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Evening journal., 1922-08-09
EVIDENCE THE OTHER WAY


T LLOYD GEORGE is quoted saying that civilization
IL would be safe II the League OF Nations succeeded
and II would be doomed II the league failed
The evidence is all the other As the league
sinks into premature senity civilization rejuvenesces
wilmingtonians know full well that long as the
league meddllng the affairs of Europe nation
could get anywhere
The Washington conference the Limitation OF
Armamens achieved beneficial results for all the world
peaceful solution OF the dispute between Chile and
Peru, under the judicial arbitrament of Secretary
Hughes removed one the explosive problems in
the Western Hemisphere
Within less than year more has been accomplished
in preserving peace by the Harding administration than
the league achieved In three yearsfor the league
has added pel-mel OF Europe. instead OF sub
tracing from It.
Even in Europe the league is longer being taken
seriously.
It's role to have been reduced to that of chief
archlvist for diplomatic records
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
The Last Clear Chance
(FrOn the washIngtOn POstl.

| their stubbornness they have aggra-
waited their offense. To continue
| their unwarranted course would he
to challenge the nation TO act in
self-defence and to take steps TO lay
the menace of coal shortage thus
raised
The public is in no mood to bear
further foutlng. The people have
seen both sides maintaining uncom-
promising attitudes and have seen
miners refuse to accept the good
offices OF the government that were
offered in their own and the public's
lnerest. Therefore they know where
TO place the blame for the existing
situation, andthey would know where
to place It. II unyielding stands of
the parties in struggle should pre-
vent agreement at Cleveland. The
case is one in which failure would
forfeit the claims OF the party or
parties responsible to the public's
sympathy and respect. Contributory
stubborness and arbitrariness,
which may be relative to the ques-
tion OF blame for what has gone be-
fore, can not be availed of as de-
fense for not grasping the oppor-
tunity for ending the deadlock that
will be offered. by the Cleveland
conference.
Public interest and the condition
OF the coal industry demand settle
ment. Therefore they demand that
the two sides make concessions that
will serve as a basis for settlement.
Tomorrow's meeting should be ap-
preached in the spirit of COM
promise-which has hitherto been
conspicuous by It's absence from
dealings between miners and oper-
ators. Interests OF all concerned
urge this with an insistence that can
be denied only at risk OF serious in
jury to the nation and the industry I
and all its elements. The parties to !
the conflict have all TO gain and |
nothing to lose by agreement that |
will end the deadlock and permit |
resumption OF productlon-and the
public certainly has all to gain.
The fact that miners and oper-
ators have entered into agreement
to confer indicates that both sides
realize the need for settlement and
will attempt to effect 1t. Presum-
ably they are sincere in this move
and II their sincerity is of the right
degree they will break the deadlock
and work out a plan of adjustment.
For II the parties involved mean
what their action implies, they are
prepared to make concessions nee
sssary to that end.
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The conference between miners
and operators of the central COM
petitive field. which is scheduled 10
be held in Cleveland tomorrow,
offers the clashing elements OF the
coal industry in that area a last clear
chance to avoid working great in
jury on the public. The costliness OF
continuing the deadlock that has tied
ifp coal production emphasizes the
imperative need OF agreement. Con-
tinuance Of the strike must neces-
sarily be at the expense not only OF
the public but of the elements in
volved. Those In conhict-and the
public-have already sustained
staggering losses. Neither side can
afford to stand for such continu-
ance.
No matter how the blame for
present conditions may be appor-
toned. neither element is warranted
in holding to the unyielding attitude
that has hitherto characterized the
conduct of both. The operators may
be partially to blame for present
conditions. in that they refused to
confer with the miners at the begin
ming OF the dispute. Undoubtedly
the miners are largely to blame for
continuance Of the strike in that
they refused to accept President
Harding's arbitration proposal
which pointed the fair way out. But
in a certain sense. this is water un-
der the bridge. The strike must be
ended. For the American people
must have coal adequate TO their
needs. And now that the Cleveland
conference. with its offer of an op-
portuity to terminate the conflict, Is
at hand. It is for both sides TO ap-
proach the conference table. not
With determination TO put through
their respective demands. regardless
OF those of opponents. but with de-
to find a fair basis OF
agreement
Stubbornness of miners and op-
orators has already inflicted great
Injury on the nation by suspension |
OF production that threatens fuel
shortage and necessarily tends to |
raise prices TO high levels. The four /
months duration of strike and /
deadlock have accomplished nothing
beyond emphazing the futility OF
this kind OF dealing between the
parties Immediately involved and
stressing the need for change OF
method. In plunging the coal in
iustry into this conflict, those re-
sponsible showed disregard of the
public good that injured their cause
from the outset BY persisting inS
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

