New-York tribune., 1921-11-18
Onetime u. S. Senator From
Indiana at State Chamber
of Commerce Banquet
Arraigns Railway Unions
Kingsley Discusses Farley
Says Armaments Bracketed
With Patriotism Mean
Lasting War Preparations

:! Former United States Senator from
Indiana, laid at the door of labor or
ganizers, particularly those of the rail-
road brotherhoods, blame for the eco
nomic depression which has gripped
the country.
/ John J. Cor1,well, former Governor of
West Virginia, also speaker, crit-
cized the Kenyon bills providing for
government control of the coal mines
in the event of future trouble. He said
be playing into the hands of the
miners.
| Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the
chamber, presided, and delivered an ad-
dress in which he expressed the opin-
ion that an international agreement for
the limitation of ornaments could be
but a palliative, and that preparations
for war, $50 long as armaments arc
Japanese Banker Speaks
Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa, the Jap
anese banker, now eighty-two years
old, was guest of honor and made a
speech in which he said that Japan
was most anxious to retain and
strengthen the friendship of the
United States.
He spoke in Japanese and M. Zumoto
acted as Interpreter: The interest Of
Japan in the United States, the speaker
said, was far greater than that of the
United States in Japan. New Workers
might read with sincere though remote
regret, he said, of some convusion of
nature which submerged the Japanese
archipelago utterly, but as they hur-
ried from their breakfast tables to
their offices the incident would be
crowded from their minds by their
business affairs.
In Japan, however, he continued,
every hillside upon which silkworms
were tended teemed with men and
women who scanned the papers eager
ly for the cabled market quotati tions on
silk from New York, and, indeed, re-
garded New York almost as a suburb
of Toxic, so keen and sustained were
their interest in it's affairs
Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of
State, he said, had ushered in new
era which might change the course of
human events by his proposals as to
the limitation of naval armaments.
While the human race remained as
human as it was now, Viscount Shir
busawa said, the prevention of war
would be impossible, but restraint
upon human passions could be exer-
clsed by such a pla2- as Mr.. Hughes
had outlined. Japan was most anxious
ne said. FOR. the adoption Of some plan
for the limitation Of armaments.
Thomas A. Edison, who also sat at
the guests table, was introduced, but
made no speech. He-was received with
prolonged applause. e>
"Plight of the Railroads"
Gone of the immediate causes of the
creeping paralysis from which business
is suffering is the plight of the rail
roads" said Mr.. Beveridge.
To-day railway rates are oppressive
railway facilities inadequate, railway
employees dissatisfied and rebellious
railway equipment impaired, railway
capital reduced and imperiled. Until
these conditions are bettered all fore.
casts of good times are the mere smatte1
of politicians, the crafty wiles of mer
who have axes to grind or the senseles:
incoherencies of pipe dreamers.
When organizations, by threat tt
strangle the nation, can dictate law:
for their own advantage at the expens,
of all the people, then regular govern
ment by all for the good of ali is an
initiated, and in place of it is sub
statuted the erratic despotism of par
tlcular groups for their special pur
poses to the injury Of the country as
whole.
cat all cost the Adamson law issu
should have been fought out to tn
finish the moment it appeared. Soone
or later 1T must be settled and ever
days delay will make matters worse j
the end. Differences over mere cues
tlons of policy can be COMPROMISED
usually they ought to be compromise
But differences over elemental prir
ciples cannot be compromised.
I'm the state from which come
said Mr.. Cornwell, "there has been
long-drawn-out labor trouble in tn
coal fields of a couple of countie
There has been a Senatorial invest
cation. The chairman of the invest
eating committee has formulated an
introduced into the Senate a couple {
bills that are intended to correct tn
conditions he thinks exist. One {
those bills provides that the govern
ment shall take over and operate tn
coal mines in case of such trouble {
in a fuel crisis.
~NoW, government ownership an
operation of the coal mines NAV be
good thing. | don't think it would b
but that is what the country will hay
if Mr.. Kenyon's bill becomes la,
"The great difficulty in 90 in
to the government. to Congress, /
right all the wrongs and to cure all OF
| economic ills is that Congress usual
applies only palliative. 1t deals wit
| the symptoms rather than with the dr.
| ease. Any physician who follows tn,
method is likely to make the conditio
| of his patient worse, ultimately, rathe
, than better.
"The task Of the employer is mac
a more difficult, indeed a great de;
harder, by certain class of labt
leaders--labor politicians perhay
would be a better name--who are fo
ever proclaiming to the members {
4 their organizations and to the laborir
men generally that they are wag
slaves that the wage system is il
voluntary servitude; that employer
4 are robbing them of their earning
thereby engendering within the hear
4 of the men hatred for their jobs ar
bitterness toward the men who furnis
them employment.
Sees Need of Propaganda
"Do business men and business o
carnations such as yours realize ho