The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
OPINIONS
New York Tribune:

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erty expressed a feeling becoming
increasingly general when he exclaim-
ed before Judge Wilkerson at Chi
cago: When the unions claim the
right to dictate to the government
and to dominate the American people
and deprive the . people of the
necessaries of life, then the govern
ment will destroy the unions, for the
government of the United States is
supreme and must endure Union
lists excuse even when their members
are provably participants in outrages
against life and property. Their lead
ers apologize for criminal acts. Wit
ness the recent statement of Presi-
dent Harrington, Of the Illinois mine
workers, with respect to the He~rin
murders and yesterdays defiant de-
claration of Samuel Gompers that ne
win not obey court orders. The labor
organizations have aroused the belief
that in the pursuit of selfish purposes
they are contemptuous of the law"
New York Herald:
''The country knows now that Pres
ident Harding meant exactly what ne
said when he declared in his speech
at Marion on July 4 that Liberty is
gone in America when anybody is
denied by anybody the right to work
and live by that work The country
knows that the President meant
exactly what he said when he de-
clared in his address to Congress on
August Is, that ne was resolved to
use all the power of the government
to maintain transportation and sus-
tain the right Of men to work The
application of the United States gov
ernment for an injunction to prevent
the warfare which has been going on
against the railroads and their en-
ployees was more than an ordinary
legal procedure. 1t was declaration
of the right of the American people
to be free from the menace of any
group or any organization"
Saint Louis Times:
''It is strange that the maintenance
of way workers on the railroads
should talk of the decision of the
Railroad Labor Board that the law
provides a just and reasonable wage,
instead of the living wage they de-
manded, being rejection Is not a
Just and reasonable wage greater
than a mere living wage?' This may
degenerate into a logomacy. Defin-
itions are in order. Perhaps the
railroad workers have put a strained
construction on living wage They
surely cannot mean that such pay as
will enable worker and his family to
exc living out is adequate. 1t would
seem that just and reasonable wages
would care for living, for clothing,
for books and schooling of children,
for insurance and for the accumula-
ton of savings against old age. What
constitutes living wage varies in diff
ferent countries. In China rail
road strike has ended on the agree
ment to increase the workers pay by
the munifcent sum of 10 cents a
week! In China a dime is not tip.
1t is sometimes pay for a days work.
Think of striking for 10 cents more
a weekp'
Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph:
Norman H. Davis, whose mind ran
along with Mr.. Wilson's as Under
secretary of State, is one of the latest
TO attribute all the ills of the world to
the fact that we did not join the
league of nations. AS the tide of
political passion subsidies We are be-
ginning to see the dimensions of our
blunder in refusing to enter the
league of nations says he. Who
does he mean by we? Crtainly the
results in the Missouri primaries do
not point that way, and Mr.. Wilson
and the league were the issues as be-
tween Long and Reed. The political
havoc which has pursued the pro-
leaguers in Congress is most impress
,ive-so much so that the average
Democratic Congressman hasn't the
nerve to talk about the league"
Washington Post:
''The plain English of the injunc-
tion granted at the instance of the
Harding administration by the United
States District Court at Chicago is
that the striking unions shall not in.
terfere with railway transportation
The plain American of it is that the
terms of the decree must be obeyed
If labor's rights are in any way viOlat
ed by the restraining order, its rem
edy lies in the courts, and nOwhert
else. If it desires to oppose the order
it is limited to judicial procedure a.
provided by the Constitution and BY