The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-12-27

In ONE of his recent addresses, Lloyd
George, the great democratic premier
of England, declared "We cannot build
mental error was made by the BOlshe-
VISITS" The Bolshevik movement in
Russia started out to cOnfiscate, to take
without compensation other people 8
property and to assume no responsible
ity in running the enterprises the Boil
sheviki highwaymen took over for
themselves. What is the result?
Wreckage, and utter distrust in their
word. No one believes thief. Lloyd
George is right. A great state cannot
be built upon dishonesty. This means
that no one class of people can hope to
control all other classes of people and
profess to be democratic because de-
mocracy cannot allow the building of
established castles or class, much less
permit rule of class. America is not
a country of heredity land holders. The
''farm hand" climbs up to be the farm
owner. He does not expect to keep
his "place" as 'hand" forever.
Most of our manufacturers were them
selves once laborers. There are no
classes in democracy. America is the
land of open opportunity and nothing
will ever close that open door but the
establishment of a class government
which some "class" sets up after it's
members have admitted to themselves
that they are cast in class and have
shut themselves permanently in the
cast-and shut the others out. That
would be the first step to destroy de-
mocracy and to destroy America. Who
among US, when he stops to think,
would encourage the development of
any class system in America, in class
rule, in a closed door to opportunity?
The word 'labor" has, in trade sense,
come to be applied to the artisan who
works at trade in shop or foundry or
factory but not tiller of the soil. Yet
there is not farm worker anywhere
in che world who will concede for one
minute that anyone labors harder than
he who works on the farm. The farm
er himself, or his hired man, "the
farm hand" if you please, carries no
union card and is bound to no eight
hour regulations. If he did every cow
on the farm would be MIXED on over
time. The labor government that does
not recognize the farmer and the farm
worker, as part of that government, is
rot fundamentally sound from the basis
of labor itself and cannot stand. Here
is where Bolshevism first f1oundered
On the orner hand farmers govern
ment such ga has been built up in North
Dakota would not be permitted in an
industrial state where foundries and
factories and mills are found. Labor
itself would not permit the farm own
ers, who are capitalists, to run their
government and permit them to have
nothing to say about the laws of the
land. Yet the farmers have organized
in various societies under various
names, paying ten or twelve or fifteen
dollars a year for membership with
which goes the subscription of some
designated periodical to be their or
gan. The whole theory of the thing
being to develop political unit that
will make it possible for them to con-
troll the law-making forces of the state.
Where does the money go which the
farmer thus gives? How is it dis
persed? How is it used? These are
questions which the farmers are be-
ginning to ask themselves. Too often
they find much of it is being used as
purely personal subsidy for some polit-
ical aSDirant. -State Journal.