Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-06

honest investments properly protected.
with justice to every agency employed
in this great machine of railway
transportation.
it now. l want the American railway
workers to know the best possible
working conditions and to be the best
paid in the world. Our food. our
activities. our exchanges. SO much de-
ponds on the great railway operations.
and above all else. all who travel
trust their lives to railway skill and
fidelity. 1t ought to be. and must be,
the best in the world.
The Protective Policy.
II said parties We're always con-
cerned with the welfare of labor. The
republican party had it's birth to free
the slave labor of America Instantly
it turned to insuring conditions to af-
ford the abundance of employment.
Il believe in the protective policy
which prospers America first, and
exalts American standards of wage
and American standards of living
high above the old world. We had
little thought of these things during
the war, because America was export
ing instead of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
out instead of shipping in-but it will
soon be a different situation in the
world exchange. I do not object to
humanity seeking equalized stand
ards of employment and living, but
do insist in old world standards be-
ing raised to ours. not ours lowered
to the old world.
"Our enormous balances of trade
with foreign nations is fast receding.
and peoples who seek recuperatlon
from wars waste and bankruptcy,
are expecting to sell to us to recup-
ablest to buy in all the world. One
must admit the promise of cheaper
cost of living If Europe's cheaper
made merchandise is. brought to our
markets. But note the peril to labor's
If we buy abroad, we Will slacken
production at home ana siaskeme me,
production means diminished en-
ployment and growing idleness ana
all attending disappointments. l want
to cheaper the cost of living as much
as any one in all the iand. out 90
notAish it cheapened by the process
es Of unemployment and lowered s.aho-
ards of American labor.
.Eactory Success, Your Success."
THAT is why / speak for my
party's policy, on the one hand, and
ask so earnestly for efficiency OF
production on the other. The lat
ter is a practical plan of reducing
cost without surrendering the hlsn
standard of wage. Pray. do not ever
believe you are injuring yourselves
by giving full return for your en-
pioyment. The call is for maximum
production, and factory success is
your success Do not scale down to
the inefficient and incapable. let us
train up and build UP to the heights
of the efficient.
what is the big inspiration in
life? The natural desire to excel:
why do we all applaud Babe Ruth?
Because he has batted out more
home runs in a season than any ball
PLAYER on earth. If you were going
e play bali you T0 Snaa ra sfg to b. ea.
babe Ruth. But men say that's DIT
ferent from the humdrum OF toll
Well. that's why l am arguing the
end OF humdrum toll by striving for
the heights. The workman who per
forms his tasks better than another
has satisfaction in his. soul. and he
will not long escape the notice that
brings him advancement.
Living Cost Reduction.
Many other things will help to re-
duce living cost. I want to see prof.
teering isolated and punished. 1t is
a moral wrong and an economic rob-
berry The one who pratices profiteer-