Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
WILSON CALLS FOR ORDER
IN A RIOTOUS SCRIMMAGE
The Letter TO the Railway Men Is Ad.
dressed to Az Groups That Believe
Themselves Bigger Than the
Country


As MR.. WILSON has chosen OCCASION
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Business and laboy are organized. the
Crcs; public. upon which both depend and
which IS swiftly being nut in the position
| Of A helpless and scrvilc majority. isn't.
| This public hasn't the resources adequate
10 "'.e' TIE u'''aHuS "o" o'"'s ""o'
upon It,
AS the price of lumber increases, build
ing projects arc abandoned. Coal is
costly--so it will he used with care.
Food attamS new price attitudes every
weeS-and hunger IS no uncommon eX-
Perience and the world at large Is pre-
pairing for winter OF rigorous econo-
mics.
As distribution is hampcrcd, by in
creased costs Of production or shipment.
everybody must suffer. The time may
Comc when producers and transportation
mon may suffer most. 1t is possible for
railway men or farmers or manufacture
ers to make their service so costly that
! the country can no longer afford it. They
have almost accomplished that feat as
matters stand. AS the demands OF labor
such as that which now aff1icts the rail
way shopmen, prices go farther skyward
and consumption automatically is re-
strained.
That way lie industrial impotence. gen
cral idleness, famine prices and, in the
end. panic,
"hat Mr' wilson ask" 'or Is lueid
interval Ill time OF fe'er' moment Tor
cooi look around irr 'he balancing Oh
costs and the coliection OF WIS every
where. Like every other INFORMED on-
server. he mas perceived strohe organl-
cations ol various sotts thinking lHde-
pendently and determined TO make the
best use OF strategic poslllonS at the eN-
pense OF the country ana the people,
lneTs IS perhaps human weakness
Bankers used 10 SuccumD 10 1t regularly
IN the old days 30 oid man! business
organizations. lhVariaoly theE invited
hatred and repllsals and regu4ation by
governmental authority. 1t Is the sense
of labor that 1t cannot be regulated. SO
the phenomenon mat con1ronts cNiliza-
ton everywhere Is something quite new
1t must be said to the credit of the
President that he is the hrst political
leader to go out into the open and meet
an issue at which others have shuddered
and turned away. He has made it plain
that the government will no longer
tolerate the settlement OF great industrial
disputes by force-for the simple reason
that as life is now organized moral obli-