The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-09
A New Birth

William E. Humphrey, former
representative in congress says that
Americans are now getting a new
baptism of patriotism. He believes
that the nation will henceforth be
directed by returned soldiers, who
have been trained in the value of
authority, freedom, and justice, and
to hate the traitor and the dema-
gogue. Under the governing power
of these returned soldiers, Mr..
Humphrey predicts that the country
will be freed from the international
socialist, the I. w. W., and the boil
sheviki, who have constituted the
enemy within this country, and have
Slapped at the life blood of the ma
ton. In this sense, Mr. Humphrey
declares that the war is proving the
saviour of the American republic.
Economic Mission
The prospective economic mission
to Russia is the outgrowth Of con-
ferences of business men of the
large commercial centers, where 1t
has been recognized that a vast
field of trade lies waiting in Siberia
for the first commercial friend of
the new republic that helps to re-
construct the country.
Big Business
We can drive big business into
bankruptcy and then start the So
cialistic cry that they have failed,
so let the government take them
over That will take them off the
tax roll, and then all of US humble
tax payers can make up the deficit.
The war has multiplied our great
industries. They increased under
necessity, only to become the target
for the demagog and agitator. 1t is
about time for this country to pass
out of the stage of cheap politics
and encourage big business so that
we may become the industrial lead
ers in the world.
England allows her great indus
tries to make all the money they
can by selling in open market, and
then taxes all profits in excess of
normal, applying the revenue there
by realized to war purposes. This
is certainly more sensible than lin
iting profits.
Cooperation
The ideal condition in industry is
spirit of cooperation, arbitration,
mediation and mutual consideration
of rights and interests. The right
Of organization, the right to collec-
tive bargaining is established, but
there never has existed the right to
strike in critical times, to use eco
nomic power as a power for destruc-
ton.
This new order of industrial I'M
Outstanding is worth working for
where efficiency of the industrial
worker takes the place of the union
fight to force the payment of the
same wages to the incompetent as
the competent, and the use of the
strike, picket and boycott to compel
employers to meet union demands.
The far-seeing employer is realiz-
ing his obligations to his men, and
the time has come for workingmen
to realize their responsibility toward
their employers and their jobs.
Leadership Necessary
Various labor bodies of this
country have adopted resolutions ia
voring the British labor party's
plan of reconstruction, which plan is
a modified form of industrial social
ism.
The British labor party differs
from the bolsheviki only in it's
method of arrival at desired end.
That desired end is the control of
industry by the workingmen. The
bolsheviki proposed to arrive by de-
stroying the capitalist, while the
British labor party proposes to as
simulate him.
The control of industry by the
workman has failed in every trial.
In every instance where the self
governing workshop has been tried
there has been a decided lack of
disciplin, lack of capital, lack of ex-
perience in running the enterprise
and lack of knowledge of the market.
Russia has proved to the satisfaction
of all thinking people that the life
of industry depends on expert man.
agement, ability and organization;
that leadership with the power to
enforce its orders is necessary and
that workmen's committees fail in
that capacity.
The idea that "the workman shall
rule the world" has gone to the
heads of the workingmen of the
world. They would dispense with
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