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Excerpt from Our Railroads to-Morrow We were promised a complete solution of our transport troubles with the hurried passage two years ago of the Esch Cummins Bill, now known officially as the Transportation Act. Have we reached that solution, or anything like unto a solution? You do not have to ask the average man twice for an answer to that question. He knows. If he is a business man he knows doubly well. He knows that for the last ten years our American railroad system has been in something of a decline. A decade ago it was at the zenith of its efficiency. For eighty years it had been climbing upward; for the last ten it has been Slipping backward. Oh, yes, I do know its war record. It was a fine record and one of which every American should be duly proud. There is hardly a physician, however, who has not seen a patient, terribly sick, under the stress of great emergency rise magnificently to a definite sit nation of supreme importance. So four years ago rose our Sick man of American business. And now he has gone to bed more ill than ever before while many doctors quarrel about his case. And still he functions. The sick-abed man of our Amer ican business still renders the all-necessary service that none but him really can render. Fortunately perhaps American business itself at this moment is not in the very best of health. One shudders to think what would happen if industry all the way across the land were again in its top notches of production. It is not the least of the perplexing phases of this all-perplex ing railroad problem of ours - the question, when traffic shall again rise (as it certainly will) to normal volume, to say noth ing of any abnormal volume, of how our weakened railroad structure will meet it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.