The Washington times., 1919-11-12


lng power to enforce law, said
much in these words:
"Those who conceive that the
ressfsftens u . convention or the
orders Of the officers of any or
unisaten In the country, whether
lsber organizations or any other,
are superior in authority to the
Isw sf tie lanA WIN Ed themselves
nistaken.'
This country has gone through
. good deal TO establish the right
ef the majority to make laws FOR
ALL The people intend, and the
Attorney General expresses 1t,
that no group, socialist, capitalist,
labor, religious, agricultural or
any other, shall say 'the law does
not Affect our concern
Doubtless after it shall have
oeeu established that not even a
million workmen can make laws
OF their own, the Government win
also establish the fact that not
even . handful Of corporation
ewnefs can continue making laws
Of their own.
TAere exists rising tide of dis
content, Dissatisfaction, the condi-
ticns vaguely called unrest"
when the tide is rising only one
lowor can say, Hitherto shalt
thsu eomS snd no further, and
hsrs Aall thy proud waves be
fhe cd ling at the oceans
sdgo dsnonDerstad 70 his eourtiers
that . king can't stop the rising
wsvss. and history. win demon
sfraee tke4 not even q learned
Fe1aruf judxe can permanently
rula q Foot number.
II mjuueo16, tiks de fifs sn-
ei1A, Should b md suly for q
short dme, and Ia emereencies.
The President and the Attorney
CsnerA will not give to millions
Of d1essttsded workmen the i'm
pRension that they can be ruled
and held hack By an arbitrary
erdr. however just, while all the
eoorts and the slow process
threogh those courts are open to
the managers of capital.
lost important is enforcement
Of the law. Next comes absolute
evenness and justice in enforce
ment, not one method for q few,
another method for the crowd.
Physicians of Willard Parker
Hospital and newspapers are
excited because Mrs. Dora Mintz
has been lying in deep sleep for
thirty days. That interests human
beings intensely. They are only
vaguely interested in the fact that
100 years from now all the
t.500 900 900 people on earth will
be sound asleep, and 80 far as they
know, apart from the blessed
promiser of faith, to sleep forever.
When a chicken dies a natural
death in a poultry yard there are
curious demonstrations by the
chickens. They get much excited.
Providence kindly arranges that
none of them worry about the fact
that all their heads will soon be
cut off.
In New York, worlds richest
city, taxes and rents climb. There
is agitation based on the discovery
that two thousand million dollars
worth Of property goes free Of all
taxation. Some of it belongs to
the nation, some to the city, some
to Free Aasons, some to various
religious denominations.
Religious property, tax free as il
hundred million dollars. Critics
declare that the founder Of Chris
tianity, who said "The Son Of Man
hath not where to lay his head"
must be surprised to know that IL
He came back He would find hun
dreds Of millions worth of real
estate awaiting Him in one city.
Brisson, extreme Socialist. run
ming for reelection 20 the French
Chamber, says: Peasants, the
land Is yours. You must take il.
No more chateaux; no more land
lords"
There are now six million indi-
viduals in France that own land,
many of the millions peasants. IL
any attempt is made to take Mon
sieur Brisson's advice, there will
be resistance.
The land was divided up during
the French revolution, when money
sank so low that you couldn't buy
. pair Of boots for thousand
francs, but the inferiO: money en-
sbled peasants 10 bny the land
that had belonged 10 tie mobiles.
IL Is safe 10 assume that the
six million French land owners
will hold their land through the
present sfter-rhe-war crisis and
that France will not see any repe,i-
tiou of Russis's explosion. while
Imadning what will happen, n is
veil to remember that Russia be-
lore the recent change was about
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