The Coconino sun., 1919-09-19
WHERE ARE WE NOW AT?


 When the federal government said to the nation that it drafted it's soldiers and sent them to death based on $30 month pay, but that it called into industrial activities men, young and old, efficient and inefficient, active or lazy it mat tered not, and paid them $8 and $1O and $15 day, and permitted them to bring on thousands of strikes that their pay might be still further increased when it permitted men to take week off at their own convenience in order to get pay and half or double pay on Sunday, it encour- aged spirit of dishonesty in thinking and act ing, spirit of graft and grab, a spirit which made men believe that they could keep on rob- ping the nation, and, being successful in that, could develop a campaign for robbing each other
 More than four million American boys and young men, the very flower of the nations life in health and strength, were called away from business and compelled to become soldiers at $30 month; compelled to work while in camp any where from 12 to IA hours day, and often much longer; compelled on the battlefield to offer their lives as sacrifice, to be torn by shot and shell But at the same time the same government pam pered the union laboring man, paid him ten times as much as was paid to the soldiers, permitted union labor leaders to bulldoze the government and threaten to cut short the supply of ships and munitions and thus leave to certain death the sol diers on the battlefield.
 In this situation we find the fundamental cause for the spirit of unrest, of highway rob bery, 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 real ized the amazing effrontery of the proposition of the railroad brotherhoods. In effect they pro- pose that the government shall spend $2O, O,000,-. COG, 900 to buy the railroads, and then, with this debt saddled on the entire country, practically present the railroads, their management and all their profits to the railroad men themselves.
 ttrar ,,io nf ncod highway robbery was never submitted to any government on earth. Its very magnitude 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 can not believe that the great mass of railroad men are at all responsible for such a damning proposition, damning to the men who propose to be highway robbers and damning to this country if it should ever yield to them The large proportion of the railroad men are, or at least were, honest, patriotic Americans. Ger tainly they can not for moment have under stood what their leaders were doing or they would resent to the utmost extreme being placed in position of thus seeking to rob the nation and in that way rob every individual in the na- tion. If the railroad men have right to demand that the government shall buy and give the roads to them, then the workers in every shop in the. country have right to demand that the govern ment shall buy the shop and give it to them; ;; every farm laborer and every tenant farmer would have the right to demand that the govern ment 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 it to him, and so on ad infinitum.
 As the government is responsible for having created this spirit of profteering and highway robbery the responsibility rests upon this ad- ministration, with tremendous force, to stem the tide and stand four-square to every wind that blows against this Boshevistic, anarchstic spirit which, if permitted to continue, would ut terly destroy this country and leave not vestige of American civilization Manu'frs Record.