The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-13
National Unrest Banker Says People I'M
pregnated with "Uplift" and Presi-
dent Panders to Labor

ticn now EXISTS. it is breeding disas.
ter for the future by more ways than
one.
The good sense OF the America
people will probably assert itself in
time to avert impending evils. Pros.
perity does not teach lasting lessons
The punishments of adversely are the
only instruments which teach. They
sober the prosperity INFLATED mind
lead the individual and, through him
the nation, back to reason.
The principal reason for the un-
usual unrest prevalent in America is
that people have abandoned all ideas
of constitutional government. The
reasons for their doing so are not far
to seek. They are simply following
+ the lead of the present administra-
ton.
''No matter how humiliating the
confession may be, the people of Am
erica must admit that the labor and
economic difficulties which they now
suffer from are the direct results of
six years of socializing the American
government. This administration
started out to humiliate and despoil
the business interests OF the country
and elevate labor to a new pinnacle
of glory and high plane of prosper
ity. The breaking out of the war
saved America from immediate dras
| tic financial catastrophe. Our en-
trance into the war, followed by the
most wasteful extravaganza of funds
ever witnessed by a civilized people,
gave us an artificial abnormal pros
perity. The capitalists of the coun-
try advanced fully seven eighths of
the money extravagantly wasted in
carrying on the war. Through Com
pers' influence with the administra
ton much Of this money was diverted
into the pockets of the wage earners.
The latter, unfortunately, have not,
in many instances, saved it, but spent
it in riotous living and the purchase
Of Injuries which they neither need
ed nor appreciated. The end of hos
tiities found the laboring classes un-
satisfied, grumbling at the high cost
Of living, to which condition they
largely contributed. They demanded
increase after increase in wages, un-
til the limit was long since reached.
Now they strike for higher pay not
on the ground of the high cost of liv-
ing, but simply because they want
more money. Strike follows strike.
until the loss in wages amounts to
fully ten million dollars per day. In
year this loss would amount to over
three and one-half billion dollars.
Wages lost through strikes decrease
the purchasing power of the masses,
thereby affecting all of the CONNER
cial business of the country. Labor
has gone stark raving mad and yet
I it Is simply looking for that seventh
heaven of advantage which the pres
emit administration continually told
them they were entitled to. Fitzpat-
rick and Gompers, testifying before
the senate committee Investigating
the steel strike, both showed the i'm
pudent, arrogant and hostile attitude
o. labor agitators and walking dele
gates. Radical socialism from the
White House and the vast army of
federal officials located at Washing
ton has brought on our present un-
rest and chaotic labor conditions.
Capital must suffer, as a result but
capital must now resist labor's ever
increasing and unreasonable de-
mands, or go out of business.
"The latest reports are to the eff
feet that the railroad administration
has again laid down, and given the
railroad employees all they asked for.
The terms of the concession are not
Yet announced, but as the president
of the Car Mems International Union
says, The union got all it asked for
it is plain that the government has
made another cowardly surrender to
threats and intimidation. 1t has be-
come famous, If not entirely infam-
Gus, for its surrenders in the past
and the public can rest assured that
this last settlement is as dangerous
to the country as those that preceded
1t. Those who are compelled to pay
freight rates must know
that, inside of six months, another
demand for further increase of pay
and shorter hours Of labor wild be
forthcoming