The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-06


| limitation of liability of the citizen as a
| stakeholder in a corporation for profit.
/ Along this line of reasoning, we shall make
| the greatest progress toward solution of
| our problem of capital and labor .
Just as it is not desirable that a corpora
ton shall be allowed to impose undue ex-
| actions upon the public, so it is not de-
sirable that labor organization shall be
permitted to exact unfair terms OF en-
/ pioyment or subject the public to actual
| distress, in order to enforce its terms
| Finally. just as we are earnestly seeking
for procedures whereby to adjust and set
| tie political difficulties between nations
, without resort to wars, so we may wen
! look about for means to settle the dl1ier-
! ences between organized capital and organ
lied labor without resort to those forms
/ of warfare which we recognize under the
names of strikes, lockouts, boycotts anc
| .As we have great bodies of law care
| fully regulating the organization and OPP
Grafton of industrial and financial cor
| porations, so we might we'll have plans oil
! conference, of common consul, OF media
ton, arbitration and Judicial determ1natlon
! in controversies between labor and capltal.
| To accomplish this would involve the ne
tcessity to develop Il thorogolng code or
| practice in dealing with such affairs With
rights, provisions, immunities and modes
of organization thus carefully defined, 1t
should be possible TO set up judicial Of
| Quasi-judicial tribunals for the consider
alton and determination OF all disputes
which menace the public welfare.
| Strikes Out of Place.
"In an international society such as
! ours, the strike, lockout and the boycott
are as much out of pace and disastrous
! in their results as is war or armed revol-
/ ton in the domain of politics. The same
! disnosition 70 reasonableness to Cancellation
/ to recognition of the others sides point
of view, the same provision or falr ana
recognized tribunals and processes ought
to make it possible TO solve me one SCI
| of questions as easily as the other. pc
! lieve the solution is possible
| 1.-The consideration of such policy
! would necessitate the exercise Of care and
| deliberstfon in the construction of a code
and a charter of elemental rights, dealing
with the relations of employer and en-
J ploye. This foundation in the law dealing
/ with the modern conditions of social and
| economic life, woald hasten the building OF
the temple of peace in industry which a re-
/ joicing nation would acclaim.
After each war, until the last. the gov
! eminent has been enabled to give homes
to its returned soldiers and a large part
| of our settlement and developmnt has at
| tended this generous provision of land for
! the nations defenders.
| There is vet unreserved approximately
! 700000,000 acres in the public domain, %
/ 100000 acres Of which are known to be
| susceptible of reclamation and made lit
| for homes by provisions for irrigation.
Must Develop Land.
"The government has been assisting in
! the development of its remaining lands,
until the estimated increase in land values
in the irrigated sections is full 5000 100000
and the crops of 1920 alone on these lands
are estimated to exceed $1O0,OO0,OO0- I'm
der the law authorizing these eXpend1-
be returned, and it would be good business
for the government to provide for the
| reclamation of the remaining 20.000,000
acres, in addition to expanding the com
pletion of projects long under way.
Under what is known as the coal and
gas lease law, applicable also to deposits
of phosphates and other minerals on the
public domain leases are now being made
on the royalty basis and are producing
this Legislation, 10 per cent of all royalties
is to be paid directly to the federal treas
ury, and the remainder 30 per cent is to
be used for reclamation of arid lands by
irrigation and 10 per cent is to be paid
to the states in which the operations are
located to be used by them for school and
"These resources arc so vast and the
development is affording SO reliable basis
hof estimate that the interior department
expresses the belief that ultimately the
present law will add in royalties and pay
ments to the treasury of the federal gov
eminent and the state containing these
public lands a total of S12000OO0. This
means, of course, an added wealth Of many
times that sum. These prospects seem to
advances in reclama ton and irrigation.
Contemplating the inevitable and de
sirable increase of population. there is
another phase of reclamation full worthy
of consideration. There are 100000
acres of swamp and cut-over lands which
may be reclaimed and made as valuable as
any farm lands We possess. The acres are
largely located in southern states and the
greater proportion is owned by the states
or by private citizens. Congress has n
report of the survey of this field for re-
clamation and the feasibility is establish
ed I gladly commend federal aid by way
of advances, where state and private par
tlclpatiOn is assured.
Must Think of Starving.
'While we are thinking of promoting the
fortunes of our own people, | am sure
there is room in the sympathetic thought
of America for fellow human beings who
are suffering and dying of starvation in
Russia. As severe drought in the valley
of Volga has plunged 100000 people into
grieyous famine Our voluntary agencies
are exerting themselves to the utmost to
save the lives of children in this area.
but it is now evident that unless relief is
afforded, the loss of life will extend into
many millions. America cannot be deaf to
such call as that.
We do not recognize the government
of Russia, nor tolerate the propaganda
which emanates therefrom. but we do not
forget the traditions of Russian frienship. |
We may put aside our consideration of all
international politics and fundamental diff
ferenceS in government. The big thing is
the call of the suffering and the dying.
UnreSerYedly l recommend the appropria-
nfS;n4 - supiPiy ~ 80 n re-
lief administration with 1OOOO,OOO bushels
of corn and 100000 bushels of SEED
grains. not alone to halt the wave of death
thru starvation, but to enable spring plant
ing in areas where the seed grains have
been exhausted temporarily to stem starva-
The American relief administration Is
directed in Russia by former officers OF
our own armies and has fully. demon
Strated its 3b1llty to transport ana dlStrlb-
ute relief thru American hands without
hinderance or loss The time has come
to add the governments support to the
wonderful relief wrought out or the gen
crosby of the American private purse.
"I am not unaware that We have suf
fering and privation at home. When it
exceeds the capacity for the relief within
the states concerned. it will have federal
1t seems to me, we should
be indifferent to our own heart prompt \
ings and out of accord with the spirit
which acclaims the Christmas tide, If we
do not give out of our national abundance
to tighten this burden of woe upon a peJ-
pie blameless and helpless in famine peril.
There are a full score Of topics con
corning which 1t would be becoming to
address you and on which I hope to make
report at a later time. l have alluded
to the things requiring your earlier at
tention. However. l cannot end this lin
tied address witohut a suggested amend
ment to the organic law
Must Halt Public Debt.
HMany Of US belong to that school OF