White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-08

livestock or returning with lumber
and provisions. Those of us who are
but m~iddle-aged can we'll remember
the grading of the grain and the
binding of the sheaves by hand. Then
everybody worked, worked all the
time. all day and a good share of the
night. we can say with little exagger-
alton. But those times have passed.
We have come to ease and comfort
and luxury. Inventions and improve
ments and the fruit of past sacrifices
have lifted many burdens, have light
ened the toll very materially. 1t is
we'll that emphasis shall be given TO
this factor of labor so important in
Gods program for humanity.
Continuing our figure of speech a
moment longer we observe that this
babe, lusty and powerful. has a severe
attack of collie and needs serious at
tention.
Our country is in an ugly situation.
Not only is it panic-stricken, but is
being stampeded into doing things
that are worse than panic and priya-
ton. Boats on the lakes and trains
are crowded with people hurrying
from their vacations. That is not so
serious, but it indicates the fear that
prevails. There are tens of thous-
ands of our soldier boys on the from
tier, and If the strike comes they will
be starving. There are scores OF
thousands of babies in our great cities
who cannot live on condensed milk
as we older ones can; they will die
for want of proper food. In a few
days the coal and flour and fruit and
meat in the cities will be exhausted
and the people suffering.
1t is an ugly situation, with attend
ing features uglier than the strike
| must give heed to these or
make my journey alone. My goal is
of those who are toilers. |
would speak in praise of the engineer
and fireman who make my travel
of the gardener who provides
ME with vegetables: of the wash
who keeps the clothing clean
and neat; of the street sweeper who
prepares the path before me. But
# | should speak those words with
put giving heed to the present crisis,
you would not give me your atten-
ion. This crisis is gripping all our
minds. The country is afraid, in
ugly tempered.
If these words of mine are to have
with you. you must be per
that there is no bias or par
isanship in them. | have not a word
say as to the merits of the con-
| would not dare to express
an opinion without days of thought
md masses of evidence. But there
ire matters involved in this situation
more important than the strike or
Or the rights of either of the contend
Ing parties. They do not rest upon
the contention, they are broader,
more fundamental. / am willing to
grant, for the sake of argument,
that every contention of either party
is right. That does not lessen n
iota the blunders that have been COM
mitted. / am willing to grant the
righteousness of the eight-hour law
and the demand for higher wages and
insist that the method of proceed
ure has been dangerous and democrat
izing to our commonwealth and to
the spirit of democracy. Two phases
of the situation are particularly dan
gerous and worthy of M most care
full thinking.
The first is that Congress has been
compelled to do a thing that 1t does
not know whether IL should have
done or not. Perhaps what it did
was right; the method was absolutely
ron 1t is as If a burglar comes
to your house, points a pistol at your
head and compels you to give him