Arizona republican., 1919-08-10
Mir. Plumb's Revolution

When Mir Plumb darkly hints to a congressional committee that unless his railroad plan something like it is adopted by the government, there will be revolution, he should be asked what kind revou ton he has in mind, for there material difference revolutions There revolutions against the gov ernment, accomplished by the ballot preceded by propaganda and education. Such revolutions proper and permissible There is another revolution accomplished attempted by intimidation force and violence We have convenient if not comfortable quarters at Atlanta, Georgia; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and several other places for those who successfully participate in such revolutions.
 Mir. Plumb and those of his way of thinking have the right to appeal to the ballot and they may ceed in selecting congress which will dispose of the railroads according to his plan. If such congress be selected doubt the roads will be disposed of and anyone who would forciby resist disposi- tion would himself become punishable revolutionist
 We do not suppose MT Plumb contemplated a bloody revolution, though bloodshed would be pos sible. He likely has in mind only wholesale strike involving not only the cessation of work on all the roads but practically all industry Under the laws though there would be the exercise intimda- ton against reluctant government, it would be al- lowable if it stopped with the ideness of the revou tionsts. No man not a convict can be compelled in this country if he does to work.
 Such revolution would produce a great deal of trouble and inconvenience, but it would have be by the government and those people who might be opposed to the revolution But the thing they would be contending for would be worth all the loss and the trouble; it would be an answer again to the question whether this government perish from the earth7 It answered once and doubtless will have to be answered again and again in the course of centuries.
 While this question was being settled the people of this country would necessarily undergo great depr vation. But they got somewhat used to that during the They could stand it again while other men were being trained take the places of those who had gone into the revolution strike. That would be matter of weeks-maybe of some months but the people opposed to the revolution and standing the side the government it until the question of the stability of government should be settled. They would be somewhat buoyed up and heartened by the reflection that the revoutionsts would be undergoing deprvations too.
 But there might be another phase of the conflict attempt on the part of the revolutionists to vent other from taking their places. That would probably induce bloodshed but it would hasten the end There could not be the slightest doubt about what that end would be And it would be long time be- fore there would be another industrial revolution
 If that is the kind of a revolution MT. Plumb was limiting at to the committee, he will find the American people ready to go to bat or ready to go to the mat" with him. And many of them would be persons really sympathy with his railroad control plan, but who would the question of the control of the railroads negligible affair in comparison with the question of sustaining the government.
 We believe MT. Plumb is victim of obsession. His mind is filled with his railroad plan that he cannot think clearly about revolutions It has been noticed students of perpetual motion have always had dreamy notions about affairs concerning which normal people busy themselves.