El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-09-07
HOw To Win the War;
Work Hard and Win It
Abolish ProfiteerinE and Force
Hecreant Labor To Work;
Ambitious Politicians Are
Contemplate; Must Be
Full Victory.
BY MADISON c. PETERS.
By MADISON c. PETERS.

! III cause OF America is one with
1 that OF her allies. The danger is
common TO ALL prodigious sacrifices
must be common likewise There can
be no drawn war, no peace without
victory.
! The patriot does not care a ricayune
/ who will be the next president-our
present duty is TO lick the kaiser, and
to do that We must carry this war on
as a business. on business principles.
In spite Of the work that has been
done, there is too much profiteering.
Grandstanding, limelightlng and pa
triotic posing. and not enough Of sac
I rifice, service and satisfaction. Full
control as to diplomatic and govern
mental management has been the
kaiser's strongest advantage from the
start Since we have begun TO con-
centrate, the tide has turned
The Contemplate Politician
The selfish politician IS a creature.
more contemplate than the pacifist.
Z proGerman or any other internal foe
OF the cause Of freedom. Politics and
war mix about as well as do gun
powder and friction matches
II there ever was a time when the
whole people OF our country from the
grandmother who can darn to the in
1ant who can knit a sock should make
this war their sole business as a bust
ness, that time is now. We have got TO
supply Europe with men. money and
munitions, and Il is a crime against
Eod and all mankind not to help the
American people 10 understand the
matter The clarion call today should
be speed Up America" But who can
speed il up2 The soldier2 The sailor7
No! The workman. Just as fast as
Ia n4nra 1t
so much faster can the men who fight
speed up their fighting.
FnVOrH COnscriptinE Labor.
While our boys are dying in the
trenches, labor IS holding back for
more money and still more money and
more iron clad union conditions. Is
there any reason TO believe that these
men do not realize that they are hold
ing back against their flag and
against their country Many OF these
men are foreign born. they are given
all the privileges Of this country and
are receiving wages ten times more
than they received in the old world.
and II We really adjourned politics we
would conscript the labor as well as
capital
II the government can take my boy
from good job and put him on the
firing line there is no reason why
these foreigners in our midst should
get all the benefits OF the government
and make no contribution TO the war.
except to their Advantage.
There Is. we know, shameless
profiteerinE on tha part OF capital
Men who never saw a shipyard have
been given contracts to build ships
and they in turn have contracted TO
sublet these contracts 20 others, re-
tanning big commissions.
Banks have charged immense
bonuses for securing contracts for
their and all This within
the knowledge or easily obtainable by
government officials-either compile
ity or stupidity explains the sitHation-
Labor viii win or lose this w&r, and
While many labor organizations are
doing their level best, the Bolshevtki
element must be throttled. The Amer
lean people have come to a point
where they must look upon this ele-
ment as a foe more dangerous than
the Hun. Copperhesdism IN whatever
form must either he stamped out in
America or sent back TO the countries
whence this element came. It has been
shown conclusively that the work
actually performed IN some OF the
shipyards until IT. Schwab took
charge was a little more than one
eighth OF an honest days work while
the laborers insisted on aturday
half holidays. What difference to-
these 1aborers that the submarine did
not lay off on that half holiday OF
that American boys were dying TO
give them privileges they had never
enjoyed before2
Put Biggest Men On The Job.
To win the Tar we must put the
biggest men on the Job. regardless OF
politics. Il would be unreasonable to /
expect that the government should be
able 10 secure men who were always
free from error. but We have right .
to insist that the men to whom we en- I
trust our lives. our fortunes and our
sacred honor shall secure for us the
wisest leadership. II our boys are to Z
die. let Il be by the bullets OF the
enemy and not by pneumonia caused
by rotten clothes
Make Treason Odious-
America cannot carry water on both /
shoulders. The time has come TO Z
make treason odiOus. Instead OF IN !
tsrning plotters and spies. inter them /
A SOY. expects TO be shot. but so far
we have disappointed them all The
men who have gone to the front, many 1
OF them never TO come back again, are /
enemies left behind. whether those I
euemis have votes or not.
The world wants peace, hut never a /
peace made in Germany" Such q |
peace would be a mere expedient re-
curing going over the same ground /
in a few years The allied nations
will never work out a peace problem !
with q nal dog. The question will
not be what the kaiser wants. but l
what we are willing TO give him. {
Meanwhile, let us see to It that the ]
productive power Of this nation is
raised 20 its absolute maximum and I
any man or woman who stands in the
way Of Uncle Sam going the limit is /
traitor and deserves the traitors l