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Show THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Is con-strained con-strained to tho practise of retrenchment retrench-ment nnd rigid economy, duo to a falling off in business. Tho illomls-sal illomls-sal ot 15,000 men and short time for 40,000 moro Is tho greatest depletion of Its working torco slnco tho panic of 1907. , When tho Wilson-Underwood tariff bill was about to pass tho ndmlnlB-tratlon ndmlnlB-tratlon mtido dlro threats ot punlth-ment punlth-ment for emplojors of labor vho shoujd mako tho tariff an oxcuso for laying off men. But wo hear no "Higher than Ilaman" talk now thtit many thousands ot railroad employes nro out ot a Job. It Is a condition nnd not a theory that confronts tho administration. Railroad traffic Is tho best barometer barome-ter of business conditions. Tho Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Railroad would not lay off men and withdraw trains If It wore cot for the shrinkage of buslnestt "Of course," says the PhlladolphlK Record, "tho tariff might be held responsible re-sponsible for the decrease In the transportation business . . . but wo do not believe it will be." Our free trade contemporary will find H difficult to convlnpo the thousands of Idle men, who wero busy nnd prosperous prosper-ous under a protective tariff, that the Wilson- Underwood bill has not tomo thing to do with business depression. Camden (N. J.) Post Telegram. |