Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-26
G0MPERS CHARGES
CONGRESS
FAILED NATION"
;hides Legislators for
Treaty Delay and mo"
Attitude.


Sweeping charges that the present
Congress has failed tho nation with
completeness and abandon " are made
by Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. In the
current issue OF the American Fedora
ZIONIST
| America must get rid OF It's veto
Congress and elect an action Congress-.
he says. The no Congress must give
place to yes Corrress"
The labor leader asserts that Con-
gross has failed on, the peace treaty, in
reconstruction and the high cost OF liv-
ing and that II also has failed US in
intelligent comprehension Of every great
question affecting the lives and welfare
OF our people.
Tn. sins of the present Congress"
he adds. were of commission as well as
omission. as there had been almost an
eagerncss to do the wrong thing" the
enactment Of the railroad bill being
cited shining example"
| Irges "Americnn" Congress.
There must be a Congress which will
| turn it9 face to the task confronting the
American citizenship in the true spirit
! of American institutions" Mr.. Gompers
| says. "A constant genius for accomplish
ment must replace an i'll considered
mania for restriction and coercion.
America cannot play forever the
part Of a peevish child in interna-
tional relations. The affairs Of the
world are the concern of the United
States. There may be prorer limits
to which this concern may go. but
there is no longer any such III ing
as absolute enforcement from what
! tranSpireS elsewhere.
THE blind and bigoted action Of
Congress in refusing to deal intelli-
gently with the peace treaty has
made it impossible for the United
| States to manifest the proper concern
| in these affairs.
| "On our own continent there is the
| same need. For weeks senatorial
subcommittee has been going up and
down the country gathering testi-
mony. the evident purpose of which,
can be but to intiame the minds of
| those who think little and who take
much on faith. At periods all too fire.
quent the United States is brought to
| the verge of war with Mexico 1t is
not difficult to see the evidences of
satisfaction on the part of predatory
interests at each Of these periods. nor
! is it difficult to discern the propa-
ganda which fosters the development
of them.
Cites Weapons Used.
| "Falsehood. viiifcation, studied mis-
| repre- Observation-Disclosures are the weapons
constantly in use by those who, to
serve their own ends. would precipi-
| tate war between these two American
| republics. 1t is no longer possible to
feel with certainty that high govern
| ment officials have not been made
| the tools and pawns of those who
seek intervention, the latest form for
which is Contamination.
AT home. across our borders and
over the seas Congress has made for /
itself a record of failure. a record of
ha ylyGi oh &c
good.
Democracy must mean equality of
opportunity. 1t must mean the SOW
ereignty of the masses. 1t must mean
absence of domination by a select !
| ruling class. or caste or clique
Congress had done much in recent
months to indicate hostility to these
principles. Powerful forces in the |
and cripple democracy. They do not
want equality of opportunity. They
want an unfair advantage in the in !
dustry of the nation, in the legisla-
| lures OF the nation and in the courts
of the nation.
Labor Speaks With. Authority. 4
| when the labor movement protests
| against the pressure Of those who
would turn backward the tide of
progress and deny the sunlight to
lives but just emerging from the dark,
it speaks with authority.
THE labor movement of America
does speak and it must be heard
Where the effort is made in industry
| to crowd men and women backward
and downward we will resist and
resist and resist, for 1t Is better to
resist and lose than never to have
resisted.
Where the effort is made in the
\ halls of Congress and legislatures
we will resist and resist and resist.
| I'VE will resist with all our power
the reelection Of those who have been
placed in Them