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Rh and if conservatism means high tariffs, ship subsidies and all the other economic evils that are being perpetrated, I am in favor of such “radicalism.”

The Iowa exponent denounced the policy of general deflation, but that is not surprising. Whenever the farmer becomes the victim of low prices for his products and high prices for the things he must buy, and moreover is bothered by his debts, his mind becomes financial, and he begins to think in terms of cheap money. Like the average man, floundering amidst the intricacies of economics and finance, his thoughts, if they be not completely vague, turn around among all kinds of erroneous ideas and rank heresies.

In the industrial parts of the country, there is a high degree of satisfaction and the enjoyment of luxuries including the luxury of leisure, and especially has this been so since the settlement of the strikes of 1922, although Samuel Gompers writes that “Labor has repeatedly made the charge that there exists a conspiracy to destroy the trade union movement.” Intelligent people know that Mr. Gompers is talking merely for effect, and that there is in fact no such concerted movement, although there ought to be. In the meanwhile, we read in the newspapers items like the following:

Leslie L. Lanker, of Summerville, Pa., drew $247 in pay for 11 days work as miner in the pits of the Oak Valley Coal Co. He worked a regular eight-hour shift and was paid at the rate of $1 per ton of coal loaded.

Mike Rancher, who works in a coal mine at Rockwood, Pa., Friday drew $291.45 for two weeks’ work, eight hours each day.

It appears that Lanker averaged about 22.5 tons of coal per eight hours or 2.8 tons per hour—Rancher did a little better—24.3 ton per eight hours, or about