Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Foolish TsIk-Uniust LesisIation.

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 Mr. Editor: Is it not strange in these times of plenty and high wages, with people better fed, better clothed, better housed, than they have ever been before in this. or any other country in the world. to hear so much wild talk and bad feeling among ele- naents in our country. who have so little to justly complain of?
 It is true that there is more or less of what is called profiteering but nothing more than our laws can cope with. if justly and rightly enforced.
 It does seem as if our government was making an honest effort in this direction, and that one of the causes of the high cost of living may at least in part. if not altogether. be elimi- mated.
 Of course we know there are many other clements which enter into the subject, and recently some things have been proposed as remedies which are of a revolutionary character and ought to be strenuously opposed.
 After making due allowance for all the ills with which the present gen. eration is afflicted, and looking at all things just as they are. men are hard iy justified especially those who are speaking for the public ear. in using the wild dangerous talk in which some are indu1ging.
 Mr. Stone says Tt might be before we get through we would advocate firing squad for some people" while he and others are engaged in putting up bill to congress to take away by legislation the property of others and give it to the railroad men. What does MT. Stone mean by using such laH- guage at this time? Does he mean that if such legisla ton is not sue cessful that the firing squad will be used to accomplish the purpose?
 This is surely Bolshevism as prae- ticed in devastated Russia-either shoot a man and then rob the dead, or rob him first and shoot him after wards. MT. stone is not an ignorant idealist like MT. Ford. who does not believe in shooting anyone.
 We might carry the analogy be- tween Mr Stone and Mir. Ford a little farther and see which is the more val uable man in the world. MT. Ford has built up a great business by his own efforts, gives employment to very large number of men at exceedingly high wages and while we may have smiled at some of his ideas or an- swers under cross-examinati tion. we do not know of anything which Mir. Ford has done but what has been for the betterment of the world and we do not know how much more good he may yet do.
 On the part of Mir Stone, we will grant at once that he is .- highly in- telligent man. a clear thinker on many
 
 mess well, especially the methods or obtaining the highest possible wages for railroad employees.
 Now in these disturbed times he thinks he sees a chance. after draw ing gilt edge wages from the road for many years-in some cases getting all the roads made while the stockholders got nothing for their investment-he wishes, in order to make clean sweep. to have congress hand over valuable property. built up by the toll and labor of other men. and owned directly and indirectly by savings banks insurance companies. widows and orphans-in short take away from one hundred millions of people. give it to men who are not giving the highest form of service for the wage received. This is only an entering wedge and while Mir. Stone claims only two million or more of advocates for his project, some of his followers claim there are six millions or more of organized labor who are working on the same lines.
 Allowing that there are eight or ten thinking on these lines. they consti- tute a very dangerous element. This would be about the number which Germany claimed, of German extrac- tion, in this country before we entered the war and we were told what they might do if we went to war. But when the ation was aroused with regard to we heard of vanished into thin air.
 The Germans began by drowning women and children. MT. Stone and