Arizona republican., 1908-03-04
THE RESURRECTION
 OF MILES OF GLOBE
He Hears the Trumpet Call To Battle Against the Railroad

The cyclonic career of Eugene Brady O'Neill has brought up from the po- litical detritus, one J. S Miles, who only a year ago was quite prevalent ard rampant about the legislative halls. MT. Miles was used as a curtain raiser at Mir O'Neill's meeting at Globe last Saturday night. He was a willing adjunct for MT. O'Neill was going to talk about the iniquities of the rail- roads, and that happened to be the very subject MT. Miles was talking about when he sank into oblivion. When he was called out of it on Satur- day night he resumed in a twenty minute speech where he had left off
 MT. Miles came to Phoenix about year ago to assist in the passage of the freight and fare bills then before the legislature. He was the most active and constant lobb.- that infested the Capitol building during that eventful session. Any or all of the bills before the legislature suited MT Miles, but they would have suited him better if they had been d little more stringent. For a time there was some curiosity regarding the animus of MT. Miles
 
 had great deal to do with the roads; he was not a demagogue and he was not of known pOpulistic tendencies. So. wherefore his hate?
 It was brought out later that MT. Miles who had formerly been in busi- ness in Globe, claimed to have been put out of it by the Gila Valley Globe and Northern. It could not be seen at first how he could have become vic tim Of such a calamity even if the rates of the railroads on the commid- ities handled by him were unwarrant- ably high; they were, just as high for his competitors if he had any. and if not. it would have been all the better for him, for then he could regulate his prices to cover freight and the popu- lace would have had nothing to do but pay them. Merchants do nO- suffer from high freight rates. but from the inequalities of rates. That is 5he way it seemed at first glance, but it turned out that that was not the way it ac- tually was. MT Miles had been an un- uertaker. dealer in collins. upon which the freight had grown so high that people absolutely refused to buy T. ed to ask in order to come out whole. A coffin is regarded as luXury' which few persons of ordinarily thrifty habits will indulge in at wildly extravagant prices. When times get hard the first retrenchment by the average man is in his coffin bill. He does not try, as in the cases of other commodities, neces- sities as well as IuXuries, to get along with cheaper collins or fewer collins. but he simply cuts out collins alto gether That is the way it was with die until MT Miles could bring death and it's accessories within reasonable figures and he could do nothing so long as the avaricious railroad persisted in it's rate on collins.
 MT. Miles was unable to secure re- lief from the legislature and after re- maining here for three or four weeks he returned to Globe and was heard of no more until last Saturday night, when he engaged with MT. O'Neill in q symposium of criticism of railroad methods. MT. Miles doubtless in- veigled against the oppression of the public in the matter of collins and Mir O'Neill lamented the conditions which had been brought about by the rail- roads with respect to water melons Both of them presumably united in q demand that collins and watermelons should be brought within the reach of all. There is after all a not unnatural relation between watcrmeTons and cOf fins.