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SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919.
AGENTS OF ANARCHY.
Labor has dreams of sharing In the
profits of business by taking control
of business and undoubtedly the evo
lution which we see in progress all
over the civilized world will culmin
ate in astonishing transformations.
But labor must rid itself of a deep
seated disease of the heart before it
can ever engage in those forms of co
aperation it now plants. In a spirit of
amity labor and capital can achieve
prodigies for the benefit of mankind,
but if the workingmen continue their
“hymns of hate,’’ under the direction
of foreign agitators, industry will have
a setback from which it will not re
cover in many years. The very word
co-operation indicates friendliness, but
the toilers of the land are working
themselves into a frame of mind
which will make friendly relations
with capital impossible and defer the
day of genuinely productive co-opera
tion.
In Chicago, for example, the Fed
eration of Labor, has indorsed a gen
eral strike called for April 1, the date
of the municipal election, and in for
mulcting its statement it declared that
the workmen would “take a day off In
making profits for the bosses.”
This was a gratuitous insult of a
peculiarly stupid kind. It was meant
to be ill-natured and insolent. It was
generated in venomous hatred that
will produce nothing but cumulative
bar n. The world has just finished
with a terrible war and everybody has
vo\ 3d solemnly that wars shall cease,
that men shall form leagues of nations
in a spirit of love and shall co-operate
for Ihe general good of mankind. But
alre; dy a new war has begun in Bol
shevism, in strikes and in the hurling
of i jurious words.
'I e notion that profit is something
an mployer puts in his pocket and
kee s there is so fantastic that one
womd hardly expect intelligent Ameri
can workmen to entertain it. Profits
ar reinvested in business and produce
inci iased work and wages for work
ingmen. If the “bosses” made no
profit there would be no expansion of
bm ness, it is by means of business
ex insion that increasing population
is afforded a satisfactory livelihood.
When the workers take control of
business as they plan, when they be
come bosses they will understand how
essentia] it is in the scheme of in
dustry to have profits. The Bolshe
viki took charge of the factories in
Russia and, so far from obtaining
any profits, they simply used up the
profits of the factory owners by bad
management. When the profits were
gone the mills were closed down.
The Bolshevists thought they could
get along not only without the owners
but without experts. They abolished
all kinds of “bosses” and turned over
the factories to the workmen skilled
and unskilled, but the workers, with
out the expert knowledge of the bosses
were unable to conduct the business
profitably. The business simply “ate
off its own head” and died.
The Russians decided to take, not .
merely one day but every day off “in ,
making profit for the bosses.” They
ended by annihiliating their own ]
wages.
Under favorable circumstances the
workers of Russia could have taken
over the mills and operated them suc
cessfully. Granting that economic con
ditions were propitious the workers,
had they made wise use of the profits
of the employer and had they em
ployed the specialized knowledge of
the experts, it is quite conceivable
that they might have conducted the
factories, for a time at least, so as to
produce adequate wages for them
selves and for all engaged in the vari
ous industries. But to them a "boss”
was not the genius who creates and
builds up a business, thus giving
wages to labor. He was simply a
hated being of the “exploiting class.”
And so they were rid of him at the
very outset. Within a few months they
were rid of the business he had cre
ated and rid of the wages the business
had provided.
At the crisis in our affairs when la
bor and capital should get together
they are farther apart than ever. This
is due, not to any insurmountable
problem, but to the hell’s broth of
hatred brewed by agitators and by
professional laborites who have grown
old in their denunciations of the
“bosses.”
All this must be changed if the
country is to go through the period of
readjustment safely and attain the
goal of prosperity. Wt believe that the
workmen of the country, in their
hearts, have no faith in socialism and
that they want to get along and co
operate with the employers in carry
ing our present industrial system to
higher and safer levels. The only
way this can be accomplished is
through the medium of the spirit. If
labor and capital will strive to work
together in a spirit of friendliness
and understanding the worst difficul
ties will disappear at the very begin
ning and all that will remain will be
the little problems.
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GERMANY BEATEN AT LAST.
For the first time since the armis
tice terms were signed it looks as if
Germany were really defeated. The
original armistice left the world in
doubt; so, too, did later arrangements,
but the latest terms place the German
people in a position of feebleness and
inferiority that would seem to make
the revival of militarism impossible.
That is why the militarists are more
fiery than ever in their denunciations
of the government at Berlin.
The new terms require the Germans
to diminish their army until they have
only 250,000 armed men and only war
supplies for that number. Moreover,
the allies will supervise the produc
tion of Germany’s munition factories
and thus render it difficult for the Ger
mans to maintain a military force
greater than is stipulated in the cov
enant.
When the militarists heard of the
arrangement they began to foam at
the mouth. After all, Germany was de
feated. By no treachery would she
be able to free herself from enemy fet
ters and strike a deadly blow before
or after the signing of the treaty of
peace. The military leaders of Ger
many had looked forward craftily and
hopefully to the round table confer
ence. They anticipated that at some
time during the discussions there
would bo a line of cleavage and then
a distinct split in the entente bloc.
Or, if not at the peace table, then
later some nation—say France—would
be isolated because no longer in alli
ance with Russia and because the
United States and Great Britain would
be loth to resume hostilities, especi
ally if, in the meantime, they had
come to be on more less friendly
terms with France.
Nor had Germany given up her am
bitions for a Mittel Europa and a road
to the east. Her parliamentarians
talked of annexing German Austria.
