South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-20

PRESIDENT. threw down the bars and let the presi-
dent in on the affair what happened? You know.
The miners went back TO work a commission is
working out a strike settlement. and you haven't
frozen 20 death yet.-incid which. or in spite
Of IT, we are asked by Observation-Disclosures propa-
gandists and medical whose political afilia-
tions are more sacred 20 them than the honor of
their profession-assuming that there is any such
thing remaining-to assume that the president is
'incapacitsted" The who again started coal
moving the direction OF your furnace. and put
that strike out OF commission. infinitely more eff
cectively than did those boosted injunctions and
contempt proceedngs-makers Of martyrs and
breeders of bo1shevism; progentors OF the
labor party-you asked 10 assume, is fool
More recently still. only Monday the country
was to have confronted with a railroad
strike. Had it not been averted the country today
would have been tied up to transportation, and
shortly Perhaps We would have been in as bad
shape industriay, IN the vicinity Of the home fur
mace. and maybe at the kitchen table. as though
the coal strike had been permitted TO run its
course. However after Railroad Administrator
Hines and sec'y Wilson OF the labor department,
and Atty Gen. Palmer, with another flourish OF
threatened injunctions, had done everything but
institute The injunctions the president held a
ference with the labor leaders, and a commission
viii settle the wage question up between the train
men. shop and maintenance workers and the rail
roads
The man. we oppose. is a fool for doing these
things for the people; that is. may judge
by the conversation wherever two three anti
administratonists gathered together. along the
curb, in drug store a soda fountain in a res
taurant-or a their political headquarters. Moth
ing that so served humanity amounts to anything
in comparison with the request for.
hling Of the resignation Of the &. o. D. stool
pigeon in The presidents cabinet-but while you
listen them buster, and watch the boat, mark
this:
You can take every idozer of Robert Lansing
the United States including the editorial critics
of his virtual dismissal, and send them hurting
ike Lucifer into the bottomless pit and you wont
lessen the democratic vote of progressive dem
ocrats one whit-whle the republican party. with
a few honorable exceptions such ex-Prest Taft
will literally wiped off the map
Which is as much as the whole Wilson-Iansing
controversy amounts too The president excused
OF his hired men from further service and the
Incident furnishes excuse for anti-adminstra-
ton criticism. just the retention of other
bers of tho cabinet is excuse for anti admins
tration criticism. Former Prest Taft touched it OF
pretty well. when approached by the Hearst anti
Wilson press for his opinion Of the Lansing dis
missal He said the main criticism against him
president having been that he had policies;
that he listened to his cabinet too much and let
everybody run things. instead of putting his foot
down and standing for something, and on; he
sincerely hoped a those who had criti-
cised him would be consistent. and ride his
successor too hard for doing the things that they
had ridden him for not ding.
Let that statement of the former president
soak in" As a vision of the excuses to which
the hyrercritical are always want to resort, the
inconsistency OF their about faces troubling
them 1t stands out in splendid relief