundle he was carrying.
i The women hesitated in stepping
4 aside, and Napoleon reproved them
with the remark, "Madames, respect
the burden!"
Quincy Wing: Do Americans ap-
preciate those who serve them? They
i should. The salary compensation OF
these who spend their lives in actual
i service OF the public is a small part
of the unpaid reward.
i 1t will be remembered that when
Theodore Roosevelt was President,
and travelling in various parts OF the
country, he was accustomed to walk
forward to the engine, when stopping
in city and shake hands with the
engineer and fremen. Those men
had guarded the President by their
skill and care, day and night, and he
was evidencing his appreciation.
Every day and night hundreds OF
thousands of the people of this coun,-
try entrust their lives to the railroad
workers, the man in the engine cab,
the tireless feeder of the furnace, the
thrower of the switch and brake, the
] signaler with the lantern, the oper-
ator at the telegraph key, the con.
ductor, whose patience, taxed to the
limit time and again, stands won.
4 derful strain.
4 How many people think of these
1 things as they travel in comfort and
security? In the minds eye does any
one OF them consider the man in
the rocking engine, who, through the
night, and, perhaps the storm, keeps
ceaseless vigilance over the safety Of
/ the hundreds behind him.
The unpaid reward OF toll and faith
fitness! How great it would be, II
paid in dollars. Not all the mag
mates of Wall Street, not all the heads
Of the great monopolies, not all the
treasures of the world could mint
their resources into the coin that
| would honestly compensate the mer
whose labor advances and enriches
the human race.
i There are great responsibilities or
the enginemen. They weigh upon him
4 every moment of his flight along the
rails. He not only guards the lives Of
his passengers but he is ever watch
full that he does not crush out some
life along the way A terrible thing
4 it is for an engineer to feel his iror
steed mangling and killing, without
any way to prevent. The visions o.
his engine-dead rise like ghosts tt
haunt him. He is innocent of wrong
but on his mind rests sense o.
partial responsibility. He did no
perpetrate the tragedy, but he was ;
witness against his will.
For this reason the railroad engi
neers have recently adopted resolu
ton calling on automobiles to stoI
at railroad crossings before attempt
ing to pass over them. During the
past few days several people have
been killed in automobiles at rail
road crossings. The engineer share
in these horrors. His request, baset
on desire to prevent such accidents
and to save human life, should b.
granted by every driver of an auto
; mobile. The autoist has plenty o
time, and a few seconds expended TO
safety, when human lives are a
stake, will well repay the man at tn,
wheel. Auto driver, respect the bur
: den; the man in the engine cab cal
ries one greater than your own!
! Among the railroad workers VIII
should command the respect of tn
people are ticket sellers. What vas
: amount of questions they must al
swer and what wonderful patienc
: they generally show If they becom
: them; 1t is merely human nature
such as animates us all, rebellin
4 against artificial restraint
:. And the dispatcher! Every me
ment of the twenty-four hours, eithe
. his morade or himself is at the key
always wakeful, forever constant t
his duty, helping to move, withou
accident, or interruption, the traffi
:. of continent. Wherever the grea
steel shuttles of commerce pass t
!. and fro in the weaving of tn
, : worlds great work, the eyes of thes
! men are on them, and see that the
! do not go amiss.
These men, the railroad workers c
America, serve their country, as we
as perform their work. The peopl
J owe them gratitude, as we'll as tn
companies owe them their salaries.
;. They are among the men who MAX
:. America.
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