Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07
The Trying Times of Peace
We Face a New World; What Are We
Going to Do?

down. But he cannot upbuild. Hungry stom-
achs can never make reasoning brains. The
discomfort of hungry people leads nowhere ex-
cept to confusion. chaos and reaction. Trotsky
and Lenin may call their government what
they will, but it is in point of fact as bloody
tyranny as the world has ever known.
So it is first hunger that we must fight
And we must fight the causes of hunger.
These are first economic unrest and unemploy-
ment. And must begin that fight in
country. To start in composing Europe
before protect citizens is
thinkable as man going to neighboring city
to build almshouse while his own wife and
children starve at home.
Day by day thousands upon thousands of
honest. hard-working. self-respecting American
citizens are being thrown out of work.
Work must be found for them. And it must
be found
Day by day soldiers coming back
from France. Work must be found for them.
Shall gallant American boys who were ready
and willing to lay down their very lives that
we at home might be saved, come back to find
themselves welcomed by words?
Moreover. they should be brought back as
fast as it is humanity possible and economically
advisable. Their job is done. 1t has been done
calamity and well. That they should be
left on foreign soil. eating their hearts out in
longing for home and friends, is injustice
grave it is terrible. They have done their
work They should be allowed to come back
And not only that There must be no relapse
for them, or for any workers, to the industrial
conditions of before the It will not be
possible. Our workers have learned their
rights. They have learned what improved liv-
ing conditions mean And they have learned of
the sovereignty Of citizenship
Our soldiers have learned. They have
travelled and studied and They have
thought. Through fighting for the United
States. they have to know that they are
partners in the United States and that if they
must share its responsibilities, they have right
to share it's benefits. And this who
has been to Europe during the fail to
see and recognize being Of the greatest
factors for the United States to consider. Our
soldiers. returning. will ask more. But they
will ask more than is just They have seen
last what mutually really means.
To ask these men to go back to mine mill
or lathe or shop under pre-war conditions will
be impossible. Even if it were possible for
to ASK it would be impossible for them to
grant. They could not in justice to them
selves.
And above all must the people of the United
States realize that this is time for reaction
or reactionaries. We of the United States must
be not only forward-looking but forward going.
And we must travel fast and far.
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Conditions. some of which we seem we'll
nigh unable to cope with, face US. from a world
in ferment 1t is time to become frightened
or to lose ones head But, contrariwise, it is
no time to be Pollyanna.
The conditions there. They must be met.
faced, studied, analysed, adjusted, solved. No
few can do it, however able they may be
or think themselves to be. 1t is the work of
all. And it is a work that must be based on
mutual understanding. mutual faith, mutual
endeavor, mutual patience and mutual trust In
that task body of men will give more poten-
tial service than the organized labor movement
of America
Let US of America face these new labors.
then, in the spirit of Individualistic Mutually
i'm the spirit of the real Democracy!