New-York tribune., 1918-04-24

do. as am not fighter. But look
on the face Of Sir Douglas Haig, pub
lished in the Sunday papers, and the
face of Hindenburg, and I have made
up my mind that there is only one ar
gument appreciated by man with a
face like Hindenburg's, and that is the
heaviest ordnance we can make in this
country and can fire. 1t takes the
shock of the gun between the eyes to
argue with men with faces of that
type; that is the only way that civ
ilized society can protect itself and
that government of the people can
endure.
II have no doubt that Mr.. Baker has
come back with much information and,
/ hope, with a change Of heart. The
only difficulty is object to educating
the men assembled about the executive
with such long lapse of precious time
and at such an infinite cost to the coun-
try. The education processes ought to
have begun before such men assumed
the robes of Office.
Attacks Secretary of Labor
"Then there is Secretary Of Labor W..
B. Wilson. He made his debut in pub
lie notice by being in Jail in Cumber-
land. Md, for violating thelaws of the
country. He is to be the gentleman in
charge of the expenditure of $60,0o0,000
for housing and humanitarian purposes,
with power to go and condemn even
private residences and 20 turn any
member of the Senate out Of his home
by merely applying to a district judge
of the United States Court and obtain
ing the approval of the judge before
filing petition for condemnation or
issuing any order by which the prop
erty is to be taken and you and 5our
family put upon the curbstone.
"W. B. Wilson himself is state So
cialisr.. In, many addresses he has
shown himself. as unadulterated So
cialist in all Of our domestic affairs as
can be found'in the purely Socialist or
in the United States.
"When l speak of state Socialists /
do not mean state in the narrow sense
of our forty-eight states; mean state
authority to take over any. enterprise.
Burleson Also State Socialist
"Mr. Rurleson, the Postmaster Cen
eral, in the same sense is also state
Socialist: Mr.. Burleson has frequently
by message, report and otherwise and
by public address wherever he has had
occasion to express himself favored the
taking of telegraphs and telephones
and adding them to the Postofiice De-
psrt,nent. He in substance, says it is
AN anomaly for the communication OF
to be in private hands.
'Thcra ia an almost laughable state
ment in his report of 1917, in view of
all that preceded it, about government
ownership of telegrapEs and telephones.
In it Mr.. Burleson exhibits q strange
lapse of memory or understanding. He
recommends in that report that all OF
the rural free delivery of the United
States be taken out of the govern
mert's hands and farmed out to private
under star. routes, and he
sustains it by the argument that the
can do the work cheaper
than the rural carriers are now doing
it for the government
81 agree with him as to this. but 1t
is contradictory to all of his arguments
and to every utterance on the question
ne has made since l have known him in
uun:i. office. | do not think he is lit
person to decide it. He is carrying
about to-day in his private fortune the
proceeds of the labor of Texas convicts
in connection with the cotton farming
on his land in Texas. An investigation
by the Texas Legislature showed that
his farm was let out, run by convict
labor, and that he received q share o.
the proceeds of the farm. Now, he is
the last person in the world to be talk
ing about government ownership and
issuing orders and edicts from his de-
partment to the postal employees of this
country, denying them in substance the
right to organize themselves to present
their claims to Congress or the de-
partment.
Nation Depends on Bourgeoisie
"Mr. Burleson represents in concrete
form labor that has no right to speak
This is another one Of the Presidents
this bill after the power is delegated te
him to consolidate the departments.
"The bourgeoisie, which is the object
of Trotzkys contempt, are the only
foundation upon which this republic
can endure. The only government. Mr.
Trctzky and his associates are salts
fled with is the hobo government.
The Soviet is composed of the Rcas
the anarchists, the disturbers of Rus
sia, and it was to them that the Presi
dent directed his solicitous cablegran
Of March H., 1913, and their reply tt
him shows that the President has il
his hand a blazing brand-that he i
playing with fire and does not know it
"In his communication to the Rus
sian Soviet the President has made al
unwise use of the power vested in him
1t is an encouragement, and it is takel
as an encouragement by the Socialis