Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-05
PROPOUNDS DOCTRINE OF
POPULAR RULE AND
OPEN TREATIES.
International Association of Ma
chinists Gain 200, 900 Members;
Congressman Borland at Last
Impressed With the Pow
er of Organized Labor.
BY LAURENCE TODD
Especial Representative The Denver Labor
Builetin.)

BuiIetin)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2s.-
Far above all other events of the
week towers the Presidents
statement of the purpose of the
United States to enforce the will
of the ''workaday people" of the
world as the condition of ending
this war and preventing future
wars.
In his New York address last
night, President Wilson won the
eternal gratitude of the labor
movements of America, of Great Brit
ain, of France and of Italy, and must
have aroused the hopes of the work
ing class of Japan, when he tore aside
the trapPings of diplomatic make-be-
lieve and pointed his finger straight
at the cabinet ministers of Europe.
He made himself spokesman cf these
labor movements when he called upon
the ministries of all countries, enemy
and entente alike, to come out and
say Just what are their aims, and
whether they agree that the final peace
shall do justice to all, and give spe-
cial advantages to none. He spoke
as man who has heard the thunder
Gus march of organized labor, moving
in international solidarity, and who
thrills at that music.
Will They Follow Wilson?
The British Trade Union Congress
and the French and Italian labor
movements have called upon their cab
met ministers, time and again, to de-
r-r,.a l1ar,, Il i
mand at the peace conference after
the war. viii Premiers Lloyd George
and Clemenceau and Orlando follow
the unselfish program laid down re-
peatedly by President Wilson? Will
they ask only for justice, or Will they
join together in brushing aside sthe
program of America as visionary, and
proceed to force upon the world a re-
vision of the map and of military ar
rangements that will quickly breed
new wars Now, when the allies are
winning tremendous victories, when
Bulgaria is on her knees. when Tur-
key seems on the point of giving up,
and when the allied armies are ham
mering their way thru the Hindenburg
line from the channel to the Alps
now Is the time that the spirit of
selfish nationalistic conquest is most
dangerous. And at this time the Pres
ident of the United States has stepped
forward and blocked the path of any
possible imperialism.
'Imperialistic Outlaws
Does he needlessly offend the clever
statesmen of Europe?
Hardly. He is saving some of them
from the most terrible mistake of ten
centuries He is not saving the Ger
man or the Austrian or the Bulgar or
Turk leaders; he let's them go their
way to disaster. Outlaws" he calls
the German imperialists. He says
truly that the league of nations will
let them earn its confidence after the
peace is established. But to the
statesmen of the entente he points
out that the time is ripe for pledges
from each of them to the world of
the masses. They can refuse to speak
at their peril. If they do not yet
know that President Wilson's program
of justice for humanity-justice for
those who struggle in the ranks
Is endorsed by the workers of the
world, then these statesmen are tow
ing with very dangerous explosives.
Ascendency for u Common Purpose
1T is the popularity of this great
war, he says that while statesmen
have seemed to cast about for defini-
tons of their purposes and have some
times seemed to shift their ground
and their point of view, the thought
of the mass of men, whom statesmen
are supposed to instruct and lead, has
grown more and more unclouded, more
and more certain of what it is they
are fighting for. National purposes
have fallen more and more into the
background arfd the common purpose
OF enlightened mankind has taken
their place.
The counsels of plain men have
become on all hands more simple and
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