Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-04-26
Il Has Fallen Down On
Peace, Reconstruction
and High Cost of Liv-
ing, He Asserts.
Accomplishment Must
Replace for Mania for
Restriction and Coer-
cion Is His Declaration.

Associated Presl.)-charses that
the present congress has failed
the nation with completeness and
abandon are made by Samuel
Gompers, president Of the Ameri-
can ederation of Labor, in the cur
rent issue Of the American Feder-
ationist.
America must get rid Of its veto
congress and elect an action con-
ress." he said. 1.-The no congress
must give place to yes congress-"
The tabor leader asserts that con-
gross has failed on the peace treaty.
in reconstruction, and the high cost
Of living, and that II also has failed
US in intelligent apprehension Of
every great question affecting the
lives and welfare Of our people,"
The 'sins Of the present con-
gress,' he added. "Wero OF commits
sion IS we'll as Of omission as the
members had shown almost an Gag
erness to do the wronn things the
enactment Of the railroad bill being
cited as shining example.
There must be courageous con-
gress which will turn its face to the
task confronting the American citizen
ship in the true spirit Of American in
stitutions.'' Mr. Gompers says. "A con-
~A--A se1ai"~ Eos aa~omplishmpnt must
replace an ill-considcred manla tor re-
striction and coercion.
America cannot play forever the part
of a peevish child in international re-
lations. The affairs Of the world are
the concern OF the United States. There
may be proper limits to which this con-
cern may go, but there is no longer
any such thing as absolute enforcement
from what transpires elsewhere.
The blind and bigoted action Of con-
gress in refusing to deal intelligently
with the peace treaty has made it i'm
possible for the United States to man
ifest the proper concern i'll these af-
fairs.
Campaign Of Falsehood.
'On our own continent there is the
same need For weeks a senatorial
sub committee has been going up and
down the country gathering testimony,
the evident purpose Of which can be but
to inflame the minds Of those who think
little and who take much on faith. At
periods all too frequent the United
States is brought to verge of war with
Mexico. II is not difficult to see the
evidences of satisfaction on the part Of
pre- latory interests at each of these per-
iods. nor is it difficult to discern the
propaganda which fosters the develop
ment OF them.
r alSeDOONS. VllltlcdCioH. stuuleu his
representations-these are the weapons
their own ends. would precipitate war
between these two American republics
1t is no longer possible to feel with
certainty that high government officials
have not been made the tools and pawns
of those who seek Intervention, the lat
est term for which is 'Cubanization.'
Congress Mas Failed.
AT home. across our borders and
over the seas. congress had made for
itself record Of failure. record of
stubborn opposition to that which is
good
''Demncracy must mean equality Of
opportunity. 1t must mean the sovcr
eighty Of the masses. 1t must mean
absence of domination by a select rul
ing class or caste or clique.
Congress has done much in recent
months to indicate hostility to these
principles. Powerful forces in the
United States are seeking to wound
and cripple democracy. They do not
want equality of opportunity. They
want an unfair advantage in the indus
try of the nation. in the legislatures of
the nation and in the courts OF the
nation.
Must Hearken to Labor.
"When the labor movement protests
against the pressure Of those who would
turn backward the tide of progress and
deny the sunlight to lives just emerg-
ing from the dark, it speaks with author
ity.
'1he labor movement Of America
does sneak and It must be heard. Who're
the effort is made in indsutry to crowd
men and women backward and down.
ward, we will resist and resist and re-
sist. for it is better to resist and lose
than ever to have resisted. Where the
effort is made in the halls of the con-
grcss and legislatures. We will resist.
I'VE will resist with all our power
the reelection of those who have been
false to the trust which humanity placed
in them