Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-31
DRIVING HOME INDUSTRIAL FACTS.

DRIVING HOME INDUSTRIAL FACTS.
It wrong to say that 100000 spent by the United
states Commission on Industrial Relation has had wasted
It may readily be granted that the tangible results of
The commissions work have been Disappointing 1t has
scattered its activities with little apparent method
has been sensational rather than scientific standing
as an investigating body has been somewhat dscreded
by the frank prejudices of its chairman It's submission
Of three different reports instead of is confusing
And yet without regard to the question whether the
commission might have accomplished than it did,
it should be recognized that the existence of such
body pryng the psychology and policies of capital
and labor and spreading the results before the public
was inevitably valuable.
For the first time in history the overoads Of bust
ness and the leaders Of workmen put the wit
ness stand in the eyes the whole nation asked
to tell their grievances and their theories for the
alton Of American industry. with them came actual
toiers Men and women children. long mute and
patient under or wrong were given chance
to speak before audience that had power there
is any power in the world to right their wrongs
Thus the sttings Of the commission constituted great
public for the discussion through expert witnesses
at times chaotic and purposeless but always there were
this human interest and picturesque appeal needed to
take the topics out the realm Of dry theory and give
them heshand-bood appeal to the judging public
Thus the real work of the commission the thing that
justified regardless of its conduct or its conclusions
its moving picture procession human beings telling
the nation from day day of their life and work their
theories and dreams And its real report that print
by the newspapers whenever and wherever the com
mission was in session.
Those news reports focused the attention of the
American people problems of labor and capital it
had been focused before They gave the public
great quantities of facts previously inaccessible and
forced think about those facts and about the people
Jack Of them. They forth suggestions and theories
from the best brains toilers employers and profess
siona men circumstances that made mems minds
work on them.
And what be done for nation than just that
giving it facts and forcing it think? Any one who
has faith in democracy must believe that the mind Of
he great public once applied earnestly has power to
olive our problems of politics industry and social or
yanzaton
Even the three reports submitted by the commission
re by all confusion and contradiction. Theh
differences are in degree rather than principle accord
nsly the commissioners different mental leanings
chiefly to their different environmen-lead them tC
interpret facts differently
Chairman Walsh and the members Of like mind fine
our great causes of industrial unrest. They are tn,
MUST distribution Of wealth. The prevalence Of unem
loyment the denial of legal justice to the humber
classes and the opposition to organized labor Thel
irge first remedial measure the passage Of an in
lcrance tax law confscatng whatever wealth tesla
leaves in excess Of 100000 The wealth thus tax
by the government is be used in education, in eS
ending social and in developing the country
resources.
The middleoftheroad report, signed by Professo
commons and Mrs. J. Borden Hartman, asks for suc
lrastc inheritance tax but recommends somewhat sim
lar fund for social welfare" It is outspoken in cor
emnaton Of the obvious evils and in advocating rem
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