The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-09-13

mental agency fixes railroad wage rates.
but no governmental agency guarantees
that the holder of a railroad security
shall have one dollars interest on his in
vestment, yet governmental agency
does provide that he shall not have more
than per cent.
Union labor today, to very large ex-
tent, dominates the politics of this coun-
try For eight years the White House
doors swung open to one Samuel Gompers
foreign born individual of great skill
in the art of creating industrial unrest.
This same creature has on occasions stood
on the public rostrIlm, side by side with
the president of the United States, and
poured insiduous poison into the ears of
of unthinking audience. A foreign born
individual with a union labor card in his
pocket this day holds cabinet portfolio.
Can there be any reason for these things
except For Politics Only?
once spent night nthe desert and
was kept awake by coyote hOwls uttered
from mesquite thicket. 1t sounded like
there were million of them At daylight
next morning | took my shotgun, went
out to the thicket and was disguised to
find there only an old female coyote and
two pups. No doubt you have had like
experience. Labor union leaders are in
the thicket and their howl is intimidating
the American statesmen. If he would in
spect the thicket he would find there more
howl than votes.
The people who, by the sweat of their
brows, created this country, own it and it
is to be hoped that the time is not far dis
tant when they will control it. The peo-
pie who count are beginning to wake up
Two years ago in your very town of Phoe-
nix a brick mason received $40 day and
was allowed by grace of the walking del
egate to lay 700 bricks only. Today he
still receives his $40, but he lays $500
brick with no more effort than he put
forth to lay the 700. Then Phoenix was
a closed shop town; today Phoenix is an
open shop town
Transportation is the most important
industrial Institution of this country.
When will the government loosen its
strange hold and let the railroads become
open shop? The answer to that question
is very much more important than the
question of whether we shall have DEM
ocratic administration or Republican
administration. .i
GOOD WILL rON lAbOTs
For forty-five years have fabo"ed.
The laboring man, whoever he may be and
however he may labor, with head OF
hands, has my sincerest sympathy and ut
most good will The labor leader whc or
ganizes his subjects and rules them with
despotism, comparable only to that of the
erstwhile Kaiser Bill, that he may wax
fat on the proceeds of their labor (Which
he does) should find no Judgment in this
republic. He should be sent along to Join
his brother, Bill Haywood, in Russia, and
will be. Sam Gompers backed by his
full eight years of prestige and power.
was not able to saddle upon this country
as its President the man who bore the
stamp of WOodro Wilson's approval
The brush was beaten, all right, and to a
finish, but the coyotes were not there and
the howl didn't register in ballots.
A few years back three Arizona citi-
zens organized to develop 100000 horse
power of electric energy in the Grand
Canyon and bring it to Arizona. Plans
were perfected an dthe necessary capital
| ESQ, 000, 000) secured. The consent of the
! Federal government was sought, the pro-
iectors STIMULATING that they should be
bound to sell 100000 horsepower of this
energy to landowners for the purpose of
bringing the underlying water to the sur
face, the price to be $50 per horsepower
per annum; also STIMULATING that the re-
J naming 100000 horsepower should be
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