Excerpt from The Relations of the Railways and the PublicThe explanation of the wasteful construction of the National Transcontinental is the same as the ex planation' oi' the wasteful operation of the Inter colonial. The work was done on political rather than business lines. The principle of the pork barrel had dominated the management and con struction of government railways in Canada as it has the development of waterways, the erection of public buildings and a good many other matters in this country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.