AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENNSYLVANIAN
importance and comprehensiveness of the responsibilities that you have placed upon me, and looking after the work of this department that comes in each day, I feel depressed and only arouse from such depression when I get my morning mail and read such comforting congratulations from my friends, and men like yourself, who have an intelligent and comprehensive knowledge of the work I have before me.
Thanking you for your encouragement and expressions of appreciation of my labors, I am,
- Yours faithfully,
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
- Schwenksville, Pa.
May 27/07.
Dear Governor:
I was out of town last week and did not receive yours of May 22 till yesterday. If I could go through the files of the Public Ledger for the period of your administration, I am sure that I could find more than one editorial cordially recognizing and sustaining your views upon eminent domain. Certainly what you wrote on the subject left a strong impression upon me, and if I had had a volume of your messages at hand when I was writing the article you inclose, I should have strengthened it by a citation. When I read the article in print I felt that it should have included more distinct recognition of your attitude, but the reference to the subject there was only incidental, and could not be complete. What you say of checks upon corporations interests me very much. The actual character or purpose of legislation affecting corporations is so often obscure to the outside observer, as in the recent instances of trolley and electric power companies, that I doubt if any of us really appreciated at the time the consistency of your attitude. Would not this be a proper subject for present treatment? I should prize a paper from you on the line suggested by your note, or if you do not feel disposed to that, I shall hope when I have an opportunity of seeing you, to get the material from you for a review of what I have always recognized as one of the strongest of the many very strong features of your administration.
- Believe me, dear Governor,
- Very sincerely yours,
- Believe me, dear Governor,
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