Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07

In all the affairs of our republic there was
no element group which expressed. mani
Tested and secured larger thought and action
for mutually well as individualsm than the
much misunderstood and oft-misrepresented or
ganized labor movement-the American Fedora
ton of Labor
That the war contributed much toward
changing the whole phase of our individuasm.
none truthfully gainsay OF sudden one
day found thing hig enough to make us
forget all others. And it then that democ-
racy in all it's magnificent might. All in
ternal differences vanished in the face of
external danger. All national conflicts were
individualists alone. We had become Individu-
alistic Mutualsts and such members of, and
partners in, True Democracy.
And during our eighteen months of
remained true to democracy. Labor, Capital,
Business, Society. worked hand in hand and
shoulder to shoulder for victory. Never had
the democracy of the United States of America
risen to such exalted height. 1t the
final test of national abilities and the last
justification of form of government. We
had shown what a democracy could do. and
how it could do it.
And what?
We are once more at peace.
Shall prove ourselves to be less able less
noble, less courageous less firm in time Of peace
than in time of war? Did we have to have a
direct and dire menace hanging heads
to make us do what was right and just and
sensible? Shall we, that menace is re-
moved, flop supinely back to confusion injus-
tice, seishness and the Observation-Disclosures
that was once our bane? ina
I know the American people. And 1 know
they will not be at once SO lax and so mis-
guided. But they must make mistake The
fight before them lies long and bitter.
There is the immigration question
There the trusts, the corporations the
railroads.
There is the problem of rehabilitation and
the returned soldier.
There is the reorganization of industries
Business must be relieved and encouraged
There is an understanding to be gained be-
tween the employers and the workers
There is the feeding and financing of the
world, in which we must help to do share
There is justified well unwarranted
unrest the first of which must be met in
telligently and sympathetically; the second
must be contested at every step.
1t will be the work of all of u.s. and for
years.
There have been those perhaps there still
are some Few, who have fondly and foolishly
deemed that, at the signing of the peace we
could return at once to the soft and selfish
days of before the war.
1t is for these people, and for all the world
to know that those days are dead and buried
any nc a." Aoi oeiiho US IN TACT as the middle
ages They are gone. And they will never re-
turn.
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We face a new world today with new
set of problems: problems so involved so COM
plicated, so far-reaching. be today for
the most part even unima ginable The future
lies in the lap of the gods. and into that lap
not even the wisest of earth have been
able to look.
What will become of Russia?
Who tell?
Into what country's breast will another year
find the gaunt wolf of bolshevsm sinking it's
shining teeth and bloody claws?
No one knows No can know We can
only know that the weapon that has been
found to fight 1t is food No matter what the
ideals and aspirations of a country may be- il
cannot get freedom, nor practice freedom on an
empty stomach. The hungry man may tear