26 WAYFARING NOTIONS 



the profits on the railroad, the directors should 

 lay themselves out to lose by their canals. Still, 

 there it is. They do so, just as the trunk lines 

 have many a time starved their feeders, the 

 tributaries, little local companies, till their share- 

 holders capitulated and turned them over to 

 the big company at woeful loss. You v^ould 

 fancy, would you not, that what was good for 

 the small company would be so for the great 

 also ? 



