The Washington times., 1920-04-10

Save a Good Bridge.
Financial Advice.
Economy? Not Quite.
For the Hall of Fame.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

Outlaw union men" does not
look or sound well.
A small percentage OF workmen.
determined to disregard leaders.
all pledges and agreements. please
answer this:
II. In war. American soldiers had
decided to do their own fighting
without leaders. sergeants. lieu
tenants. captains. generals. what
would you have said?
You would have said that such
q mob. not sticking to it's own
leaders. wouldn't amount to much.
All life Is a battle. Steadily,
with wonderful obedience to law.
considering they have always had
majority and force on their side,
the workmen Of this country have
gone ahead UNDER unionism.
Wages are higher than they
nave ever been. and the country
Is agreed that where they are not
high enough they must be MADE
high enough. 1t is not a very good
time for outlawry In union ranks.
The labor union has been a good
bridge, carrying workmen over
ugly chasms. Better not tear it
down.
"Boersianer," ablest of the phi
iosphers that ponder finance, ex-
presses truth thus:
There are two times In a mans
life when he should not speculate
In American can shares: when he
can't afford It and when he can"
Observe that the same 10 true
about every stock In the list from
Adams Express, at the top. to ''wo
Pump whatever that may be, at
the end. There was never q time
when intelligent men, with actual
money, could invest It more profit
aply than now. There never was
time when speculation, polite
word for stock gambling, was more
dangerous. Clouds are visible that
tell the wise man to keep near
shore.
While men like meat, they will
have ii; while they crave alcohol,
they viii get it, and while they
want to fight, they will fight.
Eventually we shall all be vege-
tarians, temperate, peaceful and
pure, but the time hasn't come.
Only yesterday France, England,
Belgium. Italy, having beaten
Germany with help from here, said
and believed that they were
friends united forever!
Now France invades Germany.
England says she had no business
to do it. italy sides with England,
Belgium sides with France, and
Germany, naturally encouraged,
not to say surprised, announces
that she will hold France respon-
sible for all damage, etc.
This makes you grateful that
somebody in the United States had
brains enough to keep this country
out of a "Peace League" that
seems to have SO many fights
locked up in it.
Are we paying off our national
debt and getting back to a sound
basis of economy? Not exactly.
After spending all of it's gigantic
income the national Government
has added one hundred millions to
the national debt THIS year.
Spending is a habit hard to break,
with young boys that inherit
money, and with Democrats that
suddenly acquire power.
Frederick Douglass is to shine
| in the Hall of Fame, supposedly
a tribute to the colored race.
Douglass skin was too white.
Better take his dark-skinned
mother, from whom he was sepa-
rated in infancy.
Or you could crafty the colored
citizens perhaps by honoring one
of Douglass numerous owners,
Sophia Auld, who taught him the
alphabet and to read. AS soon as
he heard of it, but not in time to
keep Douglass i!literate, her hus-
band told Sophia that she "would
ruin the slave and make him dis
contented," if she taught him to
read.
That is also true about others
than negroes and mulattoes. Many
do not realize that this is the first
generation on earth really able to
read. That's what makes 1t so
hard to keep men in the leading
strings that used to hold them.
You could honor merit by hon
oring Mrs. Richardson and her
daughter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
the English woman who paid one
hundred and fifty pounds to ran
som Douglass after he ran away,
making it possible for him to come
back to the United States and
work against slavery.
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