Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-10
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"NEW SET OF SLOGANS"


 wide debates that are now in pro- gress is the extent to which they are making use of and indeed in many cases are based on the terms and phrases of revolutionaries who lived in another day and whose dicta if quoted at all prior to the war were quoted in dark halls where were un- happy assemblages, says the Des Moines Register, which says but yes terday only the socialists were speak ing of the "capitalistic order," and they only by way of expressing their contempt and hatred. Today it is not only permissible but hackneyed to employ the whole socialist vocabu- lary, with it's capitalism" it's class conflict" it's Economic determinism,' its 'bourgeoisie," it's 'proletariat," it's "class consciousness" and the rest. The terms are handled on terms of as careless familiarity as ever we had learned to employ liberty" "free- dom," and equality"
 Kerensky besought the world, wringing his hands, to recognize that revolution in Russia was social; but "social" had an unwelcome sound then, and it spelled Kerensky's doom. "Soviets," which were but a form of joint economic and political organi- zation, were heather, fire breathing things which only to mention few months ago was to court annihilation; yet now the term is hurled in Ameri- ca with no more seriousness than "demagogue" was hurled few years back, and we are actually examining semi-soviet proposal known as the Plumb plan without any great ap- proval of it's features but without any horror, either.
 Yesterday to speak of industrial democracy" was to be rebuffed as an anarchist. Today we are all for in- dustrial democracy, and are glib in ringing the changes upon it, such as "constitutionalism in industry" "equ- ality of economic opportunity" and so on and on.
 More interesting, even than that, there is the phenomenon also of ref erences to deeper, more abstruse, more philosophical ideas, the theo- ries or systems of thought that are behind all the catch words. Just recently grange" senator, the junior from Iowa, was caught in quotation as saying that he was not -or was-an "impossibilist." And somebody about the same time en- riched the debate with "perfecti- bilist."
 Truly, the times are altered; for the better, no doubt. New ideas, or old ones in new dresses, dance on the stage to excite us. We are still blundering ahead in the effort to grasp more and more equality, more and more democracy, more and more of the square deal from and to all men by and from all their fellows, and meantime, by keeping the processes of production going, to avoid starva- tion. If anybody doubt that we are on the verge of the final success let hiw look. See-we have a new set of slogans!
 William S. Kenyon is the junior from Iowa. No doubt the five pack CTS look lpon him as an impossible if not an "impossibilst." And yet Senator Kenyon is on record as hav- ing said: "No one in congress wants to injure any legitimate business. These are his words: "I am thank ful to receive a. copy of the Fort Worth Record containing very fine editorial. This is very unusual just now to have any calnness shown ia the discussion of these bills. NOI ONE IN CONGRESS WANTS ToI