The Nevada County picayune., 1919-08-14

the period of the war and becomes in- operative upon the formal proclamation of peace. But I should judge that it was clearly within the constitutional power of the congress to make similar permanent provisions and regulations with regard to all goods destined for interstate com merce and to exclude them from inter state shipment if the requirements of the law are not compiled with
 Some such regulation Is imperatively neoe -ary.
 It would materially add tu the serv- iceahiity of the law. for the purpose We now have in view. if 1t were also pre- s"rhed that ali goods released from stor- age for interstate shipment should have plainly marked upon each package the selling or market price at which they went into storage. By this means tine purchaser would always be able tn earn what profits stood between him and the producer or the wholesale dealer
 The world must pay for the appalling destruction wrought by the great war and we are part of the world. We must pay our share. For five years now the in dustrN of all Europe has been slack and dlsordered The normal crops have not been produced; the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned out.
 Not until there are the usual crops and the usual production of manufaet tured goods on the other side Of the Atlantic Europe return To the former eondi tous. and it was upon the former condi- tons. not the present. that our economic relations with Europe were built up.
 We must face the fact that unless we help Europe to get back to her normal life and production a chaos will ensue there which will inevitably he communi- cated to this country. For the present. t ia tf.sgt our own production
 U. 5. Must Hold Wor!d Steady. We. and we almost alone now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and selt-possession depend the affairs of na- lions everywhere. It is in this supreme crisIs-ths crisis for all mankind-that American must prove her mettle In the presence of a world confused, dis trdcted, she must show herself self-pos sessed. self-contained. capable of sober and effective action. She saved Europe by her action in arms, she must now save it by her action in peace
 In saving Europe she will save herself. as she did upon the battlefeds of the war The calmness and capacity with which she deals with and masters the l problems of peace will be the final test and proof of her place among the peoples 1 of the world.
 And, if only in our own interest we l must HeIp the people overseas. EuEppe la 1 our biggest customer. We must keep her going or thousands of our shops and 1 scores of our mines must close There Is 1 no such thing as letting her go to ruin l without ourselves sharing in the disaster.
 In such circumstances. face to face 1 with such tests. passion must be discard ed. Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place in the l counsels Of q free people We need light. not heat, in these solemn times of self examination and saving action
 Everyone who is in real touch with the silent masses of our great people knows that the old strong fiber and steady self control are still there, hrm against vio- ] lence or any diStempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion.
 am serenety confident that they will | readHy ind themselves no matter what the circumstances, and that they will ad, dress themselves te the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the game stalwart preference for what IS right thai they displayed to the admiration of the whole world in the midst ot War
 Sinister Influences at Work.
 And enter another confident hope. | have spoken today chiefly of measures of imperative regulation and legal com pulsion. Of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes. and these l no doubt are necessary.
 But there dre other forces that may count on besides those resident in the department of justice. Ne have just ! fully awakened To what has been going on and tn the influences, many of them very selfish and sinister, Chat have been l producing high prices and imposing ar ! iutolerabie burden on the mass of out people.
 To have brought It all into the open will accomplish the greater part of the l result We seek.
 appeal with entire confidence to 1 our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly with the peo= pie It k their opportunity to show that they comprehend. that they in. tend to act justly and that they have the public interest sincerely at heart.
 Labor Must Consider.
 believe. too. that thr more eN= treme leaders If organized labor will presently yield to sober second thought and like the great mass ot their associates. think and act iks true Americans They will see that strikes undertaken at thIs critical timf aro certain ta make matters wHrSeT not better--worse for chem and for everybody else
 The worst thine. the most fate4 fhine= ttai cHa he done now l. ta stuu nr interrupt production. or to interfere with the. distribution Of goods hy the railways and the shipping of the l country.
 There 8Te many things that aHehf to be corrected in the relations he= tween capital and labor in espret | of wages and conditions of labor and other things even more far r,JV. .fnE and l. for one. ann ready to 'lnto conference abou- these matter with any eroup nf my fellow Co0uuymen who know what they are tal kIHg about amt ar. wilIinE to remedy existing conditions hv frank counsel rather Cham by violent coates.
 General Interest First.
 No remedy Is possible while men are in a temper. and there can he uo= s"t=