Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-10
SOME HoMEIY FACTS.

The coal strike VIII sooh NC H~>'N
IN q manner satisfactory neither 10
the GENERATORS nor the miners. Also the
settlement will not be satisfactory 10
+ho nublic, While it will bring about
tho mining of enough coal to prevent
neonIe from freezing, it will settle no
problem up for solution
Neither the operators nor the min
ers are wholly to blame but neither
side is free from blame. The historian
Tacl<ev, once characterized the con-
servative and radical groups OF Eng
land in a way that was not pleasing
10 either. He said:
"stunidity in all its forms is tory
folly in all it's forms is wing.
Capital has the reputation OF TAX
mo all it can get. To curb its cupid
nv II has to be surrounded by laws
that are really harmful to honest cap
ito,,s efforts TO produce efficiently
labor has the reputation now of do
ing as little as possible for all inc
money it can lay its hands on. Inc
nublic for its own protection Will
have 70 surround labor with some
thing of the same sort of restrictions
that have been found necessary lor
capital.
Only what is produced by the com
bined efforts of capital and labor can
no divided between them. This Is the
fundamental lesson that must be
driven home to all the people OF the
country.
Wherever capital has had no proper
regard for the housing or the pay Vi
labor. where it has taken all that II
could get and given the least possible
in return. it has been digging its own
crave On the other hand, whenever
shorter hours and higher wages nave
meant decreased production. labor mas
been cutting its own throat. You
can't find more in the cupboard TO
take out if you put less in.
The most dangerous fallacy ABROAD
ot the present as the Journal mas
pointed out many times, is that out
Of war and economic upheaVal mas
rome a huge legacy of more ease anu
higher pay for workers who may de-
nond them, and of more earnings 1ol
capitaI when its agents see fit mercy
TO mark up their goods. This theory Of
taking much and giving little in return
may not be definitely formulated aho
EXPRESSED But thousands and tens OF
thousands are acting upon 1t, never
theless.
1t is the direct opposite of the truth
The only legacy war has left is a leg
acy of colossal waste and destruction
which can only be made good by hare
work and unprecedented maximum
production. In Russia the workers
stopped working, stopped selling
stopped everything except wages, The
result has been that fully twenty-five
millions of people have died of nun
ger. cold and disease.
Present prosperity based upon high
or wages and lower production is no
real prosperity. 1t is temporary be
cause it is limited. not distributed o
self-supporting. 1t is an economi
FOOLS paradise.
Capital and labor wrangle owe
what each shall receive. They don
seem to see that they are fightin
over pile of gold which is CONSTANT
diminishing unless each strives to ad
something to it. Each must strive
make it bigger if either is to nav
more from it, They can't go on d
viding more Unless they produc
more. Neither can produce more will
out the other.
Capital has been stupid and egoti'
teal. The average man who has az
cumulated a fortune seems to regar
himself as made of better stuff tina
the masses who have nothing excel
their daily living. Labor is becomir
tyrannical and utterly selfish and
listens to demagogues who tell II
Iaborers the things they want to hea
regardless of truth.
There are men in Albuquerque
one in particular-who don't know
coupling pin from a safety pin, b
they can tell a general manager 1u
how to run a railroad or a moth
how to dress her baby. Such men CT
always gain applause. Also they a
always dangerous because of ignc
ance and lack of principle. Paying
taxes themselves, they are experts
taxation, and paying no debts thei
selves, they know how to run eve
other mans business.