The Washington times., 1920-10-30
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Wise Old England.
california's Wise Economy.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Nothing today II really impor-
tant In America except next Tues
days election. II is most impor-
tant TO women. They don't want
their sons sent 10 war ON the or
der Of foreigners under any
League of Nations.
Next to the women the coming
election is most important to the
workingmen, who see lack Of en-
ployment rapidly advancing.
You can prevent coal miners
from striking BY injunction. but
you cannot keep factories from
closing In that way.
Woricmcn who vote for Harding
will vote for . man whose thought
every day for four years, begin-
ming next March, will be, "How
can I keep American workmen
employed at good wagss!"
That isn't a transcendental
thought. if you please. but IL will
do more for this country than the
other thought: "How can prove
to the Ahkoond Of Swat. the Nj
Fam Of Hyderabad. all the Ms-
harajahs Of India, and all the
Villayets of Mesopotamia that il
there is anything in the United
States they want that they do not
see, they have only to ask for it,"
Ten to one on Harding. A mil
lion to one hundred thousand Is Of
fered. Nobody takes it. After all,
one hundred thousand dollars are
worth keeping. There are no odds
that would be fair odds, for If SEN
ator Harding lives until next Tues
day, he will be elected President Of
Ihe United States. The size of his
majority will amaze everybody, in
eluding Mr.. Cox.
Have you noticed this? Mr.. Cox
himself, who started out thinking
he was for the League Of Nations,
discovers that he is against Article
X and promises that he will at
once discuss changing 1t. If the
man who is running for President
as League candidate turns
against the League Of Nations.
what is the average man to think
about it?
England Gader tns treaty ~
Versailles, retained the right by
victory to seize all property own
ed by Germany on British terri
tory. Now England voluntarily
abandons that right" to take
private property, returning to the
ancient maxim, Governments, not
the people, make war"
Wise England! If the fact
were once established that private
property rights end in war, in
ternational credits and values
would be destroyed, and the re-
sumption of business on a world
wide scale, which is absolutely es-
sential to England's welfare,
would be impossible.
The wealth of England, scat.
tered from Paris to Peking and
from the North to the South Pole,
would lose value if public war
meant private confiscation.
Perhaps you have heard about
"a Drift to Cox" Have you heard
of any one north of Mason and
Dixon's line who is going to vote
for Cox? If so, who is the man,
outside the ranks of Democratic
officeholders?
California, according to a Cox
newspaper, has contributed only
a little more than one thousand
dollars to Cox's campaign fund.
The days are gone when corpora
tions and rich men contributed to
both sides that they might have a
string on each.
Or perhaps intelligent rich men
and corporations decided this year
not tn contribute to a million-to-
one chance.
The British government makes
an agreement with its workmen
10 come back to work, gives them
more money, with a private prom
ise OF greater production. Over
here we should probably try the
injunction. The wise English
have learned that a friendly agree
ment with workmen Is better in