Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-15

of peace But | should judg. that it was
clearly within the constitutional power of
the congress 10 make similar permanent
provisions and regulations with regard to
all goods destined for interstate COM
merce and to exclude them from inter-
state shipment if the requirements of the
law are not complied with.
Some such regulation is imperatively
necessary.
1t would materially add to the serv-
iceability of the law, for the purpose we
now have in view. If it were also pre-
scribed that all goods released from stor-
age for interstate shipment should have
plainly marked upon each packagef the
selling or market price at which they
went into storage. By this means the
purchaser would always be able to learn
what profits stood between him and the
producer or the wholesale dealer
The world must pay for the appalling
destruction wrought by the great war,
and we are part of the world. We must
pay our share. For five years now the in
dustry of all Europe has been slack and
dlsordered The normal crops have not
been produced; the normal quantity of
manufactured goods has not been turned
out.
Not until there are the usual crops
and the usual production of manufactured
goods on the other side of the Atlantic
can Europe return to the former condi-
tions; and it was upon the former condi-
lions, not the present, that our economic
relations with Europe were built up.
We must face the fact that unless we
help Europe to get back to her normal
life and production a chaos will ensue
there which will inevitably be communi-
Gated to this country. For the present, it
is manifest we must quicken not slacken,
our own production.
v. S. Must Hold World Steady.
We, and we almost alone. now hold the
world steady Upon our steadfastness and
self-possession depend the affairs of ma
tions everywhere. 1t is in this supreme
crisis-this crisis for all mankind-that
American must prove her mettle
In the presence of a world confused, dis
| tracted, she must show herself self-pos-
sessed, self-contained, capeble of sober
and effective action. She saved Europe
| by her action in arms; she must now save
it by her action in peace.
In saving Europe she will save herself,
| as she did upon the batt,rfields of the
| war. The calmness and capacity with
which she deals with and masters the
| problems of peace will be the final test
and proof of her place among the peoples
| of the world.
And, if only in our own interest we
must help the people overseas. Europe is
| our biggest customer. We must keep her
| going or thousands of our shops and
scores of our mines must close There Is
no such thing as letting her go to ruin
without ourselves sharing in the disaster.
In such circumstances, face to face
with such tests, passion must be discard
ed Passion and a disregard for the
| rights of others have no place in the
! counsels of a free people. We need light
| not heat, in these solemn times of self
examination and saving action
Everyone who is in real touch with the
silent masses of our great people knows
that the old strong fiber and steady self
control are still there. firm against vio-
lence or any distempered action that
| would throw their affairs into confusion
l am serenely confident that they will
readily find themselves, no matter what
the circumstances, and that they will ad.
dress themselves to the tasks of peace
with the same devotion and the same
stalwart preference for what is right tha
they displayed to the admiration of the
whole world in the midst of war
Sinister Influences at Work.
And enter another confident hope
have spoken today chiefly of measure.
of imperative regulation and legal com
pulsion, of prosecutions and the sharI
correction of selfish processes; and thes,
no doubt are necessary.
But there are other forces that we ma,
count on besides those resident in tn,
|
fully awakened to wh4t has been goini
on and to the influences, many of then
very selfish and sinister that have beel
producing high prices and imposing al
intolerable burden on the mass of on
people.
To have brought it all into the opel
will accomplish the greater part of tn
result we seek
i 1 appeal with entire confidence t
|
merchants to deal fairly with the peo
pie. 1t is their opportunity to shov
that they comprehend, that they in
tend to act justly, and that they hav
the public interest sincerely at heart.
Labor Must Consider.
1 believe, too. that the more ex
treme leaders of organized labor viii
presently yield to a sober secon
thought, and like the great mass o
their associates, think and act lik
true Americans. They will see tina
strikes undertaken at this critical tim
are certain to make matters wors,
not better-worse for them and fo
everybody else.
The worst thing, the most fats
thing-that can be done now is to sto
or interrupt production, or to interfer
with the distribution of goods by tn
railways and the shipping of tn
country.
There are many things that ough
to be corrected in the relations be
tween capital and labor, in respeC
Of wages and conditions of labor an
other things even more far-reachinl
and 1. for one, am ready to go int
conference about these matter wit
any group of my fellow countryme
who know what fhey are talking abol
and are willing to remedy existin
conditions by frank counsel ratht
! tLan by violent contest.
General Interest First.
, No remedy is possible while men al
in a temper, and there can be no Sc
tlement which does not have as i
motive and standard the general il
n terest.
. Must All Work Together.
Threats and undue insistence upc
the interest of a single class make Sc
4 tlement impossible. 1 believe, as
t have hitherto had occasion to say
s the congress, that the industry and Ii
r of our people and of the world wi
= suffer irreparable damage If employe
= and workmen are to go on in a perpe
Z ual contest, as antagonists. TIL
must ON one plan or another, be effe
Il lively associated. Have we not stea
d | mess and self-possession and busine
e sense enough to work out that resul
n In the meantime--now and in t
It | days of readjustment and recuperati
that are ahead of us-let US reso
'e more and more to frank and intima
10 counsel and make ourselves a gre
10 and triumphal nation, making oU
l. selves a united force in the life of t
it world. 1t will not then have looked
to us for leadership in vain.