The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-22

fact, that the American people have
been exploited time and again by first
one crowd and then another, to be
followed by another, and so on Pa
tiently does that public goat suffer all
sorts of inconveniences, and pay the
bills cheerfully rather than grudging-
ly Long suffering and of great kind
ness has distinguished this public
goat. After a time, patience ceases to
be virtue, and then that public goat
gets up it's mad, and butts so vigor-
ously that the thing butted disap-
pears.
That American public is all right
1t proved itself during the war period,
when the people willing to sacrifice
were legion, while those who wanted
to get the best out of it for themselves
were an inconspicuous minority. It
was wonderful exhibit Of patriotism,
and charity, and devotion to a good
cause since the only thing that counts
in giving is giving until it hurts That
the American people did all through
the great war In these things, which
were for honor and for righteous
causes, this public was a willing goat.
Unfortunately, this public pos
sesses a short memory, and a small
portion of it has apparently forgotten
how that public goat, exasperated by
the greed of certain capitalists in ex-
ploitation of it, promptly butted the
offenders into a condition of humility,
in startling contrast with their ar
rOgance at the height of their assumed
powers. That minority embraces GER
tain labor leaders, and their following.
They must have forgotten what hap
pened in the regulation of capital or
they would never have assumed the
right to exploit the public to a greater
extent than the capitalist ever dared
to go.
what they have done is to exas-
perate the public goat to the butting
stage, and when the blow is delivered
it will be years before the power and
the hurt of it are forgotten.
ENTERS the era of public rights,
more clearly defined than they ever
have been. Public rights, first, after
that, rights of capital and labor, in
dividually and collective The public
is partner in all enterprises affecting
its necessities and comforts, and it is
not going to permit anybody or any
thing to interfere with them, even tenn
porarily. Labor has miscalculated, as
never before, the power of public opin-
ion which has developed in the most
extraordinarily brief period ever
known, in this matter of strikes
against against public interests. It
will only realize when the strong arm
of the federal government crushes it.
for that arm is nothing more than the
crystallization of public opinion. The
federal government will do the but
ting for it's citizens.
"This unrest period is going to re
suit in an enormous amount of good
for it is going to teach labor just how
far it can go and no farther, as is
taught capital it's boundaries within
the last 20 years. Red radicalism
will never be popular again. The home
owenrs have had more than enough of
it, and they rise up en- masse to de-
fend their homes, their lives their
necessities, and their comforts.
cit must not be forgotten that there
will be in this effectual butting proc
ess no unfairness and no injustice.
The punishment may be more drastic
than it would have been had the Of
fenses been less. Rights of labor will
be respected, and protected, exactly
as rights of capital are respected, and
protected, but the wrongs it would in
flict upon this patient public are to Oe
stopped, just as the wrongs attempted
by capital, and perpetrated, also were
stopped.
zone of the good things that is
coming, and coming soon, is the prop
erly taught lesson that contracts are
contracts, and that labor can no more
disregard contract than may indi
viduals or corporations. Contracts are
the basis Of all law and order. One
of the most foolish things of which
labor has ever been guilty was this
assumption that its contracts were
scraps Of paper
"When the United States govern
ment really wakes up and does things
there is no halfway result. When Eu
gene V. Debbs, now il the fedora
prison, early in 1894, organized a bod!
of railway employees, brought about {
great strike in the Pullman shops O.
Chicago, and incidentally a strike OF
the railways entering Chicago, riot
started in at Cnce, thousand cars
were burned, loyal employees were
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