The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-07

dppolutee, namely the secretary OF
Agriculture, the power to close the
packing houses of Chicago on his mere
say so, and to keep them closed until
the owners could secure a decision by
the due and laborious process of the
courts.
In the face of the presidents public
declarations that he would, or would
If he could, put the Chicago packers in
the penitentiary, their struggle to pro-
tect themselves from arbitrary execu-
tive orders was regarded. and regarded
rightly, as struggle of life and death
And when one thinks of the vast re-
sources and material power in the
hands of the Chicago packers, when enc
cOntemplates the apprehension and des-
peration with which they viewed a
struggle with a Department of Agricu1-
ture armed with despotic power, it is
easy to realize what chance one ordi-
nary stock company of the 10000
would have before the appraised hand of
executive power in Washington. If ever
the presidents era of universal execu-
tive control and regulation should over
whelm US.
Why does the president seek to make
the president Of the United States the
absolute lord over industrial life and
death? Why does he deem it wise to
give one American citizen the ability to
reach into every nook and Granny of
this country's commerce and finance, to
compel homage or support from every
man of power between the Atlantic and
Pacific, to smite all opponents back into
impotence and beggary. to raise all
friends into wealth and power, and thus
hp ha hl1f will a
self perpetuating regime which all the
parties and party organizations that
the country has ever seen would not be
powerful enough to overflow-which
would, in fact, realize here in the United
States, despotism of which a Russian
Gear never dreamed for the simple rea-
son that he did not have in his domin-
ion any such machine as that which the
federal control and regulation of 100000
corporations would place absolutely
and irrevocably In the hands of the
chief executive?
The president answers this question.
Il is to arrest or anticipate or prevent
! industrial chaos"
Industrial chaosl Ominous phrase
mot because the evils Of industrial life
today are really due to industrial chaos
far from it. Where they exist they
are due rather to reorganization and
it needs but statement of the fact for
the truth to be recognized But in
dustrial chaos" is a phrase which. from
the mouth of president of the United
States must strike a chill to the heart
of every man who knows the origin,
growth and maturity of modern social
ism.
Industrial chaos" was brought into
the world of political agitation by
Marx, Lassane, Engels and Rodbertus,
the socialists who. half century ago,
founded and fathered the militant So
cialism of the Europe of today. The
phrase has come down from one gener-
| alton of socialists to another, always
the shibboleth of those who would turn
the constitutional liberty of modern
times into the compact slavery of the
sCcialistic state.
And the same words today roll from
the lips of a president of the United
States, and for the same purpose, name
ly, to Justify the transformation of in
dustrial liberty into Industrial servi-
tude. and the sacrifice of all the ideals
of constitutional freedom on the altar
of industrial despotism.
Industrial chaos!" The phrase has
been banded about by every socialist
agitator in Europe from Engels to
Liebknecht, from Marx to Bebel, from
lIassalle to Jaures-bandied about as an
lexcuse for disrupting the whole present
order of society, as a pretext for upset
ting the whole financial and commercial
system of today. And now it comes
with authority from the lips of the
president of the United States as his
justification of a plan which would
labollish the republic within twenty five
Years, bow the necks of 100 00e, 0O0
Americans before the face of one auto
crat in Washington and turn the United
States of North America into a civilized
wilderness-no nation a all. but only a
wreck of a socialists dream.
After contemplating such a mon
strous proposition, 1t is difficult to real
lie why this nation was once aroused
by the Granger movement. BY the
greenback campaign or by the free sill
Yer agitation of William Jennings
Bryan. How trivial. by comparison, to-
day seems proposal to give the nation
a so cent dollar or printing press
| moneyl
How infantiIe the proportion OF such
a proposition which would merely
throw the country into hard times
when compared with a proposition
which. If realized, would abolish the
republic, personal liberty, individual in
! iIIativs. personal success and personal
ambition. and leave US. the people al
the United States, with nothing but two
wreckstrewn shores, and ruin-eom-
plete industrial ruin-stretching out
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