The Arizona copper camp., 1920-03-27

carry out his program of railroad con-
solidation, We should have had bet
ter and more prosperous transporta.
tion, higher railroad credit, and great.
er efficiency in railroad operation and
administration. But the education of
the citizen and the voter, as respects
the uses of credit in transportation
and the vital part which transporta-
ton must play in every relation of
man, would have been neglected.
Progress must often be halted that
the people may be brought forward.
While every man of affairs sees
possibilities of the greatest world
business development from the pres
ent situation, the progress of the
world must be halted and a world
starvation must be faced, until there
is education of men and nations as to
the meaning eof the word credit as
to the relation and interdependence
of capital and labor.
Opening New Eras.
Columbus, seeking a new route tc
India, opened up continent--the last
resting place of man in his progress
around the world. From this CONT
nent must go forth Declaration and
Constitution not only for human free
dom, but for the rights of man as
respect government, education, and
national and individual progress in
freedom.
The business world had no doubt
that the five years following the
world war would be five years OF
business reconstruction and upbuild
ing, expanding trade, new eras in
shipping, and the conquest of man
over the air and the ocean. 1t was
believed that Russia would produce
food, Europe would produce capital
and enterprise, and America would
continue to plow and reap and spin
to mine gold and silver, copper and
iron, and manufacture and export
with resulting big imports.
I Upside Down
But behold a world topsy-turvy!
Her gold output cannot pay the
war wages. When the world is cry.
ing out for gold as a monetary base
for trade expansion, the output is
likely to be cut in half Silver is
still produced as a by-product in cop
per and lead mining and there is nc
capital or courage for new silver min
ing, although it stands at a minting
premium over gold for the first time
in so years.
The copper output is still restrict.
ed and no man can tell why. The
southern negro is lord of creation
upsetting the exchanges of the world
by his revelry in silk shirts and silk
pajamas, while over the South goes
out the word: PLANT less and get
more, that is the only route to cotton
at so cents per pound"
The coal miner re-echoes the south.
ern sentiment, and at double the
wages for mining coal, there is 20%
less coal, while the miner goes a fish
ing.
Motors and Weeds.
The farmer revels in moving pic
lures and motor cars based on double
prices for wheat and corn and then
finds his children and hired man are
getting double wages to make the
motor cars while his farm grows up
to weeds and he can raise only
enough produce for his own existence.
The farms of Michigan are going
to weeds while the farm-hands are
turning out 700 Chevrolet motors a
day and 500 Bucks day in Flint,
and Detroit is bounding forward to
a million population. Look down the
line and you see Studebaker building
another $15,0O0,0OO plant and prepar-
ing to bid for the labor to run it.
Newspapers, fattened with fictitious
advertising from tax-dodgers, are will
ing to pay any price for paper, but
neither the forests nor the mills can
supply the demand.
The Brotherhood of Man.
Surely the times are out of joint
but the lessons are many; and they
all relate to the brotherhood of man.
E. H. Hartman was brother to his
fellow man when he wanted to unite
the railroads Of the United States
that the strength of the strong trunk
lines nigh the poured into the weak
er feeders, and the whole system sta
bilized, with improved credit and bill
lions of new capital enlisted for the
upbuilding of the railroad system and
the country.
Senator Sherman was no less al
friend of his fellow man when he
wrote the Sherman antitrust law. But
the politicians and the anti-capitalist