The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-06-27

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According to this dream the Boil
shevik countries are Russia, Ger
many and Austria, which are sup
posed to be excluded from the
League.
No nation is excluded from the
League. And as to Bolshevik ma
lions there is none. There is Boil
shevik riot going on in parts of Rus
STA and some fading memories of flu
tile Bolshevik attempts in other
countries. But there is no Boil
shevik nation and not likely to be
one.
So soon as Russia RECEIVERS from
her red-eyed nightmare and organ
ICES a government she will be adj
mitted to the League. So soon as
Germany recognizes the fact that
she must pay the penalty for the
huge crimes of her imperialism, she
will be admitted to the League.
Then the world will be no longer
split, but for the first time in its
history will begin to work together
with something like sanity and CO.
ordination.
! Against this wonderful New Day,
this start upon the road to peace
and good will on earth, certain SEN
atorial gentlemen repeat the famous
historical edict against the comet.
There is not one Improvement
that ever came upon mankind from
artificial fire to the Panama canal
but intellectual progenitors of these
unfortunate gentleman sat on the
fence and sang croaking chorus of
at Can't Be Done, 1t Can't Be
Done"
| If the world had listened to this
antique song we should never have
had railroads, steamships, tele-
graphs, telephones, electric lights,
weaving machinery, fast presses,
the cotton gin nor even baled hay.
| When the Suez canal was pro-
jected George Stephenson proved
mathematically that it was impos-
sible because the Mediterranean
would pour a devastating flood into
the Red Sea and wash Egypt away.
When steam railroads were sug-
gested eminent engineers proved
they were impossible because the
wheels would not stay on the tracks
and religious bodies petitioned
against them because to travel at
such speed would be fragrant i'm
piety.
| When Ericsson came forward with
his screw propeller James Fenni-
more Cooper, first class seaman
and in some ways the best mind of
his country in that day, showed
that it was utterly impracticable.
Old Commodore Vanderbilt thought
George Westinghouse with his air
brake a dangerous maniac. Prof.
Langley was ridiculed for working
on his airship. Thousands of per-
sons sincerely believed Marconi
was crazy.
Yet the world has gone on en-
riching itself by the visions of men
\ {hat could coo opd bod tbo co,,raoa
to defy the men that couldn't
Where are all the 1T Cant Be
Done" choristers of other genera
tions9 Swept into the Great OBJ
livion long ago. Not one of them
ever succeeded in stopping newt
able Progress.
Not one of them will have any
better luck at that job today.
And let me add one other little
fact that may not be familiar to
you.
A world sickened by four years
and three months of multiplied and |
unequalled horrors demands a spir-
itual recompense for what it has
suffered and some promise that it
will not have to suffer again.
The expression of its spiritual |
longings is the League of Nations.
In that covenant is the idea of |
new brotherhood, closer association
among the children of men, more |
chance for love, less chance for
hate.
1t appears that in the United |
States of America alone among the |
nations there are men willing to go |
forth and kick that beautiful ideal |
in the face.
"They know not what they do"
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