Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-09
TRADE OUTLOOK
MOST OPTIMISTIC;
WAGE To REMAIN
At HIGH LEVELS
Demand for Labor Strong and
Men Not at Work Prefer to
Be Idle or Out on Account
of La00r Troubles,
EAST THINKS WILSON
AFTER THIRD TERM
Leonard Wood Seems at Pres
ent Leading Field of Repub-
IiCanS With LoWden Of Hin
ojs RuDner-Up,
BY NJ. l.. Fox.

have just returned from a trip
which took me as far east as Boston
and as far south as Knoxville Tenn,
with stors of some length IN Chicago,
New York and Washington.
Everywhere | found the business
outlook most optimistic. Hui people
are beginning to bu.ld, regardless or
the cost of labor and material In
fact the belief is that wages will not
he reduced for a long time, If ever,
and consequently material VIII re-
main high. Startling as it may sound,
the general belief Is that rents viii
adjust themselves to the new cost or
construction-such Establishments are
now taking place IN practically every
section of the United States.
There is now very little idle labor
in the United States. and the man
who is out of work is out because he
does not want to work, or because of
labor troubles. In almost every city
there is some sort OF barrassment
because of strikes. such as now exists
on some of the wire lines.
| President Wilson'S announcement
that the railroads will be returned TO
private ownership during the year.
| has had good effect on business, and
| the country is rejoicing over the pros
pect of better telephone and telegraph
service at an early date.
! Whatever sentisAent there was for
government ownership of railroads
and telegraph and telephone lines,
| has disappeared. The sentiment OF
, the southern states has been strongly
against the movement at all times, and
there is not the slightest danger that
government ownership will become u
| ha
administering the transportation and
wire lines may figure in the coming
national campaign.
But throughout the east and south
the matter commanding most atten-
tion is the business activity every
where in evidence. and optimism re-
gardng the future.
Political Talk.
As to politics, the belief in the east
! is that President Wilson will be nomi-
mated to succeed himself, and that the
league of nations Will be put forward
by the democrats as the real issue N
the campaign. That is their sole hope
OF success There Is likelihood that
Champ Clark's friends will make a
fight for his nomination, and it is
probable that he will have the sup
port of william Randolph Hearst. Ii.
because Of the third term fight that
Is sure to he made against him Presi-
dent Wilson should decline to become
a candidate the opinion in the east
is that as things now stand the fight
for the nomination will he between
Champ Clark and william g. McAdoo,
with Oscar Underwood and Governor
Smith of New ork as contestants or
the dark horse" variety or course
something may arise TO bring into the
ring an entirely new candidate for tho
democracy. That President Wilson is
still very strong before the country
no thinking man will deny.
on the republican side, the men
most talked of are Gen. Leonard
Wood and Governor Lowden. The
New England states VIII likely so Ia
the convention with delegations for
Senator Lodge, while California. and
possibly some other of the western
states, will be for Senator Johnson.
Iowa will come up. as usual with its
delegation for Cummins, just as Idaho
will be for Borah and Ohio for Hard
ing. 1t is quite possible that New
Jersey will be in the ring with Sena-
tor Edge.
But no United States senator. I be-
lieve, ever has been nominated for
| the presidency, and there seems little
likelihood that the tradition will be
broken next year. OF the senators,
Harding of Ohio seems to have the
largest general following.
Il Wood and Lowdcn.
The strength of General Wood lies
in the fact that he has been S1nEal@-
uously before the country as the al
vocate of preparedness and that he
was made the victim of the war de-
partments animosity because, II / :
generally believed he was a friend OF
Colonel Roosevelt. He is not regarded
as exclusively military man. having
Il come up from civil life and through
the channel Of medicine, and not from
/ West Point. Whether there may or
may not be justification for it, the re-
turned soldier certainly is not en-
\ thusiastic for militarism. The West
i Pointer is not popular with the over
seas man. as a rule. This is putting J t
rather mildly. But Wood is popular
with the soldiers.
The strength of Governor Low9sn
I lies in the fact that he has the conf
deuce of both the stand -patters and
; the progressives, has showed himself
Il vote getter in Illinois. and is said
7 to be popular with labor and the
farmers. Also, from a political stand
point. he has the advantage has
generally been an advantage in the
past--of having been born of poor
/ parents of having grown UP on q
Minnesota farm. Of having worked his
! way through school of having made
a success of the law, first in Omaha
!, and later in Chicago. He now classes
himself as farmer and he owns ana
manages one OF the largest farms in
/ Illinois and it IS solmenly affirmed
/ by his friends that he makes farming
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