Evening star., 1919-11-09
BY WILL =. KENNEDY.

BY WILL =. KENNEDY.
NN/ m a n d ng a quare
" " deal in the Industrial
economic social scheme
of government.
The innocent bystander." who has
been getting hurt pretty regularly
while watching the scraps between
labor and capital, has made up his
mind that he must be recognized as
third party in those disagreements.
This third party is coming into it's
own; in other words, the great ma
jority of the people of this country
have become heartily sick and tired
of legislation in the interests of some
relatively small organization in the
, minority and is going to demand
that the majority report be consid-
cred.
Recognized by Congress.
Congress is recognizing this new
spirit Of freedom for the masses that
is sweeping over the country. The
political leaders who are planning
how to enunciate and support issues"
in the big campaign just opening up
are considerably concerned over how
to handle the situation that is devel-
oping.
The correspondence of a member of
Congress is the most human reading
| matter that any one can find. 1t gets
to the heart of things. and it gives
the pulse of the people. Letters from
an individual constituent mean that
the voter is taking sufficient interest
| in the public welfare to write his
views to his member of Congress.
They mean also that he has sufficient
| faith in his form Of government to
| believe that his suggestion or pro-
| test will be given consideration. Con-
gressmen today are reading behind
the lines of their letters from back
home" as never before, because they
are looking as never before for the
| will of the people, since they have
come to feel the spirit of we-the-
ma jority will-rule which is sweeping
over the country.
The repeated and insistent demands
of organized labor, backed by the
SITlkG InEcdl, UOlu uoIlh6 ShO "oA
period aud the readjustment period /:
| the increasing costs Of necessities Of
life, due to increased cost of produc-
ton and to the selfishness that gave
birth to profiteering, have goaded the
| consumer, the third party, the public,
or whatever the big majority OF citi-
zenship which has suffered may be
called, into demanding their majority
rights.
Champ Clark's Warning.
Champ Clark, veteran legislator. al
most President, longtime Speaker. who
has touched with his homely philosophy
responsive chord in as many and as
large public gatherings as any man
in public life. warned the House the
other day:
There are three parties to all these
, controversies, the capitalists, the labor
unions and the consumers. There are
about 1900, 900 laboring union men.
How many capitalists there are do not
know. but they are organized. But
there are 110,000,000 consumers in this
country who are not organized but can
be organized Then they will exercise
supreme power in this land. They are
| beginning to be afraid that they will be
ground between the upper and the
neither milestone"
| Within the last two weeks the writer
has heard fully two-score members OF
Congress express the opinion that the
rank and file Of the people are here
after going to take a more forward and
| insistent part in demanding legisla-
ton that will protect them and in less
| legislation in behalf Of organized
minorities who have previously held
| the ears Of many members of Congress.
| Organized Labor Long a Fetish.
Organized labor has heretofore stood
as a fetish before many-if not ma
| jority-in Congress. There are about
! 4, ,00O, 900 men in the army of organized
labor, representing. with their de-
! pendents. approximately 20,000,000 of
the population. So that members of
Congress who are waking up to the will
| of the people are coming to a realza
ton that labor organizations represent
the economic interests of not more tina n