The Winslow mail., 1920-01-02
Machinery the Worlds Need
(By William Jennings Bryan

| (By William Jennings Bryan.)
! Machinery is the means by which
the lays of nature are turned to the
service of man. Nature has always
! been anxious to help man, but can dc
so only when he invents machinery
through which nature can work.
From the beginning the wind has
been blowing where it listeth, but
it was long time before man invent
: ed the sailboat and accepted the in
vitation to travel before the breeze
Afterward man invented the wind
mills, and now the tireless wind
raises the water from the hidden
| streams within the earth More re-
Gently man has invented the airship,
and now rides through the air like
swallows on the wing"
The water has been tumbling down
L
serve, but how could it do so until the
lgenuis of man devised the water
wheel? Now the energy that once
wasted itself in fretting and in foam.
ing furnishes power for the mill.
Steam has been rising and boiling
water since man came upon the earth,
but it's strength was dissipated be-
cause he did not know how to harness
and direct it. Now it draws the seem
jingless endless train across the prai-
Iries and makes the steamship plow
the fathomless main.
The electricity that has always sur
charged the air formerly found the
lightning its only means of manifest
ling it's presence, but mans arm has
drawn it from the clouds and mans
mind has imprisoned it in a slender
wire so that, at his command, it lights
our homes and supplies energy for
myriads of machines.
It was the machine for which all
these forces waited; it is the machine
which enables us to multiply the
strength of the human arm; it is the
| machine that makes man but little
| lower than the angels in his wonder
working.
| And so in government it is machin-
cry that translates public sentiment
into constitutional forms and needed
Legislative enactments 1t is machin-
cry that enables the public will to
guard the public welfare and advance
| the public good. Patriotism without
machinery through which to express
itself is as ilnpotent for good as ths
wind, the water, the steam or electri-
city. The reat need Of the country
and of the world today is machinery
Our nation has taught the world how
to build machine that will put the
people in control of their own govern
ment and how to make that machine
responsive to the peoples will.
But much sremains yet to be done.
The Americans desire peace in indus
try; they protest against a condition
which leaves employer and employe
4 impotent to protect their rights and
interests except by the resort to the
lockout or the strike. We need ma
chinery for the settlement of indus
trail disl )utes before they reach the
acute st;age.
Is is not strange for an intelligent
people,, even in the presence of q
great e. nergency, are so slow to con
struct he machinery necessary for the
prevent tion of war between capital anC
labor? A commission or board, en-
powerc d to investigate at the request
either or on its own initiative, and tc
lay all the facts before the public is
much asier to build than the mach
ines that have made man the master
of the forces of nature.
GIVE us machine cry the peo-
pie, Through which the high purpose
and the good intentions of the public
may find expression; give us the ma
chino ery for the protection of employer
and employe, as we'll as for our pro
tecti on" Truth clamors for express
sion ; give it the means by which it
can express itself through lawful
forr IS by peaceful means and thus 81
iene the turbulence that fills our days
witt / anxietY and makes every lover