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Show THE CITIZEN 4 -- 1 paternalism of a benign government and would again force the haj of the administration to make further concessions. The rail union heads are quite frank and outspoken in their vieJ regarding another spell of government rail control and unless tlj railroad board, or that part of its membership representing the peo. pie at large, takes a decided stand on the issue, they mean to fod 'some measure of government interference in the conduct of railroad! oprative affairs. It appears that the railroad managers are guided in their actionJ by the hope that to force a transportation calamity upon the nation! the government will rush to their assistance in a monetary way and.) perhaps, eventually return to the system of guaranteeing their profits! which constituted the most odious form of governmental paternalism! ever exercised, short of absolute governmental ownership. former peak prices. Neither side to the controversy seems to have given a seriouJ If the attitude of The Citizen regarding the apparent profiteerthought to the rights of the public at large. The desire to glean biJ no was in Salt coal as a by Lake, vital so justified on commodity ing with impractical working conditions attached theretJ other reason than to place the coal barons in their true light before wages seems the single ambition of the unions ; while the railroad managers, the consuming public, it was a most striking and timely accomplishno less remiss in their respect for the peoples welfare, would precipi-tatment ; but in view of the action taken by so distinguished a citizen a strike merely to gain a technical point in their evident desire tof of the United States as Senator Kenyon of Iowa to make wreck the big brotherhoods or at least render them impotent. and coal profiteers amenable to a specially severe criminal The hope for an early adjustment of the strike situation and thel statute, the attitude of The Citizen may be looked upon as prophetic. The fact that the nation is faced with a possible serious fuel staving off of what might become one of the most grievous national situation this winter, is but one reason for a return to normal on calamities ever experienced by this country, lies solely with the puthe part of the coal barons. There are several others, chief among blic contingent of the railroad board. It should be accorded the uwhich is the great unemployment that now exists all over the land, ndivided support of the people, in emulation of the support it will get hero, the single man or the habitual from the administration, to the end that whatever is right and just affecting not alone the for both factions to the controversy, in keeping with the greates: job seeker, but more than a million of home makers and family men, measure of good for the entire country, shall finally obtain. according to statisticians. Senator Kenyon while attempting to guide his proposed coalprofiteering bill through the meshes of congressional hostility and POWERFUL INFLUENCES AT WORK TO INJURE ARMAMENT! red tape, will do well to consider the charge that the production of CONCLAVE. coal is being restricted ostensibly to keep up the price. Tremendous influences are at work to bring to naught the con Twenty years ago it was said by Thomas P. Fowler, a director of the Anthracite Coal Trust, that stove coal would become a drug on ference of the nations to discuss limitation of armaments, unless the the market at two dollars a ton without some form of restricted pro- Upited States agrees to make concessions which are uneconomic, duction. At' that time coal was transported chiefly by horse-draw- n and humiliating in the extreme. vehicles and mining was done by hand. Since that time there has President Harding suggested this conference and formally iprobably been made many improvements in mining and there should nvited foreign powers to participate, for two specific reasons: Fira have been some changes in transportation methods. But if so the to discuss limitation of armaments ; second, to discuss problems and consumer has not benefited. Stove coal is farther away from a reainternational relations affecting the Far East and the Pacific, because sonable price than it ever has been in the history of the nation. such problems and relations are so closely allied to the question international armaments as to demand an agreeable settlement, a Confronted with this authoritative statement that coal productions was restricted twenty years ago, may not the same means be a necessary antecedent to any substantial reduction of our navyo: employed today to keep prices at an exorbitant height? There is our land forces. While considering the armament conference it is always neces grumbling and dissatisfaction all over the county about coal prices. Miners are well paid but for the most part unemployed. By and by sary to keep these two outstanding facts on which the president people will be shivering and freezing. Why fool with this grave based his call, uppermost in mind. situation? Coal consumers should let their representatives in conNow we are confronted by the fact that certain powerful in gress know in no uncertain language that they are back of Senator Alienees abroad and in this country, aided and abeted by certain partisan interests on this side of the Atlantic are conducting a campaign Kenyons justifiable measure and demand its speedy enactment. Failing in this it is more than likely that with the great pressure brought of misrepresentation in an effort to convince the people that the to bear against its passage by the coal mining interests it will either purpose of the conference is to accomplish disarmament instead o meet an untimely death or be pigeon-holenever again to appear limitation of armaments. The obvious purpose of this propaganda in the limelight of senatorial propinquity. is to arouse the hopes of the people by false reports, so that Hi even! the conference does not agree to total disarmament as undoubted!! it will not there, will be a reaction of sentiment against tin admiGOVERNMENT CONTROL OUTSTANDING ISSUE OF nistration. RAIL WORKERS STRIKE. Those who have been and still the most earnest advocates light. This is the manner in which the daily press of this city protects its readers from becoming familiar with facts regarding proposed legislation anent profiteers, the disclosure of which might have disastrous effect on their advertising columns. The Citizen has told its readers they were paying too much for coal. It argued from the standpoint that the coal producers were prices, figures and mulcting the consumers by adhering to war-pea- k facts regarding the production of coal in Utah, based upon information and belief principally information were placed before the peoof ple for their consideration. This was not done with any hope imbringing down the price of coal, but a slight downward trend mediately after set in and today it is possible for consumers to buy certain grades of coal at from 50 to 75 cents a ton less than the lei ;ra irn llt Ilt en ,ur let n ar ,1 )f nd er it ;oi e coal-profit-ceri- ng ex-w- ar r ms hi nt hi ivl re: mi to to th ro q: l co de at o: d, Pampering paternalism, as practiced and promulgated by the late Democratic administration, is in a large measure responsible for the defiant attitude regarding a further reduction in wages, now assumed by the railroad unions. So accustomed had they become to being pampered and petted by the administration under government rail control, that they have evidently lost sight of the true perspective of what constitutes the eternal fitness of national affairs and their duty to the people. This same reasoning applies with equal force and appropriateness to the railroad managers. They, too, have sampled deep of the $ are the League of Nations are very instrumental in spreading tlue ialtf reports as to the real intent of the conference. Their argument that if thy can bring about an unfriendly reaction of sentiment again the administration, based on a misleading belief that the conferee ta d it If , failed, they can then seize upon that-sentimen- t to urge the Lmt States to enter the Wilson league. The most persistent, as well as the most powerful and, therefor the most dangerous, influence at work against the success ot conference is that of European powers and international bankers their agents in' this country who are beginning a propaganda to ha' the conference take up the question of the disposition of Kurore 1. |