The Railway Conductor, Volume 24 Volume 24 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... its object for immediate attainment that which lies outside the realm of possibility and much that probably lies beyond the bounds of desirability. In the second class may be included those who work from the basis of selfinterest alone, and by this I do not mean that they who take self-interest as the unannounced text of their endeavor are confined to one side of the question only. Man, no matter what station in life he may fill, is led, influenced or driven by the same series of impulses, regardless of the wealth he may possess or the poverty in which he may exist. The man who is blind to the interests, regardless of the rights and unmindful of the welfare of those who serve him would, were he in the ranks of those who serve, be equally swayed by the same sentiments that lead him to assume that attitude toward those under him and would only serve the interests of him whose pay he drew insofar as from his standpoint his own interests were served thereby. Therefore, on either side are ranged men dominated by but one belief--that is, the survival of him who can prey the most thoroughly upon his fellows--and as a rule this is the class that prates most loudly, of the sacred character of the individual right and that any interference therewith is a violation of every law of liberty that men have fought and bled and died to establish, utterly unmindful of the fact, or desiring wilfully to obscure it, that no great change or betterment has ever yet been wrought by individual effort, until the interest and power and might of numbers were enlisted in support thereof. Then comes the third division, which should comprise those who honestly endeavor to render to all concerned their equitable right and each man will decide for himself who, as he believes, should...