The Washington times., 1920-03-07

Nave You Any Millions?
They Are Safe Here. r.
America, Conservative Land!
Let Others Experiment.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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IL you have millions stored
away and are worrying about Boil
shevism, radicalism, revolution, or
anything "red," stop your worry
ing SO far as this country Is con-
cerned.
There has never been since the
world began q country more Sc
cure for holders of property than
the United States. :,
In no big nation is the demand
for radical government change or
for interference with the estab-
lished system of government by
well organized property interests
rs small as 1t is in this country.
This is the conservative coun-
try of the world and of all time.
Put that down on your tablets.
The railroads have secured their
legislation, and they go back to
private owners with permission to
make 51z per cent on their capital,
after having had nine hundred
millions of public money put into
them.
Many roads were built unwise-
ly. Others were built purely for
blackmailing purposes, like the
Westshore, to blackmail the New
York Central.
Badly planned roads, blackmail-
ing roads, and all the others are TO
have their 5h per cent AFTER
and over all the inside grating
that may be done by purchasing
departments, big salaries, and 50 on.
The Steel trust is the greatest
industrial organization in the
world.
First, it beats its workmen with
perfect ease, making their strike
ridiculous.
Second, it wins its fight in the
: Supreme Court and is told that it
isn't trust in violation OF the
law, which means that all similar
organizations may proceed along
present lines.
The country ought to have gov
eminent ownership of railroads.
But organized capital doesn't ap-
prove Of it, and the country is
not TO have it.
The people ought to retain pos
session of their national properties,
exploiting and developing them for
their own use.
The navy Is short of oil, doesn't
know where to get 1t. The people
own the richest oil lands. But
their government lands are turned
over to private exploiters who will
charge buyers, including the navy,
the highest possible price. 4
>, Organized -fiHance IS not willing
TO let the people retain and develop
their properties.
The great need of nation, as
we learned in the late war, is
plenty of ships under the national
flag and government control.
The people were taxed billions
to build ships and provide huge
sums for profiteers typified in the
we'll named Hog Island enterprise.
Having been taxed to build the
ships, the people, through their
government, ought to keep and
operate them, using profits to in
crease wages and diminish freight
rates.
But organized finance forbids
the people to go in business for
themselves. They are to work for
wages while financial intelligence
runs business and takes the profits.
Therefore, ships built with taxes
taken from the people are to be
distributed among private owners
and put under foreign flags. The
ruling power demands it.
We have not seen even the be-
ginning of trust development or
trust power in this country. Pri-
vate exploitation of public monop-
olies is only beginning.
The heather radical will rage.
But all kinds of government ex-
periments working out different
theories are useful and necessary.
From these experiments event
ually will come the best possible
government for the kind Of beings
that inhabit this planet.
You have in Russia the extreme
of radicalism. You have in Italy
intense Socialism, with a royal
palace and the headquarters of a
powerful religion forming two
little islands in the sea Of radical
ism.
France is radical to the last de-
gree.
England would be governed by
her laborers, like Russia now,
were 1t not that she has at the
head q king wisely kept in the
background and great body of
the most highly trained states
men in the world absolutely and
intslligcntly devoted to their ma
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