The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-04-30
Halt the Profiteer.
written especially for the Union
City Commercial by Lowe Shear
on, TIA Chambers street

New York;
In it's editorial of April 18th The
Commercial, in discussing the in
dustrial evils Gas we'll as the politi-
CALI from which our country suf-
fcrs, rightly declares that the Amer
lean people need to assert themselves
and force the reactionaries out of
their Chells.
The Commercial is right again
when it says that to do this will take
bigger man and better guarantee
than Mr.. Hoover, and l am glad to
see this expression coming from one
of the most fertile agricultural dis
tricts of the country-from a place
where the voters worship principle
above party organization.
AS you know, was born in the
county where your paper is pub
lished and know it's people. During
the past thirty years my work as a
newspaper writer and student of in
dustrial conditions has thrown me
in close contact with persons of all
kinds in Texas, Chicago, Connecti-
cut and New York City. l have
rubbed elbows with ditch diggers as
well as Presidents of the United
States, and think l understand the
public pulse pretty well.
The Commercial has already re-
produced the story from the New
York World in which DR.. Hadley of
Yale University urged some union
printers, who had asked him to run
for Presidents to give their support
to Mr.. Hoover, and how these same
printers had asked Mr.. Hoover if he
would stand for the principles of in
dustrial right-principle that would
stop profiteering in all its forms
principles which DR.. Hadley, an un-
disputed authority on such subjects,
says are Just.
That was three weeks ago, but
Mr.. Hoover has made no reply to
that petition. He hasn't even &C
knowledged it's receipt. | SO informed
DIR. Hadley and asked him to draft
an industrial plank for submission
at the two coming National political
conventions. DR.. Hadley replied the
same day as follows:
81 wish with all my heart that !
could draft a plan which would ac-
complish the result that you have
in mind In my letter of Jan. 81,
| showed some of the difficulties that
would be involved in putting such
proposition into legislative form.
The difficulties of embodying the
principle in platform are almost as
great. The same questions will be
asked, and who is to answer them?
The curse of the country is that peo-
pie put planks in platforms without
knowing how they are to be inter-
preted, in the hope that they will
be explained one way in one district
and another way in another 1t
would require months of work and
many conferences with representa-
tive men in different lines in order
to state it in a form which people
could either intelligently accept or
intelligently reject"
l replied to DR.. Hadley telling him
that / believed that could answer
any of the questions that would nee
essarily come up, for l do not know
of any which could not answer, and
have considered the subject from
every angle that l have been able
to conceive. l appealed to The
World, which still keeps the high
idealc of the elder Pulitzer at its
masthead, to see If they could not
arrange to give an idea approved
by such men aC DR.. Hadley and DR..
H. S. Candy of Yale, by Hon. Han
ford s. Weed, of New Canaan, Conn,
and New York City, and by hun
dreds of others with whom / have
talked hearing. The World turned
me down cold. They were no longer
interested in a matter that did not
seem longer to serve their immediate
ends. / had the satisfaction of tell
ing them, however, that / was going
to make their present action so ridic-
ulous considering the principles for
which they claim to stand) in the
eyes of the public that they would