Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1917-09-06
THE MOVING FINGER
{ From the New York World }

York state strides over men
who thought themselves its mas
ters, to cheaper food for con-
sumers. The government is deal
ing with labor direct, to stop
strikes on war work. Congress
may tax war profits as high
us so per cent; it will fix high
er rates on income and war pro-
tits than even a month ago seem
ed possible. The nation is build
ing, buying, Communicating or
planning ten times as much
shipping as all our fleets in
foreign trade ten years ago. 1t
is setting prices on 100000, 900
tons of coal on more than ST.
O00 100000 worth of wheat; on
wool, steel, copper and other
necessities, not only to our own
people but our allies and neu-
trails.
This is the news Of day in
one land so newly entered into
the war that its people are scar
cely yet awake to the mighty
changes it has caused.
A reactionary autocracy, using
the war power, appealed to the
sword, to head off the growth
of democratic sentiment. and
with 100000 men in tears and
blood, neither autocracy nor war
power is firm in it's seat. High
among figures of mioht abroad
are a self made Welsh attorney.
a Belgian cardinal and Russian
peasant labor leader. IF fourth
is to appear in Mitteleuropa he
he will not be Hindenburg; he
may not wear a crown. Tn I'M
exampled waste of men and sub
stance political ideas and ideals
have proved deathless.
Protesting against war, socia-
ilism was swept into the war.
Men bewailed or exulted in it's
supposed downfall-at the very
time when all governments at
war were driven to adopt more
socialistic measures in a week
than 10 years of peace would
have compassed, and interna-
tionalism was welding the
strong nations into two giant
leagues. long step toward
world federation.
In the 80 years since Ma
1poleon's conquerors had mapped
Europe, so many million souls to
each dull monarch without
their wishes, 10 new nations had
been born into Europe in res
ponse to the urge of popular
will when the war was begun to
smash and annex to the central
Ipowers such of them as were
small and weak. 1t may end by
enfranchising other races en-
slaved. Poland dreams again of
achieving unity and freedom
like Bohemia has hopes of wrest-
ling, as Hungary did, her rights
from tyrany hard hit by war.
Nowhere has the change been
greater than in the land of Adam
Smith and Ricardo. Reverence
to the law Of supply and demand
may have wrought well for a
time. developing initiative, but
| it is as dead in Great Britain as
King Alfred. The new Britain
when the fighting men come
home will have learned what
government can do in war and
may do in peace by conscripting
capital for it's purposes. What it
may do with it's knowledge no
man can tell.
We are but at the beginning OF
I the war road; and as strange as
all the vast material changes
coming too swiftly for reckon
| ing is the personnel of the Amer
can movement. A socialist and
conservative ex-senator join in
cheering Russian revolution. A
man who used in stock joblng
the brain of political phloso-
pher finds bigger work as an
international purchasing agent.
Railroad magnates drop compe-
tition in a day, and show how
by combination, by full loading
cars. by suppressing luxury
service, their lines can respond
like magic to the sudden need.
land since the best men in big
business were always more in