Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01


of bribery? Were you not, indeed
seeking to buy immunity from duty
incumbent upon you as neighbOr and
Il human being?"
Mr.. Bing answered quickly.
There are plenty of people who have
nothing else to do but carry cheer and
comfort to the unfortunate. / have
other things to do
''That, sir, does not relieve you OF
the liabilities of a neighbOr and
human being, in my view. 1t your
business has turned you into shaft
or cog-wheel it has done you great
injustice. | fear that it has been your
master-that it has practiced upon
YOU a kind of desp0tism. You would
better get along with less-far less
business than suffer such a fate.
don't want to hurt you. We are
looking for the cause of certain re-
suit and | can help you only by be-
ING frank. With all your generosity
you have never given your heart to
this village. Some unkind people
have no heart You can not prove 1t
with money that you do not miss.
Money is good but it must be warmed
with sympathy and some degree OF
sacrifice Has it never occurred to
YOU that the warm hand and the
cheering word in season are more,
vastly more, than money in the inn
portant matter of making goodwill?
Unconsciously, you have established
a line and placed yourself on one side
of it&and the people on the other.
Broadly speaking, you are capital and
the rest are labor. Whereas, in fact,
you tre all working men. Some of the
rest have come to regard you as their
natural enemy. They ought to re-
gard you as their natural friend. Two
kinds of despotism have prevented it.
First, there is the despOtism of your
business in making you a slave-so
much of a slave that you haven't time
to be human; second, there is the
despotism Of the labor union in dis
couraging individual excellence. in
demanding equal pay for the faith
tu man and the Stacker, and in deny.
ing the right of free men to labor
when and where they will All this
is tyranny as gross and un-American
as that of George the Third in, try
ingtto force his will upon the colonies.
If America is to survive, We Must
set our faces against every form OF
tyranny. The remedy for all our
trouble and bitterness is real demOc-
racy, which is nothing more or less
than The love of men-the love of
Jdstice and fair play for each and all.
You men should know that every
strike increases the burdens of the
people. Every day YOUR idleness lifts
the price of their necessities. Idle
ness is just another form of destTuc-
tisn. Why could you not have
listened to the counsel of Reason in
June instead of in September, and
thus have saved these long months
of hardship and bitter violence? 1t
was because the spirit of Tyranny
had entered your heart and put your
judgment in chains. 1t had blinded
you to honor also, for you men were
working under contract. If the union
is to command the support of honest
men, it must be honest. 1t was
Tyranny that turned the treaty with
Belgium into scrap of paper That
kind of thing will not DO here Let
me assure you that Tyranny has no
right to be in this land of ours. You
remind me of the Prodigal Son who
had to know the taste of husks and
the companionship of swine before he
came to himself. Do you not know
that Tyranny is swine and the fodder
of swine? 1t is simply human hog
g3shness.
Il have one thing more to say and
| am finished. Mr.. Bing, some time
ago you threw UP your religion with
out realizing the effect that such an
act would be likely to produce on this
community. You are, no doubt, aware
that many followed your example
I've got no preaching to do. I'm just
going to quote you few words from
"iA outhOlIty uU less EeSpOISlDlG IMAM
George Washington himself. Our his
tory has made one fact very clear,
namely, that he was wise and far
seeing man."
Judge Croker took from shelf,
John Marshall's life of Washing
ton," and read:
1t is substantially true that virtue
or morality is a necessary spring Of
popular government and let us, with
caution, indulge the supposition that
morality can be maintained without
religion.
LET it simply be asked where is |
the security for property, for reputa-
ton, for life, if a sense of religious
obligation desert the oaths which are
the instruments Of investigation in
courts Of justice7'
Let me add, ON my own account,
that the treatment you received from
YOUR men will vary according tO their |