The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-10

should they get away with 1t all while We are tied up?"
 The most vital spot at which you can attack any country to- day is in it's production. The worlds forward pace grows feeb- Ter and feehler from sheer lack of manufactured articles to use. The war shortage in certain lines of goods was nothing as compar- ed with the strike shortage. War is waste, but at least war is work. Production not only continued but was increased. Whereas peace time idleness is worse than waste-it is deliberate refusal to avail ourselves of the very means which would cure the condition of which we complain.
 Spying out military secrets, blowing up munitions factories, delaying war work-all these were interior attacks made dur ing war times But bad as they were, none of them, nor all of them together had the power to push a knife-bIade into the very heart of the nation, as has inter ference with work today.
 If anyone wants to thrust the United States down to the condt- ton Of the worthless, moneyless, to0dless lands, if anyone wants to injure the country more than war had power to injure it, here is the way to do it:-let him kill the spirit of industry and coop eration in our people, let him stop the wheels of production. That will do it. It will do more, it will ruin the world, because today the United States is the only place where an a4realiy half ruined world can come for help.
 It is from this present danger that the country is to be saved. Whether these attacks are en- couraged from without hy powers that want to halt the United States and hurl her down into hunger and helplessness. or whether they are the result of fallacies in our own thinking, it is plain as daylight that saving the country from these things is saving the country.
 A second answer to the ques- tion we have proposed may well be this: There was SO much ir- responsible prophecy concernirg the general reconstruction that was to follow the war. that an impression prevails that "tl,a getting is good" just now and ali that is necessary is just to de- mand, and back up the demand by refdsals to perform the work which keeps society intact.
 Everyone must share the blame of this condition. What ever has come or is yet to come upon us, we may be sure that no one but ourselves is responsible. If labor distrusts capttal, and if capital distrusts labor, both have ample grounds in past experi- ence with each other for the stand they take. What they have sowed, they are reaping. Only with the reaping they are sow ing a more bitter reaping still, and 1t is that which every friend of his country ought to try to prevent. If anyone can believe that the present feeling between capital and labor Is the result of injustice and fair dealing in the past, he can believe anything But even so, whatever the past, that is no son why labor and capital e st and should not get tog< to build a better foundation for the future. h. stead they seem to be trying to knock down even these founda- tions which remain!
 One would imagine, in observ- ing what is passing today, that each interest had said to itself: Now is the time to end forever the influence of the other inter- est,'' and Of course that cannot : be done. But what can be done in the battle which will prove that truth is this: the country may be laid waste so far as produc- tan As a0nnArnad- and onr sonial