The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-01

necessity OF simple common sense, efncl
ency and polite ess. The war will not
have been in vain. We have the exam
pie of Germany on one hand; on the
other, we have the example of Mexico
Which people shall we emulate? Al
present it is the Mexicans. Fortunately,
we escaped MIR. Bryan's efforts to adopt
/ their free silver policy, but we are max
ing as fierce fight for other Mexican
political ideas as we ever made for free
silver.
Germany is doing many wicked ano
terrible things, but how promptly anc
quietly it does them! Instead of ask.
ing advice of W. J. Bryan, or Theodore
Roosevelt, or Woodrow Wilson, or other
Of our orators or editors, the American
people should go to German neighbors,
and study their simple methods; not only
in efficiency, but in politeness and re.
liability.
Every decent man breads war, but how
every efficient man admires the team
work the Germans are doing now that
they have their backs to the wall!
the Germans have a mistaken notion
that they are fighting for their country;
but how they fight!
Note the absence of friction! No po-
ltcal or newspaper quarrels, as among
the English. A noted railway expert
says the Germans will win, if they win
at all, because of their superb railway
service. Every man, woman and child
in Germany obeys the rules necessary
for efficiency. The old men, instead of
writing grumbling letters to the news
papers and critcising the conduct of the
war, are at work IN the fields, factories
or Offices. Every German child is help
ing the fatherland in the great emerg-
ency. Every field has been seeded, in
spite of the fact that most of the young
men are at the front: the work is being
done by the elderly men and the women
and the children. No word of dissension
in Germany reaches this country; we
hear of little else from our English
cousins, whose bad habits we copy too
literally. English troops at the front
are suffering for lack of supplies, be-
cause Of strikes among labor union men,
and the political pot is boiling more
fiercely in England now than in times of
peace. England, which boasts that it
controls the seas, is trying to starve the
German people; but instead of COM
plants from Germany about short food
supplies, found Berlin telegram in
morning paper of June 4, 1915, saying
that the price of all classes of bread has
been reduced.
In our own country, insteadaof teach
ing efficiency, we teach inefficiency; in
stead of more work and better work, we
demand shorter hours, and recognition
of the SLOUGH. We have an Industrial
Commission headed by a rich lawyer
named Frank P. Walsh. who receives a
large salary from the taxpayers for stir
ring up indus trial strife in a way so I'M
fair and mean that unavailing protests
have been made to President Wilson. A
fierce industrial war in Colorado was set
tied by employers and employees. after
much loss, but Mr.. Walsh is trying his
best to reopen the trouble. Mr.. Walsh
has encouraged the inefficient and law
less SO much that threat is made from
Colorado that unless the decision of
judge and jury is reversed, there will be
Civil war! And this with the backing of
the President of the United States!
This is the way your Kaiser acts; COM
pare it with the acts of the German
Kaiser, who has built up a system of
efficiency which extends to the remotest
section of his country, and is accepted
by the highest as well as the humblest:
by the women and children as we'll as by
the men,
Every nuisance is wlnked at in the
United States; no nuisance is tolerated
in Germany Rules for the best inter-
ests of all are made in that country, and
all are compelled to obey them. The
m an who violates your rights, and an
noys you, is not only mean; he is a law
breaker who should be suppressed, as he
is in Germany.
The greatest word in any language
is labor; making living, and, incident
ally, benefting your community and
your country. The Germans discuss
the word with fairness to all con-
cerned. The Allies discuss it hypo-
critically and unfairly. The factory
is as necessary as the factory work
men; as much entitled to the protection
of law and fairness, and as necessary to
the national life. But the statesmen
and newspapers of the Allies make fish
of one and fowl of the other; they do
not realize that wages may become too
high as we'll as too low, and that hours
may become too short as we'll as too long;
that regulation by labor union may
become tyranny, and result in industrial
disaster. This modern political system
encourages tuS WOThIl6Il Tie
ment of the employer; because the work.
men are more numerous than employers,
and cast more votes and buy more news
papers. A big question for big minds
has been handled by little men, and some
day the issue must be met; some day
the question must settle itself, since the
statesmen and labor union leaders will
not settle it. Labor and capital have
been glaring at each other as long as
England and Germany, and are as sure to
lock horns in terrific struggle as un-
necessary as the present war abroad.
Let us equal the Germans In everything
except war; and in that, if they continue
to carry mlitarism beyond the danger
point. Let US have as good children as
the Germans, and We will have as good
mechanics, merchants, seamen, farm
ers, musicians, philosophers and citizens.
LIST us give the German consideration to
simplicity, industry, fairness, politeness,
order, common sense, and consider every
other question in the light of these prac-
teal and simple virtues.
hope the German nation will be humi-
lated, but not destroyed; its militarism
has become menace to world peace.
But as sure as the sun shines we should
heed the unexampled efficiency which has
enabled the Kalser's people to whip five
to one.
What efficiency will accomplish in
war, it will also accomplish in peace.
T A.