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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
WHAT HAS GoMPERs
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Certainly the country Is not we'd
ded to any particular form of So
luton OF the problem Of the strike
IN essential Industries. II Mr.. Com
pers can show better method than
that suggested by President Hard
ing II will receive sympathetic at
tention.
All that the nation wants Is re-
suits. II insists that essential In
dustries somehow must be kept in
operation. How is that to be done7
It is hardly possible TO allow any
group OF men in whatever occupa-
| ton to fix their own wages. That
nuts too great a strain on human
nature. This being the case, there
are hound to be disagreements be-
tween employers and employees. How
are these to be settled without in
terrupting the industry?
The fairest way seemed TO be 10
constitute an impartial. high grade
board TO act as arbiter. This was
done. But there was dissatisfaction
with its decision and the men struck.
Their strike has threatened to tie
IN the Industry of the country. Mr..
Gompers must recognize that this
is an intolerable situation. No ma
ton can permit its industrial life to
be so menaced.
The interest OF the whole nation
is superior 10 the interest of any
group of men. Some way must be
found to keep industry going while
disputes are being settled.
What way has Mr.. Gompers TO
nropose2
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
ECONOMY THE BIG NEED.

From the Grand Island Independent
Uncle Sam has come to the close
of a successful budgetary year with
out a deficit. The experiment seems
to have been successful, but a word
of warning is necessary. Present es-
Inmates seem to point to present ifs
cal year expenditures far exceeding
the expected revenue. The President
has urged the budget director to
careful economy to avoid a deficit.
Economy is effected only by the sys-
tematic saving OF small sums. We
are a nation of spenders. To be
successful, the governments policy
must be reflected in every state, To-
cality and household. So long as
individuals are lavish, so long as
money seems to be so plentiful and
of so little value to them. the gov
eminent will reflect this recklessness
in its expenditures. Economy must
begin at the source of wealth and
production BY individual economy
we must give an example to the
government.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
COUNTRY WILL NOT STAND
FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
From the Portland q

| From the Portland (Me.) Press
Herald.
Behind the railroad strike was
the purpose TO bring about such a
condition that the government
would be compelled to seize the
railroads. Once in the hands of the
government the labor leaders, who
have all along favored government
ownership. knew that these proper
ties would not again be returned
TO their private owners. They hoped
operation of the roads as a war ext
gency would prove a precedent to
government ownership. They pre-
dlcted loudly that the owners never
would be permitted to handle their
properties again after the country
had experienced the repudiated adj
vantages of government control. The
return of the properties has been a
disappointment to them which they
are eager to remove.
The result of that experiment,
forced on the country by ths war,
was Generalization of physical
properties. Reorganization of man
agements and disruption of operat-
ing personnels. The whole service
was contaminated by the influence
of politics and government eXtrava-
gance. The political adjustments
which accompanied wartime ad-
ministratioD of the properties cost
the public $4,000, 100000 over and
above tariff revenues and left them
iHworse condition for the service
of transportation than they ever had
been known to be, and from which
they have not yet been rescued. The
money account has not been paid in
full and the country is not in finan-
cial condition or temperamental
disposition to plunge into such an
other venture.
The railroad unions tasted the
sweets of government control during |
the war. They saw the man who |
was placed in charge of the rail-
roads do everything that he was
asked to do to win the favor of the |
railroad employees. He increased !
the number of men the railroad en-
ployed, so that where one man was /
before two and even
three men were required. He helped |
wages TO a point where
they overshadowed the wages paid
in all kindred industries. There
was nothing the railroad unions
asked for that they did not get. All
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
The Defedte
(From the New York Tribune.)

