Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-09-02
AM IMY BROTHERS KEEPER
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and II capital is 10 surrender anything,
let il surrender the undeyeloped pro-
duct. not to the laborers as a class
but 10 all the people, retaining as us
share of the worlds wealth bonds IN
full for the bill Of goods, these to be
retired without interest from the
wealth to be created by using the tools
already in existence and the imple-
ments still to come.
This may sound like socialism.
II NAV be but il certainly is not the
"strong-arm" variety.
And what it may mean if the pres
ent imitation of the cost price OF ex-
istence continues for any length OF
time will probably be government
ownership of all big production. ex-
change and distribution agencies in
GLIDING the financial octopus 'insur-
ance" and the arteries OF our com
mercial life, the railroads. For the
majority of American citizens are lev
el-headed enough to avert an indus
trial revolution by organizing to re-
form the present order by the syste-
matte process OF law rather than by
focking to the standard of destructive
and ruinous bolshevism.
Here is a notice clipped from the l..
W. w. Weekly Bulletin" bearing a
Spokane date-line:
NOTICE
We, the undersigned members
of auditing committee, G. o. c.,
elected to audit books of Head
quarters, l.. w /. L., No 500, find
that the books are not in shape
to be audited, and know that it
would be a waste of time and mon
ey to attempt to audit them at
this time; all that could be done
was to check up supplies and let
bookkeeper work on books and get
them in some kind of order so
that they could be audited in the
near future.
John Patterson, Card No. 100000.
Jack Murphey. Card No. 225.034
Dan Hunter, Card No. 261 .215.
Inefficient bookkeeping and a COM
mittee of auditors who declined to un-
dertake the untangling of the books
of the union which practically domin-
ates the reds" in the Inland Empire.
And that represents the brains that
Standpoint youths are willing to back
to run the industrial life of America.
There may be a reason for these
youths belonging to the l. w. w. but
we would like to know what it is.
We would much rather think that it
was the animal spirits of youth re-
belling against a prescribed order of
life and which would be corrected
wifi 10 tCI
more years will add, than to think that
it was a firmly implanted theory in
the minds of the coming generation,
for theory raises the very devil with
untrammeled imaginations and it is
very easy for an infiamed mind to
run amuck.
One phase of the whole situation
bears the character of very definite
outlines and that is that the men who
are causing all the strife and turmoil
in the industrial life of America are
a passing generation and incidently a
group which has very little personal
responsibility, particularly in the
realm of domestic affairs. Family
men as a rule do not belong.
AS this generation of troubemakers
fades from view adown the lanes that
lead to eternity, are their vicious doc
trines to be the heritage of those
workers they leave behind?
That is question which should be
on the minds of all true-blue, 100 per-
cent American citizens. 1t is a cues
ton the solution of which every man
and woman owes posterity and unless
1t is solved by an increased interest
in the trend of the youthful mind by
every adult citizen, it will be either
question or a nightmare of flaming
red as the wheel of destiny rolls down
the paths of time, from one generation
to another
Good citizens are the parents of
these children; don't let bad citizens
corrupt them.