The issue which the Dem mocratic
party proposes TO stress during the
campaign just beginning is an odd
! one. In a word, II Is that the Re-
( publican Congress has not proceed
ed as rapidly with the work of re-
construction as II should have done.
To state the issue with greater def
initeness, the Democrats virtually
say to the Republicans:
I'VE left governmental and econo-
mic affairs in an almot inextricable
state of Confusion when they were
taken over by you. No attempt had
been made by us TO call halt to
the vast expenditures which had
been made necessary by the war.
They were going on at about the
same rate that they were when the
armistice was signed. There was
lack of coordination between the
different departments which encour-
aged prodigal and unscientific spend
ing. Industry was in such shape
that millions were out OF employ
ment and we had nothing TO i'm
prove the situation The great basic
AhhAHAAN VI NdN bi AiAt
verge of bankruptcy. for IL was
costing the farmers more to raise
their products than they could sell
them for Although the war was
over. competition in armament was
waxing stronger month by month.
threatening to bankrupt the whole
world. including ourselves.
You have been in power now for
about is months and yet you have
not restored to the country the peace
and tranquility that prevailed pre-
vious to the war. You have not
placed industry wholly back upon
its feet You haven't paid or the
national debt. In fact you have
been painfully lax in getting the
country's head above the surface OF
the morass in which we plunged it
by our maladministration."
This. in brief and as fairly as we
can state II, is the case OF the
Democracy for the purposes OF the
present campaign.
To a measure of this indictment
the Republican party must plead
guilty. The nation is not wholly out
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

Congress from the South relative 10
senators and representatives from
that section have departed from the
old sta nd of Southern Democracy on
the tariff and have aligned them
selves with Republican protectionists
mt least to the extent OF support
ing protection for the products of
the districts and States that they
represent. This warrants the deduc-
ton that Southern opposition 10 pro-
tective tariff is not wholly based on
principle-and is largely the result
Of misunderstanding as TO its work
ing. The recognition accorded the
South by the makers of the present
bill has evidently brought many and
important elements of that section 70
recognize the benefits that it Offers.
The votes on practically every ar
ticle of the tariff schedule, in which
the South is commercially or indus
trialy interested, show Southern
Democratic senators and representa-
tives supporting protection and the
repeated and many appearances of
representative CpulitiH tOliiNltA fAsiif
Industrial and financial bodies be-
fore the congressional committees
having the bill in charge, together
with the manifestoes and appeals for
protection launched by such organi-
cations throughout the States of the
South, bear testimony to the awak-
ening OF that section to its real in
terests.
Especially effective against South
ern antagonism toward protective
tariff Is the Republican policy of pro-
tecting the farmer. Under the pro-
posed bill. Southern farmers would
share with farmers of the West and |
middle West the benefits Of protec-
tion. While agricultural elements |
in the South have shown some re- |
luctance in accepting such protec-
tion as being in their interest, re-
ports from farming sections indicate |
realization of the advan-
tage that Is thus promised.
The chief significance OF the |
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Unless all signs fail, the approach
Ing congressional election will reg
ister Republican gains in the So
called solid South" even greater
than those of 1920. Republicanism
in the South is product OF political
and economic evolution indications
are that such evolution is steadily
progressing The understanding
bred by association of the men OF
the South with those of other parts
OF the country in the great war has
done much to wipe out groundless
preJudices-and broader spirit OF
patriotism has arisen to stamp out
the curse OF sectionalism that has
worked such injury on afflicted ele-
ments in the past. SOlidity of pref
udice and solidity of interest were
the component factors OF the polit-
ical 'soldiity" of the South, as It
used to be. But solidity of prejudice
is based on shifting sands and must
topple before the forces of under
standing and reason. And the solid
ity OF interest has become a thing of
the past. Commercial and indus
trial development in the South has
in many sections not only destroyed
the homogenelty OF interests that.
formerly existed hut has created in
terests Identical with those OF other
sections OF the nation where Repub-
licanism, as the embodiment of IA
voring political and economic prin-
ciples, prevails.
Realization of this identity of in
terest with sections where Republl-
cans are in majority is evidenced by
the rapid rise and spread OF South
ern business organizations that are
championing protectionism and
other Republican economic and po-
litical policies. From almost every
State in the South come reports OF
the activity of commercial. financial
and Industrial bodies in furtherance
of such policies. The change OF
economic views and political senti-
ment thus indicated is further re-
hected by the records Of members of
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
Issues of Campaign as
Phrused by Democracy
(From the Portland Express,)

