He was a better speaker than Mr.Grimsby, but his voice had a hard, rasping quality that smote the ears unpleasantly.

He said: "Mr.Chairman, none of us can deny what Mr.Grimsby has just put before us so vividly.

We are threatened not with one, but with a hundred such suits, unless something is done either to placate the public or to render its attacks harmless.

Rightly or wrongly, the railroad is hated by the people, yet we are only what railroad conditions compel us to be.

With the present fierce competition, no fine question of ethics can enter into our dealings as a business organization.