The Dolores star., 1919-08-15
Axe for interstata .hlpment sheuld 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 share. For five years now the IN
dustry of all Europe has been slack ana
dsordered. The normal crops have not
been 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 1t was upon the former condi-
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 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.
v. S. Must Hold World Steady.
We. and we almost alone. now hold the
world steady. Upon our steadfastness and
self-possesson depend the affairs of ma
tions everywhere. 1t is in this supreme
American must prove her mettle.
In the presence of q world confused. dis
tracted she must show herself self-pos-
sessed. self-contained. capable Of sober
and effective action. She saved Europe
by her action in arms: she must now save
It by her action in peace.
In saving Europe she will save herself
as she did upon the battlefelds of the
war. The calmness and capacity with
which she deals with and masters the
NtI
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 or thousands of our shops and
scores of our mines must close. There Is
no such thing as 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 a disregard for the
rights OF others have no place In the
counsels of a free people. We need light
not heat. in these solemn times OF self
examination and saving action.
Must Be No Threats.
There must be threats. Let there be
only intelligent counsel. and let the best
reasons win. not the strongest brute
force. The world has just destroyed the
arbitrary force of a military junta 1t
will live under no other, All that Is ar
btrary and coercve is in the discard
Those who seek to employ 1t only prepare
their own destruction.
We cannot hastily and overnight revo-
lutionize all the processes of our
nomic life. We shall not attempt to do
so. These are days of deep excitement
and of extravagant speech. but with
these are things OF the surface.
Everyone who is in real touch with the
n nf nfip knnX
that the old strong fiber and steady self
control are still there, firm against vio-
lence any dstempered action that
would throw their affairs into confusion
] am serenely confident that they will
readily find themselves, no matter what
the circumstances. and that they will ad-
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 | enter another confident hope /
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 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.
l appeal with entire confidence to
our producers, our middlemen and our
,, al t,-I, ,t,t
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.
And l have no doubt that house
keepers all over the country. and ev-
eryone who buys the things he daily
stands in need of will presently exer-
else greater vigilance. more
thoughtful economy. a more discrimi-
mating care as to the market in which
he buys or the merchant with whom
he traded than he has hitherto exer-
Cised.
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
thinS-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.
We all involved in the dis
tressing results of the high cost of
living and we must unite, not divide.
to correct 1t.
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