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ttr•-• FS GEYSER It1DITH BASIN TIMIS SUCH TOKENS or APPRECIATION ENCOURAGE HEN TOTELL OTHERS OP WHAT THEY KNOW WILL ADD TO 1HE PLEASURE OF ereble DOE IS SUBSTANTIALLY APPRECIATED) 1tUD6e,1HAT IS 'THE GOOD 'JUDGE-- REAL 'TOBACCO CHEW • MOttUleetteeettle INTENDED TO SHOW THE GRATITUDE LOVERS * OP BOOD.TOBACCO i rE EL TOWARDS U! 1 ' A MONUMENTAL reward for merit—the way men are taking to W -B CUT Chewing—the long shred Real Tobacco Chew—and telling the good word to friends. Get a pouch. 'Notice how the salt brings out the rich tobacco taste.\ Made WEYMAN-BRIJTON COMPANY, 50 Union *are, New York City RAILROAD WAGES Shall they be determined by Industrial Warfare or Federal Inquiry? To the American Public: Do you believe in arbitration or indus- trial warfare? The train employes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a 100 million dollar wage increase. The railroads are in the public Service your service. This army of employes is in the public service—your service. You pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employes. On all the Western railroads in 1915, seventy-five per cent•of the train employes earned these %iv:4;es (lowest, highest and average of all) as shown by the pay rtilk— Passenger Freight Yard Engineers . Conductors Firemen Brakemen . R•ng• Average Range Average $1747 $2195 $15:_S7 $2071 3094 30/6 1543 2789 :0;3 2078 854 1719 1878 1317 967 1454 2933 ;. 751 2059 874 1961 193$ 1181 1135 R•ng• Ase•r•g• $1056 $1378 2445 1151 20-15 418 1552 1355 973 862 1107 1821 The average yearly wage pallielltS to all Western train em- ployes (including those who worked only part of stilie year) as shown by the 1915 payrolls were — Passenger ' Freight Yard Engineers $2 0 38 $1 73 7 , Conductors 1772 1624 Firemen 1218 973 Brakemen 921 1 0 00 r t $1 2 1 8 1292 832 1026 A 100 million dollar wage intrease for men in freight and yard service- less than one -fifth of all employes, is equal!ito a 5 per cent advance in all freiht rates. The managers of tilt: railroads,, as trustees for the public, have no right tc, place this burden on the cost of transportv.tion to you without a clear mandate from i public tri- bunal speaking for you. The railroads have propose CI the settle- ment of this controversy eithcni under the existing national arbitrat.ion law;, or by refer- ence to the Interstate Comme rev Commis- sion. This offer has been re iused by the employes' representative. Shall a nation-wide. stril ;.e or an investigation under ti e Gov- ernment determine till: issue? National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman. P. R. ALBRIGHT, Gen'? Manager, Atlantic Coact line Raileued. L. W. BALD WIN. Gon'i M000arer. Central of Gamergie C L. RARDO, Gee? Manager, New York. New Haven ri ilariford Radro•.1. R. H. COAPMAN. 17re-/N•41d.1.1. Southern Railway. I. R. co-rren; Gael Manager, Wabisak Rellway. r.E CROWLEY. nfaet. Piro-Preolderel. New York Centr•111•11ro•.1. G. H. INF.HgON, Cen't Manages, - 1C•rest Rettb•rn Railway. E. W. EWING. Cse't Manager, Philadelphia & Seeding Railway. GRILF. 4W. 1Proeicient. auspeekur & Ohio Railway. A. S. 1.1111G. ht. I 1 , 111• & Ca. KIR NS, Atehloott, 7 11 Mehl 4S1 It heeling a N .11. 51511E5. Norfolk nod kMIFN 51 SSE: A. M. .41101 F Penne, Iran W. L sEnnon Seoboani A. J. SIONFI. 14.t. to Recei...re. \go Iran,,Railroad. (cci lInnager. peke & Nani• Fe Hallway. Eli. Cen'l Wanner, id LOA IP Eric 1 ire.Preeddont. W•dnern Hallway. I. L:enlMonnger, 1.r•nde R•iiroad. 5. Resilient Eiro•Pron,, a line• e•l. lee -Proficient. r line R•Ilway. tee.Preficient. 1.4. Mallen. .1. G. S. WAH). S' Suncet Con) .