The Washington times., 1920-07-22

heslthtul competition, left Jour store
houses empty, and there Is a mini
mum production when our need 10
maximum. .Maximums, not minimums'
is the cali OF America. 1t Isn't a new
story. because war never fails 20
leave depleted storshouses and al
ways impairs the efficiency OF pro-
duction ..-........- ..,.---... -.
FAvORs HIGHER WAGES. q .'
War also establishes its higher
standards for wages. and they abide.
! wish the higher wage 10 sbi&e. 90
one explicit conditiop-thst the wage
Garner will give full return for the
wage received. II Is the best assur-
ance we can have for a reduced cost
OF living. Mark you. ] am ready 10
acclaim, the highest standard Of pay,
but ! would he blind 70 the responsi-
bilities that mark this fstsfsl hsur
II did not caution the wsGe-earners
Of America that mountipG WAGES asd
decreascd production can lead emily
TO Industrial and economical ruin.
Let us return for a moment to
the necessity for understanding. par
ticularly that understanding which
concerns ourselves at home. ] 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 in
wolves the other. In conflict is dis
aster. in understanding there is tri-
umph. There is no issue relating to
the foundation on which industry is
builded, because industry is bigger
than any element in its modern max
81 tatA L. fnr
labor, management, and capital to
reach understanding.
HUMAN ELEMENT FIRST
The human element comes first,
and l want the employers In industry
to understand the aspirations, the
convictions, the yearnings of the mil
lions of American wage-earners, and
want the wage-earners to under
stand the problems, the anxieties, the
obligations of management and cap
itaI. and all Of them must understand
their relationship to the people and
their obligation to the republic. Out
Of this understanding will come the
unanimous committal to economic
justice, and in economic justice lies
that social justice which is the high
est essential to human happiness.
The 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 Ito group
ed citizenship for political advantage
There is no greater peril.
RECOGNIZES NO CLASS
The constitution "contemplates nc
class and recognizes no group. IL
broadly includes all the people, with
specific recognition for none, and the
highest conservation we can make
today is a committal of the Repub
lican party to that saving constitu
tionalism which contemplates all
America as one people, and holds just
government free from influence on
the one hand and unmoved by intim
idation on the other.
1t would be the blindness Of folly
to ignore the activities In ouC own
country which are aimed to destroy
our economic system, and to com
nit us to the colossal tragedy which
has both destroyed all freedom and
made Russia impotent. This move
ment is not to be halted in throttled
liberties. We must not abridge the
freedom OF speech, the freedom OF
press, or the freedom OF nssenbiy In
repression. These liberties are al
sacred as the freedom OF religious
belief. as inviolable as the rights
of life and the pursuit Of happiness
We do hold to the right to crush
scdItion, to stine mcnacinE con-
tempt for law, to stamp out peril
to the safety Of the republic or Its
people. when emergency calls, because