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on the principle Nike Air Max that there are no railroad accidents; that what are called such are due to some species of neglect which truly competent management could and would have prevented Commercial AdvertiserDec. If the gentleman who wrote those words will continue to walk uprightly and piously before men unto his lifes end will read his catechism and endeavor to reflect its precepts in his daily gait and conversation he will doubtless eventually proceed to a vicinage beyond this fitful fever of life where accidents are impossible. Nike Australia I doubt if he finds it upon this poor planet. But although perfectly innocuous to those as clever as himself is it not manufacturing a dangerous public sentiment and one as unpatriotic as it is dangerous to constantly kindle and fan the impression that of all the necessary industries which civilization requires the industry of maintaining a railway or any thing that runs by steam is a greedy and despotic Nike Shoes Australia power that lives by crushing not only the bones of passengers but the civil liberties of the people? If it is and if it is wrong to do dangerous and unpatriotic deeds then the gentlemen who write these feverish and furious leaders unless they repent will certainly never behold the land where no accidents happen. I may add perhaps as germane to my text that the newspapers all Nike Air Max 90 appear to agree that if nobody was killed the other evening at Franklin Street it was not the fault of the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company but a genuine act of God.In a recent number of Sciencesays the Evening Post Mr Appleton Morgan has published an article entitled The Coach Outlet Store Online Act of God and the Railway Company in which he tries to palliate or even to deny the responsibility of the corporations for most of the serious railroad accidents of the past year. We have of late become quite Coach Outlet Store Online accustomed to such pleas on behalf of the Anarchists; but when the same line of argument is invoked in favor of a railway company by a lawyer of Mr. Morgans standing it is a surprise and by no means a welcome one. I myself do not see what I have to do with the Anarchists or the Anarchists with me. An Anarchist is one who intrudes upon the still unsettled problem of labor versuscapital and proposes solving it by eliminating the element of labor and substituting cataclysm therefor. The idea of cataclysm may have suggested a railway accident otherwise the Postscorrespondence of ideas does not impress me as important. Proceeding: the Postis astonished that I should have given an account of the Forest Hill disaster at variance with the official report of the Massachusetts Board of Railway Commissioners who investigated it saying We do not understand how it was possible for a writer of good standing to disregard these facts. Either he must have presumed on the ignorance of his readers Coach Outlet Store Online or else he Christian Louboutin Outlet never took the trouble to look into the matter itself. The latter is perhaps the more charitable supposition. But it need hardly be said that for a writer in a scientific periodical either excuse is equally weak. Doubtless the Postdid not at that writing understand how anybody could prefer the report of experts to the official reports of nonexperts upon so complicated an affair as a railway accident. But it ought to have had some glimmering of an idea as to how such a preference was possible a day or so later when Christian Louboutin Outlet itself printed prominently and without comment the following item: After a number of weeks spent in the investigation of the Chatsworth trainwreck the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission has submitted to Governor Oglesby a report stating that in their opinion the
