. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . HE opinion has been expressed by-Mr. Bright that railways haverendered more services and havereceived less gratitude than anyother institution in the land. Itis somewhat difficult to accountfor the asperity of the tone inpL which railway administration iscriticised. A letter in a news-paper that frankly expressedthankfulness for a new benefitconferred by a railway would bealmost a novelty ; an acrimonious complaint from a corres-pondent—whose sharp-nibbed pen has been dipped in inkof which the principal ingredient is gall—is mo
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . HE opinion has been expressed by-Mr. Bright that railways haverendered more services and havereceived less gratitude than anyother institution in the land. Itis somewhat difficult to accountfor the asperity of the tone inpL which railway administration iscriticised. A letter in a news-paper that frankly expressedthankfulness for a new benefitconferred by a railway would bealmost a novelty ; an acrimonious complaint from a corres-pondent—whose sharp-nibbed pen has been dipped in inkof which the principal ingredient is gall—is more this is to be attributed to a general belief thatrailway boards are wooden, and therefore incapable of feel-ing ; or that, being corporations, they have, as Sidney Smithsaid, neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be lost;or that, as monopolies, they ought to excite in every pro-perly constituted British mind a feeling akin to that whichinspires an orthodox British bull at the sight of a red rag, we The initial letter is from a sketch of
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