Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-22

government itself. holding allegiance to the national government as sec ondary and subordinate. A veritable despotism whose mandates are su- preme when conflicting with govern mental orders.
 Here is an organized and of1icered labor government with such wide ar ticulations, with such rigorous rules with a mandatory of it's own that sets aside rulers mandates. defies senates and courts of justice and tears up everything that bears the look of or- dered life and sets up reign of an~ archy and chaos as we have seen re- gently in our own cities and more conspicuous!y in the countries of Eu- rope. worn and wasted by war, appear Ing in full bloom in Russia.
 -l ask in the name of reason: Should government give up problems like these and cowed and browbeaten remain inactive?
 Have governments no reserve power for crises like these for confronting not foreign invasion but economies at their doors. yes. in occupancy of the premises. Yes. they would have were not the halls of legislation filled with compiaisant and purehaseable Doliti- clans instead of statesmen and patri- ots. men who allow themselves to be cocrced by the labor vote.
 But relief is scarcely to be expect ed from that direction. Governments S seem unable or unwilling to enforce
 
 own laws.
 But there is source of hope from another direction and there is already beginning of action we believe. I confess amazement that in the face Of these compact and powerful organ lzauons of labor that ca pital and cap tains of industry and of traffic have been so supine, so yielding. so ready to tolerate to compromise and yield to coercion and to patch up a monetary peace. Confronted by these compa ct labor organizations I have wondered why capital and captains of industry have not organized, for self protection. I wonder they do not combine and re- fuse to be bullied and browbeat ten and coerced by irresponsible organza- tionS that aim to control their proper ties and decrease the profits of the industries they only help to operate. open ard avowed to create a national potential public opinion that blazes hot with a great indignation at the encroachments upon their rights to manage their own business and resent these invasions of t11e rights of inves- tors.
 Governments through commission could fix minimum wages and inVes- tigate injustices which do not occur in our day save in. rarely exceptional instances, but after that why cannot investors and the men responsible for the operations of the industries and the trans sportation systems of a nation take and hold their ground and refuse to be coerced and terrorized by the demands of irresponsible and incon1- petent operatives who will one day develop into the destroyers of the or der and welfare of society if not of civilization. some notable and noble examples of such resistance this coun- ty well as Boston are just now conspicuous in furnishing
 These people are not accessible to reason. Moral persuasion is but a spiders web as the president of the United States is finding. They are using force and force in some in stances of a brutal and ruthless kind all the might of a nation. They are claiming for despotic and autocratic power. It is not wages chiefly now but authority. They want recognition and standing room for their impress sion in the period and the right to sever the many arteries of govern ment and of order at their will. It is fast becoming a gigantic despotism which attempts to force the hands of industry and government. It is time to outlaw and criminalize the grow ing power which threatens civiiiza- ton itself.
 Our secretary of war is deeply in the right when he asks for a stand ing army of 500. 900 men. They will soon be needed to police the nation and to defend the industries and the life of the nation.
 The secretary of war is wise to see the overshadowing peril. We shall not need a great army to repel inva- sion but shall need it to make property safe and life itself secure for our own citizens