! of the morass in the mire of which
1t had been we'll nigh submerged by
| the Democratic administrators. All
the Republican party can say is that
It has made progress-remarkable
progress, IT believes the country Will
concede. The Republican party has
not placed expenditures upon a pre-
war basis, but II has, by the closest
cooperation between the legislative
and executive branches, reduced the
cost OF running the government by
almost two billion dollars. st has
passed a budget law which Demo-
cratic President had vetoed Snd
thus brought about coordination
OF the fine ncial management OF the
different departments, thereby saw
ing great sums OF money. Industry
is not yet where IL was before the
war, but as the result of Republican
effort a vast improvement has been
made and unemployment reduced to
a minimum.
BY the passage of an emergency
tariff act II placed agriculture on Its
feet so the farmers are once more
prosperous. 1t has ended the COM
petition in armament by means OF
treaties framed and agreed to at
the peace conference called by a
Republican President and steered
through the seemingly inextricable
difficulties that confronted it by a
Republican Secretary OF State. Tax
es have not been eliminated, but the
present Congress has reduced them
by $500, 900. 900 for the present year
and will reduce them by still larg-
er sum during the next year. The
national debt has not been paid, but
II has been reduced, although 1t was
increased under Democratic rule.
This progress has been made pos
sile by the cooperation between a
Republican executive and a Repub-
lican Congress. Yet the Democracy
is asking the country to give the
present Republican administration a
Democratic Congress which would
mark the end of all cooperation
and halt the progress towards still
better conditions. The nation may
be uneasy and restless to some de-
gree. but we believe that II still has
a memory.
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
Why Jim Reed Won
(From the New York Hersld)

