The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-26

when their pirate practices done out of cahe
dra walls in their askets while the pulpit orators praised he
great captains of commerce."
The concrete highways crying Tor are taking freight
away from the railroads Getting less freight the railroads
asking for higher Higher forcing freight the
auto truck The auto truck forcing the backs
the people, The transportation business as it today
going round ring Private enterprise whether working
the rail working the peoples roads, using
serving the public The people being support pr
vate enterprise This the people beginning to realize
Old Vanderbilt right Transportation the big business
it is the business which business depends Shall
make that aessentia business private business? Shall
make the peoples business? The protecon and sefde
veopment problem of every business forcing this issue
The auto dealers sell the past
they have been readung the figure of what they predict
would be the autosaturaton point There approximately
something than hundred ten million people in the
United States This there been issued nearly eleven
million auto vehicle license tags Auto dealers boastfuy predict
that they will swell the number up twelve millions before the
first of the year.
Most Of have bitten the bait and every auto maker is
rebaitg the hook for to bite We buying autos and
will continue to buy autos The autos bought the better
There going aturation figure We going buy
until every then going buy
autos take the place of the The
buy autos the clamor for roads.
The railroads built their roads first and then their rolling
The auto that We buy the rolling
stock first and then build the road.
AS get good road private freight and
companies just boldly take the public endowment Of
roadbed and into unfair competition with the railroads. There
269OOO miles United States 1t
estimated that considerably in of that figure In i'm
proved highways.
sale going increase the improved
highways The increased highways going decrease railroad
patronage That decrease of rail patronage does not apply only
freight This last buses and nterurban tnys into the
business of the railroads at such rate that it
ratio years there won't be enough
business left To be specific automobiles
many passengers railroad trains this last
You naturally thats only the short hauls not
long, No. not long haus but when strike the
estimated passenger mage basis the automobiles did nearly
the passenger business that the railroads did,
great change coming in whole transportation
radical change that which the advent of the ocomo
tive brought people wanted railroads
they railroads. whatever the price they must have
your railroad story from the punderng
pirates who directed the and the railroad story
America of machless and marvel 1t thrills
Every rational minded like school boy wants to hurra
the railroad You cannot sixtymeanhour fier with
majestic giant of marvellous mechanism trailing its
ata Pumans with their cushioned and luxury with the
speed space without throwing hat The
bazed the trail The railroad the nation
builder We need it less than when it came
The auto has brought impatient demand that of hard
highways Good roads, the The railroad the
pioneer built the wilderness. The government it'll
bountfu subsidy lure where not Now the cr
the road AS the railroad the pioneer the auto
intensified pioneer The railroad finds and the auto
road refunds
money is being invested in autos than
being which to roll them Let that
little longer lawmakers in every state in this union
IN the capltOl at
MUST Iegisate to adjust these il-adjusted figures
multiply the tax burden is going to in
multiply the business of the railroad and
more going the rail and the chassis
passenger and the freight trucks only going
business they going get lot of their business
railroad AS their business increases the bust
railroads will decrease Yet exact standard of
service truck bus We do little compel it
respect safety inspection We demand
no puncuay schedule and regularity Of service When the
imposes hardship it, it quits business and dumps
it's business track Snow it. We the
We rnns he