The Newark journal., 1915-02-12

strike out blindly. They do not care. They burn, they kill, they steal. they rob they plunder, they destroy governments. History runs red with the story of such acts. What men have done, they will always do under the same circumstances.
 It is not in human nature to die without a struggle. Thank good ness it is not. The right to revolt is sacred. The fear of revolution is the oppressof's only conscience. But the necessity for Revolution should always be avoided. An appeal to violence is so awful that 1t should never be made so long as it is possible to appeal to reason.
 It is high time for the great men of the United States to do some thing to remove the cause of the peoples discontent. It is high time they were doing something to keep food within reach of the famishing and work within reach of the idle. The question of unem- ployment is pressing upon this country as 1t has seldom, or never, pressed before. And 1t promises to press still harder.
 The food question IS becoming so acute that great hunger already exists and greater hunger is threatened. Last year we produc. ed the greatest wheat crop in our history. Yet John Holm, chief of the division of statistics of the de- partment of commerce, says that wheat famine is threatened. This means a bread famine, and a bread famine means an abundant crop of misery and death. What are our great men doing?
 1 shall tell the story here. 1 shall not set 1t down in malice. 1 shall tell 1t as see 1t. These men are doing nothing except quarrelling about 1t. The great men in the Republican party say 1t is because of the low tariff. The great men in the Democratic party say 1t is because of the war. The great men in the Socialist party say 1t is because a few men own all of the necessaries of life and all of the machinery of production.
 This ownership gives them the power to put war prices on flour, sugar and all the necessaries of life. The ownership of the machin- cry of production gives them the power to say to the Democratic administration, If you don't pro- tect us in the robbery of the peo- pie, we will close our works and starve them.
 This is why the unemployment problem has become so serious in so short a time, but this is not the only reason we have the unem- ployed. This problem was gradu- ally growing worse under the Taft and Roosevelt administrations. It was growing worse because advan- ced machinery is taking the place of men. When the owner of an in dustry finds he can buy a machine that will do the work of one hun dred men, or sixteen hundred men, as in some cases, he buys the ma chine and lets the men go. It IS claimed by good authority that machinery will be so perfected in twenty years that more than half of the men in this country will be displaced. The owners of the ma chimes will be able to supply the demand and run only a part of the time. The question arises, what is the remedy? We'll, 1 will sight you to one man who has done his part toward solving the problem of the unemployed, the problem of food, clothing, and owning a home. This man is Hen. " Ford of Detroit. Mich. About one year ago MT. Ford decided to let his 10000 employees share in the $20,000,000 profits which he