The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-09
Manufacturers Record.)

like anything which they have ever
had to meet in the past. Since 1914,
when Germany opened the gates Of
He'll and brought forth upon the earth
the envenonmed curse of Germany
and it's co-conspirator, the lower re-
gions, the world has been in turmoil
and in suffering. Since the ending
of the war the world has had to en-
dure Bolshevistic agitation, and all
the widespread propaganda of Ger
many and of He'll combined. The peo-
n" at large have to a great extent
been misled by public men, and at
times by the newspapers. A very large
proportion of American papers are
tied to one party or the other. and
they refuse to see any other side of
any public question except that which
deals with 1t from their own partisan
side. The politicians, Democratic and
Republican alike, are partisan, and
with rare exceptions work solely in
the interest of their party, and are
sometimes controlled more by the
party spirit than by craftsmanship
or patriotism. Fortunately, not all
newspapers or public men are moved
by these conditions. Many of both
classes are as true to the core as truth
itself. but this general condition has
forced many papers to discuss many
subjects which in former years they
rarely touched upon.
The class papers of the country.
Industrial, commercial and financial,
nave been compelled by this situation
to devote very large amount of at
tention to all of the great economic
questions connected with politics or
with the public welfare.
No industrial or commercial paper
can any longer confine its discussion
OF public questions merely to the par
ticular things which relate especial
iy to It's industry or to its class OF
business. In former years the iron
paper discussed only iron questions.
the coal paper only coal questions,
and the financial paper only the
things which dealt specifically with
hnance, but no paper which would
FOLLOW such a policy today would be
worthy of the confidence of the Am
erican public. The great issues of
the hour. the supremest in the worlds
history, except that of the relation OF
man to his Creator, are before us.
They cannot be ignored by any think
ing man Any business man who
imagines for one moment that the
League of Nations does not specifi-
cally and directly concern his bust
ness. and who is unwilling to seek all
possible light upon the subject has
very little comprehension of the
tremendous sweep of this proposition
Tor good Or for evil. Any man who
is unwilling to study every side of
this question or who does not invite
the broadest discussion of il nv his
trade or class publication. shows how
little understanding he has of the
mightiest issue which civilization has
ever mad to face. If he is for the
League of Nations he should want tn
know every possible objection to It
In order that he may know whether
his faith is founded on fact or not
The League of Nations takes hold
upon the question OF protection of
free trade. and IL we join the League
or Nations, that organization NAV
some day decide whether this country
ana others shall wipe out all traffic
regulations and open the markets OF
this and every other country to the
widest sweep of free importations
from the Orient and all other coun-
tries.
1t is altogether possible that the
League OF Nations, unless greatly
changed, may some day settle the
question OF immigration and saw
whether this country or others shall
permit an thrush OF Chinese and Jan
anese and other Oriental races. tho
League of Nations proposes. az now
planned. to undertake to shape the
labor conditions of every country on
earth and to bring into existence a
labor department of the League
which may have the final say in this
country and in others as to what Ia
Dor shall or shall not do. and thus
every manufacturing and Industrial
interest, and every other business In