The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-09-26
What will become of Russia?
Who cnn tell

never return.
What will become of Russia?
Who can tell?
Into what country's breast will an
other year find the gaunt wolf of Boil
shevism sinking its shining teeth and
bloody claws?
No one knows. No one can know.
We can only know that the one wea-
pom that has been found to fight it is
food. No matter what the ideals and
aspirations of the country may be, it
cannot get freedom, on an empty stom-
ach The hungry man may tear down.
But he cannot upbuild. Hungry stom-
achs can never make reasoning brains.
The discomfort of hungry people leads
nowhere except to confusion, chaos
and reaction. Trotsky and Lenine
may call their government what they
will but it is in point of fact as
bloody tyranny as the world has ev-
er known.
So it is first hunger that we must
fight. And we must fight the causes
of hunger. These are first economic
unrest and unemployment. And we
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try To start in composing Europe
| before we protect our own citizens is
as unthlnking as a man going to a
neighboring city to build an almshouse
while his own wife and children starve
at home.
Work Must be Done
Day by day thousands upon thou
| Of hnnnet Nd
respecting American citizens are be-
ing thrown out of work.
Work must be found for them.
And it must be found now.
Day by day our soldiers are coming
back from France. Work must be
found for them. Shall gallant Amer
| lean boys who We're ready and willing
to lay down their very lives that we
at home might be saved come back to
find themselves welcomed by words?
Moreover, they should be brought
back as fast as it is humanely posi-
bic and economically advisable. Their
| job is DONE 1t has been done gallant
| ly and well. That they should now be
left on a foreign SOIL eating their
hearts out in longing for home and
friends, is an injustice as grave as it
/ is terrible. They have done their
work, They should be allowed to come
back.
And not only that. There must be
no relapse for them, or for any work
ers, to the industrial conditions of be-
fore the war. 1t will not be possible.
Our workers have learned their rights
They have learned what improved liv-
ing conditions mean. And they have
learned of the sovereignty of citizen
ship.
What Soldiers Learned
Our soldiers have learned. They
have travelled and studied and seem.
They have thought. Through fighting
for the United States, they have come
to know that they are partners in the
United States, and that if they must
share its responsibilities they have a
right to share its benefits.
And this no man who has been to
Europe during the war can fail to see
and recognize as being one of the
greatest factors for the United States
to consider.
Our soldiers, returning, will ask
more. But they will ask no more than
is just. They have seen at last what
mutually really means.
To ask these men to go back to
mine or mill or lathe or shop under
prewar conditions will be impossible.
Even if it were possblef or US to ask,
it would be impossible for them to
grant. They could not in justice TO
themselves.
And above all must the people of
the United States realize that this is
no time for reaction or reactionaries.
We of the United States must be not
only forward looking, but forward
going. And we must travel fast and
far.
Conditions, some Of which we seem
well-nigh unable to cope with, face
us from world in ferment. 1t is nc
time to become frightened or to lose
ones head. But, contrariwise, it is
no time to be Pollyanna.
The conditions are there. They
must be met, faced, studied, analysed
adjusted, solved. No few men can dc
it, however able they may be or think
themselves to be. It is the work %
all. And it is work that must be
based on mutual understanding, mu-
tual patience and mutual trust. In
that task no body of men will give
more potential service than the or.
garized labor movement of America.
Let as of America face these new
labors, then, in the spirit of individu.
alistic mutuality--in the spirit Of the
real democracy!
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