352 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



where the conditions of the comparisons are 

 more parallel, the State lines will be seen to 

 be invariably the more economically managed 

 as regards administration." 



The recent railway strike, crippling the 

 whole trade of the nation at a moment's notice, 

 has shown to us all in a vital way that the 

 railway lines have become the real metal 

 highroads in which certain companies of 

 individuals have been granted monopoly rights. 

 Surely it is an anachronism that any nation 

 dependent upon the use of these metals for its 

 daily existence should suffer its food-supply to 

 be carried or withheld at the dictation of 

 individuals. No other country permits the 

 individual to exercise such despotic rights. 



There are many parts of the British Isles, 

 out of the beaten track of trade, where 

 there is no railway service, or places in- 

 efficiently and expensively served by railways, 

 where a well - organised road motor service 

 would be of an enormous benefit to pro- 

 ducers as well as consumers. Such a service 

 might be of incalculable use in bringing food 

 from the farm to the town in the event of a 

 suspension of the railway traffic. 



A great deal of time is often lost in sending 



