Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-09

with such tests. passion must be dis carded. 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 or self examination and saving action There must be no threats. Let there be only intelligent counsel, and let the best reasons win. not the strongest brute force. The world has just de stroyed the arbitrary force of a nili- tary junta. It will live under no other the discard. Those who seek to ern- ploy it only prepare their own de- struction.
 Has Confidence in People.
 We cannot hastily and over night revolutionize all the processes of our economic life. We shall not attempt to do so. These are days of deep ex- cltement' and of extravagant speech: but with us these are things of the surIace Everyone who is in real touch With the silent masses of our great people knows that the old strong dbre and steady self control are still there nrm against violence or any distern- pered action that would throw their aHalrs into confusoon. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves no matter what the cir cumstan&es, and that they will address themselves to the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the same staI- Wart preference for what is right that they displayed to the admiration of the whole world in the midst of war.
 We Have Just Awakened.
 And I entertain another confident hope. l have spoken today chiefly of measures of imperative regulation and legal compulsion. of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish process es; 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 and to the influences many of them 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
 Appeals for Fair Dealing.
 I appeal with entire confidence to our producers our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly with the peo- pie. It 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 And l have no doubt that housekeep- CTS all over the country and everyone who buys the things he daily stands in need of will presently exercise great CT vigilance a more thoughtful econ omy, more discriminating care as to the market in which he buys or the merchant with whom he trades than he has hiterto exercised.
 
 I believe. too. that the more extreme leaders of organized labor will pres ently yield to a sober second thought and. like the great mass of their as sociates, think and act like true Amer fcans. They will see that strikes un- dertaken at this critical time are cer- tain to make matters worse, not bet ter-worse for them and for everybody else. The worst thing, the most fatal thing that can be done now is to stop O rinterrupt production or to interfere with the distribution of goods by the railways and the shipping of the distressing results of the high cost of living and we must unite. not divide, to correct 1t.
 Capital and Labor.
 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 ever more far-reaching, and l, for one, am ready to go into conference about these matters with who know what they are talking about and willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather than by violent contest. No remedy is possible while men are in a tenn per and there can be no settlement which does not have at it's motive and standard the general interest
 Threats q Deterrent.
 Threats and undue insHstence upon the interest of a single class make settlement impossible. I believe as T have hitherto had occasion to say to the congress, that the industry and life of our people mad of the world w4n suffer irreparable damage if empaCy- CTS and workmen are to go on in perpetual contest. aE antagon1B1S- They most. on one plan or another be effectively associated. Have we net stea diness and self -posSe9sfon and business sense enough to work out that result? Undoubtedly We hn1eS and we shall work 1t out. In tne meantfme-now and in the dAys Of r9- adjustment and recuperztion that, are ahead of us-let us resort more and more to frank and intimate counsel and make ourselves great and tri- umnhant nation. by making ourselves a united force in the lffe of tho world It will not then have looked to us for 11a in