The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-19
Tells High Tension cho some Sound
Doctrine On Need Of Not Rock
ing the Boat at This
Juncture.
SOUND SENSE Is NEEDED
Economic LzrSs Can Not be Changed
by soishevid Any More Than
Water Can be Made to
Fun Uphill.

rS6l pcglcG OF American AfSLOfy WaS
not the events like the Boston tea
party, nor the eight long years OF
the war for independence. but was
the six-year period following the bat
tie of Yorktown. c. W. kellogg last
that the world is now In a general
condition quite similar to that which
obtained in the American colonies
after the revolution.
Similarly, today. the full fruition
Of the war in producing benefits for
humanity can come only after
period OF doubt and distress, and
through the cooperation of the mil
lions of people in all nations. Loyalty
and patiently supporting the men
and means adopted to secure Tor the
world a result worthy of the sacrifice
made for it," he said, and added:
Being an optimist by nature, j am
inclined to believe that the tremen-
dous advance over 17S3-S9, in both
rapidity of communication and In
wide dissemination of news. will
make the critical transition period
much shorter in time than the one
our forefathers went through"
In Our Beginning and Now.
In 1888 the basic problem was to
overcome apathy and sectional jeal-
ousy; now 1t has to do with Dol
shevikism and labor question rock
ing the world, Mr.. Kellogg said. and
similarity in both cases is that
each involves an effort to produce a
new body politic-then the United
Estates; now the league OF nations.
Mr.. Kellogg then considered the
part that each citizen can do. and
| emphasized the big results coming
| people unite in doing it.
| zone of the most important ways
we can help at this time Is in main
| tanning a sound public opinion on
the great questions OF public policy
| before the world" he said. for there
never was a time when clearer think
! ing by cool heads was more essential
! than now" We Americans have a
| special duty, due to our superior
schooling and freedom OF speech and
press, and I'VE must be sure that no
false doctrine, like that by which the
bolsheyiki. have wrecked Russia, Is
allowed 10 gain any foothold In
minds too weak or unframed to de-
/ tect its utter folly"
The Saving Of Labor.
Mere nevness does not prove
either the business nor soundness Of
the theories IN question" he said a
I little later. To the bolsheviki, a
worker" appears to be somebody
! for whom nobody else works. A
farmer might toll in the hot sun six
/ teen hours a day. but IL he hires a
single hand, he is not a worker and
should be deprived of his farm and
preferably murdered, according to
+; the boIsheviki doctrine. The applica-
/ ton of these theories to Russia has
produced a country wide condition OF
stagnation and starvation and muir
| der there.
| The first mistake with them .s an
erroneous notion of capital. which
really has the same relation to labor
! that your Liberty bonds have to your
/ income.
/ Capital is saved up labor" and It
follows that laborers are constantly
being changed to capitalists.
The Limit Of Working Hours.
After strongly fayoring modern
hours OF labor supplanting the long
ones OF the past, Mr.. kellogg said:
( But let US not forget that as soon
as the point is reached where the
workers health is conserved, the
curtailment of working hours beyond
that point must stop short" for the
getting Of the worlds work done Is
the controlling factor after hours
/ have been shortened in accordance
with physiology.
"a second great fallacy in the boil
sheviki is, that capital is useless
J 2nd labor everything" which idea
lis due to pure ignorance and
! lack of reflection Our clothes. coal