The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-08

uaeS ior the republican Nomination
Tor United States Senator at the Re-
publican Primaries In September
Spoke With Senator Runyon at the
Memorial Day Celebration Held Un-
der the Auspices of William n. Sny-
der Post No. AZ, American Leulon. az
Moorestown
His speech follows:
Memorial day has taken on a new
significance since the great World War.
I'VE know what was established by
the War of Independence, the War of
1872, the Mexican War. the Spanish
War, and the Civil War. We are too
near to the World War to determine
all that has been established by it, But
this war, involving as it did nearly the
whole world, has produced such tre-
mendous consequences that no one can
foresee what will be fts ultimate re-
suits.
Whatever may be the consequences
of the World War this is fitting time
and occasion to render sur tribute t.
the valor, sacrifice and devotion of the
men who went out from this country TO
fight upon the soil of France against
the Germans. They believed that they
were fighting for the preservation of
the democratic principle, for the de-
struction of autocracy and privilege,
for the right of every nation to erect
its own form of government, and most
important of all, to end forever the
practice of settling international dis
putes by force. 1t was to be war to
end war The men who risked their
lives and those who lost them should
take their place in the history of
America with the heroes of the War of
Independence and of the Civil War.
ut is fitting, however, that after pay
ing our tribute to these brave soldiers
and sailors, we should take thought as
to how all of US can in the future carry
out and establish the ideals for which
these brave men fought. That presents
problem of immense difficulty.
1T was estimated that last winter
100000 of our soldiers were compelled
to walk the streets seeking in vain for
work, and suffering the humiliation and
degradation of undeserved poverty. To
me it is a most humiliating reflection
that our government and apparently
our people are so profoundly lndiffer-
ent to the soldiers who fought in the
World War. Even the wounded have
not been properly cared for The men
whom we acclaimed as heroes when
they went into the service have been
allowed to shift for themselves on
their return from the war, and no one,
least of all the government, seems TO
care. We vote millions to railroads,
and other millions to millionaires and
trusts in tax exemptions, but propo-
sal for additional compensation to sol
diers is bitterly opposed, particularly
by the profteers who made millions out
of the war.
"But the problem Is greater than this
Illustration Of ingratitude. While
100000 soldiers walked the streets
seeking in vain for employment, 5,000,-
600 other citizens of the republic were
condemned to the same undeserved suf-
fering and poverty
"Here then is the key of our prob
lem. How shall we prevent involuntary
unemployment even in good times and
Wholesale unemployment In the ever
recurring periods of bad times? Mr..
Herbert Hoover, the secretary of COM
merce, is a great engineer He has
repeatedly declared that there Is no
need for unemployment nor for invol-
untary poverty: that If we learn to
properly coordinate the factors of pro
duction which are land, labor and capi-
tai, we could easily produce enough for
all without requiring more than mod
crate amount of labor from any man,
and without driving our women and
children into our mills and sweat shop
labor.
"This then is our problem. It's solu-
tion is only possible by changing the
law, the medium of political parties
1--WE must seek our remedy by the
application Of one or the other Cf three
ideas. One is the idea of socialism,
to which / am opposed. 1t is based
upon two fallacies. One is that men
will produce as much when working
for the government for the common
good as when working for tho elves.
All history shows this is not tree The
other fallacy is that competition is
bad principle. This is also unsound.
Competition is not principle. it Is
law of nature like the law of gravita-
ton, and it is beyond the po- er of
any government, or even of all the
people of the world to suppre It
any general work over any large area
of territory, or for any great length
of time Another is he idea which
we have tried to apply for fort. years, =,
the idea of the regulation of our trusts
and railroads. This seems to have
failed. The idea hich seems to me
more promising is the abolition OF
privilege. In my Judgment every i'm
portant trust in this country depends
for its control of the market upon
some privilege natural or artificial.
.nThe Federal Trade Commission says
that the Beef Trust owes it's control OF
the market to Illegal fayors in transpors
to+ mt Al n If nv the railroads ana