The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-03-26
Hopes To Control Government
Courts and Industry So 1t
Can Check Liberalism.
Democracy In Politics Or Industry Is
Good Talking Point But Must
Never Be Translated Into
Actually.

Those who opposed the return of the
roads were on the side Of the people
A great many more senator's and con
gressmen were on the side of the rail
roads than on the side of the people.
That was just beginning. Privi-
edge has some other plans ready to
present to its lawmakers 1t wants a
sedition bill with teeth in it. 1t
wants it, not because the nation is in
peril, but because privilege doesn't
wish to be disturbed while it is loot
ing the people It doesn't want any
scenes while it is outraging the re-
public
Privilege is going to the national
conventions with the determination of
naming presidential candidates and
debating platforms that are in accord
with the views and demands Of priv
ilege. Merely to glance down the list
Of aspirants is TO know that privilege
has had a hand in taeir selection For
privilege knows what it wants and
knows the men who will give it.
There are mor@ than 100000 or
ganized workers in this country
They could, were they so disposed
determine the presidential election
constitution of congress. Perhaps
they are so disposed There are
heartening evidences, at least, of tre-
mendous ferment in the mass of
workers They realize that they face
the momentous struggle in all his
tory They know what privilege is
about They know that they have
their backs to the wall and must
fight desperately if they hope to save
their rapidly vanishing rights
1t has been customary for privilege
to fatter and fawn upon labor. This
policy got privilege many votes got
it many elections Now privilege
does not choose to be courteous. 1t
eschews fattery It tells labor point
blank that it does not need their votes
and does not want them. Labor, it says
cannot awake to its own interest and
jealous in defense Of them, privilege
would have a short shift in economics
as well as politics.
Perhaps labor has learned its les
SON. Perhaps privilege is counting too
much on past performances Privil-
ege is always very dense 1t never
learns anything new 1t has been the
way of privilege in all ages to close its
eyes to newly created forces. It's old
vices are accentuated and it gained
no virtues.
Privilege is itching for fight with
labor, and privilege shall be accom-
modated 1t shall have all the fight
it is looking for. Five million organ
lied workers are ready for it, and
many more millions of unorganized
4 workers are looking for chance to
get into it. For there can be no re-
lief from high cost of living, from OPP
pressive laws, from iniquitous court
decisions, from arbitrary use Of the
power of government until privilege
is given an old-fashioned thrashing.
Labor has gained something, too.
1t has learned who are its friends
and who are its enemies. The roll
calls in congress have separated the
sheep from the goats. Labor can now
pick out its friends blindfolded. 1t
knows them by their first and last
names. And it will not forget them
during the long, hot months when
political spellbinders are going up and
down the country saying 'sweet moth
ings" in the hope that they can again
pull the wool over the eyes of the
workers.
It is to be merry fight, with no
quarter asked and none given. Labor
also is eager for the fray. For la
Dor, at last conscious of its strength,
realizes as never before that its in
terests are safe only when they are
vigilantly defended,
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SAR0TACERS C0 EREE