Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-19

and the AdamEon law enacted IN the e2-
act form ordered and at the exact time
ordered. It was the most shameful and |
humiliating event in the American his
tory. From it have come many Of the
| industrial plaques with which, since then,
| the nation has been and is afflicted.
''The next blow at the nations trans
portation system was death by the gov
| eminent itself. We went to war shame
] fully unprepared, and in storm of con-
fusion, excitement and panic the rail-
ways, gravely weanelSed financially but
| with operating forces still regemented
| although FESTIVE, were taken from their
harassed and distracted owners and run
| by the national administration.
Then followed that saturnalia of mis-
J management wnichs left those properties
bound and gagged by agreements, regula-
lions and working rules.
Immediate action is VITAL Most rates
i must come down, and especially and far
thest those on basic necessities like fuel
i and foodstuffs, and, therefore, since
| wages and rates are inseparable, wages
must also come down.
Our whole economic system has been
inflated to the bursting point and gem
eral defation was and is Indispensable
The farmers have Debated. business men
, have Debated most other labor has de-
flated or is debating, and railroad labor
must undergo that common. universal
and necessary process-indeed, labor in
fiation in the production Of the absolute
necessities of human life such as coal,
housing, food and transportation is one
of the principal elements in the high cost
? of living, and normal wages in such in
dustries is Indispensable to normal prices
THE Adamson law must be repealed
| The wartime labor classifcations, regu-
lations and so-called national agree
) ments' must be abolished That curious
S contriver of makeshifts, the so-called
labor board, that tells the railway owners
S how much they must spend, must be con.
Z nected with that other organ of our blu.
+ reaucracy, the interstate commerce com
6 mission, which tells the railway owner.
: how much they may receive. If railway,
g are to continue to suffer straitjacke
: regulations, at least let there be CO
# ordination between outlay and income
a THE contract made by the government
e with the railway owners when the line
e were taken by the administration mus
s be carried out, the Indebtedness of tn
roads to the government for improve
IT ments funded and that of the government
d to the roads paid-all Is provided in tn
II agreement. Thus railway insolvency wi
n be averted, hundreds of millions expend
J. ed on equipment and betterments, score
of thousands of now idle workingme
IN employed. and all industry vitalized
&c I'm short. the railway bill passed b
at the house months ago. and held up in tn
d senate. must be speedily enacted int
" law, without mutilation OF fundament;
change. Sound business requires an
70 honor demands II.
or mo need fear revival of railway al
nj tocracy a new industrial factor, the a,
Dy tomobile, will moderate railway earning
4 Auto trucks and motor buses are airead
r. making heavy reductions in short ha
or freight and passenger railway revenue
of II business is to revive, investing ca
ital must be freed as far as possibl
ue The excess profits tax must be repeal,
sh it ought to have been abolished VIII,
er the pretext for It disappeared.
av I'm place of these intricate, involv,
IT, and destructive war expedients, WIFI
CIV weaken and destroy business, give US
hit plain, simple, easily understood reveni
-er system, based on business principle
M which will, at once. work less hardsh
on all the people and permit business
W. get into action.
ed In the end we must put a tax on e
penditures-a non-cumulative tax
. sales-while ALL alike and equally mu
pay in exact proportion to purchas,
That would be genuine and honest t
on wealth.
HI "a sales tax is open above board a,
in plain sight of day. 1t is fixed, certa
- and cannot be multiplied at the expen
y of the consumer by underground manip
l. lation.
the IF the genius and energy which O
the best minds are devoting to the disarn
val ment conference SHALL after the brillia
IAN success which we know will crown tn
ers efforts in that historic parley, be employ
on in devising and executing ways a
Var means to increase American trade
ult those regions allotted to us by natu
in we might possibly secure desperat
ish needed markets for our surplus. If
der more idle laborers would be given We
than were provided with jobs by the
the employment conference.
ted t'But even the highest statecraft is r
the alone, sufficient; it must be supported
nv the sense and sentiment of staun
his patient, leyel-headed, high-minded p
the pie The situation will apply the
III preme test to American character and
ier American institutions
rii- But never doubt that We Shall 4
MS vail. American craftsmanship will
equal to the demand American charae
on will stand the test; American inst
ard tons will prove adequate and vjndic:
tbe once more, the wisdom of the founders
uas the republic"