The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-07-29
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

BY J. e. Jones,
The industrial institution that would
send emissaries among it's workmen
today to tell them that "if Cox is
elected" or "if Harding is elected"
that they will have to shut down until
they find out whether 'it is going 70
ruin their business" would get a quick
response, and it would be horse
laugh" Nevertheless, this sort Of
thing was done successfully less than
twenty years ago, when there were
millions of voters hesitant about the
use Of their suffrage, fearful that they
might bring on a panic.
Today the business establishments
of the country go right along attend
ing to their affairs, and they have
abiding faith that their government
is going to stand up to the rack and
keep the wheels of state turning regu-
larly, no matter who is elected And
they are right.
On the other hand applause for the
soviet system of government broke out
in the co-catnatiOn Of the politically
dissatisfied, which met recently at Chi
cagO, and the country was warned, and
re warned each day of the sessions
that the demnition bOwwows would
happen if either one Of the two old
capitalistic parties should be returned
to power" And they were wrong!
Sensible people might just as well
make up their minds once and for all
times that no matter whether a con-
dition of business paralysis is pre-
dicted by capitalists, as in the olden
days, or by political radicals and dis
contents as was the case at Chicago,
that in either instance, the makers
of these threats are insincere and not
to be trusted Both instances repre-
sent the desire of small cliques to
foist their particular "class" upon the
government, to take charge of it, and
class government is sOvietism. Capt.
tai appears to have grown away from
the advocacy of this fallacy, or may be
they have dropped it fer the better
reason that the public refused to swal-
low the CUFF any longer. But the Chi
cago gathering took up the old, dis
carded cry hoping by the use of it
to fool part of the electorate and
switch them to the so-called inde
pendent ticket.
With two newspaper editors head
ing the old party tickets, and with the
whole country still alive to the de-
mands of the recent crisis in the sta
blity of the ideals inventoried as
"Americanism," there isn't much dan
ger that "class" representation of re.
! forms, or threats of disaster, will get
more than the deserved "horse laughs
out Of the electors.
The presidential campaign starts out
with clean and able candidates lead
ing the old parties; and there is prom
ise that there will be a healthful, spir.
tied expression of the condition of pub
/ lis sentiment throughout the nation
/ such as will serve to tell the executive
and legislative branches of the gov,
ernment what it is that the people
of the United States expect of them.
The restricting of banking accom-
modations and the disposition on the
part of the public to rebel against con
tinuing advances in prices Of commod
! tiles, represents the movement at the
. top" to decrease the cost Of living
Prices and wages that were created
by extraordinary conditions can hard
ly be expected by sensible people to
continue forever, and there has been
plenty of evidence that the business
interests of the country have beer
looking for shelter from the threaten
ing storm. Leading shoe manufactur
ers of ST. Louis have announced re