Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-27

aDouC forming now organ Inc
organization can be cleaned up from
| within by the people who belong to
it. To splt up sin ply means defeat.
believe American women arc going
| ~ Lowell up our American political
| machine. The: are coming in with
| higher and CLEANER ideals They arc
! going to do what they can TO protect
| women who work They are going to
! terminate The intolerabie conditions
OF child labor, conditions which dwarf
the physical and mental doveiopmcn.
OF the child. They are CONS TO stand
Ger public and p-irahs mora;!.y. They
'.-e going TO control and arc Erins to
w:pe out ] hope, organized cor,mer-
cialized vicr: and I hope they are go
Ing 60 tI.e tho r,en Nnvsn they dom
inata generally to the polls and max
their vote.
THE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM
The big industrial problem. tho problem
o: labor and capital in a very serious ono.
1t i3 u1re serious because OF bad leader
ship and because % a certain amount Of
Indifference Oh the part Of those who
employ and direct labor. toward the con-
ditions under which the toiier works
failure to visualize the conditions under
which he works and his viewpoint.
| When say labor. do not mean sruply
tho five million men and women. or what
lever the number may be, represented by
lorganized labor, but I mean the eighty
odd million men and women who work in
this country.
| There is much insncere talk about the
relations of labor and capital. Cheap types
of politicians try to advance themselves
IN popular favor by promising things they
know cannot be done. We must remember
that IN of those who 6irect work
to-day were workers themselves 20 years
iago.
| We will not have an autocracy Of wealth
of labor or of any class. We must fight
. class legislation to finish. All class leg
islation is bad. 1t marks the beginning
of the decadence Of government We will
not have it.
L What we want is to establish a general
0 tcondition in this country under which
i men and women who are thrifty and in
G dustrious can work at a wage which will
= enable them to live comfortably and save
8 money for a rainy day. to marry. raise a
t family, and give their children fair start
= in the world.
e We do not want TO build up crust Of
= wealth under which there is a seething
e mass of discomfort and unhappiness: but
h we want to establish stable conditions
t respect for the rights of property: the
g ITlSntS OIL men, On opportunity loI oil W Nv
are willing. to work at a wage on which
. with thrift they can live and save con-
, EDITIONS of absolute justice and absolute
- honesty. Honesty on the part of those
=, who employ labor means a liberal wage
q and interest in the men who work.
Honesty on the part of those who employ
- labor means a liberal wage and An inter-
: Honesty on the part of labor means loyal
e lty to the man he works for and an honest
c days work for an honest days pay. We
n must tell the truth. we cannot get some
r. thing for nothing.
s AMERICAN LEGION
u And right in this connection | want to
say a good word for the American
u Legion want to say a great many
good words for il. 1t is the finest up
= standing organization you can imagine
y respecters of law and order: great
" force for good government; we'll worthy
6 of your loyal support. Every man who
is eligible ought to so into it. 1t is a
, loyal organization.
- out on the western coast when lot
~ of assassins fired into them. killing some
- of their numbers and woundng others
" what did they do They had the power
II to have hanged them at once. but they
did not They put them into jail in an
II orderly manner and without Unnecessary
e force. and then they defended the jail
$ against mob which was trying to take
n the men out and hang them That Is
l. pretty GOOD stun. That speaks for dis
Y cipin", a force for law and order
I. II going to be great power for
n good government, 1t ought to keep out
: Of politics as an organization. but its
It members must go into politics. Join one
n or the other Of the political parties as in
e d.vidual citizens, because otherwise they
q are not good citizens.
n There are other military organizations
d that yoa raVc got. You have the old
Grand Arr!y of the Republic. which
O meant so much 10 the republic, and
l. think the American Legion is going to
n be- il u way the successor of the Grand
= Army of the Republic
= THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
!, The Republican party again is in con-
d troll of Congress and will shortly be IN
d control of the country. There is great
political contest coming on this fall and
10 in going into it the party must not place
'e TOO much confidence in winning on the
n other party's mistakes. There is no more
e unsound or dangerous policy.
We must unite the different factions
it of the Republican party from the heart
If out. not from the teeth out-the old so
IT called Progressive and Conservative
st groups. We must become a solid, homo
n geneous party.
e The country is tired of knocking, oil
* pulling things to pieces: tired of hearing
n about the mistakes of the war. 1t wants
ID constructive policy and that it what
IT the Republican party must have. II must
re look forward
n we are now the leading nation or the
J. world the most powerful We have the
&c bulk OF the worlds wealth we have q
- position OF leadership we could not escape
IS II we would,
~ Now Is the time to get together. Ou'
~ road lies ahead. not behind. We arc
through with the fighting in this war pu
'herc are many problems in front OF us
'e problems of readjustment which Nllo"
in every great var. There is nothing OF
~ io'iucs IN them. They are straight prom
of lens OF sound government and of an effi
lg clch' ana economical administration
is Many OF them are difficult but they arr
to not particularly serious If we will meet
hsm IN the same spirit Of cooperation