Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-10-22

points. go further and say that
no man has ever shown greater
practical wisdom in not refusing at
Paris to take what he could get,
because no could not get oil he
wanted. He found that European
| statesmen were unable to see eX
cept ut close range. They could not
suddenly view a Christian brother
hood Of nations with the smoke OF
the battlefields and the stencil Of
the dead still poisoning the atm0s-
phrere. Woodrow Wilson stood
alone voicing for all nations the
spiritual aspirations Of common hu-
court circles abroad, as he is by the
masters in high finance in this coun-
try, who reilly do not want democ-
racy safe in any country where they
rule or make their money. Those
Senators who now are opposing the
'rcaty say by their acts that they are
ready to continue the international
anarchy, war and destruction, pro-
vided they can secure political ad-
yautage at home. These men who
insolontly call themselves leaders try
to deceive the public with vast
moral pretensions, when as matter
OF fact they are after electing one
Of their number President Of the
United States, regardless Of larger
consequences.
Reform or Ruin.
| am not an alarmist, nor a ring
er Of alarm bells. | am getting to
to the age when man becomes q
philosopher. 1t Is my honest opin-
ion that civilization itself is on trial
Unless present tend ,ncies are speedi-
ly checked, distress and violence will
work havoc in this world in COM
parison with which the evils OF war
(great as they were) will be puerile
We can hear Of the determination Of
an entire race OF people in Turkey
and the wholesale determination Of
the property-owning and educated
classes in Russia, with the abolition
OF private property and the nation
alizing Of woman. 1t Is no ordinary
problem which confronts u.s.. 1t
has nothing to do with accom- odat-
ing to a gradually changing social
and industrial status. 1t does not
contemplate mere modificatio of
old industrial forms to changed con-
ditions. 1t has no concern with
| amendments to existing conditions.
This Europea" movement is launch
ing stern questions at the system
itself which constitutes the present
! order Of society. 1t is denying its
right to continue existence. 1t is in
this country. You have only to read
| the demand Of organized labor as
| to the railroads--the demand made
recently in the steel strikers. These
strikes will fail because the peo-
pie of the United States are not in
sympathy with the movement, but
1t still leaves the question unan-
swered.
All the actions of men first live
in the thoughts OF their minds or
emotions Of their hearts. These are
the imn1lterial forces which Gre
ate revolution. There it stands
grim, menacing, and terrible-and
so it will still until Justice be done
or crash comes which will go echo
ing down the ages The alternative
is betorH this rountry OF industrial
reform or ruin. If we refuse 'ro
one, The Other shan surely compel
US.
The same fundamental cause tina t
| brought about the war is still in
cperation-every government in this
|
minist tered to bring comfort and
luxury to a class instead of to man
kind as a whole. The world has
tried the governing power Of evil.
1t Is up to the United States now
to try goodness as governing force.
| During the war and since, the con-
solidation Of manufacturing and fl
nancial interests has been taking
place at rate and on a scale never
known before. The Sherman anti
trust law is dead letter, for the
| trusts now control all Of the neces-
stiles of life; they own all of the
| copper, coal and other mineral lands,
together with the means Of trans
portation. There was q great out
cry during Roosevet's administra-
| ton against the trusts. He prose
cuted certain malefactors of great
wealth." as he called them. Those
were pigmies compared with the
giants that now have cold storage
plants, buy up all the tomatoes,
washing powders, fruits, eggs, but
ter and sugar. Armour and Swift,
with their associates, have this
country by the throat. There was
never as much food in the United
States as to-day. 1t is under the
control OF those interests who make
It artificially scarce and constantly
raise the price. heard a merchant
say a few months ago that he could
rot get any rice except through
Armour. Look at our cotton seed.
This same combination controls the
seed market and the fertilizer mar
ket. They name the price which
Nou must pay for fertilizer. There
is no competitive seed market.
hey fix just one price and YOU have