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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF
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No public servants, I think, more deserve our sincere sympathy . . . . . than guards of our railway trains; it is obvious to all of us who have to travel constantly on railways how much our safety depends on their industry, their vigilance, their sobriety, and their discipline, and it is very gratifying to know that we may confidently rely on finding these qualities in the knowing what they have to go through their exposure to all weathers and to risks of all kinds; remembering how much they have to be away from their homes and their families, it seems to me that we have hardly the right to expect to obtain from them their valuable services unless we in some measure mitigate their sufferings in sickness and from accident.
(1884)
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