err or tenant, whose compensation q
determined by what he gets for his
produce, sadly knows that his in
come is decreased a good deal moro
than per cent. And the vast mas:
of unorganized workers. next to ag-
ricultural workers our largest laboy
army, confront the same lamentable
fact.
The labor element OF which Mr.
Gompers is speaking, and which ne
blindly assumes is the only class del
serving of consideration, is the small
minority who are members of laoo7
unions.
If the Gompers estimate is cor
rect, If the wages of organized labor
are almost up to the war level, his
Wanted victory is over unorganized
labor. The funds to pay the labor,
aristocracy have not come from
employers. These quit business
when it does not pay. 1t has come
from the general public. The tri-'
umph that Mr.. Gompers ecstaically.
celebrates is thus not over employ
ers. but over fellow workers and
over the aged and infirm who nave
saved to have comfort in later years
and over women and children VINO
find that the income from petty in.
heritsnces has shrunk with tnet
shrinking of the dollars purchasing
power. Mr.. Gompers should enlarge|
his vision. He should take into MIS-
view the victims Of his victorious
policy.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30

this was done so that this one mar
might secure the political support
he aspired to win in order that he
might be nominated and elected
President of the United states.
A revolt of the people against al
of this prevented this man from try
ing to be nominated for President
But the railroad labor leaders think
that there will be other men who
will try to do the same thing pro-
viding they are given the chance,
This is why the government owner1
ship of the railroads is advocated
1t is also why the people are SO
strenuously opposed to II, even as 9
matter of temporary expediency.
The country could not stand the
strain of government ownership Of
the railroads, and. moreover, ~
would probably result in such a gent
eral upheaval of industry as TO occa1
sion a most deplorable condition.
Nobody wants the government 70
take over the railroads excepting
the men who work on them, unless
It be some of the stockholders in,
them who would hope through gov1
eminent ownership to get some OF
their money out of investments
which are not profitable and do MOI
seem likely to be for some time I'd
come.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
HASTEN PASSAGE


From The Milwaukee Sentinel.
BY the Presidents request for leg1
islation TO protect treaty rights Of
foreigners killed or injured in riotj
in this country it is squarely put I'd
to Congress to grapple with a prob1
| lem that has caused a good deal a
annoyance in the past and may CAUSE
more in the future.
What happened at Herrin. I'LL
where two Mexicans are reported ID
have been among the victims OF thd
recent mine massacre is a repetition
of what has happened before az
various times in other parts of tho
country. Our government has had
to make explanations to various for1
eign powers in times past, such a5
Italy and even China. for injuries
incurred by their nationals In thii
country. Every time It is the sand
old story. The federal government
is held responsible, in as much a5
foreign nations can not deal with our1
State governments individually. and
IL the State government, influenced
by local public opinion, fails to id
its duty. the federal government has
no way of enforcing its authority
1t is certainly humiliating to thisl
nation to be lectured by Mexico onl
the elementary duties Of safeguard
ing the lives and property of Mexi-(
cans living here. the same topic oni
which we were so eloquent whenl
the shoe was on the other foot, and
It was a question of the safety od
Americans in Mexico.
The President suggests giving fedt
eral courts authority for the tria1
and punishment of murderers oil
aliens. This looks like logical step,
and one Washington dispatch ash
serts that congressional sentimentt
favors this action. Another dispatch
hints at possible opposition becausel
OF complications that would thrusi'
the Japanese problem in California;
again into the debate.
The root of the trouble is thsi
weakness Of local justice. One
anomalous effect of the Presldents
suggestion would be to give aIiensj
Detter protection than American cit
liens. A federal court. of course.
could only punish outrages aRainsA{
foreigners, and in an case like thel
Herrin butchery involving both
Americans and aliens. we would
have the spectacle of vigorous fed-d
eral prosecution in behalf of ford
eigners contrasting with weak andy
tardy local Justice toward the mur-3
derers Of Americans.
Federal court action might proved
spur to the efforts of State au-1
thorities handling part of the sameE
case. II It does not, the Advocated
Of a federal anti-lynching lawt
would find a powerful argument I'M
favor Of their bill. We certainly CAM
not afford to put a premium on thak
killing of Americans by making IN
less dangerous to kill a citizen than I
% kill an alien.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
THE NATION COMES FIRST.

