Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24


production. War also establishes its
| higher standards for wages, and they
| abide. l wish the higher wage to
| abide, on one explicit condition
| that the wage-earner will give full
| return for the wage received. 1t is
| the best assurance we can have for
| a reduced cost of living. Mark you
| l am ready to acclaim the highest
standard of pay, but L would be blind
| to the responsibilities that mark this
| fateful hour # l did not caution the
| Wage-earners CT America that mount
| ing wages and decreased production
! can lead only to industrial and eco
| nomic ruin.
| 1 want, somehow, to appeal to the
| sons and daughters of the republic,
| to every producer, to join hand and
| brain in production, more produc-
| ton, honest production, patriotic
| production, because patriotic produc-
| ton is no less a defense of our best
| civilization than that of armed force.
| sion, under-production is crime of
| omission. We must work our most
| and best, else the destructive reac-
| ton will come. We must, stabilize
| and strive for normally, else the in
evitable reaction will bring it's train
| Of sufferings, disappointments and
reversals. We want to forestall such
| reaction, we want to hold all ad-
| Vanced ground, and fortIty 1t with
| general good-fortune.
| Let us return for a moment to the
| necessity for understanding, partic-
| ularly that understanding which
| concerns ourselves at home. l de-
| cline to recognize any conflict of in
| terest among the participants in in
| dustry. The destruction of one is the
| ruin of the other, the suspicion or
rebellion of one unavoidably involves
| the other. In conflict is disaster, in
understanding there is triumph.
There is no Issue relating to the
foundation on which industry is
builded, because industry is bigger
| than any element in it's modern
making. But the insistent call is
| for labor, management and capital to
| reach understanding.
The human element comes first,
and I want the employers in indus
| try to understand the aspirations,
| the convictions, the yearnings Of the
| millions Of American Wage-carners,
and L want the wage-earners to I'M
Gerstand the problems, the anXieties,
| the obligations Of management and
capital, and all of them must under
stand their relationship to the peo-
pie and their obligation 10 the re-
public. Out of this understanding will
come the unanimous committal to
economic justice, and in economic
justice lies that social justice which
Is the highest essential TO human
happiness.
am speaking as one who has
counted the contents of the pay en-
velope from the viewpoint of the
Garner as well as the employer. No
one pretents to deny the inequalities
which are manifest in modern in
dustrial life. They are less, in fact,
than they were before the organiza-
ton and grouping on either side re-
vealed the inequalities, and con-
science has wrought more justice
than statutes have compelled, but the
thoughts on the necessity of progress
sive solution, else our generation will
suffer the experiment which means
chaos for our day to re-establish
Gods plan for the great tomorrow.
Menace of Today
Speaking our sympathies, uttering
the conscience of all the people, mind
full of our right to dwell amid the
good fortunes of rational, conscience
majesty of righteous government,
with liberty under the law, to be
our avoidance of chaos, and we call
upon every citizen of the republic
to hold fast to that which made us
what we are, and we will have order
ly government safeguard the onward
march to all we ought to be.
Hhe menacing tendency Of the pres
ent day is not chargeable wholly to
the unsettled and fevered conditions
caused by the war. The manifest
weakness In popular government lies
in the temptation to appeal to group
ed citizenship for political advan-
tage. There is no greater peril The
constitution contemplates no class
and recognizes no group. 1t broadly
recognition for none, and the highest
conservation we can make today is a
committal of the Republican party
to that saving constitutionalism
which contemplates all America as
one people, and holds just government
free from influence on the one hand
and unmoved by intimidation on the
other.
1t would be the blindness of folly
to ignore the activities in our own
country which are aimed to destroy
our economic system, and to commit
us to the colossal tragedy which has
both destroyed all freedom and made
Russia impotent. This movement is
not to be halted in throttled liberties.
We must not abridge the freedom
of speech, the freedom of press, or
the freedom of assembly, because
there is no promise in repression.
These liberties are as sacred as the
freedom of religious belief, as in
violable as the rights of life and
the pursuit Of happiness. We do
hold to the right to crush sedition.
to stife a menacing contempt for
law, to stamp out peril to the safety
of the republic or it's people, when
emergency calls, because security
and the majesty Of the law are the
first essentials Of liberty. He who
threatens destruction of the gov
eminent by force of faunts his con-
be loyal citizen and forfeits his
rights to the freedom of the re-
public.
Let it be said to all of America
that our plan of popular govern
ment contemplates such orderly
changes as the .crystallized intelli-
gence Of the majority of our people
think best. There can be no
modification of this underlying rule,
but no majority shall abridge the
rights of a minority. Men have a
right to question our system in
fullest freedom, but they must al
freedom impose the obligations
which maintain 1T. Our policy is
not Of repression, but we make ap-
peal today to American intelligence
and patriotism, when the republic
is menaced from within, just as We
trusted American patriotism from
without.
Wage-Earner's welfare
We call on all America for
steadiness, SO that we may proceed
deliberately to the reimbursement
which concerns all the people. Our
party platform fairly expresses the
| conscience of Republicans on indus
trial relations. No party is indif-
ferent to the welfare Of the wage
Garner. To us his good fortune Is
of deepest concern, and we seek to
make that good fortune permanent.
We do not oppose but approve col
lective bargaining, because that is
an outstanding right, but we are I'M
alterably insistent that it's exercise
| must not desaroy the equally sacred
right of the Individual, in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit
his employment, so has every
American the right to seek en-
ployment. The group must not en-
| danger the individual, and we must
| discourage CLOUDS preYing unon one