The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-12-18
Letters from the P ople

er made any claim to be workers, never
did work and never intend to.
Next we have class and always
have had everywhere that classed
classed themselves as workers-posc
themselves as workers, pose as la
boring men, shout their heads of
about the rights Of labor, lament over
his terrible condition, no matter what
it is-are not satisfied with any wage,
care nothing for the rights of their
employers or anyone else, care moth
| ing for government, religion or socle-
ty in any form. Let us hope and
trust that they also are in the MINOR
ity and constitute only very small
per cent of the whole and we are sure
it is smaller in the U. S. than any
where else. This class differs from
the other only in the fact that they
control no wealth and pretend to be
workers, who want to live off the
labor of others, but lack the ingenuity
to do so.
Then we have another class, the real
workers of the world, the back bone
of every nation, the salt of the earth.
Capitalists, mutimillionaires, If you
please, men born with a mighty ambl-
ton to do things and have toiled inces-
sanity from boyhood up to accom-
plish their object-men who have CIV
en- to society our railroads, our steam
ships. our schoos, our libraries, In fact
nearly every big and great and good
thing we have. The class that gave
us American itself and made 1t the
greatest country on earth. Some
aristocrats to be sure who gave us
Washington, some poor people to De
sure, millions of them, who gave US
Lincoln and Franklin and Edison and
MANY others. The great silent major
ity upon which every nation on eartn
has always relied on in peace OF IN
: war.
J, But this class has always been the
. goat. They constitute the middle
! against which both ends have always
: played. Glass one has always beer
! the cause of which class two has beer
! the effect and class three the goa'
!. which has born the burden. usuaii!
:, these burdens Have been born In 81
: Hence and without much protest, bu'
~ once in a while they have become IN
!. tolerable and then some thing happen
!. ed-quickly, quietly and efficiently.
e Those of you who have lived In o.
IS followed the history of the growth o
10 almost any of our new towns IN Tn
5 early days of the great west know
st what mean. Nearly every one o
e. them had it's period of lawlessness o
10 reign of terror during those PERIOD
it the goat stood quietly and attended 7
lie it's own business, hoping that II give
c. fope enough the calf would hang II
a self. In some cases it did. But ]
lie cases where it did not the goat cam
is to life and usually that town wa
er cleaned up and made decent piac
" to live in in less than "a hours.
= seems to me that the world is now
II about the same condition Of one OF tn
II western towns during its reign of tel
II ror. The goats are doing everytnin
IL in their power to restore order OF
of the chaos of war, resume produ
II ton to feed and clothe and warm tt
II starving, freezing. shivering worl
II Class one is using every ounce OF
power to grab everything that is pr
II duced and hold it for ransom, whl'
in turn is adding to class two by lea
and bounds. And always at the e
pense of class three-the goat.
The question with me now is nc
long will the goat stand quietly wit
out hitching. Will it remain passlN
hoping the approaching storm W
blow over until its strength has ebb
away and gone over to class one a.
two, which it is doing with amazil
rapidity each day? If class one a
two were the only ones injured by tn
clashings, I would gladly clap n
hands and holler sic 'em, till the
was nothing left of either side,
memory, but that is never the ca
The coal barons, mine owners ana Q
orators are the ones against whom {