The Washington times., 1920-05-21

Use Your Dividends.
Exact Justioe7 Whence7
6ottomley OisIikes Us.
Eviction Civil War.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE.
tCopyriSht, 1900

Copyright. isao)
me head OF the big American
Woolen Company is indignant at
public criticism OF high prices.
ne ASKS. who is to pay the
nteen per cent increase In wages
Just granted our thirty-five
thousand employees In Lawrence.
Nass?"
Inc public would answer, Your
hundred per cent profit might pay
part OF that increase in wages
vice President Marshsll's rem
edy for all troubles. including
unrest" is: Equal, exact Jus
tice to all men. special privileges
70 none"
Iqual and exact justice would
De q good beginning. Special
privileges to none would be
most, interesting miracle.
Mr. Marshall is lawyer. Sup
pose workman said to him: ~
nave q claim against railroad
LOT nlteen dollars. what shall |
do! Mr.. Marshall would prob
ABLY reply, Forget about II. my
friend; 1t would cost you several
times fifteen dollars to get justice
. from the railroad"
Ittie man with a just claim
against big corporation or in
oividual Is as well OF as a mouse
with claim against a Bengal
Tiger.
In England it pays a man with
q Just claim to sue a railroad for
[ nVe dollars. He gets verdict and
money in a hurry. We don't
Anow how to manage that in this
y glorious Republic. So far as the
poor are concerned, justice is a
joke.
fortunately for prosperity the
poor don't know it. They are
used to getting along without II.
Mr.. Wellborn, of the Federal
Reserve Bank, says bankers must
not lend money ito finance pur-
chase of strictly pleasure or pas
senger automobiles" There is no
such thing as strictly pleasure
automobile" Automobiles mean
fresh air, fresh ideas AS we'll
talk about strictly pleasure fresh
ar" or strictly pleasure new
ideas"
Mr.. Bottomley, member of Par
lament, editor of widely read
English newspaper, doesn't like
America. He objects to De Valera
travelling about calling himself
President of the Irish Republic
and selling Irish national bonds.
He asks what America would say
II some ardent Royalist in Eng
land lnaugurated campaign for
the abolition Of the American Re-
public, or started subscriptions to
help the Filipinos to throw off the
American yoke"
that English Royalist: "God
bless you, dear, surprising crea-
ture, you are the first Englishman
we ever heard of that started any
thing to help somebody else"
"A mans house is his CASTLE"
the English theory, does not apply
In America if the mans house is
owned by coal company for
which the man works.
This is illustrated disagreeably
in West Virginia, where detectives
and coal mine workers were killed.
Detectives hired by the mine.
owners were forcibly removing
workmen from houses in which
they lived. 1t was a little civil
war, with undoubted property
rights on one side hiring the pri-
tvate detectives and reluctance to
be evicted on the other.
The Constitution of the United
States is very particular about
declaration of war against for
eign Power. 1t might be a good
idea to regulate, with full respect
for property rights and with full
knowledge of human nature, wars
of eviction. Workers, right or
wrong, intensely dislike the pri-
vate detective hired to shoot.
p, Those who can spare the time
and money should go to the Repub-
lican Convention in Chicago.
johnson will attend, and the con-
vention will not be dull. He ought
to have considerable advantage
over modest, shrinking Republican
candidates that remain far away,
ears glued to the telephone in some
private office.
Whatever else happens at the
Republican convention, there will
be plain truths told by Hiram
johnson. Fifty thousand men and
women voters wrote in his name on
the ballot in Chicago. They nomi-
mated johnson, as hundreds of
thousands of others have done
throughout the country. Johnson
will not allow that nomination to
be taken from him, as you would
take a stick of candy from a sick
child.