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and operated upon by labor; so that all the people, everywhere, can 

 take long- journeys. Again you shall see the country instinct with 

 human life and motion — people going and coming on business or pleas- 

 ure everywhere. The man toiling in the lowest, darkest mine feels a 

 thrill of hope as he thinks of that vacation trip he will take with his 

 family to some far-off region, where he can earn as much, if necessary, 

 as will keep them; or can fish or hunt for amusement. Verily, this is 

 the grandest idea of the age ! Without one knowing it, the pressure 

 for its realization is becoming dangerous to the point of explosion- 

 Eight this thing and a thousand evils that are but symptoms of this 

 disease — restriction will disappear. Right it wiselj^ and peacefully, 

 else war !>hall come to do the work and perhaps leave as great evils to 

 grow up in its path. 



\Yhile perhaps one million people travel on business or pleasure a 

 great deal, forty millions, in effect, never journey at all. Convince the 

 public mind once that low rates, such as have been indicated, will pay 

 the roads best by spreading knowledge of the truth and the reform 

 must come. The blessings that come from the genius of man are as- 

 much the dower of our common humanity as air, light, sand and water. 



Mr. Goodman. — I will just call attention to how the Illinois Central 

 railroad has done in regard to strawberries. They made low rates, and 

 during the season they had thirteen cars of berries a day to carry from 

 Ceutralia. Xot so at Alton ; hence they have no market for fruits. It 

 will be just so with the transportation of persons, the travel will in- 

 crease with the lowering of the rates, so that the companies will make 

 more money at the low rates than at the high. 



Mr. Follett. — -This is a big question, we are in a town that is being 

 ruined by the management of the transportation companies. Their 

 discriminations center the population in the large cities. There is only 

 one way it can be taken in hand and remedied, and that is by the 

 people, taking hold of it through legislation, State and National, and 

 compelling the companies to do right. The rates should be fixed at 

 one set price, so that the big dealer can not undersell the small dealer. 

 I was in Iowa this fall. In some of the interior counties a cattle car 

 to Chicago cost seventy dollars, while at Omaha, seventy-five miles- 



