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THE MEN WHO BUILD THE RAILROADS Otf THE PACIFIC COAST. 



ting all that they have done towards furnishing a rapid 

 and convenient method of communication between dis- 

 tant points, and all that they have accomplished in 

 developing new sections of country, we are sure it will 

 be admitted by the majority of the thinking men of the 

 country that the railroads of the present day are as 

 much of a danger as a convenience to the country, and 

 that unless they are soon subjected to some system of 

 regulation by which they can be compelled to respect 

 the rights of the people to whom they owe their exists 

 ence, they will become not only sources of danger, but 

 the most annoying tyrannies that have ever cursed a 

 land. That there is danger from this source we hope 

 to show. 



Practically the railroads of the United States are 

 subject to no restraint. Nominally they are acting 



