Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
THE READERS VIEWPOINT
Letters to the Editor on Current Topics

| going bit too far. quite bit too fal%
But what are you going to expect of
soviet government-its members draw
ing one dollar per year from the U.
A., and from $4,000 to S25 900 or $50
900 from their own corporations
which is putting its authority side
side with the legal one and is obeys
just as quick, if not quicker, than Il
regular officers. For a soviet is
lobby that takes the reins of goverII
ment in its own hands, is Carl Mar}
tel, the major domo,f is the ''ShoI
gun" who rules in the name of thI
Mikado, keeping the Mikado virtually
prisoner. And seeing all these thing
before their eyes, and seeing ais
how easy Gompers did ''sovietJ
the "AGamson biIl' through CongresI
few years ago, why should not th1
brotherhoods try to run the rail-
roads on the soviet principle? Will
not? Why not? Why not hate the capi]
talists, too, those autocrats? Why not
Have not the patriots been preachin|
hate? Hate the Kaiser, hate the autc|
Gratis. Damn the Kaiser, damn thI
plutocrats.
Yes, l know that an autocrat neeI
not mean a plutocrat and vice versd
But sometimes these plutocrats are nd
only autocratic, but are damned arI
tocratic. And the railroad men knot
this, and they have seen Hoover, Gan
field, McAdoo, and others WELD auto
cratic powers. Why should 1t nd
now be the railroaders' turn to wiel
these powers?
You helped to dig the grave for ell
Kaiser, why do you kick when 20
are thrown into it yourself? 1t was nc
necessary to preach hate to whip Ger
many. The people of the U. s..
did not need any Dutch courage"
drinking hate. They are brav
people, including most of those Is ps
cent of English descent.
Only those to be excepted who lei
England to escape being drafted an
some buffers and ladies maids. But th
English element had to be thorough
, English and of course, that near
that they had to "muddle through.
! And they did not know any better wa
: to do it than to preach hate. Dam
the Kaiser, he is half English, anyhow
damn the war lords; damn the auto
! Gratis Except the emperor of Japan
f and damn the autocrats" has change
into damn the plutocrats. Who is
t blame? Is it those who preached mod
Grafton and which you howled dow
or is it you who preached hate an
damn the Kaiser, damn the Germa
Junkers? You fellows made a me-
out of it. You muddled through thirt
billion dollars already. You muddled Il
peoples minds and their cost of livir
and now! Are you going to mudG
capital and labor? Or are you goir
to put on sackcloth and put ashes Z
your heads in penitence, because yc
saw red during the war, and your kne
wobbed, and your spine was feeliI
hot and cold shivers, and you acted
sensible as a drunken sailor with foul
teen months pay in his pocket and
gallon of booze inside? 1t was boo
of fiery stuff, too. 1t was the booze
hate, spiced with the cinnamon of fea
the pepper of greed, the pickles
jealous vanity. While dose of tn
dope may temporarily be good, /
aftermath generally is terrible. I hoI
that the reaction gill be satisfied Wi
the demand for a soviet managemei
of railroads and with. the race riots a
ready passed in Washington and Ch
cago. But, if so is to be, it is necessai
that your "hate mills" stop and st,
at once grinding out hate.
What are you going to do about !
Going to get some sense or going
stick in the old rut? II is up to yo
WILLIAM SATRY,
Philadelphia. Augunt o.