Arizona republican., 1919-08-27
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27. 1919
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in fit of pas sion. -Lavater.
ws Haua Como to the Stone Wall

The stand taken by President Wilson on the de- mand of the railway shopmen will have the general approval the The only criticism could be that it required words to state the presidents position And there may also be the now irrevelant complaint that his stand not taken earlier Once the policy of yielding adopted. its abandonment became increasingly difficult just finds it more difficult to stop under increasing impetus until he has been brought up against stone wall That is where now.
 The trouble began with the Adamson law. Then was the time to fight it out Then the beginning of the higher cost of living invitation to the prof iteers to go after the mounting The higher wages in themselves did first contribute so much to the higher of living; their influence alone would have been almost imperceptible Though these increases of wages have made higher freight rates necessary if those higher rates had been honestly passed on and distributed. the would hardly have felt them Julius Kruttschntt lately issued statement showing by just how much the present freight rate the prices of food articles over the prices of three years The hon. est increase is surprisingly small.
 But these increased rates were seized upon by the profiteers as pretex for the boosting prices As a matter of fact the profteers impatient to realize that they anticipated the higher freight rates and raised prices railway wages were rafed foreseeing that increase of freight rates would certainly follow. Thus the effect of the higher railway wages upon consumers was Psyeholo-
 caI rather than economic but it in the end the same since it depleted the pocket books of the con sumers.
 There were of course other and real unavoidable causes of the higher cost of living, but this was serious, unnecessary cause which might have been avered by frmness the part of the administration and the congress It in Washington that the vicious circle formed.
 The heads of the brotherhoods when they went to Washington few weeks ago told the president that they perceived that further increases of wages would afford only temporary relief that any ncease of wages that might be allowed would soon be ab- sorbed What they wanted reduced cost of living rather than higher But if they could not have such permanent relief they must have tenn uorarv relief in the form of higher wages
 The government has broken out of the wi cious circe and is proceeding at least has started in a direct line at the of the trouble, for the relief not only railway workers but also that of the public at large, which is less able to stand against the exaetions of the profiteers.
 The railway men are pretty well paid. It was brought out in congress the other day that engineers and conductors are receiving from s35o to s3So month; fremen and switchmen little less and so on down railway workers constitute highly favored class though they themselves little better off than they were few years when an engineer or a conductor was satisfied with $2OO month