The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

the United States.
"As a matter Of fact no one group
can cope with such a situation. 1t has
become a national matter and must
have attention by all the people of the
nation who remain right minded. It.
self is not a group movement, but
national movement. 1t must be dealt
with as such through united action
throughout the whole nation by peo-
pie who believe in our government and
in our laws, most of which are just IL
properly interpreted.
Even II the laws are wrong. we
have much machinery with which to
change them. No revolution is re-
Quired in order to accomplish a revi-
sion of any detail of our code. From
time to time we even have made
changes in our Constitution when the
majority of the whole people have de-
sired them. Steps are provided under
our system of government which will
give our people anything they want in
the way of legal changes-if they are
wanted ty the majority.
"All that we need to do in order to
get anything which we ought to have
Is to elect to Office good and honest
men. Such men will serve us in what
ever proper way We may direct. 1t is
absurd to think that We need Bolshev-
ism in order to accomplish any good
we may require. Bolshevism would be
long and tiresome road for the
United States to travel in it's search
ing for good government The estab-
lishment of soviets would be a pro-
gramme for securing better economic
conditions which it would be difficult
for America to carry out successfully.
ut is my firm belief, and I have
given the matter, naturally, very much
and earnest thought, that radical
labor movement could not possibly
succeed here Like great and rapidly
burning fire. il quickly would reach
its peak die down and leave light
ashes which the wind would blow
away. But it would leave ruin in It's
wake. Contracts, for example, would
be nothing. either for employer or en-
ployed, for buyer or for seller.
Employer and Employed.
at seems obvious TO me that always
there will be employers and en-
ployed But men may graduate from
the ranks of the employed and become
employers; laborers may become in
dustrial magnates; clerks may be-
come financiers-and will. 1t has hap
pened over and over again in the
United States and will happen many
times in days to come.
eft iS a ullpettnn In NV MIND the
men who have risen from the ranks
! Of labor always have been happier be-
cause sof their advance, but the fact
remains that there is opportunity here
! for every one who cares to take ad-
vantage of 1t when il knocks upon
his door l recommend to every 'radi-
cal in the United States that sonnet
by the late John j. Ingalls,. the name
of which is Opportunity!
| asked Mr.. Frayne to suggest to
me the remedy for all the various
! complaints which continually are made
in these days by the workers.
ut has been suggested" he replied,
that the remedy to cure Americas
growing industrial unrest, the means
by which to prevent the spread of
Bolshevlsm, Is 10 shoot men down, to
club them or throw them into prison.
| cannot accept this thought as rea-
sonable. 1t may be that those sug-
costing it are as dangerously radical,
as perilously violent in their ideas as
the workers who urge riot, fire and
bloodshed as means whereby they may
secure that which they denominate
their liberty
TO follow tactics of that sort would
be to make martyrs of the men who
are deserving, probably. of no sucn
glory. Men, though they be unworthy
martyrs. always have great followings
Dispose of them by bullets or by bars
and new men will spring to take their
places.
THE problems OF to-day's industrial
unrest, think, are among those which
laws will not rightly touch. let alone
cure properly. They are not merely
national In these days of quick trans.
portation and instantaneous communi.
cation, which no censorship really car
control. They are fully International
and the law cannot cope with truly in
ternational problems. You can't cure
discomfort by legally forbidding It. You
can't cure sick society by punishment
any more than you can cure a sick
man by sentencing him to prison or tc
forty lashes.
"These things are problems, moi
crimes. and must he dealt with a.
problems, not crimes.
"lf workers are given more freedom
and better opportunities, II they ar,
given higher living standards, few |
any OF them will be susceptible to an,
destructive propaganda, will be toler
ant of the so-called Bolshevlstic doc