Show moil hiGh GI HIGH G liT The Hallway Urd of April 9 t m hit a leading headIng editorial for a general and Immediate advance ad In freight rats rates ret On One 0 reason On given Is lit I the Rene general nil advance in wa wages ea that has hA taken place recently Another Is ii the necessity for Or the Immediate expenditure of a billion dollars on railway equip equipment moot ment In order to take lwe care rare of oC the ex cx expanding x volume of ot busIness huel The K Bee Reo o oord ord on that the shippers will bo ho bemore more ben benefited by the Increase In trans transportation than they can an pos pea possibly fIG sibly be b Injured by b any advance In freight rah which the th reads nude may b be compelled to make Blake Ah Alt increase In railway Uway freight rates means an addition to the retail COt cost of 01 n the articles artIcle transported It means manna that th the men whose wages wag has hall be been n raised fd must mt pay pert part of th the Increase 1 e book Into Inlo the treasury of the roads rod It moans means ml that the tIle benefit to the tho will be lee les lessened 1 by the Increased cost of It living It means mean another spurt purt In the eternal race around amund the circle aimle In which wh h WaKes wages vainly try to catch up with the cost coat of living First there la Is laa Isa a raise ralee raI In the cost of the nace necessaries n series saries of life then after a 1 struggle a aral raise ral In wages That nut aa as II soon an All tIM the th wages INI Increase up go the necessaries of life There Them seems seem me to 10 bo be no end Oi to this continuous performance Jl until a panic COmM comes and deranges everything preparatory to a freeh frach start In another r handicap p rac race between tn wages and the coat coit of living we cannot but regard the midi addi addition tion to wages aa a a It good sign The Pennsylvania baa haa voluntarily raised the t pay pey of ot 1000 men mn 6 9 per percent J percent cent nt making nicking on an aggregate rules of from train to a 1 year nr The New W York Central C system etem has haa offered InCI In CI estimated at a year r ma TI Philadelphia Heading Ite system an announces flounces a 5 rate raise HI In iii the wage of men at a coat coal of oC I and 01 advance In th the wage or of both trainmen trainman and said on nit other Important roads a are simultaneously LM uel reported t Th The men mell certainly n need ed this addition to their wage at this thiA time Lilies tin but hul th the ultimate consumer which Ich Includes Included the men themselves and every everybody body budy y ales te furnishes furnish the funds |