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VOL, XD CAprlerr, 1913: aNo, 15 
A TELEPHONE STRIKE 
Worse than the Elevated strike of 
last summer would be a walk-out of 
the telephone operators in Greater 
Boston. Although the ‘phone girls 
have voted to strike it is expected that 
an understanding will be reached by 
the parties which will prevent any 
cessation of business and inconven- 
ience to thousands of people which 
would result from a telephone opera- 
tors’ strike. 
The enormity of such a strike can 
hardly be realized except when it is 
noted that the telephone plays a more 
important part in the business and so- 
cial affairs of any city than any in- 
vention of modern science. 
The effects of such a strike are 
known to all—besides the inconven- 
ience to thousands of persons in pri- 
vate life and in business, there would 
be a constant menace to property 
through fire and danger to life and 
limb through accident. Unlike many 
strikes, a walk-out by the operators 
would effect the public of Greater 
Boston as a whole; it is therefore the 
concern of the people themselves and 
they have every reason for wishing a 
successful and immediate settlement 
by the conflicting parties. 
For the 30 years of its operation, 
the telephone company has never had 
a strike and it does not care to have 
one now. Up to this time the rela- 
tions between the company and its 
employees have always been most 
congenial. Now the employees rea- 
lize that they have the most conven- 
ient and formidable club possible to 
hold above the heads of the officials 
of the company, and they are the more 
insistent in their demands. 
The company has done many things 
to better the condition of its workers 
during the past year ;perhaps it is 
wiling to do still more. Whether this 
is so, the employees should not be 
averse to making some allowances, 
enough, at least, to avert a general 
strike. Just as a great many strikes 
are unnecessary, this one appears to 
be; it will be.a public calamity 1f it 
is declared. 
TESTING THE TARIFF 
No matter what may be said of 
President Wilson’s ideas on the tar- 
iff, the people are certainly ready for 
a change. They are ready to stand 
the test of the possibilities of revision 
downward and take the chances that 
will come out of such a radical de- 
parture. 
The home industries will, if noth- 
ing more, have a chance to show their 
comparative strength; if they can 
stand the revisions proposed they will 
show themselves to be in a particular 
class of “stickers.” If the schedules 
can be kept just high enough to keep 
home products up to the same stand- 
ard as those imported, the industries 
of this country, whether in agricul- 
ture or factory products, ought to 
have a fair chance to demonstrate the 
efficiency of the change. 
The Democrats realize that they 
must “make good” in Washington if 
they are going to stay there and they 
are taking long chances to demonstrate 
the worth of their policies. But 
there is a middle road somewhere, 
and it is possible that the apostles of 
the donkey have found the right path 
in their tariff reform. 
Many eastern manufacturers be- 
lieve themselves ruined—sugar rais- 
ers, wool growers and other agricul- 
turists are dismayed, but if the effects 
are shown on the credit side of the 
books of every household in this 
country the chance Wilson is taking 
will be worth the price. 
THE “HUNGER STRIKE” 
It will not be long in England be- 
fore the male inmates of the prisons 
there adopt “hunger strikes’ to get 
out of jail. With Mrs. Pankhurst’s 
deleclaration that she will again en- 
ter upon her voluntary fasting as a 
means to dodge her three years’ sen- 
tence for destroying Lloyd-George’s 
house with dynamite it would seem 
that England’s system of laws and 
punishment will be given a severe 
test. 
If militant suffragettes are able to 
gain their liberty from prison senten- 
ces within a few weeks simply because 
they starve themselves into a condi- 
tion to demand their release, there is 
no apparent sense in arresting the un- 
ruly mob of women. If the law is 
not carried out more than it is at 
present the depredation and lawless- 
ness of the suffragettes will continue 
in increased fury. Then they will 
have demonstrated that they are the 
mistresses of the situation. Such wo- 
men as these disgrace the privilege of 
the vote franchise and should be dealt 
with as only the hardest and worst 
criminals are treated. 
Now that only one more state is 
needed to ratify the amendment to 
the Constitution providing for the di- 
rect election of United States Sena- 
tors by the people, the argument 
comes up that under the new system 
less able men would be sent to the 
upper branch of Congress. Without 
a doubt, less men of wealth and those 
closely allied with powerful interests 
would be chosen, but that would hard- 
ly prove a fault. 
There is no valid reason why the 
quality of our senators should deter- 
iorate by popular choice. If the peo- 
ple are entrusted almost directly with 
their choice of President and elect 
their governors and mayors of cities, 
it is doubtful if the brand of Senators 
is improved in their choice by the 
Legislatures. Direct election of the 
Senators should not be deferred be- 
cause of such a shallow and simple 
argument. 
_Mr. Rockefeller will be able to keep 
up appearances a while longer with 
his billions, but he is going to add to 
his savings the coming summer by try- 
ing to buck the ice trust in the vicin- 
ity of his home. And it looks as if his 
new venture would be the success that 
all his schemes are, although his price 
of $2 a ton would not seem to give 
much of a leeway for profit. But 
leave it to John, he’ll find a way to 
make money out of the proposition. 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
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