Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-10-31
WHITTIER ARE
WE DRIFTING?
Success of Our Government De-
pends on Intelligent Represen-
tation of Different Groups
of Our People.
Editor News:
(Communicatcd.)

(Communicated.)
however 1t must, in tho very
nature of the case, be represen-
tatlve form of government.
Upon the honest Intelligent renre-
sentation of the interest Of the dif-
erent. groups of people, each elect
| ing It's own representatives in tho
national government, depends the
peace, safety, happiness and success
of the whole.
The world seemed to have been 40
IMPRESSIVE with the lessons taught
by the unspoakablc suffering. saeri-
flee and loss of needless world
war, that the ablcst men-leaders,
statesmen md patriots of all the
nations involved, put their heads to-
gether and after long and nrduous
study, making mutual concessions
where interests conflictcd and fin
ally produced what we NAV call ).
supcr-lntcrnntionnl Government. de-
signed to establish permanent peace.
protect the interests of all. and
abolish future wars as nearly as
possibly from the earth. This was n
huge undertaking, and its powers
were not fully satisfied with it when
completed hence, provision was
made for its amendment ns time,
circumstances and development might
The instrument has now been ratr.
fled by several of the leading sig.
nnlories, but is still pending In our
senate, Partisan, political oppoaition
holds IL buck. 1t il II blot upon tho
honor and good faith of the United
States that this should be so, and
from all reports from schools. news
pnpcrs, churches and from politicnl
gatherings we hear from tho senti-
mont expressed is not fairly nnd
honestly represented by the radical
opposition IN the Senate. It Is not
pnrly political question, and should
not be no treated; it il world
question, and our country cannot
i've Isolated from the balance Of the
world. '"'
1t is possible we may be over zenl-
GUS OF our sovereignty when i'm
pinged from out side while neglect
ng it Mt home. If we wish TO com
mnnd the respect of other nations
let us see TO il that our own laws
be obeycd, and that law and order
| prevail throughout our own land.
ihe rail rond strikes, the police
strike IN Boston, the steel strike, the
bltumonous conl strike, staged for
Nov. LIST, all these recent strikes with
their greater and more unrenaon-
able demands are the result of n
national progression. At first tho
demands were more reasonable, but
never lawful. The public bore with
them through sympathy and n nat
urnl desirc to see labor justly re-
munerated. Now we begin to open
our eyes and in mingled amazement
ana alarm try to answer the ques-
hnfnrn N..t.
seriously: "To what goal are wo
traveeiling..what destiny are we
reaching?"
After Germany was brought to
her, knees, the armistice declared, de-
mobilization in progress-the war
practically endcd-the, organization
OF labor, under the able management
of Mr., Gompers and his associates
consolidated, unions confedernted. in
ternationals connected, the line of
policy settled, the real fight he
gan. The oft recurrent demand for
Increased rates-collectivc bargain
ing with no guarantee to the en-
ployer that the bargain will be kept
on the part of labor; the doors of
all Industries TO be closed to all non
unionists, etc, ETC.
The writer of this imperfectly OK.
~ - ''SiS iuyo uO ClulH1 TO any
special information or knowledge ex-
ccpt what is common to the reading
public, and would not presume to
SIT in judgement upon the acts or
aims Of as recognized able leader Of
men like Mr.. Gompers; we give him
the privilege of answering for him
self. When asked by II member of the
Senate committee investigating the
steel strike. "Mr. Gompers, if con
grcss should enact u law prohibiting
the strike, and that law should be
passed upon by the courts and de-
cided constitutional, what would then
be your attitude toward it?" Ans. "I
would call n strike the next day."
Mr.. Gompcrs must know that his at-
titude as thus expressed is an open
and willful defiance of government
control. He must know that mo. man
or set Of men has the right to fofm
conspiracy against the Government
of the People.
This thing is plainly leading on to
the open road to anarchy and reyo-
luton.
Is our sovereignty threatened from
the outside? A CITIZEN.