The Washington times., 1921-02-27
Today
Not Marble e-hearted.
And Gratitude Pays.
Imitation Samurai.
An Irishman's Question.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(CopysiSht. 1871

mend" is not conspicuous in Sens-
Tor Harding's psychic anatomy.
You learn that looking over the
men selected for his Cabinet.
The new President has not over
looked First Timothy, fifth chap
ter, eighth verse: "But II any pro
vtds not for has oWn, and especially
Tor those of his Oton house, ne
Aath denied the faith, and Is worse
thGn an iN6dsl."
It's . good text on which to build
character, friendship, a Cabinet,
Or anything. We have had re-
Gently Presidents and other i'm
Portant officials glorying in the
TACT that past services OF friends
meant nothing to them.
Senator Harding has provided
for his own, and especially for
those Of his own (politicaD house"
Consequently he will have men
working for him, chosen by his
gratitude, and stimulated by their
gratitude to do the best they can.
IL any mans career or useful
ness has been injured by gratitude
TO friends, the fact isn't conspicu-
Gus in history, but regulations
ruined by ingratitude have been
innumerable, from Alexander kill
ing Clitus, who had saved his life,
to Talleyrand, who kicked over all
the ladders that helped him to
climb, including the church, the
revolution, Napoleon, and Louis
XVI.
Two hundred and twenty-six
mine owners and union mine work
ers are indicted. The charge is
conspiracy to cheat the public on
. basis of higher wages for men,
oxtortionate prices for dealers.
That need not surprise you. The
remarkable thing is that organized
capital has not long since managed
to utilize organized labor, as the
nobility Of Japan used the Sa-
mural.
Under the old Japanese system,
the mobiles lived in luxury; the
Samurai, "two sword" gentle
men. were quick with their swords.
touchy about their honor, and the
poor devils of peasants shaved for
the upper classes.
If organized capital and organ
ized labor combined and stuck to-
gether, one hundred capitalists and
ten million workers could easily
run this country on a basis OF
profiteering both In wages and in
prices, exploiting the remaining
ninety-flve millions.
Il would last only little while,
of course Then would come revo-
luton, not pleasant, and the CAPT.
talistic nobility and trade union
Samurai would learn a lesson.
Horace Plunkett, thinking
statesman. and q real lrishman,
sailed for home yesterday morn
: ing. Dining with W. r. Hearst the
night before he left, he asked this
interesting question:
"Just what is American labor
going to do? know that In this
country labor has little of the
bower 1t has accumulated in Eng
land and on the continent, and that
American labor amounts to little
in politics. But what will be the
effect on American workmen as
they read of the constantly in
creasing demands and constant
progress made by labor in Europe?
Will workers here. be content with
less power, with fewer concessions
than those possessed by their
brothers across the ocean,"
The answer is that this is now
the most reactionary country in
the world.
It's working people, of all civil
lized nations, know least about
what is going on in the world gen.
orally, and care least about it.
Labor in America is not homo
peneous. Workers do not stick
together. II one union can get
what it wants, that is enough.
Never mind the others, and especi-
ally never mind those outside, of
unions, who are the vast majority.
Eighty millions Of Americans
would be indignant if you tried in
any way to connect them with "the
working classes" They may be
working on farms, as little clerks,
or underpaid corporation employees,
and they may be destined to work
in that way to the end.
But they don't know it and don't
believe it. Each thinks the thing
he does now is temporary.
Each feels in his heart that he
has nothing to do with the work.
ing class; he is with them only for
q few minutes month. Each
connects himself in his thought
with those that have already made
their millions.
That isn't good thing for build
ing up a great labor party, but it
is probably a first-class thing for
the country.
Men trying to pull themselves
upward, working to get into some
thing better, mean more to young
country than men simply trying to
get better pay for staying where
they are.
"The allies will pay their war