The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-11-29

must come a new understanding of
the rights of man. As a result of this
war there must come new relations
not only between nation and nation
but between man and man.
Labor Here Did Its Share.
Our men and women have bent and
are bending their backs to the task
of production of the things needed
upon which the armies and navies de-
pend Men and women of labor of
America have done their full duty
and will continue to do their full duty
and for the sacrifices which they have
made out of their strength and health,
for the sacrifices they have made upon
the battlefield, freedom must not be
lost to them in times of peace. They
want an accounting of the steward
ship of our people, of what we have
done and what we have failed to do to
maintain the standard of life, the
American standard of life, that no
pauperization of the sisters and bro
theirs and fathers and mothers shall
occur while our boys are at the front
minglng as they do, ditch digger and
the son of millionaire and business
man, all of them in the same trench,
in the same tent( sharing the same
fare, the same hardships and the same
risks-these men will come back to
our country with glory and victory
written into their very souls and they
shall want an accounting of our stew
ardship while they have been over
there.
They know now that the peoples
of the world, regardless IF where their
countries may be, are now so much
nearer than before Our American
soldier boys are speaking French, are
speaking Italian, and they will have
new lingo in which they can question
US.
They have gotten broader vision
and understanding. Their own lives
and minds will have become broaden
ed They have mingled with the Eng
lish Tommies, the French Poilus and
Italians, who have given them new
thought, and the man or woman who
cant answer straight-forwardly to her
boy or his boy when he comes back
will have a hard row to hoe, believe
me-
The war is nearly over, men and
women. It was my great privilege to
say, almost at the beginning of the
war, that we hoped and expected that
the German people themselves would
crush militarism and autocracy from
their country, but if they failed, by the
gods we would crush it for them.
AutOcracy Is Crushed.
The alternative was either outside
or inside. Instead of their crushing
their autocratic military machine
themselves we have done it-are doing
twill continue to do it from the out
side while some spirit of German
democracy, or German desperation
against the failure of that militarist
machine, will help to establish dem
ocracy in Germany
! We want to see this world govern
ed by the peoples of the land, by the
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pay and they shall have voice in de-
term;ning finally and once and for all
what the condition of service shall be.
We want the Declaration to defend
US, the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness not to be mere
generalities, but the rules of every
day life, where every man shall be a
king and every woman queen by her
own fireside.
! In the time now near at hand we
have yet much to do. The war work,
the campaign about to begin, is just
as essential now and for the future as
has been any preparation for the mill
tary side of the war. Service, eontri-
buttons, payment, anything and every
thing for labor, for freedom, for jus
tice, for democracy.
Thus when this war shall finally
have been triumphantly closed, there
will come the problem of reconstruc-
tion and rehabilitation With the de-
mobilization of our army and the men
of our great fleets into their civic life
it viii mean either intelligent demob-
ilization, or rampant Generalization.