The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-05-15
LOST-A GOVERNMENT

Oh our government! IL seems 10 nave
suffered shipwreck in the fog of postwar
befuddlement. Or, perhaps, it has been
sunk without trace" by some malign and
un-American agency working in the dark
Whatever the explanation there can be
no doubt as to the facts. Our nation is
drifting rapidly towards serious disaster
and SO far as the executive branch Of the
government is concerned, we are without
leadership or official control
When the armistice was signed the I'm
tied States was the moral, economic and
political leader of the world. We occupied
a position among the nations without par
abel in the past. The war weary peoples
looked to us as the one great constructive
power still left in the world which should
do for them, in some measure at least.
what we had done for Cuba.
This magnificent position of leadership
has been lost With laundering, careless
hands we have thrown away the trust and
affection Of mankind. No darker tragedy
has ever Swallowed the pages Of history.
We came out Of the war with truly
splendid record Of industrial cooperation
and economic achievement. Our people
were united in feeling and purpose. Large
and liberal ideas had found place for
themselves in the relations of labor and
capital. Every one expected that. with
peace, we should enter upon great new
era of internal growth and prosperity.
These hopes, too, have been shattered.
The economic genius exhibited by our lead
ers in handling the vast and complicated
problems Of the war has gone into eclipse
In the place of strong and statesmanlike
leadership we now have confused babel
Of bewildering echoes. The general idea
seems to be that since we were exceeding
ly virtuous and unselfish during the war
it is in order now for each one to 'get his
while the getting is good"
Our industrial situation is growing
worse every hour Strike succeeds strike.
each one more unreasonable, disastrous.
and cynically brutal than the last Or
gained ahor keeps breaking away from
its own leadership, and the outlaw
strike" is the latest thing. A vast and
ant, the alien, and the naturally rebellious
among our mixed population. Ambitious
demagogues, seeking private gain by pub
lie ownership, influence these elements
with lying promises. Pussyfooting dema-
gogues in places of political power use
their position to endanger the nation Ev-
orywhere we meet the demand for more
pay, shorter hours and less work. 1t takes
two men now to do what one used to do.
and they do it half as well for twice the
pay. Thousands Of farms are going out
of business because there is no one to
work them. The widest kind of extra
vagance has succeeded the patriotic thrift
of the Liberty Loan DAYS.
Recently every great railroad was prac
tically paralyzed by an unauthorized out
law strikes among the less skilled but very
essential, railroad workers. Hundreds of
thousands of people who earn their living
in various cities could not get to or from
their homes Freight was piled up with
no way of moving it. The mails were de-
layed Trade was restrained. Food was
rotting on the piers and railroad sidings.
Millions of persons were Inconvenience
their proerty Destroyed, their business in
iured or ruined, and in many cases their
lives endangered
After delay of forty DAYS the Presi-
dent appointed the Railroad Labor Board
The department of Justice made few be-
lated arrests of strike leaders. But public
opinion, not administration action, made
the walk-out failure.
To whom shall the suffering people of
this country look at such times for guild
ance and protection. Who is responsible
for the enforcement of law and the main