Should Railroad Rates Be Raised?: An Affirmative Answer (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There are ln the country, at th1s tlme, two hun dred fifty thousand mlles of hue and three hundred elghty thousand mlles of track There IS enough lme to go around the earth ten tlmes at the equator and more than fifteen tlmes ln the latltude of M11 waukee There 1s enough track to go around the earth nearly twenty-five tlmes ln the lat1tude of M11 waukee, enough to lay nearly one hundred twenty parallel tracks from New York to San Francrsco, and all of thls has been constructed W1th1n the Me tlme of men stlll 11v1ng All of thls trackage 18 of standard gauge, and every mlle 1s a connected part of the whole, 1t penetrates every part of the three mllhon square mlles of our publlc domaln, and over 1t the products of the farm, the forest and the mlne may be, and dally are shlpped to the ortles and the seaports of the land, and over 1t ln turn are dally shlpped, for dlstrlbutron, the fimshed products of every forergn country and of every sectlon of our own.

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