Arizona republican., 1919-07-05
It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
 Emerson.
MT. Gompers' Diagnosis


 MT. Gompers is like a physician of whom have heard suspicious of certain diseases-unti these al ments became his aversons. So much did his mind run upon these particular diseases that he al- ways looking for symptoms of them in his patients, and thus overlooked symptoms of other afflictions. His aversions amounting to mania naturally de- tracted greatly from his skill as dagnostcian.
 The pet aversion of MT. Gompers is prohibition which he believes be at the bottom of the indus trial in Detroit He is forgetful of the fact that there great deal in the industrial situation Detroit that dstastefu to the radical element long before Michigan went dry.
 Henry Ford set the pace in Detroit years ago and is still the chief director of industry there. When he increased the wages of his workmen beyond those paid by other automobile factories in Detroit and elsewhere in factories anywhere where similar work performed; and when he made other liberal concessons to his employees, hitherto unheard of he created two kinds enemies in widely different zones as could be conceivedamong his competitors, backed by considerable sentiment in the National Merchants and Manufacturers association and among the radical group the socalistc wing of labor, and many labor leaders who not social 'stc.
 It is easily understood why this Manu- lecturers believed that Mr. Ford unsettling,
 
 no apparent reason for such wage increases. Other innovations introduced by Mr. Ford, they believed ended toward the socialization of industry.
 The sociastic, radical element, which was trying bring about what have since heard of industrial democracy believed that his apparent ad- vance toward specialization the deadliest thing that could happen to their program It calculated to ensave working men, to soothe them, and leave them contented in slavery. There they thought as far his specialization would go The labor leaders especially labor agators believed that if the Ford plan came be universally adopted by employers. there would be left only a barren field Tor industrial agitation.
 Whatever the competitors of Mr. Ford may still think about it, radicalism has forgiven him. To the | W. W. and boshevists he is as hateful as he was. Though the Ford plan has by no means become universal the Ford influence has been widely extended in industry. There is satisfaction among the many thousands of Ford workmen; we hear of no strikes unrest in the Ford plant The Ford employees fat and contented in the Ford slavery. Nothing could be irritating to radi- caism than such situation. that it is wonder that Mr. Gompers notes the outbursts of radicalism in Detroit The industrial golden slavery by furnishes it unusual provocation.
 The Republican directed attention to this peculiar relation between Mir. Ford and radcalism last fall when. perhaps, a majority of the people of the try who took only superficial view of the situation believed that MT. Ford would be elected to the United States senate. He had behind him the powerful in- fluence of the president, though it turned out not only in Michigan, but all oyer the country to have been much less than was suspected. Indeed the manner in which it was exercised was afterward shown to have been handicap of the candidates in whose favor it exerted.
 It also generally believed that Mr. Ford would receive the solid support of labor Organized labor strongly inclined the democratic party, but many whose observations were only superficial could why the most liberal of employers should attract it himself on his own account without the aid of democracy
 But he did not He received. it is true, a much heavier than the supposed normal democratic of Wayne county but he received by no means all the labor vote of that county of any other indus trial center of Michigan. He. did not receive the socialstic and the l. W. W. vote at all. His labor vote in Wayne county was made up largely of the many thousands of employees of the Ford plant the worlingmen of other institutions where the Ford influence had extended, bringing higher wages and improved working conditions, and unskled and un- organized labor generally which had felt the Ford influence.
 But by the radicals and the socialists Mir. Ford was hated as cordially as ever He had gone part of the way toward Utopia. had stopped and had be- came obstacle further progress. To this ele- ment Mir. Ford much serious mehace than the most stubborn Of reactionaries
 No doubt prohibition has caused dissatisfaction in Detroit as it does everywhere. So do the laws against murder and all other crimes And, SUD- pose, the resentment is deeper in such cities as Detroit and Cleveland which have increased in population rapidly through the immigration of foreigners unused the restriction which prohibition imposes But they will have get used to it as they must get used to all laws which have been agreed upon bS q piajority of Hnierieans.