Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-22

dHiouS tne participants
industry. The destruction of one !
the ruin of the other; the suspicion
or rebellion of one unavoidably in
wolves the other. In conflict is dis
aster; in understanding there !
triumph. There is no issue relatini
to the foundation on which industr
is builded. because industry is big
making. But the insistent call is TO
labor, management and capital t
reach understanding.
The human element comes first, an
1 want the employers in industry t
understand the aspirations, the con
victions. the yearnings of the million
of American wage earners. and
want the wage earners to under
stand the problems. the anxieties, tn
obligations of management and cap
ital. and all of them must under
stand their relationship to the PEG
pie and their obligation to the re
public. Out of this understandin,
will come the unanimous committa
to economic justice, and in economi
is the highest essential to human
happiness.
1 am speaking as one who ha
counted the contents of the pay en-
velope from the viewpoint of tn,
Garner as well as the employer. NJ
one pretends to deny the inequalitie.
which are manifest in modern indus
trial life. They are less. in fact. thar
they were before organization ant
grouping on either side revealed tn,
inequalities, and conscience hal
wrought more justice than statute!
have compelled, but the ferment o.
the world rivets our thoughts on thu
necessity of progressive solution
else our generation will suffer the
oh nc m
our day to re-establish Gods plan fol
the great tomorrow.
Peril In Appeal to Groups.
Speaking our sympathies, ut :erine
the conscience of all the people
of our right to dwell amio
the good fortunes of rational. con-
science-impelled advancement. we
hold the majesty of righteous gov
eminent, with liberty under the law
to be our avoidance of chaos, and we
call upon every citizen of the re.
public to hold fast to that which
made us what we are, and we will
have orderly government safeguard
the onward march to all we ought tc
be.
The menacing tendency of the pres.
SAAS NNy 10 AOl IldISSdDl6 Wholly nc
the unsettled and fevered conditions
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. It broadly
includes all the people. with specific
recognition for none, and the high
est conservation we can make today
is committal of the republican
party to that saving constitutional
sm which contemplates all America
as one people and holds just govern
nent free from influence on the one
hand and unmoved by intimidation or
the other.
1t would be the blindness of folly
to ignore the activities in our own
which are aimed to destroy
bur economic system, and to commit
rs to the colossal tragedy which has
both destroyed all freedom and made
Russia impotent. This movement is
not to be halted in throttled liber-
ties. We must not abridge the free
dom of speech. the freedom of press
DR. 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 stifle
a menacing contempt for law, to
stamp out peril to the safety of the
republic or it's people, when emer-
gency calls, because security and the
majesty of. the law are the first es-
sentials of liberty. He who threatens
destruction of the government by
force or flaunts his contempt for
lawful authority ceases to be loyal
citizen and forfeits his rights to the
freedom of the republic.
Approves Collective Bargaining.
Let it be said to all of America
that our plan of popular govern
nent contemplates such orderly
gence of the majority of our people
think best. There can be no modi-
fcation of this underlying rule, but
no majority shall abridge the rights
Of a minority. Men have a right to
question our system in fullest free
dom, but they must always remember
that the rights of freedom impose
the obligations which maintain it
Our policy is not of repression, but
we make appeal today to American
and patriotism, when the
republic is menaced from within, just
as we trusted American patriotism
when our rights were threatened
from without.
We call on all America for steadi-
ness, SO that we may proceed deilper'
ately to the readjuStment which con-
Germs all the people. Our party plat
form fairly expresses the conscience
Of republicans on industrial relations
No party is indifferent to the welfare
of the wage Garner. To us his gooc
fortune is of deepest concern, and we
seek to make that good fortune per-
do n
prove collective bargaining, because
that is an outstanding right. but we
are unalterably insistent that its ex'
ercise must not destroy the equally
sacred right of the individual in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his
so has every American
group must not endanger the individ
ual. and we must discourage group:
proving upon one another, and none
shall be allowed to forget that gov
ernment's obligations are alike to al
the people.
Full Guaranty to Public Service.
| hope we may do more than mere
Iy discourage the losses and suffer
ings attending industrial conflict. Thu
strike against the government i:
properly denied. for government serv
ice involves none of the elements O
profit which relate to competitive
enterprise. There is progress in tn,
establishment of official revealmen
of issues and conditions which leat
to conflict, so that unerring public
sentiment may speed the adjustment
but | hope for that concord of pur
pose not forced. but inspired by tn,
common veal, which will give a reg
ulated public service the fulles
guaranty of continuity. 7 am think
ing of the railroads. In modern lif,
they are the very base of all on
activities and interchanges. For pub
lie protection We have enacted law
providing for a regulation of tn,
charge for service. a limitation OIL
the capital invested and a limitati
on capitals earnings. There remain
only competition of service on which