Excerpt from The Railways and Prosperity: Address by Warren G. Harding, at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, December 10, 1914 That was probably one of the last endeavors in Ohio in steam railway promotion by popular subscription, but the adoption of the scheme in electric line promotion is still much in vogue, though there is perceptible diminution in the practice, temporarily, until the public policy in dealing with public utilities points a safe way for invest ment in transportation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.