Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-09-19

convenience in order to get nay and
Il hall or double pay for Sundays, it
encouraged a spirit of dishonesty in
thinking and acting, a spirit of grab
md graft, spirit which made men
believe that they could keep on rob-
Ding the nation, and, being success
ful IN that, could develop a campaign
for robbing each other.
More than four million American
ooys and young men, the very flower
OF the nations life in health and
strength, were called away from bust
ness and compelled to become SOL
diers at $50 a month; compelled to
work while in camp anywhere from
twelve to- fourteen hours day, and
often much longer; compelled on the
battlefield to offer their lives as
sacrifice, to be torn by shot and she'll
But at the same time the same gov
eminent pampered the union labor
ing man, paid him ten times as much
as was paid to the soldiers, permitted
union labor leaders to bull doze the
government and threaten to cut short
the supply Of ships and munitions
and thus leave to certain death the
soldiers on the battle field.
In this situation we find the fun
damental cause for the spirit OF I'M
rest, OF highway robbery, which
found expression In the demand OF
the railroad unions that the entire
control OF the railroads should be
turned over to them. Indeed the
country does not yet seem to have
fully realized the amazing effrontry
OF the proposition of the railroad
brotherhoods. In effect they propose
that the government shall spend
$40, goo, 600, 900 to buy the railroads
and then, with this debt saddled on
the entire country, practically present
the railroads, their management and
their profits to the railroad men
themselves. Probably a more out
rageous piece of proposed highway
robbery was never submitted to- any
government on earth. Its very magni-
tude and it's brazen effrontery are
so great that the people at large have
hardly realized it's full meaning nor
the boundless selfishness which
prompted it.
We cannot believe that the great
mass of railroad men are at all re-
sponsible for such damning PROPOSE
ton, damning to the men who pro-
pose to be highway robbers and dam
ming to this country should it ever
yield to them. The large proportion
of the railroad men are, or at least
were, honest and patriotic Americans.
Certainly they cannot for a moment
have understood what their leaders
were doing or they would resent it
to the utmost extreme being placed in
a position of those seeking to rob the
nation and in that way to rob every
individual in the nation. If the rail-
road men have the right to demand
that the government shall buy and
give the roads to them, then the
workers in every shop in the coun-
try have the right to demand. that
the government shall buy 1t and give
1t to them, every. farm laborer
and every tenant farmer would
have the right to demand that
the government should buy the
property they work and give it to
them, every clerk in every store
would have the right to demand that
the government buy the store and
give 1t to them, and 80 on ad infin-
itum.
AS the government is responsible
for having created this spirit Of pro-
flteering and highway robbery, the
responsibility rests upon this admin
istration, with a tremendous force.
to stem the tide and stand four
square to every wind that blows
against this Bolshevistic, anarchis-
tic spirit which. If permitted to con-
tinue, would utterly destroy this
country and leave not a vestige of
American civilization