The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76
Causes of this Lamentable Failure
Causes of this Lamentable Failure.
First I place the system of administration pursued. This Professor R. T. Ely has more correctly described as "Our abominable no-system of railway." Years ago, writing of it I said, "The whole present railway system has been cradled in fraud and reared in corruption, and there will be no real lasting progress in the world until it is entirely swept away." To this statement after further years of study I adhere. We must reform our administration.
Next we must be more just as regards our railway expenditure and railway charges. Our railways can only prosper as they are worked in the interests of the whole community. We are far too small for any portion of our community alone to support them.
Let us take a look at the way our railway