The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-15

the period of the war and becomes in
operative upon the formal proclamation
of peace. But l should Judge that it was
clearly within the constitutional power of
the congress to make similar permanent
| provisions and regulations with regard to
all goods destined for interstate COM
merce and to exclude them from inter-
state shipment If the requirements of the
law are not compiled with.
Some such regulation is imperatively
necessary.
1t would materially add to the serv-
iceability of the law, for the purpose we
now have in view. If it were al-o pre-
scrfbed that all goods released froFa stor-
age for interstate shipment should have
plainly marked upon each package the
selling or market price at which they
went into storage. By this means the
purchaser would always be able to learn
what profits stood between him and the
| producer or the wholesale dealer.
The world must pay for the appalling
destruction wrought by the great war,
and we are part of the world. We must
| pay our share. For five years now the in
| dustry of all Europe has been slack and
disordered The normal crops have not
peen produced; the normal quantity Of
manufactured goods has not been turned
| out
Not until there are the usual crops
and the usual production of manufactured
| goods on the other side of the Atlantic
can Europe return to the former condi-
| tons; and it was upon the former cond-
| tions, not the present, that our economic
relations with Europe were built up
We must face the fact that unless we
help Europe to get back to her normal
life and production a chaos will ensue
there which will inevitably be communi-
Gated to this country. For the present 1t
| is manifest. we must quicken. not slacken,
| our own production
U. S. Must Hold World Steady,
We, and we almost alone, now hold the
world steady. Upon our steadfastness and
| self-possession depend the affairs of ma
| tions everywhere. 1t is in this supreme
| crisis-this crisis for all mankind-that
| American must prove her mettle
In the presence of a world confused. dia
| tracted, she must show herself self-pos-
sessed. self-contained, capable of sober
| and effective action. Che saved Europe
| by her action in arms; she must now save
| it by her action in peace
In saving Europe she will save herself
| sr she did upon the battlefields of the
| war The ca1mness and capacity with
| which she deals with and masters the
| problems of peace will be the final test
| and proof of her place among the peoples
| of the world.
And. if only in our own interest we
| must help the people overseas. Europe is
| our biggest customer. We must keep her
| going thousands of our shops and
| scores of our mines must close. There is
| no such thing letting her go to ruin
without ourselves sharing in the disaster,
In such circumstances, face to face
| with such tests passion must be discard
| ed. Passion and disregard for the
| rights of others have no place in the
| counsels of free people. We need light,
| not heat, in these solemn times of self
| examination and saving action.
Everyone who is in real touch with the
silent masses of our great people knows
| that the old strong fiber and steady self
| control are still there. firm against vio-
| lence or any distempered action that
| would throw their affairs into confusion.
! l am serenely confident that they will
| readily find themselves, no matter what
the circumstances and that they will adj
dress themselves to the tasks of peace
| with the same devotion and the same
stalwart preference for what is right that
/ they displayed to the admiration of the
whole world in the midst of war.
| Sinister Influences at Work.
| And l enter another confident hope. l
| have spoken today chiefly of measures
| of imperative regulation and legal com
| pulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp
| correction of selfish processes: and these
| no doubt are necessary.
But there are other forces that we may
count on besides those resident in the
department of Justice. We have just
| fully awakened to what has been going
/ On anu 10 the lIuueHCeSy many u lhSiAA
very selfish and sinister that have been
| producing high prices and imposing an
| intolerable burden on the mass of our
people
To have brought it all into the open
! will accomplish the greater part OF the
result we seek.
| l appeal with entire confidence to
| our producers, our middlemen and our
| merchants to deal fairly with the peo-
pie. 1t is their opportunity to show
that they comprehend, that they in
| tend to act justly, and that they have
| the public interest sincerely at heart.
Labor Must Consider.
believe, too, that the more ex-
| treme leaders of organized labor will
presently yield to sober second
| thought. and like the great mass of
| their associates. think and act like
true Americans. They will see that
| strikes undertaken at this critical time
| are certain to make matters worse,
not better-worse for them and for
| everybody else.
The worst thing, the most fatal
| thing-that can be done now is to stop
or interrupt production, or to interfere
with the distribution Of goods by the
railways and the shipping of the
| country.
There are many things that ought
to be corrected in the relations be-
| tween capital and labor. in respect
| of wages and conditions of labor and
| other things even more far-reaching,
| and 1, for one, ready to go into
| conference about these matter with
any group of my fellow countryn1en
who know what ehey talking about
| and are willing to remedy existing
| conditions by frank counsel rather
| than by violent contest.
General Interest First.
No remedy is possible while men are
| in a temper. and there can be no set
| tlement which does not have as its
| motive and standard the general in
! terest.
Must All Work Together.
| Threats and undue insistence upon
| the interest of single class. make set
| tlement impossible. L believe, as 1
/ have hitherto had occasion to say to