Already the Government, not unapproved, carries letters and parcels for us. Larger packages may in time follow—even general merchandise; why not, at last, ourselves? Had the money spent in local mistakes and vain private litigations on the railroads of England been laid out, instead, under proper Government restraint, on really useful railroad work, and had no absurd expense been incurred in ornamenting stations, we might already have had—what ultimately it will be found we must have—quadruple rails, two for passengers, and two for traffic, on every great line; and we might have been carried in swift safety, and watched and warded by well-paid pointsmen, for half the present fares.
FOOTNOTES:
[82] This letter was elicited by a leading article in the Daily Telegraph of November 29, 1870, upon railway accidents, and the means of their prevention, à propos of two recent accidents which had occurred, both on the same day (November 26, 1870) on the London and North-Western Railway.
[83] In the first letter on the Franco-Prussian War, ante, p. [34]. (Daily Telegraph, Oct. 7, 1870.)
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