From the Kansas City Times.
President Harding appeaed to the
reason and the conscience of the
country in his address to Congress
yesterday. He appealed TO the coun-
try's reason in his analysis of the in
dustrial situation. He appealed to its
conscience in his call for laws and
for the enforcement of laws to pro-
tect vital public interests.
The right of the public to the oper-
atAon of it's essential industries is
paramount. Otherwise the nation
would be at the mercy of any group
that felt able to interrupt one Of
these industries.
That being the situation It is OBJ
viously the obligation of the nation
to provide means for the just set
Element of industrial disputes, and
TO see that so far as is practicable
the settlement Is carried out. This
involves the creation of a body like
the railroad labor board with the
power to enforce its decisions against
both employer and employee. The
President points out that the rail-
roads as well as the workers in the
past have at times refused to ac-
cept the decisions. Neither side may
be permitted to reject the settle
ment, II the situation is to be reme-
died.
Certainly men cannot be compelled
to work against their will. But IL.
under the conditions outlined by the
President. they refuse to accept a
decision. they must not expect to
interfere with others who are will
ing to work. The whole force of
the government must be put behind
the enforcement of the decision.
otherwise the essential industries of
the country cannot go on.
The public has been reluctant to
sanction such measures in the past.
But the events Of recent years have
forced the conclusion that there Is
no alternative. The interest Of the
whole nation Is above the interest of
any group. This principle must now
be translated into law.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 80, 1922
OUR SLOGAN:
The Evening Journal-the First
Paper of the First City of the First
State.
WEAK TICKET ON punno1NED rnANKs

WEAK TICKET ON PUHLoINED PLANKs
nELAwARE Republicans well pleased with the
- work done by the Democratic State Convention
held In Dover yesterday.
The ticket nominated is not looked upon being a
particularly strong while the vital pians in the
platform adopted stolen almost bodily the
platform that had adopted by the Republicans
Convention held week before. That assertion
applies a general way the declarations bearing
upon efficiency and economy in government public
schools and the subject education repeal of
the So filing fee law a womens building at the work.
house, the setting of parole system for application
consistent and increasing pol
icy public road Improvement, encouragement and
support Wilmington terminal project, law
endorsements political recognition for enfranchsed
women and conservation of child life
Removing those Republican planks from this So
Democratic platform leaves only real Demo-
cratic features declarations I'm favor Of effective
OF public utilities, revival of the old and hypo
demand for clean elections criticism of of
wealth who aspire represent State Congress
TO participate the public affairs
wealth. a stocl-in-tradc upon Republi-
can policy protective tariff
Never, in the history Delaware. has the State
Democracy. driven into corner of issues,
made such a hagr,nt pIanls a Republican
platform and added so little of an APP
pealns nature material which h had
purIoined.
So personnel OF the ticket concerned IL is
distinguished for agreeable personality than for
special ability discharge important public functions
fact, just about up the Democratic average
tickets has prevailed since Delaware wrenched
itself free control OF the Bayards
sausburys and entrusted its national and State
interests the control OF the Republican party.
anything needed TO cause the Republicans TO
approach the November election with confidence, that
something was supplied by Democratic State Con-
yention yesterday.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
HARDING TO THE RESCUE

From the Norfolk (Neb.) News.
President Harding, in his address
to Congress. announced the only
course left to him to take. He could
not do otherwise than promise to
use the power of the federal gov
eminent to prevent the breakdown
Of railroad transportation. II this
course is an advantage to the rail-
roads and a detriment to the shop
crafts. that is merely incidental.
The time has passed when the mer-
its OF the controversy between the
roads and their men can be allowed
to dominate. The essential thing
now is that the calamity Of Interrupt
ted transportation shall not be Wis
tied upon the people of America.
In time of peace the law recog-
nizes the rights OF the Individual
as paramount. In time OF war these
rights must be subordinated TO the
good OF the nation. So 1t Is when
the country is facing the disastrous
consequences of a railroad tie-up.
When the strike was young and the
public welfare little affected there
was time to discuss whether the
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30