• Pros & itteillarirg •1 Lauer. POLITICAL AGITATORS • ml POLITICIANS WHO CAPITALIZE bTItIFk A MENACE TO GOVERNMENT. Neglect of Agricultural and Industrial Opportunities a National Crime. By Peter Radford. There Aver was a time in the his- tory of this nation when we needed statesmen more or agitators less than at the present moment. The oppor- tunities now afforded us on land and sea demand the best there is in state- craft and the possibilities. that are cols fronting us call for national issues that. unite the people, blued industry and expand trade. The agricultural and industrial development of this nation has suffered severely at the hands of agitators who have sent torpedoes crashing into the port side of business and whose •neglect of the interests of the farmer makes them little less than political criminals. We \taut no more of these evil spiries to predominate iui government. Too long their hysterical cry has semi. a shiver down the spinal column of Industry. ' !'co long have the political agitators apitalized strife. pillaged progress /Inii murdered opportunity. An Indus- trial corpse is not a desirables thing, a crippled 1/11silless aniachievemeet or neglect an accomplishment about I hich any representative of the gov• eminent has a right to boast. Issues that Breed- Agitators Shouldebe Eliminated. The political agitator must be elim: Mated from public life before thought- ful coun.itieration can be given to a constructive program In government The liquor question is the most pro. the breeding ground for agitators anti whether pre or anti, the batch is ci;iially as undesirable. This articie is in no sense a discussion of the quur question but deals solely and by vi ay of illustration eith the political products of that issue. Others sub. Jetta will be dealt with in the order of their importance. In the history of our government tho liquor issue has never produced a constructive statesman worth men. tiucing and it never will. It has sent more freaks to Congress, Lilliputians to the Senate and incompetenis to office than any other political issue under the sun. The recent experience of the Eng' lish Parliament which lashed . Itself Into a fury over the liquor qusestion has a lesson that it is well for the farmers, of this nation to observe; for the subject ill some form or other HI constantly before the public for solu- lion and ()Mimes to the exclusion 01 more Important problems to the Amer iran plowmen. Too Many Political Drunkards. Lloyd -George, the Prohibition leader . of Europese:he led -the prohibition fight Its England, has declared that he will never again take a drink politically and there are many American Witt. laue—pro and anti—who would render their comitry a service by climbing on the eater wagon or signing a pledge of political temperance. Too often our legislative halls are turned into political bar-roonis and many of the members become intoxicated on liquor discussions. Wo have too many poet - teal drunkards --pro and anti—in our public affairs. No one who is a slave to the political liquor habit is quite so capable of dealing with the bual. ness affairs of government as the sober and induetrious. We have few public men in I hie day who are strong enough to resist the temptation of strong drink politically and when the demon Rum once becomes firmly eie trenched in the mind of a politician. be is less capable of meeting the de. mends for coustructivo statesmanship now confronting this nation. We have in this country too many red -nosed politicians—both pro and anti. A candidate with political deli. rium tremens. a preacher with politt. cal enakes in his boots and an agitatot drunk on the liquor question are the saddest sights in civilization and they should all be forced to take the pout. teal Keeley Cure. It is far more important In govern - meat to make It easier for those who toil t(t eat than to make it more dlr. Ilcult foe a few topers to drink. There Is not one person In one hundred of our rural population that ever touches liquor but we all eat three times a day. ^ THE LAYMAN'S DUTY There never was n time when preachers and politicians formed an unholy alliance that civilization did teat shriek out and Christianity cry Aloud. Since the beginning of gov- ernment, politicians have sought to decoy the ministry into the meshes of politics and make them carry banners in political processions. They have taken the ministry to the mountain- top of power and offered to make them monarch of all they surveyed, and while most of them have said, ''Get thee behind me Satan.' a few have when eel a crash that hits shakes i ewer, pulpit tn Christendom. ••••.. WE CAN PRINT And Print Perfectly • Envelopes Letter Heads Bill Heads Statements Note Heads Posters Placards Sale Bills Business Cards Visiting Cards In Fact, We PRINT Every- thing You Use In Connection With Your Business. 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