The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-01
"THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD"

people Of the United States there has come a
condition wherein the two cOntending forces,
CAPITAL and Labor each seeing Onlv its desires,
her conceding aught to the other; and both ut
tery reckless of the rights Of the general publc-of
more than one hundred of millions Of peOple-have
brought about situation where in their mutual
deadlock all those others must suffer in more ways
than one. What will be the outcome?
The intolerable condition cannot last long
In dealing with the problems that had led up to
and been solved by the Civil War, James Russell Low
ell in 1865, wrote
s'The masses of any people, however intelligent
are very little moved by abstract principles OF hui
mainly and justice until those principles inter-
preted for them by some singing commentary OF
some infringement upon their own rights; and then
their instincts and passions aroused do indeed
derive an incalculable impulse and intensity from
those higher ideals, those sublime traditions, which
have motive political force until they are allied
with sense of personal urgency"
The paragraph quoted described the very posi-
ton into which the arrogance of the slave power
drove the people of the United States in 1861. 1t
describes the position into which the arrogance
of Capital and the arrogance OF Labor are fast df1v
ing the people of the United States in this year
of our Lord 1919 In 1861 the slave power had a.
risen to that height of arrogance and nquity that
it van1y imagined itself greater and more powerful
than the general government people OF the
entire United States. For long months the people
of America, as represented In their chosen rulers
that trafficked in human flesh and rolled in the
wealth procured by the tortured effort of unrequt
ed labor. Then the American people arose Iii their
wrath and their might ard proceeded to do straight
away divers and sundry things to the slave power.
Now, that part of the Capital in the United States
which is interested in caol mines and that part of
the Labor of the country employed in making those
mines productive, are in a deadlock where they
putting upon the people at large long train Of evils,
and an ncacuable amount of hardship and suffer
inb
Probably each side of the controversy has with
It some degree of right; but the point of it is that
they are paying no heed to the rights of Others
They are putting the of the people into that
situation described by the essayst quoted where the
abstract principles of humanity and justice "are in
terpreted for them by some singing commentary Of
some infringement upon their rights" and
when so interpreted the mass of the people will arise
in their wrath, putting the two houses quarreEng
into their just and proper Places just their fathers
did with the slave power.
At this writing "The Oasis" will not pretend to
state what will be done in the present crisis nor how
be DONE just something done to the slave pow
err; and when done all will agree that it was done
Justly and correctly.
Let the cOntending powers recOlect that 1.-THE
voice of the people is the voice of God and that in
flying in the faces of the people they invoking
the judgment Of the Almighty; and that "the judg
ments of God are just and altogether righteous"
IS IS IS 5 Us rs
It's easy for the hardened sinner to put on
frock coat plug hat black tie, and pass muster in
a.crowd of respectable people But the devil knows
his own wherever they are found.
S. 81 IS 81 81 81
Look beneath the surface before Judging as to
the merits of a man. A polished veneer hides many