Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-04

OOLvNO UUN MVOA
 Believing that the whole world has
 entered upon 2 new age which calls
 for new standards of value. new con-
 captions of truth and duty and new
 tasks and tests in every realm of hu-
 man endeavor. 1 venture, with full
 consciousness of their inadeauacy. to
 lution of our most immediate difficul- l-
 ties, writes Dr. C. A. Eaton of New
 York. to the London Times just before
 returning to this country in response
 to a request therefor.
 First of all. let us raise the aues- :
 ton as to how. much of the old ma
 chinery of life we. can carry over into
 the new age. When a geologic cycle
 in which water covered the earth
 changed into period wherein dry land became fact animal and vege-
 table forms of life had to readjust themselves to the new conditions or
 perish. We may as well face the fact that the world of human institutions
 has just passed through a similar ex- peficnce. The new element which will determine the next cycle of history is the emergence of tn masses of men in to self consciousness. Henceforth all legislation, all thinking. all industrial orga anizati must be conceived in terms of all the people. u.
 In England labor has proclaimed its una1terable determination never to go back to it's prewar economic. status. It never will. Neither will capital. Russia the masses stood up and thought they were free. They have fallen into the hands of tyranny more hateful and bloody than any po- liticai czar. But the fact remains that in every land the whole people are thrilling with a.-new sense of self hood. And this is why democracy which is scheme of life in which the whole people participate upon equal terms. is being accepted everywhere as a theory. although it is failing often as a practice.
 It seems to me self evident that this new awakening to self f-eonsciousness of all the people calls for some bet class struggle which has characterized the past generations. If capitalism has been the instrument of class it must now become the, instrument of all. If the capitalistic system can not become the economic organ of all the people twill cease to exist, The labor union has been the necessary and useful organ of a class If it has in it universal value. it may become the organ of all the people Otherwise it will have to be abandoned. From now on no man can claim special con sideration because he. is Eorkins- man Or an employer. He must rest his rights upon the fact that he is man. And his rights will have no value ex- cept in so far as they are sanctioned oy his duties. ~k >
 I have been greatly impressed by the many signs that England will suf- fer this winter from lack of fuel. Ac- cording to an English authority, the miner is 22s tons. while for an Amer ican miner it is three times that amount. These figures raise the question not as. to what will become will become of England An American contractor is erecting rolling mills in England. From the same blue prints he has let contacts in Pittsburgh, O.. and in England. He Is paying 50 per cent. more for the same article made in England for use Ir England than he pays for it in Youngstown. And the workman there is receiving 30 per cent. higher wages than here.
 If were an Enslishman should be gravely concerned over these facts. The English workingman is good as the best In mining and the steel he is not competing with men of his own breed. except in part: for B large proportion of the iron and central and southern Europe. Why should Pole or Slav in America mine more coal or produce mere steel pro- duets than an Englishman in Eng ana Is II question or ma aeninefy or method. or is it state of mind?
 Except for the vastly greater effort put forth by Britain in the war con 1itions are very much alike in Amer ca and here at the present moment In both countries the ma asses of men nave greatly improved their position turing the war. Drastic taxation has aken the money from the rich and nigh wages have distributed it among ne working classes. The middle classes are close to ruin because of nigh taxes. high prices and little or no increase in salary Trade arN indus ny are more or less disIocated by new world conditions created by the war Government interference with the business and liberties of the individual las grown like a cancer. And the ia latic. faddist. anarchist and boishe-
 ist is busy day and night seeking to ,reate revolution, tear down tested in titutions and usher in the mill enniun " killing the goose that lays the gol- len egg. We have in both countries wise and worthy leaders both among mpioyers and employees. But these nen who are Americans and English l nen first and class men second are 'eing pushed aside by wild extremists if the Trotzky type, whose ignorance If the laws of life is equaled only by heir fnvincible aversion from work. I 1 To not believe that either the radi- !