Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-12-12


| peace permitting return to normal con-
| ditions, from the TRANSMISSION of radical
theories from seething European centers
| pending such delay. from heartless
prof1teering resulting in the increase OF
the cost of living, and, lastly, from the
| Vaccinations of passionate and maleV-
| olent agitators. With the return TIC
normal conditions, this unrest will rap
idly disappear In the meantime il
| does much evil.
It seems to me that in dealing with
| this situation congress should not be
| impatient or drastic, but should seek,
rather, to remove the causes. 1t should
endeavor to bring our country back
/ speedily to a peace basis. with amen-
grated living conditions under the min
| imum of restrictions upon personal lib
! erty that is consistent with our recon
struction problems. And 1t should arm
| the federal government with power to
| deal in it's criminal courts with those
| persons who by violent methods would
! abrogate our time-tested institutions.
With the free expression of opinion
| and with the advocacy of orderly polit-
| ical change, however fundamental.
there must be no interference, but to-
ward passion and malevolence tending
to incite crime and instruction under
guise of political evolution there
should be no leniency
Should Extend Food Control.
renew and strongly urge the neces-
sity of the extension of the present
| food-control act as to the period of
time in which 1t shall remain in opera
ton. The attorney general has sub
mitted a bill providing for an extern
sion of this act for period OF ak
months AS it now stands it is limited
in operation to the period of the war
and becomes imperative upon the
formal proclamation of peace. 1t is
imperative that it should be extended
at once The department of justice has
built up extensive machinery for the
purpose of enforcing its provisions; all
of which must be abandoned upon the
conclusion of peace unless the provi-
sions of this act are extended.
During this period the congress will
have an opportunity to make similar,
permanent provisions and regulations
with regard to all goods destined for
interstate commerce and to exclude
them from interstate shipment. II the
requirements of the law are not COM
piled with Some such regulation is
imperatively necessary. The abuses
that have grown up in the manipula-
ton of prices by the withholding or
foodstuffs and other necessaries OF life
cannot otherwise be effectively pre-
vented. There can be no doubt OF
either the necessity or the legitimacy
of such measures.
The president renewed his recon-
mendations that law be passed reg
ulating cold storage and that all
goods destined for interstate COM
merce should be marked with the
price at which they left the hands OF
the producer. He also urged the fed
eral licensing of corporations engag-
ing in interstate commerce. Coming
20 the question of labor, the message
said
Labor and Capital Peace Renewed.
No one who has observed the march
of events in the last year can fail to note
the absolute need of definite program
to bring about an improvement in the
condition of labor There can be no set
tied conditions leading to increased pro-
duction and a reduction in the cost OF
living if labor and capital are to be an
tagonists instead of partners.
Sound thinking and an honest desire
to serve the interests of the whole ma
ton as distinguished from the interests
of a class must be applied to the solu-
ton of this great and pressing problem.
The failure of other nations to consider
this matter in vigorous way has pro-
duced bitterness and jealousies and an
tagonisms, the food of radicalism. The
only way to keep men from agitating
against grievances is to remove the grew
ances An unwillingness even to discuss
these matters produces only dissatisfac-
ii IN and gives comfort to the extreme
elements in our country, which endeayor
to stir up disturbance in order to provoke
governments to embark upon course OF
retaliation and repression The seed OF
revolution is repression.
The remedy for these. things must not
be negative in character. 1t must be con-
structive 1t must comprehend the gem
eral interest The real antidote for the
unrest which manifests itself is not sup
preston but deep consideration of the
wrongs that beset our national life and
the application of a remedy.
Eiqht-Hour Day Is Big Step.
Congress has already shown its will
ingness to deal with these Industrial
wrongs by esta blishing the eight-hour
day as the standard in every field of
labor. 1t has sought to find a way to
prevent child labor. 1t has served the
whole country by leading the way in de-
veIoping the means of preserving and
safeguarding lives and health in danger
Gus industries. 1t must now hep in the
difficult task of finding method that will
bring about a genuine demonstration Of
industry, based upon the full recognition
of the right of those who work in what
ever rank, to participate in some organic
way in every decision which directly af-
fects their welfare.
It is with this purpose in mind that /
| called a conference to meet in Washing
! ton on December to consider these prob
lens in all their broad aspects, with the
idea of bringing about better under
standing between these two interests,
Richts of Labor Are Cited.
The great unrest throughout the world,
out of which has emerged a demand for
an immediate consideration of the diff
| culties between capital and labor, bids US
| put our own house in order. Frankly,
| there can be no permanent and lasting
| settlements between capital and labor
| which do not recognize the fundamental
concepts for which labor has been strug-
Cling through the years. The wnole
world gave its recognition and indorse-
ment to these fundamental purposes in
the League of Nations
! To analyze the particulars in the de-
| mands of labor is to admit the justice OF
/ their complaint in many matters that lie
| at their basis. The workman demands
| an adequate wage, sufficient to permit
him to live in comfort, unhampered by
| the fear Of poverty and want in his old
/ age. He demands the right to live and
/ the right to work amidst sanitary sur
roundings, both in home and in workshop
| surroundings that develop and do not re-
| tarc his own health and well-being; and
the right to provide for his children's
wants in the matter of health and educa-
| ton. In other words, it is his desire to
| make the conditions of his life and the
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