Republican farmer., 1919-09-26
PALMERASkS6 MONTH TRUCE IN WARS TWIXT
 CAPITAL AND WORKER
Living and Better Times With Cessation of Strikes Attorney General Indus trial Peace Only Solu- ton of H. c. o. L.

Frecport, Pa, Sept. 2O-An absolute industrial armistice
 for six months was urged by Attorney General Palmer here today to permit the solution of economic problems arising out of the changes wrought by war.
 Such period of freedom from un- rest, he declared, would result soon in increased production which would
 and better times" for all. On the
 other hand the attorney -eneral
 warned, selfish demands by any one
 class cannot stimulate the national
 prosperity or permanently benefit
 even those obtaining such demands by
 force He strongly discountenanced strikes.
 Labor is asking a larger share of
 the joint product of money and la
 bor, and there is much merit in the
 claim he said, 'but the chance of
 getting it is not advanced nor the
 justice of 1t more widely recognized
 by the refusal of labor to produce"
 The campaign to reduce the cost of
 living, which he is directing, evident
 ly was foremost in the attorney gen.
 erals mind in his speech delivered at
 a reunion of the 18th regiment of
 Pennsylvania volunteers, which also was a homecoming celebration for men who served in the world war. He said that although many prob lems beset mems minds in these days
 of reconstruction, there is none which cannot be worked out fin the general interest" in ( government where the people are the only rulers.
 But unless we shall be satisfied with that which is for the general in terest" he continued, and do not in sist upon that which is in our own particular interest there will be trou- Dle and delay in the settlement. If we can learn to be patient un- der conditions which have resulted from the world war, until more ac- curate estimate of the possi Utilities E2 the situation can be made all our problems will be sooner solved; but if impatience and selfishness shall rule and immediate fcrceful action be taken, it is perfectly obvious that nothing but disorder and delay can result.
 The crying need of the world just now is for peace, and not political peace between governments alone, but industrial peace amongst men also. 1 The thing for which men fight are never settled while the war is on. An armistice must come; heads must cool and anger must spend itself before
 men can sit together and know what is best for themselves and give due lconsideration to the rights of others. "If we could have an absolute in f1S-rial a aru7iStice in America for six : months: if both the necessary in I gredients of capital, that is, both money and labor would be active and constant in the problems of produc | tion: the busy peaceful days would i soon yield a spirit which would make 1 1t possible for men to solve the prob i lens which now confront us. Labor is asking a larger share of the joint | produCt of money and labor, and | there is much merit in the claim; but | the chance of getting it 1s not ad- ] vanced nor the justice of it more widely recognized by the refusal of | labor to produce.
 l "Idleness is no panacea for the ills
 from which the country suffers. Work may be- The cost of life is only en- | hanced by the idleness of men; 1t can | be reduced by the intelligent indus try of all Other remedies may bring us part way on the road, but they | will never bring us the whole dis tance These remedies should and would be applied, but the most effect i've cure that can be desired will be the general acceptance by all our peo- pie of the golden opportunities of this great land of plenty for all who give
 the best that is in them"