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Show t SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH South Cache Courier Publfeked Every Friday at Mr. McAdoo has inyariably mapped out his own course, and he rarely This has fails to go over the top. Hyrum just been illustrated by the manner jin which he has finally straightened out the affairs of the express busi- Utah. J. A. WAHLEN. Publisher. REFORMS , The latter activity is an essential to railroad operation, but even though a consolidation of all the companies in the express business was made, the questions of rates, wages and administration got tangled up on the Interstate Commerce Commission and elsewhere. Mr. McAdoo found that- he must pursue an independent course in order to keep the American Railway Express Company from running He secured a hopelessly behind. the President, proclamation, by which completely absorbed the consolidated express business and assigning the operation of it directly to the Railroad Administrator, Mr. McAdoo electThe short-cu- t ed to follow will allow the Director General to initiate rates for the express company which will be higher than at present, but which will make it possible to advance wages of employees about $12,000,000. The employes have assumed an insistent artitude for some time because of the fact that they were underpaid in comparison with the other bfanches of the railroad forces. The express company and the railroad administration were evidently agreed that the best course to be pursued was the one which has been adopted. demanding a high- er standard of service in the state legislature if that branch of the government is to enjoy respect. By the system known as direct legislation the people showed that they distrusted legislatures as such, but that system has not worked well. The people have a right to mand greater efficiency and less waste by the legislatures less lost motion and less rash enactment of laws. Before a legislature takes up and enacts a new law imposing a tax or creating burdens affecting all the people such law should be asked for by some one besides those interested in putting it over. The old order of business, petithat was tions and remonstraces as a established regular feature of legislative business should be revived and no law passed until petitions for it are on file. In the same way, having one or two professional lobbyists, generally publishers from some big city, make headquarters at the state house and take personal charge of the legislature is wrong. American should also rise above the petty practices of nepotism that manifests itself in taking members of their families to the state capitol and getting them fat sinecures during the session. If this is to be a country with opportunity for all alike to get to the front, in peace times as well as war, and if politically we are all created free and equal, let our legislatures set a new pace. de- $ OUR LINE IS OF THE BEST GOODS AT REASONABLE , The people are e Let us Offer a few Suggestions as to your Selection of a Present. - ness. LEGISLATIUE Christmas Greetings ae. , - , FATHER MOTHER Books Book XSISTER Box Stationery Face Powder Manicure Set Toilet Article Sewing Set Fountain Pen Toilet Soap Hair Brush Pipe Pocket Knife Razor Silverware Pocket Book Phonograph Hot Water Bottle - Our Line of Candy and Our Kodak, Fonntain Pen Box Cigars Manicure Set Books, Shaving Set Lunch Box, Watch Pocket Knife, Late Novel Combs, Candy Clock PRICES. BROTHER Safety Razor Hair Brush Candy, Kodak Box Candy, Perfumes Nuts--W- e f f f Fishing Rod can suit your taste $ Soda Fountain still holds its reputation,' one of the best in the State We ask you to do as New dishes every week to tempt you. everybody does Buy of us, we treat you and greet you promptly And With a Smile f f . HYRUM DRUG COMPANY . of his authority and influence. It is a serious matter for Mr. Gompers to speak for organized He has no labor on that issue. more right to do that than he would have to say that organized labor must vote to a man for a certain political party. American citizens, union or nonunion, want American standard of wages and living to be maintained. It is inevitable, that some of the abnormal wages now paid in war industries will have to come down LABOR AND FREE TRADE But it is to the national welfare that of wages in nonCan Mr. Gompers tie American the general range industries shall be maintained. war labor to chariot of international The Free Trade? These wages He tried to do that at Laredo, Progressive, says: if we continue throw open cannot Texas, international labor conferthe markets of this country to the ence. His other four propositions seem fierce competition that is coming with the laying ,,down of arms. reasonable. ; ' But when Mr. Gompers attempts American manufacturers and proto crusade for his free trade belief ducts made and produced under MCADOOS STRONG ARM by declaring that organized labor in American high standards of wages America wants a plank in the peace and living cannot stand under open with manufacturers Whenever it has been necessary agreement to prohibit any or all competition to push aside the legislative and political or economic restrictions and products created by the lower other obstructions that prevented meant simply to benefit some na-- i standards of Europe and the yet him from having a free-han- d in the tions and to cripple or embarrass lower standards of China and administration of railway affairsi others, he goes beyond the tfonds Spokane-Spokesman-Revie- Buy Your Winter Goods Early y and be Prepared for Gold Weather . 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