row Wilson that the former Presi-
dent, with all the enthusiasm and
dexterity Of which he is capable,
sought in the open to prevent Reed
from Being renominated. II Mr..
Wilson considers himself still the
leader of his party he must have
believed that It would be rather easy
70 end Reeds career. But through
Mr.. wilson's very activity the Mis-
souri, Democrats came TO look upon
Breckenridge Long as representing
wisconsin and wisconsin as still
representing the Covenant.
Under the circumstances II was
the battle of 1920 all over again,
with the Republicans looking on.
And Reed won il after a campaign
fought with the courage that mark
ed his assault on the Covenant. The
party which broke precedent by re-
fusing TO send Reed to the national
convention of 1920 has renominated
him for the Senatorship. II Reed
voted himself out OF his party. then
the party voted itself back to Reed.
A canvass like that in Missouri is
a fine thing for the State and the
country. 1t stirs up the sluggish
voters. 1t reminds the people that
Issues are worth hghting for and
that a good fighter need not fear
even the Very Great. Only one fea-
ture OF the campaign could be con-
sidered regrettable. Mr.. Wilson's
thoughtful admirers must be saying
that 1t would have been better IL
he had reserved his fire for some
other, some more impersonal. ,oc-
casion. And when we say thought
full admirers we include Brecken-
ridge Long
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movements favoring protection now ,
under way in the South is that they
are based on commercial and indus-
trial development that Is continuing
in its nature. II the development of :
such interests in the Southern States
has brought about realization of the
benefits promised by Republican poll 4
| icies, II Is fair assumption that
further development will drive such
realization home with even greater .
force and will stimulate and
strengthen the movements toward
protection and other Republican
economic and political policies.
Great has been the Industrial devel-
opment OF the South. II is still ca
pable Of ! enormous increase. In
many lines II already rivals other in
dustrial sections where the benefits
of protection have been proved and .
1t therefore follows that economic
evolution of the South will result in
corresponding attitude toward .
tariff.
The same reasons that in 1920
urged Southern voters to change ,
their party Affiliations as a result of
change OF views with respect to pro-
lection and other national issues. .
exist today and apply with greater
force. Southern interests that called
for change OF political and economic .
stand in 1920, call for clinchlng and
enlarging that change in 1922-to
the end that-the South may reap the
benefits promised by Republican poll
icies. The Republican gains OF 1920
pointed to dissatisfaction of South
ern voters with Democratic control
and to confidence in the Republican
partys ability TO promote Southern
Interests. That such confidence was
well placed has been established by
the benefits that, as a result of Re-
publican control, either have already
accrued to that section or are on the
way. Indications from the South :
and the many obvious reasons urg-
ing pro-Republican movement com .
bine 10 warrant belief that the COM
ing election will show further gains.
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
ausrIcE. ro RAIrrc STATES

EN the recognition of the European States of
Il Esthonia Latvia and Lithuanis. the Harding ad-
ministration is making good repudiated
pledge OF the Wilson regime
AS everybody knows. OF wilson's boasted points
was seif-determination for small nations--that "al
wedefned national aspirations shall be accorded the
utmost satisfaction"
The three provinces Of Russia named had for
meriy been separate national entities but had become
subject to the Russian empire through forces which
they could not successfully resist Nevertheless the
peoples of those countries maintained their national
characteristics and passed children the hone
the aspiraton--for future national existence
When in the confusion OF war and its aftermatb
these three groups of people up governments OF
their own President Wilson only by neglect but by
absolute refusal declined maks principle good in
practice.
He practically told the Representatives OF the new
governments that the territory for whose inhabitants
they spoke remain subject Russian
government which the United States might some time
zee to recognize. Meanwhile of the Other i'm
portant nations gave recognition all three.
xanifestly. 1t is dicult to a nations
oreiEn policies than its domestic policies. foreign
,elicy Is a international agreement
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

shopmen and the railroad executives
having agreed to abide by the de-
cisions OF the Labor Board, the
President proposes that the Labor
Board shall pass on the undecided
question of what seniority or pref
erence rules shall be applied.
In their answer OF August 1 the
railroad executives, Justifying their
refusal to adopt in toto the Presi-
dents recommendation remarked:
The board (the Labor
Board) itself prescribed the
rules of seniority under which
the men referred to (the new
employees) have secured their
seniority rights"
On this implied acknowledgment
of the Labor Boards jurisdiction
over shop rules. taken together with
the general offer of the railroad
executives to obey the Labor Board.
the President doubtless bases his
hope that the railroad executives
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

The Democratic newspapers in the
East are Offering nine and ninety
excuses for the victory Of that most
independent OF Democrats. Jim
Reed. Of Missouri. Let us offer the
hundredth: The Democrats Of Mis-
souri, preferred to have Reed. with
all his faults as they saw them.
rather than Breckenridge Long, with
all his distinguished support and
what It stood for.
The Democrats OF Missouri have
renomlnated Jim Reed for Senator
because his course in Washington
convinced them that he could be de-
pended upon to do the brave thing.
When he gave n memora bile exhibi-
tion OF courage by attacking the
League OF Nations Covenant he was
supposed to he reading himself out
OF the party which. through its
leader. President Wilson. stood for
the Covenant.
came 1t was plain enough that Reed
had not read himself out OF Mis-
souri,. That State. which had gone
for a Republican President only
twice since Grants dsy--Roosevelt
carried it in 1904 by $4,000 and Taft
In 1908 by few hundred-gave
Harding a plurality Of $4,000. Mis-
souri, voted that day that President
Wilson was wrong and Jim Reed
right. This week the Democrats OF
the State repeated the verdict at the
primaries.
Jim Reed is a man who makes
warm friends and bitter enemies.
Sometimes in politics an enemy is
as useful as a friend. II was Reeds
fortune so to have offended Wood
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
With The Pdragraphers

