The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
GLASS DOMINATION
Big NATIONAL ISSUE
Gov. Goodrich Sees Menace to
Americanism i'm Present
Orgy Of Labor Strikes.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 14.-While discussing
the printers strike Gov James p. Good
rich of Indiana, in speaking before the
Grain Dealers National Association at
| a banquet here tonight, said that II is
| apparent now that the pendulum has
| again swung too far in the direction of
control of industry by the Govern
ment and that the influence of radi-
Gals in this country has been materially
widened by the encouragement that has
come in numerous ways from the Ad-
ministration at Washington.
| Just as we fought the domination of
the slave oligarchy in the middle Of the
nineteenth century and the capitalistio
class in the latter part of the nineteenth
century, so must we fight the domina-
ton of this other class in the early part
of the twentieth century," said Gov.
Goodrich.
There is no more dangerous force OPP
Grating among us to-day than the class
minded man, whether he is a Iaborer, a
capitalist or farmer, the one who de-
mards a privilege for his class at the
expense of the American people.
Led by unreasoning promisers of
. | Utopia, TllillOnS OF honest Americans
are being drawn into a debauch of in
dustrial revolution. Reason lansuishes
in resort to violence. license supplants
liberty and justice is forgotten in a mad
! chase for the rainbow's end.
The time has come when every citi-
zen of this nation should halt in his
\ daily doings. and searching his soul
ask himself the question; Am I ar
!. Americana? Upon the answer depend:
! the future of the republic. Americanisn
{ cannot live under the shackles of class
control
:. 81 concede the right of the worker t.
organize, bargain collectively and II
| every legitimate and patriotic way t
: | advance the interest of his class, Just a.
: concede to every worker the right no
. to belong to an organization IL he s.
elects.
But it is clearly apparent for tn
time being that the organized worker
in many lines OF industry in Americ
. have fallen under the control of radi
u calls like Foster and Fitzpatrick Will
{ Gompers and some others of the con
e sentative type are no longer able to con
u troll its policies. The influence of thes
:, radicals in America has been MATERIAL
y widened by the encouragement that ha
come in numerous ways from the Ad
ministration at Washington, by con
. spicuously turning loose upon us the In
= temperate ideas and philosophy of for
n eign agitators.
Foster, Fitzpatrick and their grou
are openly and frankly direct actionistl
l. and If they win their fight the America
"a Federation of Labor. with all its vai
l. power. will pass under their absolut
v control.
l. so 1t is that within a brief span
IS years we have swung from intoleraI
S domination by Southern slave owners I
y the tyranny of capitalism and finally I
the despotism of labor. We have escape
the arrogance of sectional greed and II
invisible government of an organize
g plutocracy only to find ourselves threa
% ened with the yoke of a misguided al
s. tocratic and radical proletariat.
N 1.-The cloud first appeared ominous
is the passage of the Atkinson law.
le fhave no doubt that the responsibility Il
4 this piece of class legislation attach,
is directly to the President of the Unite
States I believed then that the passat
he of tho Adamson act. involving surrend
lie by the railroad brotherhood of the pril
a ciple of collective bargaining for legisl
j. tive wage fixing, ultimately would les
to their own ruin. / have never change
"a my opinion.
~ IF labor Is big enough, and INTEL
r. gent enough, as believe 1t to be. 1t ca
IN gain it's just ends, particularly II II W
rs at all times keep in mind the welfare
the whole country and understand TIL
IN in the long run we are all going up
I'd down together.
ig 1--WE must not yield the liberty we ha'
gained. Governments do not remain st
IN tiohary. We must perfect our Americz
b. institutions or finally lose them. TIT
es have been consecrated in the blood Of p
a triots They are ours to preserve and
rs defend. Let us dedicate ourselves
al this great task"
DC David r. Francis. formerly Amba
~ sador to Russia, also spoke at the ba
quet.