Hun troops waged war against the
Poles. On the other side Poland were
the Bolsheviki, a German creation,
launched with German cash and still
fostered for German purposes. With
Poland crushed between the upper and
nether millstones the road to the east,
by way of Russia and Siberia, would
nan creation. The population of that
treat region is largely German.
[Jkrania, the Bolsheviki and Germany
lave been waging war against the
Poles for months. Although the war
was supposed to be at an end Germany
las been trying to crush her neigh
ior immediately to the east, as she
lad hoped to crush France.
By the new terms Germany must
withdraw her troops and cease to
ight the Poles. No wonder the lluns
winced and cried aloud In rage and
trief when the were required to
;ive up some of German Poland, al
hough they had less right to that
jart of old Poland than they had to
Usace and Lorraine. At a robber’s
livision of spoils with Russia and
Austria in the eighteenth century Ger
nany obtained what is now described
is “German” Poland. The Germans
ire still in possession of most of that
egion, for it includes not only the
irovince of Posen, about which we
lear so much, but also West Prussia,
rhe province of West Prussia was old
upland’s outlet to the sea. It prob
ibly will be detached from Germany
ind added to Poland, and inasmuch as
Hast Prussia, in that case, will be iso
ated it might be well to give that
•egion also to Poland.
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THEIR HYMN OF HATE.
When the devil’s brood of anar
ihists were being shipped from Ho
boken to Ellis island for deportation
:hey united in singing this refrain:
“To hell with the United States.”
It was a most appropriate sentiment
for brutal, low-browed and bestial ali
3ns whom we had harbored far too
long. There is nothing, there can be
nothing in common between such men
and the American people. We might
as well expect to make ourang-ou
tangs, gorillas or rattlesnakes good
citizens of the United States as to
make creatures of this character good
citizens. Between them and us there
is an irrepressible conflict.
That the federal authorities have
finally declared war upon them is a
natural development that could not be
escaped. As we have insistently
pointed out in these columns the Bol
sheviki and the 1. W. W., by their very
doctrines, have proclaimed a stand
ing declaration of war against all ord
erly society. Ours is one of the most
highly organized, one of the most suc
cessful representative governments.
Law, order and liberty go hand in
hand and bring satisfaction to a peo
ple who know how to cherish this in-1
heritance from their forefathers, )
In the midst-of our successful de
velopment aliens with no more self-j
control than is possessed by wolves or
tigers, aliens who do not understand
us or our institutions, aliens who have
inherited the physical and moral dirt |
of a thousand years, who have known j
only slavery and the lash of a master,;
come to us in their madness of revolt !
and try to assume the role of leader
ship. They a3k us to emulate the un
utterable follies and atrocities of the ;
Russian revolution. For Lincoln,
Roosevelt and Wilson they would sub
stitute such exemplars as Lenine and
Trotzky.
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LEST WE FORGET.
Lest we forget the lessons which
have enlarged our vision during the
years the world has been in agony we
should pause sometimes amid the
petty issues of politics, amid the bat
tle of the dollars, to wash our souls
anew in living waters of idealism. If
our citizenship is so little awake to
the new times that we can drop hack
inertly and unstrivingly to the old lev
ele we shall find the great world pass
ing us by in pity and scuin.
After all, it was American idealism,
the hope for better things and the de
termination to attain them, which
broke the German spirit and finally
wrecked the German military ma
chine. We entered the war, not as
materialists, but as idealists. True,
we had back of us a material wealth
and power unparalleled in history, but
our soldiers took with them something
which did more execution than the
titantic cannon or the onrushing bayo
nets. It was our spirit of idealism;
the spirit of ’76 and ’61, the spirit that
freed Cuba and lifted up the slaves of
the Philippines and gatl'e them new
hope, new dignity, new ambition. It
was that spirit which first made the
arrogant Huns doubt their power, and
once that doubt had taken possession
of them it produced dismay and ter
ror and finally defeat.
The world never can be1 the same
spiritually as it was before. Two mil- 0
lions of our men gazed into the hell of
war on the fields of France and saw
through it to a heaven beyond—the
heaven of human understanding which
is the first and surest step toward
human brotherhood. They come back
to us with their vision enlarged to
demand of us higher aspirations. In
their souls is the league of nations.
They are in harmony with the genuine .
spirit of humanity. Bet us, therefore,
attune our heartbeats to the pulse of
humanity.
If we utter these truths in a mere
spirit of rhetorics we shall not be
loyal to the new world spirit. We
must take this spirit home to our
selves and, as well as our frail hu
manity will permit, live in the new
time and according to its loftier stand
ards. Naturally we can so live only
there where we inhabit. It is true
that we have become citizens of the ■
world in a spiritual sense, but the I
home soil is where the old and the I
new citizenships meet. I
There are those among us who,
blind to the changing order, have
swiftly reverted to the things of the .
past, to the old religious and political
prejudices, and who would revive the
ancient, feuds with no higher motive
than to vent their spites and exploit
their bigotries. It is a bad mood. It
is bad because it is blinding. We say
rightly that prejudice blinds us and
that is true because prejudice be
comes of our very lives. Oftentimes
nothing is so sincere as prejudice.
But just because prejudice is often
sincere, just because it blinds us, let
us strive to remain awake to the new
and glorious order. Tennyson tells “
us that—
“The old order changeth, giving place
to new
And God fulfills Himself in many
ways.”
The world has moved swiftly in
these last few years from the old dark
ness into something of millennial
light. Het us keep our faces toward
the light and thus be one in spirit
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