. Railway age . e Champlain. In 1S7 he was 17, ho went to worked for three years in tlwengineering department of tlicInternational & Great the three years from 1S77to 18SU he was station agent, opcrator and ticket seller on the sannroad. In IS80 he was appointedAssistant lOnginper of Construe-tion of the international & GreatNorthern, and during the next sixyears was Engineer of Construelion. Superintendent of , and Resident Engineer iniliarge of tracks, bridges amihiiildings. In 188fi he was trans-ferred to the Missouri Pacific asSuperiiiten(l(&g
. Railway age . e Champlain. In 1S7 he was 17, ho went to worked for three years in tlwengineering department of tlicInternational & Great the three years from 1S77to 18SU he was station agent, opcrator and ticket seller on the sannroad. In IS80 he was appointedAssistant lOnginper of Construe-tion of the international & GreatNorthern, and during the next sixyears was Engineer of Construelion. Superintendent of , and Resident Engineer iniliarge of tracks, bridges amihiiildings. In 188fi he was trans-ferred to the Missouri Pacific asSuperiiiten(l(>nt and Division Engi-neer of the lines in southernKansas, with headquarters atWiidiita Falls, a post which helield for eight years. Then he went lo the GreatNorthern as SupeiintendenI of theDakota division, with headquarters at Grand Forks, N. ^ighteen months later he was appointed General Superintendent ofthe Western district, with head-(piarters at Spokane, Wash., and11 months after that General. Russell Harding. field of public and private busi-my eyes have seen, it is the unas-ness, and if 1 am to judge by whatsallaljle truth that almost any oneof the men who stand at the headof our great business institutionsis far more competent to run thegovernment, and would run itmore economically, more wisely,and more honestly than any ofthose who are In the business ofrunning governments. I know as a matter of factthat the management of our greatliroperties is generally intelligentand economical, and that the man-agement of our government bu-reaus is generally loose, irregularand frequently dishonest; andwhen I read the articles withwhich so many of our newspapersand magazines are filled nowa-days, reflecting on the men whosegenius is developing the countrysresources, and when I hear theproposals of politicians, from themost eminent to the least, for thepassiige of laws to hamper and re-strict the energies of these menon the theory that their integrityis open to suspicion, my
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