Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-22

world needs understanding. There can
be no peace save through composed differ
ences, and the submission Of the individual
to the will and veal of the many. Any
other plan means anarchy and its rule OF
force.
II must be understood that toll alone
makes for accomplishment and advance
mcnt, and righteous possession is the re-
ward of toll, and its incentive. There is
no progress except in the stimulus OF COM
petition. When competition-natural,
fair, impelling competitions suppressed,
whether by law, compact or conspiracy,
we halt the march of progress, silence
the voice of aspiration, and paralyze the
will for achievement. These are but
common sense truths of human develop
ment.
WAGE FARMERS MUST GIVE RETURN.
The chief trouble today is that the
world war wrought the dest ruction OF
healthful competition, left our store
houses empty, and there is minimum pro-
duction when our need Is MAXIMUM.
Maximums, not mlnlmums, is the call OF
America. Ii isn't new story, because
war nevr fails to leave depleted store
gouses and always Impairs .the efficiency
of production. War also establishes its
higher standards for wages, and they
abide. / wish the higher wage to abide,
on one explicit condltIon-that the wage
Garner will give full return for the wage
received. 1t is the best assurance we
can have for reduced cost of living.
Mark you, | am ready to acclaim the
highest standard of pay, but | would be
blind to the responsibilities that mark this
fateful hour if did not caution the wage
earners of America that mounting wages
and decreased production can lead only
to industrial and economic rum.
want, somehow, to appeal to the sons
and daughters of the republic, to every
producer, to join hand and brain IN pro-
ductlon, more production, honest pro-
duction, patriotic production, because
patriotic production is no less defense
of our best civilization than that OF armed
force. Profiteering is crime of commits
sion, Undergraduates Is crime of
omi ssion. We must work our most and
best, else the destructive reaction will
come. We must stabilize and strive for
normallty. else the inevitable reaction
will bring its train of sufferings, dlsap-
polntments and reveTsals. We want 20
forcstall such reaction, we want TO hold
all advanced ground, and fortlfy 1t with
general eood-fortune.
NO CONFLICT IN INDUSTRY.
Let ms return for n moment to the
necessity for understanding, particularly
that understanding which concerns our
selves at home | decline 10 recognize
any conflict Of interest among the partici-
pants in industry The destruction OF
one is the ruin Of the other, the suspicion
or rebellion Of one unavoidably involves
the other In conflict is disaster, in
understanding there is triumph. There
is no issue relating TO the foundation on
which industry is builded, because indus
try is bigger than any element IN Its
modern making But the insistent call
is for labor, management and capital
to reach understanding
The human element comes first, and
want the EMPLOYERS in industry 10 under
stand the aspirations, the convictions,
the warnings Of the millions Of American
wage-earners, and | want the wage-earn-
ers to understand the problems, the
anxieties, the obligations of management
and capital, and all of them must undef-
stand their relationship TO the people
and their obligation to the republic. Out
of this understanding will come the unanl-
nous committal to economic justice, and
in economic justice lies that social justice
which is the highest essential to human
happiness.
INEQUALITIES IN INDUSTRIAL LIFE.
am speaking as one who has counted
the contents Of the pay envelope from the
viewpoint of the Garner as well as the
employer No one pretends 10 deny the
inequalities which are manifest IN modern
industrial life They are less in fact than
they weS before organization and group
ing on either side revealed the inequalities
and conscience has wrought more justice
than statutes have compelled, but the
ferrnent of the world rivets our thoughts
on the necessity of progressive solution,
else our generation will suffer the experl-
rnent which means chaos for our day TO
re-estabiish God 5 plan for the great to-
morrow.
Speaking our synpathies, utterlng the
conscience of all the people, mindful OF
our right to dwell amid the good fortunes
of rational, conscience-impelled advance
ment. we hold the majesty OF righteous
government, with liberty under the law,
10 be our avoidance of chaos, and we
call upon every citizen of the republic TO
hold fast,to that which made us what we
are, and we viii have orderly government
safeguard the onward march to all We
ought 10 be.
The menacing tendency of the present
dav is not chargeable wholly TO the un-
settled and fevered conditions caused by
the war The manifest weakness IN popu-
lar government lies in the temptation TO
appeal to grouped citizenship for political
advantage There is no greater peril. The
constitution contemplates no class and
recognizes no group. 1t broadly includes
all the people with specific recognition for
none, and the highest conservation we can
make today is a conmlttal of the Repub-
lcan party to that saving constitutlonalism
which copteIRpTates all America as one
people, and holds just government free
from influence oE the one hand and un-
moved by intimidation on the other
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
1t would be the blindness of folly to
ignore the activities In our own country
which are aimed to destroy our economic
system, and to commit us TO the colossal
tragedy which has both destroyed all
freedom and made Russia impotent. This
movement is not o.be halted IN throttled
liberties We must not abridge the free
dom of speech, the freedom of press, OF
the freedom of assembly, because there
is no promise In repression. These liber.
ties are as sacred as the freedom of re-
ligious belief, as inviolable as the rights
of life and the pursuit of happiness We
do hold TO the right TO crush sedition, tc
stihe a menacing contempt for law, tC
stamp out peril to the safety of the re-
public or its people, when emergency
calls, because security and the majesty
Of the law are the first essentials of liberty