The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-31
MILLIONS
DISTURB THE PEACE
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Whereas, since the conclusion
of the great world war many po-
litical and economic problems of
great and vital Importance are
pressing themselves upon us,
which questions cannot be avoid
ed, but must be faced and solved
in order to maintain our national
prestige and preserve the unity
and peace of our people; and
, Whereas, we are now about to
enter upon a national and state
political campaign in which ap-
Ipeals will be made by the various
candidates for our support; and
Whereas, the welfare of our
country and our state ought to be,
and is in our estimation, of para
mount Importance; and,
Whereas, we regret he prev
alence of disagreements between
employers and employed in the
great industries of our country,
especially in the arteries of COM
merce on which we are all depend
ent, and look with growing
alarm upon uncurbed monopolis-
tic tendencies;
"Now, therefore, be it resolved
by this the Liberty Council of
Manatee county, Florida:
"1st. That we urge speedy
and permanent settlements of all
questions between the employers
and employed, based upon the
principles of justice and unselfsh-
ness.
"2d. We oppose and denounce
any politician or candidate for of
flee who may attempt to ride into
public favor or off by infaming
the passions or prejudices Of the
voters or by stirring up any one
class of citizens against another,
as dangerous, disloyal, unpatriot-
ic and un-American.
"3d. We would remind aggre-
cations of capital and organized
labor Representing combined pos
sibly four million families or
about eighteen million persons)
and especially would we remind
the congress Of the United States
and the various state legislatures,
and all Federal and state admins
trative officials that more than
eighty-five millions of men, wo-
men and children, citizens of the
United States, do not belong to
the capitalistic classes, nor to the
ranks of organized labor, and on
behalf Of this great multitude of
citizens we earnestly protest that
no moral rights exists in any set
or organization of men to con-
spire to tie up the avenues of COM
merce and the marts of trade at
the expense of four-ffths Of our
nation s citizens, always to the
discomfort and often to the actual
suffering of a large portion of
them, because of any disagree
ment between representatives of
said classes composing only about
one-ffth of our population, and no
legal right to do so should exist.
And we demand that such whole
some laws be enacted and en-
forced as will make such condi-
tons impossible.
"4th. We looi; with apprehen-
sion and alarm upon all tendency
toward monopolistic control of
the necessities of life, and espec-
tally toward the control of food
supplies by the packers, and we
call upon the congress and the
state legislatures to make monop-
oily impossible and to provide a
much more rigid and effective
supervision and control than the
country has yet known.
18TH. We respectfully remind
those who constantly seek higher
prices for labor and commodities
and especially remind the con-
gress and the state legislature
that the great mass of citizens
composing the professional men,
the small business men, and the
salaried men (es distinguished
from the wage-earners) are re-
ceiving but little more and often
no more today for their services
than before the war began, not
withstanding the cost Of living
has more than doubled, and we
demand that this lOyal class of cit