112 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



Banbury has the celebrated works of my friend, Mr. 

 Samuelson, M.P. ; and before dinner I walked out to see 

 them, and if possible to learn something of Mr. Samuel- 

 son's whereabouts. Upon returning to the hotel I 

 found that he was at that moment occupying the sit- 

 ting-room adjoining ours. We had an evening's talk 

 and compared notes as brother manufacturers. If Eng- 

 land and America are drawing more closely together 

 politically, it is also true that the manufacturers of the 

 two countries have nearly the same problems to settle. 

 Mr. Samuelson was deep in railway discriminations and 

 laboring with a parliamentary commission to effect 

 changes, or rather, as he would put it, to obtain jus- 

 tice. 



I gave an account of our plans, our failures, and 

 our successes, of which he took note. This much I am 

 bound to say for my former colleagues upon this side 

 (for before I reformed I was a railway manager), that 

 the manufacturers of Britain have wrongs of which we 

 know nothing here, though ours are bad enough. I add 

 the last sentence lest Messrs. Vanderbilt, Roberts, Cas- 

 satt, and the Garretts (father and son), might receive a 

 wrong impression from the previous admission ; for these 

 are the gentlemen upon whom our fortunes hang. 



The evidence given before the Parliament Commis- 

 sion in Britain, proves that the people there are sub- 

 jected to far worse treatment at the hands of railway 

 companies than we are here. American grain is trans- 