Harvey f. Fish. OF the Bankers Trust Company, de-
cIares that the OF France today
they before the Whatever she lost by devas
tation she gained aceLorraine and by what she
saved out the expenditures OF the Allies and
Of the United territory At the time
that France making such remarkable strides in in
dustrial rehabilitation and seriously considering the
construction the Transsahara railroad line to link
up her North African possessions certain group of in
ternaona bankers persistent its effort achieve
II possible cancellation of the French debt the United
States Their agitation of the question
ating than eicacous since the leaders who guide
French sentiment have declared categorically that
Frances debts will be paid.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
GOVERNMENT MUST CONTROL

From the Detroit Free Press.
The President holds that the peo-
pie have a right to travel and ship
their goods in interstate commerce.
He finds that they have laws TO
safeguard the right and have pro-
Yided severe penalties for those who
conspire to violate them. These he
proposes to enforce with all the
power of the government and II the
men who are striking attempt TO
prevent others from working, as
they have a lawful right to do, he
will protect the workers against the
strikers Already there have been
serious infractions of the rights
which the President says he intends
to defend, and II the trouble con-
tiDues il is possible to see how a de-
termined defense of law and the
right to work may lead to serious
consequences. but they could never
be so serious as a surrender OF the
right of the people through their
government to the interests OF a
limited number asserted through a
union. Boiled down. the Presidents
position is that the government con-
trolls the country and that no pri-
vate organization however large or
important shall be permitted 10 dis
pute that control. In that program
the people will stand behind him.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
PEOPLE MAKING UP MINDS
THAT STRIKES MUST STOP

From the Spokane Spokesman.
Review.
Events of the last 80 days have
created more sentiment for the prin-
ciple OF the Kansas Industrial court
law that could have been created
by many years of academic discus
sion. Take. for instance, the fruit
growers of the Pacific northwest.
Threatened with the loss of their
years labor and the expenditure OF
untold millions of dollars that they
have put into the work OF production,
they are in no mood 20 heed the ar
gument of some OF the railroad ex-
ecutives about right of capital" or
Mr. Gompers' far-fetched. extrava-
giant utterances about the danger of
subjecting coal miners and railway
workers to Industrial slavery"
The point comes clear 10 them, as
It does TO millions of other pro-
ducers. and to hundreds of thousands
of tourists and other travellers, dis
tressed by the danger of a blockade
of the railroads, that the general
DuOAAN mas AAkhAN nAAAEh ~
capital and organized labor must be
compelled to respect.
Thoughtful and unbiased citizens
are ready to agree with President
Harding that while the right to or
ganize and the right TO quit work
are conceded, the right to abuse
these privileges is not conceded.
In the end. as the president clearly
sees, 1t is the public that must pay
for this warfare and a large part OF
the public must pay doubly, II per-
ishable food products are destroyed
the producers pay heavy price, and
in many Instances are ruined, and
later the general public must pay the
price OF higher cost OF living. The
coal strike is settled. but the public
will have 10 pay the price in higher
charges for fuel for many months to
come, and II is the general public
that In the end must pay for the
losses resulting from the general de-
rangement of the country's indus
tries.
II the interests that own the coal
mines, and the miners who work In
them, and the interests that own and
manage the railroads, and the en-
ployes who struck or who have
threatened to strike. had designedly
gone about the rousing of public In
terest and deepening of public opin-
ion for the principle of government
prohibition on conspiracy strikes and
lockouts in the country's vital indus
tries, they could not have accom-
plIshed more than they have accom-
plished IN the last 80 days.
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RULE IN ANY
BUSINESS is BAD PRACTICE
-nm ihe Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
The time will come when labor
unions in the United States must
abandon the priority rule in en-
ployment.
The warmest defense that Is made
of this rule in the present controv-
ersy with the railroad shopmen Is
that, without the rule, the employers
would penalize the workers who are
most active in union affairs. There
is. OF course. the possibility of in
justice there. But there is another
injustice, and we believe a greater
one. in the daily operation Of the
rule.
BY means of their seniority in the
shops. railroad workers OF long
standing have the right to choose
their jobs. When the numbers of
employees are reduced the older men
are the last to be dropped. With
notifications, this is the principle
OF the priority rule In all unions.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30
Says Mr.. Gompers:

