Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-03-06
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War?
DANGER IN GENERAL UNREST
Practically UniVerss! Feeling Of Dis
content Will Grow Unless the
Causes Which Gave It Birth
Are Removed.
Article VII.
sy FRANK coMERFoRD.

BY FRANK coMERFoRD.
A specter haunts Europe 1t ia the
ghost of unrest. When started out
! to interview unrest In Europe | did
not give my ear to the idle theOrist
who always knows all about every
| thing. but never from direct expert
ence with it. nor did | go TO the agita
| tor who breaches unrest In red words
| Neither did | seek out the type of ia
natical labor leader, who is eeger for
| trouble who is trying to mobilize I'M
rest and marshal il under the banner
of Revolution. passed by the place
hunting, time-serving politician. was
not interested In platitudes and prom
ises.
| | sought knowledge OF unrest from
| those who knew it from contact with il.
those who were part and parcel of it.
| | went to the man in the street. the
| average man. talked with the
| sweaty, dirty coal timer at the mouth
| of the shaft. He had just come from
| his day in the darkness deep in the
! ground. | visited the man who works
! in the mills | listened 10 the rough
| speech of the teamster. went 10 fac
| tories and talked with men between
the two whistles which mark the time
of the noon meal. They munched az
! black bread. ate cheese or sausage,
gulped tea. coffee or cheap, diluted red
wine ] spent time with the idle. the
| idle by choice as well as those without
work through no fault of their own.
Only yesterday many, yes, most Of
| these men were In khaki; now, back
on the job in overals. they were think
ing. Their speech was troubled. Dis
! content looked out from their eyes.
| could feel IT, They talked 1t, but never
as unrest. always protest.
Unrest Must Be Quoted.
Their state Of mind is the problem.
Unrest is epidemic; it is militant.
There is little of paciism In II. II Is
real It Is not without cause. To get
close to the cause of this disease which
| threatens revolution. one must know
and understand what 10 going on in
the minds of the men we are looking
| to and depending upon TO do the
worlds work Ii doesn't take a
| prophet to understand that If heed Is
not given to the things irritating them
and remedy is not found for the irtI-
| taton, serious trouble will follow.
| N'hilc war is he'll il has NJ least
| the restraint of discipline. A revoIu-
| ton growing out of unrest would mean
mob madness. terrorism. fanatCal,
brutal, cruel aud merciless. Once
| started. II would spread like wildfire.
The world sould he swept from its
senses. The fire would run its course
until stopped because there was moth
| Ing left 20 burn Who dareS picture the
state In which 1t would leave the
world? In this day. when the nerves
Of the world are on edge when cold
and hunger irritate. one shudders when
he thjukS of the fate of civilization
| il unrest is NOT checked before il ex
plodes in passion and wrath.
Unrest existed before the war 1t was
m acorn then II is an oak now. Be
fore the war men were complaining
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s+on conn,,intr. ond mar so,diartn,,
targht ,hn,, nnch Tnev ,.arn.d -
| the greatness OF force.
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oct is thr rro,cp srleyance nnd .he
var l.eso, Eafore tho war -bov com.
nloinnd. todov they demand II is in.
ter no to examine unrest In the
comolairt stage ~ these men know, =,
before ,o14
These -,ain ordinary AVERAGE mon
have always heeD urenserv b,unop
They loved their wives and children
thay uv.d for ,hatr hor,as thev falt
k,.cnlv thclr responsibility fnr tha ham.
pins~> ofrAelr loved ones They bsye
bur ON, thing 10 give. Before the war
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