To the Engineers and Firemen, Conductors and Trainmen, of the Southern Railway Company, February 9th, 1895

Wall Street financier J.P. Morgan saw that there was a great deal of unnecessary competition in railroading during the second half of the 19^th Century. He began to consolidate small companies into larger ones, like the Southern Railway. This pamphlet is a statement outlining the new corporate identity and objectives for the employees, all of whom had once been employees of smaller regional lines. Now they were part of a transportation giant, and Morgan wanted unity.