The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-10-22

quarters and Senator Harding has
been sent into that state to help him
out of his difficulties.
1t is admitted by republicans that
Senator Cummins will run $4,000 be-
hind the head of the ticket, and this
makes a dangerous situation for this
advocate of privilege.
Surveys made of Iowa recently
have satisfied observers that rail
road workers are unitedly opposed
to Cummins and that they are get
ting generous support from farmers.
The latter are now compelled to pay
higher freight rates just at time
when they are getting lower prices
for their crops. The transportation
bill that was sponsored by Cum
minis and Esch is taking money out
of both pockets of producers. They
are paying more for what they con-
sumo and getting less for what they
produce.
Cummins got through by a small
margin at the primary and he is
facing a better organized and more
determined opposition. His defeat
is one of the probabilities of the
November house-cleaning.
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Labor forces are getting in shape
to make a whrlwind finish. Spur
red on to renewed efforts by many
victories in all sections Of the coun-
try, they realize, more clearly than
before, that producers possess all
political power if they are properly
directed. The primaries eliminated
several scores of privilege e-servers,
and those who escaped the first as
sault are trembling in apprehension
of what may befall them in No
vember.
1t may be true that the country
is not completely organized, but or
ganizations have been perfected in
majority Of the states that can
and will deliver the proper result.
In the middle and far west it Is
admitted that the electorate is tre-
mendously aroused and that those
who are not known to be favorably
disposed toward the masses will have
some hard shedding the next three
or four weeks. The experiences of
Senator Cummins and Senator Len
root are typical Of hundreds of SEN
ators and congressman who are max
ing the same kind of defensive
fight against similar odds
1t is admitted by politicians that
party lines never were so loose. The
nonpartisan program that seeks to
reward friends and punish enemies
has been justified in not less than
20 states and additional successes
are the finest incentive for CON
tinued effort along that line.
The closing weeks Of the cam
paign will witness a gathering up Of
divergent elements and an ANAL
gamation of strength that VIII be
thrown against enemies of the peo-
pie Those who voted for the trans
portation bill are marked for slaugh-
ter, because it is not generally re
cognized that this act is so destruc-
| tive that it must undermine the pros
perity of the nation and bring great
loss and suffering to the people.
1t was the most wanton betrayal
of the people in years, and the un-
organized public is now realizing
what organized producers long knew,
that the railroad bill was privileges
first great assault upon the public
and will be followed, if reaction wins,
by still greater eXcesses at the eX-
pense of producers.
Advocates of the old order and
those who are apprehensive of ev-
erything that savors of change do
not relish the outlook, and their
misgivings are not without reason.
Unless labor weakens, and there is
no prospect of it now, reaction is
about to get a rebuke that it will
long remember. And then we will
be fairly we'll along the highway
that leads to better political, social
and economic conditions. The new
wine of human aspiration is work
ing and cannot be confined to the
barrels that privilege has prepared
for it.
Smoke BLUE RIBBON Sc Cigar.