The public itch to be tnkering with the basic law OF
the nation the Constitution leading TO some ridicu-
lous absurdtes. The American Federation Of Labor
seriously proposed that given the
by two-thirds any decision the Supreme
Court or course such amendment 10 the Constitu-
would that instrument the prize rag
OF the civilized world within year.Ft. Wayne (Ind
News-Sentinel.
A swing TO the ex-Kaiser Is reported from Berlin.
But you tell about these swinging imports.
The swing the exKaiser that promised BY Lloyd
George never observation-disclosures City Times
Despite the bringing OF the famous Weston blood
hounds 10 this place Harry Doles still rnourns the
loss OF her gold wstch.Ray news in GAINESVILLE Times
Recorder.
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

a commission such as the President
proposed seems only logical. Tho
key TO this resumption is the wage
question.
What one regional group Of operI
ators can do can be done by others
There has been too much rigidity
shown by both sides up to date
Each has cherished the belief that
by making no concessions 1t might
win. But in a deadlock such as the
present there must be give apd
take. Unable TO adjust dlfferences
directly both sides must submit I'd
settlement by an impartial third
person and pay the penalty fol
their obstinacy and selfishness.
A final solution OF the coal probl
lem must be national. This the ADD
ministration fully realizes But
meantime other things can be done
Evening journal., 1922-08-09

There Is reason for encourage
ment In the offer of the Illinois coal
operators to reopen the mines on
the wage scale which expired on
April ! of this year. 1t is true that
the offer is only for a local settle
ment and thus goes against the
principle laid down in Mr. Harding's
plan, that the problem must be con-
sidered as national rather than re-
gional. So, also, is II clear that in
addressing the offer TO Mr.. Earring
ton. head of the Illinois coal miners
union who is an avowed opponent Of
John l.. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers OF America,
the operators hope TO profit by the
difference OF opinion between these
two labor leaders. Lewis has long
been partisan to a national settle
ment. while Harrington holds other
Evening journal., 1922-08-09
p. NJ. @. SIDE STEPS

TIME effect OF Democratic paternalism in government
Il is reflected in the query of an unhappily married
woman who wants to know II she can do anything
through the Post once Department, business,
such as arranging for the marriage details
acted entirely by mail"
The solicitor for the Post ONCE Department replies
that the department has control over the persua-
sve language written sealed envelopes by unscrupu-
lous lovers seeking matrimonial alliances"
Former Postmaster General Burleson possibly would
have found outlet for his reforming activities had
such an opportunity presented Itself under his admin
istffaton.
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views.
But the Importance OF the offer
lies in the fact that one group of
operators at least is ready to make
concessions 10 the miners for the
sake of resuming operations. These
concessions, it Is true, are to be only
temporary. But in a settlement Of
the strike there are necessarily two
major problems. The first is the re-
sumption of work; the second is the
readjustment OF conditions. In or
der to resume there must be a tenn
porary working basis, y. accepted
while the permanent readjustment
is being planned.
The public. of course, is primar-
lily interested in the resumption/of
mining. That the status quo as OF
before the strike should be resumed
pending a permanent settlement by
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II the railway executives of their
own accord should discharge or
otherwise sacrifice the men to whom
permanent places and seniority
rights were guaranteed by the roads
when these men stuck to the roads
and kept them running in the teeth
OF the strikers the pledged word OF
the railroads would be violated. The
loyal men who took the railroads at
their word in good faith would be
betrayed.
If the United States Railroad
Labor Board should throw these
men out Of the jobs that have been
pledged to them by the railway ex-
ecutives for standing by the roads