. Electric railway journal . thods of signaling, and to the public rela-tions convention number, which presented the viewsof a large number of railway men, representatives ofcommissions and publicists on various phases of thisimportant question. The Journal realizes the gen-erous support and assistance which it has receivedfrom electric railway companies and their officials dur-ing the past year and hopes to merit a continuation ofthis assistance and approval in the future by even moreenergetic efforts in behalf of the industry. A BRIEF FORTHE RAILWAYS One of the several curious phasesof the a
. Electric railway journal . thods of signaling, and to the public rela-tions convention number, which presented the viewsof a large number of railway men, representatives ofcommissions and publicists on various phases of thisimportant question. The Journal realizes the gen-erous support and assistance which it has receivedfrom electric railway companies and their officials dur-ing the past year and hopes to merit a continuation ofthis assistance and approval in the future by even moreenergetic efforts in behalf of the industry. A BRIEF FORTHE RAILWAYS One of the several curious phasesof the attitude of a large sectionof the public toward the railwaysis the objection that is made if the roads speak out intheir own defense. A city official recently wrote to theElectric Railway Journal advising it to abandon itspartisan attitude in favor of street railroads. Ivery frequently get the impression, said this cor-respondent, that you are holding a brief for the publicutilities in striving to impress their viewpoint. The. impression is justified, we hope/Tlnd IT it amounts toan impeachment we plead guilty. But why should it beconsidered a fault to speak in defense of electric rail-ways, to state their side of the case, to defend themagainst attack? No one would propose that the mostdespicable criminal should be deprived of advocate andcounsel. Yet objection is frequently made when rail-ways presume to speak in their own behalf. Nothingcould bring into stronger relief the evil that has comeupon us by reason of long silence under misrepresen-tation and abuse. Instead of allowing the fact notedto turn us from the effort to establish the electric railwayindustry in the esteem of the public, it should revive andrenew effort in this direction. After so long and so heavya list composed almost entirely of railway wrongs, rail-way rights may seem unpalatable at first. But theymust be served as regularly and systematically as thewrongs have been. In the United States we have builtup
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