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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: believe this--to begin with--THAT RAILROADS BUILD THEMSELVES.
Where there is a demand sooner or later there will be a supply.
Mr. Derrick, does he grow his wheat? The Wheat grows itself.
What does he count for? Does he supply the force? What do I
count for? Do I build the Railroad? You are dealing with
forces, young man, when you speak of Wheat and the Railroads, not
with men. There is the Wheat, the supply. It must be carried to
feed the People. There is the demand. The Wheat is one force,
the Railroad, another, and there is the law that governs them--
supply and demand. Men have only little to do in the whole
business. Complications may arise, conditions that bear hard on
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