Evening star., 1922-12-03

close majority for the republicans in
the House. The fact that from the
middle west the republican senator's
who came back are ultra liberals. and
most Of the democrats who came from
west of the Alleghenies are rather
militant progressives, does not seem
to have penetrated the presidential
mind. Hence the message urging the
ship subsidy. Hence we hear at the
White House talk of "a year of
peace"
The President may Cry Peace.
peace" but in the agricultural west
until the conditions which are de-
pressing the midwestern farmer are
changed. Chiefly they desire relief
from oppression in marketing, trans
portation and credit And until he
gets relief the midwestern farmer 10
going to vote with the democrats. or
with labor. or with a third party, or
with any old fraud who will promise
something.
Tho farmer Is mad. Talk Of year
Of peace will make him see red. and
cions and his prejudices II the repub-
lican party does not take up his case
and consider it idrastically. even radi-
cally. The occasion demands red
hot. rip-snorting Rooseveltian mes
sage from the White House. backed
by some legislation that will set al!
the lawyers in Congress crying ''un-
stitutional," as they cried at the pure
food and drug act. at the Adamson
law, at the Volstead act, and at all
the really forward moving legislation
OF the last twenty years.
Instead Of which we have beauti-
fully considered argument for the
ship subsidy-loEical, but q mild and
innocuous bevo served to a thirsty
public demanding a real kick.
An Excess Of Liberty.
\ LOCKOUT in the building trades
"A is threatened in New York city. II
1t comes, hundreds of thousands Of
innocent people will suffer. The point
Of controversy is not important. But
large or small. the controversial point
plus the temperament of certain labor
leaders and certain employers will
bring on a small industrial war. The
small war always is menace. 1t is a
communicable social disease, and no
one knows where the war: will end
Probably year and half from now an
expensive committee Of the legislature
or the city government will delve into
the facts and decide that both parties
were moro or less wrong.
But that will not. stop the war. Why
should not society have right to func-
ton as a going concern without tho
menace Of this little war threatening
maladjustment Of whole or any part
Of the economic structure? Surely labor
and capital have no rights to brawl
paramount to the right Of society to an
adjudication Of this matter. 1t is not a
question OF arbitration or conciliation,
nor any of the games Of chance that We
use for settling industrial disputes. We
should have an industrial code: We
should collect the facts Of industry. We
should know the approximate accuracy
about what is right and wrong. and as
organized society under. government,
tho non-combatants Of tho Industrial
war should proclaim justice and estab-
lish 1t.
How that should be done is, OF
course, up to statesmen. But Il should
be done. Hero 10 . case where too
much liberty Is q had thing.
A New Labov Bank.
A BANK has Just been organised
"A in New York backed entirely by
organized labor, with q surplus Of
S1,o00,00o, Last summer tho striking
coal miners borrowed from a con-
servative New York bank 100000
upon perfectly good security, In
different parts Of the middle west
the railroad brotherhoods and other
high-class labor Organizations are
establishing successful banks, The
savings Of such unions az are highly
speoialised and ably organised, like
the garment workers and the building
trades, run inta the millions. and
these savings seem to be ,dsosntly
husbaaAsd. @hs workers Do not
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