Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-19
THE SUPREME NEED AND DUTY OF THE HOUR.

The supreme need and duty of the hour
is to strengthen business; for upon active
and wholesome business depends the well
being of all the country. former United
States Senator Albert J. Beveridge of
Indiana told the New York State Cham
Der of Commerce at its annual banquet
this week.
1.-THE present depression is not a tran
silent economic phase due to an unhappy
state of mind on the part of business
men or the people generally. ana it is
not to be improved by the methods of
college cheer leaders at football games"
Mr.. Beveridge said. "On the contrary,
/ those inflationists of hope who tell US
that prosperity is just around the corner
when it is not there but far away, do net
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 corner, and again fall
| when this process is repeated three our
| four times, the people lose confidence.
Faith is killed by disappointment.
| Now is the time for plain speaking by
men who have graduated from ambition.
| Let US frankly know the worst at once.
| We have been rather fed up on the glad
hand : we need instead a period of brass
| tacks.'
| zone of the immediate causes of the
! creeping paralysis from which business
| is suffering is the plight of the rail-
roads.
| To-day railway rates are oppressive,
railway facilities inadequate, railway en-
pioyes dissatisfied and rebellious, railway
equipment impaired, railway capital re-
ffuced and imperilled. Until these con-
ditions are bettered, all forecasts of good
I i.sa
the crafty wiles of men who have axes
to grind, or the senseless incoherences
Of pipe dreamers.
Almost ten years ago I denounced as
the invisible government the sway oil
those financial conspirators who sought
to dominate the nation. That cabal OF
cunning and avarice has been over
| thrown. But another invisible empir,
has been established, as evil and danger
GUS as that of the dethroned autocracy O
wealth. This new assailant of ordered
liberty and I lerican institutions is tn
close and I corporation Of thos
men who have made themselves master
of labor unions.
Organized capital and organized labo
alike can be made useful to all men an
helpful to the republic, but neither shal
, be permitted to Cypress any man, womal
or child. or to govern the American PEG
pie.
THE methods by which the Adamso
| law was forced on the statute book
j, raised an issue as vital and basic as tina
which brought on the Civil war-indeeC
the Adamson law issue went to the yer
:, | existence of government itself
4 When organizations. by threat I
; strangle the nation, can dictate laws fc
! their own advantage at the expense Of a
> the people, then regular government b
: all for the good of all is annihilated
: and in place of it is substituted the e
g ratio despotism of particular groups f,
their special purposes to the injury
q the country as a whole.
= Sat all cost the Adamson law issl
h should have been fought out to the fini.
# the moment 1t appeared. Sooner or lat
- it must be settled, and every days DELI
> will make matters worse in the end. Di
ferences over mere questions of poll,
- can be compromised; usually they Dug
- to be COMPROMISED. But differences ov
1, elemental principles cannot be cor
:. promised
= THE ultimatus delivered to the go
y eminent by labor despots was obey