'It is safe to say that the full
volume of wage reductions since the
armistice. IL averaged up and spread
over the working population, would
amount to less than per cent. This
is a stark defeat for employers. 1t
is a magnificent victory for the,
workers"
This jubiiant statement may well
be filed for remembrance. 1t goes
far toward answering. on the high
est authority of Americas organized
labor, the question of what class
has profited the most from the war.
General prices are VIGOROUSLY down,
something like 40 per cent. and with
wages downbut 5 per cent he boasts
that organized labor has gained the
difference.
Mr.. Gompers is so greatly pleased
that he apparently does not realize
what he so blandly confesses. In
effect. he acknowledges that the
claim that the war wage level is
necessary to offset increased living
costs is a fraud. Likewise. he
scraps the arguments of those who
talk of living wages.
But Mr.. Gompers is mistaken in
saying that wages the country over
are down only per cent. This may
be true of organized labor. but 1t is
not true of labor generally. Our
largest labor force is on the farms
The farmer, whether operating own
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u. S. GOVERNMENT MUST
PROTECT LIVES OF CITIZEN.

From the ST. Louis Times.
Mr.. Harding's appeal for legisla-
ton enabling the federal govern
ment 10 protect aliens within its
borders--and for whose well being
the. United States must be respon-
sible to their native lands-voiced
proper request. That appeal has
frequently been made by other exc
cutives OF this nation when special
need was tragically shown for new
measures conserving the lives OF
those not citizens of this country.
but who met death at the hands of
our people.
II may be a somewhat far cry TO
go from this situation-this gener-
ally admitted requirement that a
method OF protecting visitors within
its gates be provided the federal
government-to the more frequently
heard demand for authority for the
United States government to act
where local administration of laws
has not been sufficient TO protect
our own citizens. Still. there is an
analogy between the two.
When local authority breaks
down. federal powers should have
perfect method through legally
conferred rights TO step in and re-
store order-even to the end Of
Furnishing those guilty OF terrorism.
II is generally admitted that Will
Hanson county has been powerless
TO invoke justice in the Herrin
massacre. Therefore. the federal
government should have the right to
make courts function here-even II
It be necessary to set up federal
court authority in the premises.
This need exists regardless OF wheth-
err citizens or aliens were the vic
tins OF outlawry. AS a matter of
fact. both native born and foreigners
were numbered among the slain.
Shall not our own countrymen have
their murders punished as fully as
special laws would enable the alien
victims TO be avenged?
This theory would. OF course, ap-
ply wherever mob rule Is the resort
of frenzy or hate. That suggests
a situation sure to evoke protest in
regions given to race persecution.
But sectionalism cannot be permit
ted always to dictate in a matter in
which Justice is so wholly the one
We must protect aliens
in our land-and we must protect
our own citizens. The government
must have power to act when local |
authority becomes impotent.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-08-30

Hon Norman H. Davis, whose mind ran along with
Mr. Wilson's Under Secretary OF state is Of the
latest TO attribute all the ills of the world to the fact
did join the League of Nations "As the tide
Of political passion subsidies beginning the
dimensions OF blunder in refusing to enter the
League of Nations" says he. Who does he mean by
'we2" Certainly the results in the Missouri primaries
do not point that way and Mr. Wilson and the league
we're the Long and Reed The politi-
which has pursued the pro-leaguers in Con-
gress is most impressveso much that the average
Democratic Congressman hasn't the to talk about
the league