Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-26
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tain, II harm came to the girl who mad
risked her life to warn them Of their
danger It would have TO come TO her over
their dead bodies.
Wherever she went among the strikers
she was welcomed with a kind of gal
liant alteration. Something about her
seemed when she entered a room, to
pull the rudest and the most ignorant
men 20 their feet. Everywhere she went
she preached her gospel. softened hearts
and made men and women hopeful of
better thlngs Her rostrum was the
kitchen, the front steps. the shade OF an
elm. She was interchangeable No mind,
however feeble. was unworthy OF her
greatest pains. IAttie children she took
upon her knee and talked sense to them.
And presently only those who were nat
urally bloodthirsty and who loved violence
for its own sake talked openly OF at
lacking the stockade. II seemed to Ce-
lestia that the strikers demands were
not unjust. and she determined TO end
the strike by persuading Kehr and the
mon he represented to meet their de-
mands.
Elections were coming on. and the best
way TO secure the labor vote was to see
that labor's envelope was better filled
n
government In control of the nations
most dislnterested and able men there
would be such q saving Of national waste
that doubling the pay of every laborer
In the country would DO but drop in
the bucket.
Tommy could not see any possible
good in Celestia's form OF millennium.
He felt that, innocentiy. OF course. and
krsflxa
TO betray labor into the hands OF capital,
and he fought her doctrine tooth and
nall. But what she seemed to offer was
so glittering and alluring to the poor
and needy that Tommy's opposing argu-
ments found few listeners in Bitumen.
celestia preached that government OF
| the people by the people for the people
has been proved gigantic failure, for
two excellent reasons; First, II isn't
by the people. and second, II isn't for
the people. The fathers who set down
some very noble aspirations in black and
white, were instantly succeeded by poll
ticiAns, who twisted those aspirations
10 their own endR We are today a gov
eminent OF the people by the politicians
and for the politicians. Patriotism, II
Il isn't dead, has gone TO sleep. There
are patriotic Virginians. patriotic Yer
monters. too, but there are very few
patriotic Americans. II the great city
OF New York under the threat Of the
enemys guns was mulcted Of a billion
dollars In tribute. do you think the
states far from salt water would carer
They'd make a loud noise with their
newspapers, but majority OF their
1nh0hfaAWaln lnk tettIA
laugh in their sleeves. And this sort
OF thing Is the fault OF the politicians.
who have beclouded all the clear issues
That every city Of the Size of Potta-
wotauni should have a postoffice twice
too big for It Is not doing anything
for the people. A navy powerful enough
to protect the Atlantic coast and the
Pacific coast from any enemy or group
OF enemies would be doing somethinE
for the people. The salaries OF congress-
men and senators and pensions paid
without reason or justice would 60 far
toward eradicating consumption. As II
Is the money Is absolutely wasted. Z
some congressmen and senators are able
and patriotic 90 per cent Of them are the
opposite, and render really able ana
patriotic legislation out OF the question.
No business run az these United States
are run could possibly be q success. No
employe OF such a business could be
blamed for falling In respect for His en-.
ployers OF In loyalty to them. So we
want our country to be respectable ana
a success or don't weg Let Il be run
with the same American efficiency with
which the Standard on company has
been run and nobody win be poor ana
no part Of any city win be dirty ana full
OF disease
II there was no waste there would be
plenty OF money for everybody or At
least OF the things money can buy. Cel-
estia was insistent on this. and personally
am hanged II don't thank she was
right The Lord God gave Us the apple
tree. The kinder you are TO an apple
tree the kinder Il will be TO you ana the
more Il win give you. But maltreat IT.
let sod shut off air from It's roots, let
horses and cows chew its bark half OFT,
. let borers riddle It, san jose scale stran-
gle II. tent caterpilars defoliate It, and
stin It Will for many years persist In
giving you something. Not the eagle
should be the emblem OF Americas
nean-hearted. treacherous blr8--but the
. noble and generous apple. Belgium. I
dare say. could be kept alive for a month
ON the apples which rot on the ground In
Westehester county every autumn.
} A. we waste the apple 90 We waste
. everything eise-raw msteriais. finished
product. health and brains
In the face Of Kehrs stubbornness n
was not easy 10 make progress toward a
; settlement Of the strike. and at last Cell
estia telesrarhed 70 Gordon BARCLAY and
; NSksd for definite power TO speak for the
coal companies and treat with the labor
; leaders
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