Therefore the street railroad should properly serve the public
that gives the road its value.
Next in importance to the traveling public come the human beings
that work on the street railroad--the conductors, motormen,
gatemen, gripmen, engineers, etc.
This newspaper fights constantly to improve within reason the pay
and the hours of work of the street railroad employes.
This we do for the sake of the employes themselves, and for no
other reason. We demand better pay for the men that they may
lead decent American lives, feeding and clothing their wives and
children, and educating their children properly. We demand short
hours for them, that they may live part of the twenty-four hours
WITH their families, knowing their own children and bringing a
little pleasure and companionship into the lives of their patient
wives.
We are proud of the fact that we have helped in a small way to
increase the prosperity and happiness of many tens of thousands
of honest families, that we have increased the OPPORTUNITIES of
many thousands of children.
We want the merchants to remember that, while we have thus
striven to protect those masses of the people whom we represent
and whose ADVOCATE we are, we have also advanced enormously,
although without premeditation, the fortune and quick success of
every capable and legitimate merchant.
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