The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-11-19
Supreme Need of Hour
Is to Strengthen Business

New York, Nov. 17.-The supreme
need and duty of the hour is to
strengthen business; for upon astive
and wholesome business depends the
well being of all the people, form =
United States Senator Albert J. Bev-
eridge Of Indiana told the New York
State Chamber of Commerce at its
annual banquet tonight.
THE present depression is no: q
transient economic phase due to an
unhappy state of mind on the part
of business men or the people gen.
orally; and it is not TO be improved
by the methods of college cheer lead
2rs at football games," Mr.. Beveridge
said "On the contrary, those infla-
t.onists of hope who tell US that pros
perity is just around the corner when
it is not there but far away, do not
help but positively hurt business.
"They SOW broadcast dragons teeth
of distrust. For when the people GO
around the corner and fail to find the
promised prosperity, but are again
told that it is around the next corne,
and again fail-when this process is
repeated three or four times, the peo.
pie lose confidence. Faith is killed
by disappointment.
"Now is the time for plain speak
ing by men who have graduated from
'mbition. Let us frankly know the
worst at once. We have been rather
fed up on she glad hand; we need
instead, a period of brass tacks.'
zone of the immediate causes of the
creeping paralysis from which bust
ness is suffering is the plight of the
railroads.
To-day railway rates are oppres-
sive, railway facilities inadequate
railway employees dissatisfied and re,
bellious, railway equipment impaired
railway capital reduced and imper.
illcd. Until these conditions are bet
tered, all forecasts of good times arc
the mere matter of politicians, the
crafty wilcs of men who have axes
to grind, or the senseless incoheren.
cies of pipe dreamers.
almost ten years ago denounced
us the invisible government, the
sway of those financial conspirators
who sought to dominate the nation
That cabal of cunning and avaric,
has been overthrown. But another
invisible empire has been established
as evil and dangerous as that of tn,
dethroned autocracy of wealth. Thi
new assailant of ordered liberty an,
| American institutions is the close an,
closed corporation of those men VIII
have made themselves masters of la
Dor unions.
."Organized capital and organize
labor alike can be made useful to al
men and helpful to the republic, bu
neither shall be permitted to oppres
any man, woman or child, or to COVER
the American people.
"The methods by which the Adam
son law was forced on the statut
books raised an issue as vital an
basic as that which brought on tn
Civil War-indeed the Adamson la,
issue went to the very existence o
i government itself.
when organizations, by threat t
strangle the nation, can dictate law
for their own advantage at the eX
pense of all the people, then regula
government by all for the good of a
is annihilated; and, in place of it
substituted the erratic despotsm O
particular groups for their specia
purposes to the injury of the countr
as a whole.
| "At all cost, the Adamson law issu
should have been fought out to tn
finish the moment it appeared. Soone
or later it must be settled and ever
days delay will make matters wors
in the end. Differences over mer
questions Of policy can be compro
| missed.
"The ultimatus delivered to the gov
ernment bl labor despots was obeye'
| and the Adamson law enacted in tn
exact form ordered and at the exac
time ordered. 1t was the most shame
full and humiliating event in tn
American history. From it have conn
many Of the industrial plaques witt
which, since then, the nation has beer
and is afflicted.
"The next blow at the nation
transportation system was dealt b!
the government itself. We went t.
war shamefully unprepared; and, in ;
storm Of confusion, excitement ant
panic, the railways, gravely weakened
financially but with operating force!
still regemented although restive
were taken from their harassed anc
distracted owners and run by the Ma
tional Administration.
"Then followed that saturnalia Of