Arizona republican., 1916-09-28

railways get money from the shippers. The large majority of shippers are farmers. The board having authority to raise or lower rates gave authority not long ago to make increases. Stating to the country that certain roads did not have sufficient incomes to pay necessary expenses. If this proposed increase for a few employees decreed by congress under pressure of the president is sustained by the courts, what will follow?
 "The city of New York is dealing now with the first fruits of action without consideration, something new for congress, something new for a president to ask of congress. Where will this end? Four men represented a class. limited, well paid class much better paid class than many others in the carrying business. Congress did not consider, and it has set dangerous precedent without knowledge of all the facts, or any of the facts. Fifty mil lions of dollars added to freights and fares for few railway employees, and those already the best paid, without q word about facts-the farmers To pay the bills.
 Who comes next to try this new holdup game on congress? Four men
 
 stalks in the land? Roosevelt settled q coal strike by appointment of a com mittee to get the facts and find where justice would rest, then arbitrate-a committee from several walks of life, but of broad minded men whose de- cision satisfied the country and the in tarests affected. That is old fashioned. The new method is to thi eaten the president with anarchy; hold a watch on congress; scout such things as facts and arbitration; hoist freghts and : fares and snap your fingers at the people. Who comes next, and for how much?
 The eight hour day for all the rail- way men is not what was demanded; ; it was more pay for the well paid few. The railway divisions are already es- abolished and can only be changed at great expense. The trainmen have in many instances purchased homes at division points and a change would en- tail great expense to them. The law i enacted will increase the compensation 1 of members of the brotherhoods about | twenty five per cent
 About twenty per cent of Ill the railway employees will come within the scope of this law. It is a demand on the party by the brotherhood chiefs | for the privilege of fixing their own pay at the expense of the lower sal arled employees, the shippers and the producers of the country.
 ] The farmers are organized. unable to restrict their labor to eight hours a day, obliged to sell the product of their labor at prices affixed by the | ordinary influences of supply and de- mand. It is entirely antagonistic tc their interests to have a small grouI I nf r,l rTI lowed to fix their pay for carrying the produce of the country at the cost oi the producers and consumers. The far mers as a class have maintained thai | the owners of the railways must not be allowed to make a monopoly oi ! carrying, but must permit their charges to be supervised by public authority
 They will no more submit to ar bitrary action at the hands of the em- 1 ployes than at the hands of the man. agers.
 This controversy is not new. It has been in the public mind for half 6 | century. Congress, after long delib- eration, has established the interstate commerce commission to judge be. tween the people and the carriers. This has brought peace on this subject unti this outbreak by a few well paid em- ployes and the retreat of the executive and congress from their posts of guar. dians of the public veal
 Yrhe farmers will be put under the ! harrow, later a few million dollars
 may be scraped from trackmen, clerks station men, and the like; but only { beginning has been made. It will noi stop there. The appetite of the taxina power grows on what it feeds upon It brought about the French revolution It invited Cromwell in England. | cmbattled the farmers in New England 1 who fired shots heard round the world and resulted in our great republic.
 Will it destroy the republic? I has compelled congress and the presi dent to enact a subterfuge Nothine so menacing has occurred in this gen | eration. We have had headstron. presidents and foolish congresses bu l never before nave they bowed dowl
 before so little, or started anythinl
 with such large possibilities for far
 reaching mischief"