Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-01-23
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W1TE or RESTLESS HUMANITT.

ware Oh RESTLESS HUu4NITT.
Yesterday edition of the Daily News contained ID cable
gram from Paris by Lowell Mellette, staff correspondent Of
the United Press, in a copyrighted article, that it is the opin-
ion Of the American commission which has been investigating
conditions IN European nations, that
"a tidal wave of restless humanity will sweep across The.
world like the invasion of the Huns and Gotls in the Middle.
Ages unless the peace congress exercises foresight III handling
the vital problems of immigration. An economic, industrial
and social calamity can be averted only by satisfying the PEG
pies land hunger and eevating their social status
This view is set forth because the commission found that
everywhere the Europeans OF the WORKING classes and those
Of limited means are turning their attention toward other clnnes
wherein to find homes and to be free from the immediate sur
roundlngs OF the devastation due to war.
In this connection let us call special attention to an article
from Washington with reference to the unemployed in the
various cities of America, and particularly to the speech of
Senator Boral in the United States senate u few days ago,
IN the course Of which he spoke of the underfed children in
some Of ON centers of population.
From the shortage of labor so noticeable in November
last, says q Washington dispatch, printed yesterday, we
have suddenly changed to widespread unemployment in GER
tam localities wherein our returned soldiers are cohgregat-
ing.
They will be provided with work, it is true, but the unem-
ployment Of labor for even a temporary period creates hard
ships, because laborers must eat and have places IN which to
sleep and must have cotlesito wear all Of which costs money,
or its equivalent, as distinguished from capital, which, if idle,
merely ceases to accumulate. Unemployment means idle CAPT
tai, and idle capital means stasnation in business. and stag
nation IN business means depression everywhere.
lt will take time TO return to normal conditions along in
dustrial and conmeeiai lines. # the unemployed become rela-
lively as numerous BIZ the end Of 1919 as they we're before Am
erica enteredath war, We shall have our own labor problems
fo deal with Tho present unrest viii be augmented, and, as
Mr. Hoover recently said, hunger is the mother Of anarchy.
Our politicians at Washington, who are crticising the
president and seeking to san political advantage through his
possible mistakes, and our other politicians who are stopping
gfos defend hmm Ill the hope OF cnrrying favor with the public in
behalf at the party to- which the president belongs. would be
rendering America far better service by devoting their time
and talents to Fastening the enactment of measures for the
@feiiedsiHg of some OF the defects Which have been found to en-
lst in orr economic policies.
We have enough unrest IN the United states now. without
drawing upon The European store.
Our immigration laws need amending SO that we shall not
invite the undesirable class to come among us.
We need To know at the earliest practicable moment what
the country - going 70 do about the railroads IN order that
their private owners and the people may govern Themselves
accordingly.
We need TO know whether anything ii going Is be done
about the monoplistic methods BIT which the packers trust
las been manipulating the prices Of livestock on the one hand
md holding np the consumers Of meat on the ether.
M We need fo know whether stock exchange manipulators
shall be- permitted To continne their methods after the present
Nbanaons foodstnffs shall hay been lifted as they manipulated
aMpIicesN before the war Barley last year was 4 striking illus
<<aatonl Of te system by which they gamble with the necessi-
AszTheslecen sudden upward trend of The price Of coffee Is
annfaaTAlllustratiO America doesn't produce coffee, 1T is true,
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1naEketing system by whichsthe producer Isl beaten at
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