The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-11
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Il, 1921
REAL REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT

'Opcn the mills and not the mnts" was William Mckinlcy's remedy for unemployment at time when demagogues and doctrinaires were presenting various and sundry schemesI for solving problem of business paralysis which dcmagogues and doctrinaircs had them selves created.
 McKmev's aphorsm meant that the way to. remedy unemployment to remedy the sick condition of industry; encourage business cn- terprise and put the wheels of factories nov. ing. McI[inIey's hard sense taught him that so practical problem as lack of jobs for men willing to work could not be solved by legis-I Iaturc or administration hocus pocus.
 At the time McKineIy was pointing the way to industrial recovery, there were other econ. omic physicians urging Quack remedies on the people with a considerable measure of pIaus-I biitv One of these was William !. Bryan whoI thought the way to restore prosperity was to| puvcrizc the putocrats and dilute the dollar. How successful remedy financial imitation. W,UId haze hcrm thn present era of the thirty cent dollar pretty clearly indicates.l Another statesman with a sure cure for uncm-I pIoymcmt was General Jacob S. CoXcy, who lcd an army of tramps to Washington. His scheme was to put all the unemployed to work build ing roads and public works. He was going to make the people prosperous by taxing them some more.
 Unemployment pensions, as adopted in Great Britain, and schemes to keep the uncmployed| busy on public works, are applications of thcI dOctrine evolved under the spell of war psy- choIogy, that the shortened private payroll can be made through heightened public pay roll. We are paying, or beginning to pay right now the huge cost of experimentation with| this theory.
 l, l private industry to increase the activities off government. Prosperity can be, and has been, destroyed by that process.
 The remedies for unemployment are:
 To tighten the burdens on productive indus try by lowering the costs and decreasing the unnecessary interference of government in| business.
 To restore a tariff framed in the interests of the capital and labor of America rather than in the interests of the industries of other lands
 Impress upon both capital and labor the fact that profits and wages must more nearly approach the normal before it can be expected that business will revive
 Bring about the acceptance of the people in | general of the belief that prosperity mustI come not through the limitation but the in crease of production that the labor and en- t"rpnSe which brings this about as public patriotic service, and that those who impede 1t are enemies of the public welfare
 Let it be proclaimed from high places that the people of this country, as Mckinley so well said Ego up and down together" that striving for class and group and sectional and occupational advantage merely injuras all the people without doing the faction seeking spe- cial advantage any real land permanent good.
 Get over the idea that the government is going to be the perpetual little white father of everyone, and that it is going to yank every one out of his troubles regardless of the effort put forth by the individual to labor and pro duce.
 What the world needs today, and what the United States needs as much as any nation is n baptism of common sense; less big talk and grandiloquent programs. The people are all |