The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-07-11

ulation of rates and service, should be
paid to the Government" According
to Wells: THE Ford proposal seems
to violate every one of those princi-
Piles. There is no pretense of any ren,-
al for the raw water power There is
no fifty year limit" He commented
on the fact that there is no proposal
that would furnish public control OF
the rates Mr.. Ford would charge o.
the services that he might render
There is likewise no provision for the
return of excess profits to the FEEDER
al treasury.
incidentally, Mr.. Wells pointed out
that the personal representative of Mr.,
Ford in Washington in the matter is
the identical individual who led the
fight for the big interests" as they
were called. in opposition to the
Roosevelt water policy" He likens
the Ford offer to the old fight and
says that the representative of Mr..
Ford is consistent" since the de-
hands made for many years by the
Wall Street men, and so forth, as
we call them, are pikers IN compar,-
son to Mr. Ford in this matter" Mr..
Ford has never personally appeared
before committees of the House or
Senate in support of his proposition,
although he has frequently been invit-
ed to do so. His personal attitude
in the matter conforms to the obser-
walton of Oscar Wilde who described
character: "He knew the precise
psychological moment when to say
nothing"
Asking the Government to
Intervene
In urging conference between the
warning coal mining interests, and the
intervention of the Government, one
of the leaders in the strike complains
that cit appears impossible to make
people understand in July that ther.
must be a December" This observa
4 ton is not cryptic, since the public
has grown to expect coal strike
some time between every July ant
December. The coal barons and thu
miners are always solicitous about thu
public getting hurt by reason of thes'
annual industrial rows, and all parties
concerned have grown into the habi
of "concerting public opinions ;
former President expressed the pro
cess to crowd of angry women suf
fragists. When public opinion is sur
fciently Concerted" the combatan
miners and their lordly masters al
ways find way to get together AM
keep the Nations home fires burning
Labor and capital no longer dis
pute the right of the public to ente
into its controversies, and wheneve
the shoe begins to pinch, the employ
ers and employees just naturally as
the Government to intervene. TIL
coal miners are insisting that tn
whole trouble is that the operators ar
determined to crush the miners OF
CARNATIONS. This is undoubtedly tru'
The coal operators are now refusin
to enter into the suggested confer
ences with the miners because sue
conferences would be a recognition c
organized labor. The employers fig
ure that sooner or later they will b
forced by the Government to subm
to some kind of compulsory settle
ment of their differences with the
: men, and they class this as victor
because it relieves them from RE-
ognizing" the strikers. Thus we ha,
each year a"patched-up-peace," an
the war between the unions and tt
anti-union employers goes merrily c
a except for the Interruptions durin
the strike. OF course coal has gor
( higher and higher year after year,
! consequence; but what of that as Tor
as the public pays the bill Unique
e tionably the Government will eve
e tually intervene, since the flow of CO
y TO its natural uses compels Uncle Sa
It to take a hand in order to prote
: the public.