The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-13
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
OUR NATIONAL CREME.
YOnkers Herald:


OUR NATIONAL CRIME.
Yonkers Herald:
We Americans proudly call our
selves a free people. The fact is we
are entirely too free. We boast that
there is no power over us, and we
exemplify it every day in our disre-
gard for law and order. We govern
ourselves, we say. and that means, in
| terpreted in the light of actual &C.
currence, that we are not governed at
all. 1t is no exaggeration to say, as
has often been said, that the people
of the United States have more law
and less order than any other people
on earth.
Immediately in mind is the East St.
occurred in Turkey our nation would
have been aroused at the horror Of
it, and properly so. Occurring at
home, at the heart of our own land
and at the hands of our own savages,
we accept as a rather ordinary Incl
dent And that is the worst of it..
/ Such things come too frequently with
us. Our country's record for lynch
ings stinks to the stars. 1t is not
confined to any section The crime,
the shame, the debasement is national.
1t could not exist but for the detection
of officials and the tolerance of the
public.
We habitually shut our eyes to the
little violations of law and out of
these great disasters come.
The pollution of a city's water sup
! ply is given little attention until an
epidemic of typhoid startles people
| into enforcement Of the law.
Violation of autom obile speed ordi-
nances is considered of no conse-
! quence Almost every man who owns
an automobile runs it to suit his own
| sweet will Yet if the victims killed
and manned every month through this
violation of law could be collected
into one great disaster the public
would be appalled, at it.
It is the little things that make uE
life. 1t is the little things that form
the basis of great achievements or of
great failures and great disasters.
And in the everyday little things we
are a lawless people.
CAN'T WORK LOYALTY SLOGAN
AGAIN.
The BiWabik Times:
The heavy vote for Lindbergh is the
protest of the farmers against their
being robbed-for they are being
robbed, along with the consumers.
When 10000 men fall into line and
vote for a candidate openly accused
of having written a disloyal book, and
90 it with their eyes open and their
pockets full of Liberty bonds, you can
rest assured that there is a reason
a b1ankety blank good reason. With
| pork at 20 cents in a farmer town and
40 cents in a nearby mining town
with really fresh eggs selling at q
cents to the farmers and As cents to
the consumer but couple of hundred
miles away, it can easily be seen that
both the producer and the consumed
are being robbed for the benefit OF
somebody between them. Such rob-
cry, particularly during war times
should not be tolerated. Add to all
this the true claim Of the farmers that
they are robbed when they ship their
wheat through the grading system
that they are robbed at the stockyards
through the weighing and computing
systems, that they are robbed by the
country store when they bring ir
produce, and you will understand why
10000 of them could stand it nc
longer and made their protest at the
polls. These conditions must be rem.
edied. The state must do it's duty by
it's people. 1t must see that neither
the producer nor the consumer are
robbed-must, if necessary, go into
business and bring the necessaries tc
the door of the consumer at actua
cost. If the next Legislature does not
turn the trick the loyalty cry will not
avail two years hence.
REDEEM THE STATE FOR WILSON
Minneapolis Labor Review:
The state election shows a drift to-
ward a new general alignment in pol
itics, the progressives and the con.
ervatives.
| While the Burnquist vote was tt
some extent due to a feeling on the
part of Dem crats that he would be
an easier man than Lindbergh to de.
feat, it was for the most part the
vote of those who believe that thing
are just right as they are.
Lindbergh's vote of 10000 regis
ters the number of people in Mime
sofa who are advocating industrial
change, and with an army of voter:
like that in favor of it il is bound tt
come
The regrettable part Of the cleo
, ton was that professional politician:
may attempt to construe the vote fol
the autocratic governor as rebuk'
to President Wilson whose policie
he opposed but the returns in Novem
Der will prove to the president an(
the nation that autocrats and despot
are not popular in Minnesota.
The state must be redeemed TO-
Wilson.
HONOR LABOR.
: Oklahoma Federationist:
{ President Wilson has paid higl
= tribute to the splendid patriotism o
labor. Secretary of War Baker ha
recognized the fine contribution o
labor to the national war service. Sec
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