Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-03-18 | Page 4 | Local News

It Is ono of the most admirable results re-sults of the Republican prosperlt) which tho country enjoys that such acts as the Illinois Centrit Itallrnad compan) has Just performed nro possible pos-sible It has announced nn Increase In the wage scale of Its employees that will mean half a million moro to them annual!), nnd constant cmplo)-ment cmplo)-ment Let some one try to think what a universal sensation such nn announcement would have created could It have been made during tho last Democratic administration or any Democratic administration for lhat mattci Hut In the great and general pronperlty that prevails It piiwes nlmost without notice It Is a mcro commonpl ice a thing done by so many companies, the rule being tho cmplomont of nil at more than living liv-ing wages, that It Isnt worth talking about And )ct there are men In this lounti) who still boll to the notion no-tion that the) are Democrats In spile Htn of Republican policies nnd the c i-Uinltoua i-Uinltoua results of Democratic, poll, cles it Is past comprehension thut this should bo ro but so It Is