Denver labor bulletin., 1915-10-30


themselves by plying their dishonorable
trade.
There are about half dozen lawyers
in the state who have existed for sew,
eral years wholly on the proceeds which
they have gotten from creating trouble
and ill feeling. They are a disgrace to
the legal profession land the good Lord
only knows that to disgrace that i,
going somel and curse to any com.
munity.
few scatter Drained fools are very
busy advocating the United States main
tanning an enormous standing army.
They urge as one great reason the dam
ger of the yellow peril" The shadow
oil their statements can plainly be seen
when they get down to figures They
will tell you that we need an army of
l0,OO0,OOO trained men-mind 10000. 900
American citizens to fight Japan. Isn't
it God-send they aren't afraid of some
European nation like Germany. If they
were they would advocate training our
women as well, as if it takes lO,OOO, 900
to take care of Japanese scare, it
would, by the same standards of calcu-
lation, take the whole American popu-
lation to take care of a German scare
The yellow peril and European
scare is not the real reason for wanting
large standing army. The great war
munition firms have reaped enormous
profits from European countries by sell
ing war material to them, and they
want to keep up their profits and scare
Uncle Sam into buying in the same
market. To call such practices "patri-
otic' is nauceous bypocracy; they
haven't single ounce of true patriot
ism in their whole makeup. Their type
OF patriotism never did extend beyond
the word dividends.
BY disagreeing with the large stand
ing army cry, no one wants to convey
the idea that organized labor is opposed
To proper precautions against even so
remote proposition as a foreign inva
sion. but between subsidized militia
which is liable to be hired out to opera
tors who want To run their own bust
ness to suit themselves" and n standing
army, there are ways of providing for
adequate national protection. and in that
course organized labor will and always
has done more than its share If il Is |
more than its share. and the term
more than its share II used to com
pare with what is done by the leather
lunged advocate OF extreme measures
who are 50 busy trying to persuade the
other fellow" to get ready to do all the |
fighting
suppose Tor a minute il was possible
the country did have standing army
of 100000 men. Have these people
any idea of the result OF transferring
practically all the able bodied men from |
the producing class and putting them
strictly in the consuming class Who
IL going to do the work to feed and |
maintain them. The war-likc agitators
bet that none of them will De prepared |
to sweat much over any efforts they
viii make in that line.
It's suspicious fact that the his.
tory of the world proves that no sooner
doe, the industrial question become
acute than there is a war filtered down |
to bedrock. The industrial question is
always the main reason for war. In
ancient times the principal remedy used
for nearly all complaints was bleeding
the patient, and warfare today is only |
the modern expression of the same
theory that bleeding the patient is
cure.all for all ills that the flesh is
heir TO. All idle suspicious die hard
deaths and it may be some years yet
before the bleeding theory is relegated |
to the junk pile along with witches.
spells love-potions and other ancient |
fakes
The Zancanelli case is still hanging. |
waiting to see if bail will be allowed. |
why this case is treated as it is. no
one can say. but it looks like plain |
case Of discrimination. From the name |
Zancanelli. people imagine the man
must be foreigner. and as such is not |
entitled to common justice. The vicious
clap-trap about foreigners being allowed |
to interfere with our government is be
ing worked TO n frazzle. ZaDcanell Is |
ms reputable citizen as any whose
names are spelled with fewer letters. |
He is a decent American in spite of the
fact he wasn't born on this side of the
Atlantic. and his forcintbers and ma
tional associations are possibly quite
equal to those of some of the dist
g,iished members of the lawandorder
cult who came from no one knows
where, and incidentally no one cares
where they go now so long as its long
way off. 1t is hoped that the supreme
court will at least give this man n
square deal in spite of his name not
being so easily spelled and pronounced
as the ordinary Smith. Brown, Jones
type of cognomen.
When some of the war scare agitators
might be asked when they get thru
with some of their fliphts of tnrii