Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-12-08
WHEN PRIVILEGE Is
C0RNERED IT USES
H0NEYED WORDS


When privilege Is eornered il sub
sataies plausible reasoning and
hoaeyed WofdS for logic ana facts.
Il is eonered to-day. Hence TIE
claim that is ship subsidy Is similar
% people voting money for geod
reads and inland waterways.
Roads and inland waterways are
owned and operated BY the people fer
public service aud rot Ter profit. Al
people may use these public utilities.
Just a they use the public schools.
libraries, and municipal water plants.
The ship subsidy Is financial aid By
The government to . private business,
operated for private profit. This aid
l. nor for every ship owner, but Tor
the few.
The public is assured that these
rich will dribhle henefaetions down
TO the common folk. bur the latter 10
longer accept this Santa Claus pic
ture Of privilege and greed.
Privilege, Of course. does not be
lieve there is any similarity between
substituting private operations, run
for private profit. and maintaining a
public utility for service to the peo-
pie.
Privilege knows different, but what
it knows and what il orders its hoop
rollers to do are different PROPOSE
tons.
Privilege does not attempt 10 fool
itself. Its business Is 10 fool others.
Its life depends on deception and de-
eeit. Ii can not accept truth and
survive.
To save itself it commands skilled
lawyers, educators, psychologists,
observers, investigators, subser-
Went press, ballyhoos and camp fol.
lowers who are always found under
the banner of power and pelf.
Thi seombination is now spreading
its glad tidings that there is no diff
ference between ship subsidy and
building good roads.
The same trick reasoning was Wit
messed when privilege jammed the
Cummins-Esch act through congress
amid a whirlwind of propaganda un-
equalled in this country.
The elements that would soften op-
position to the ship subsidy are the
same gentry that cheer for the open
shop" and the american plan" and
''free and Independent workers" when
privilege launches union-smashing
war.
These barkers for privilege can re-
peat backwards their parrot formulas
that "the union minimum wage puts
every worker on the same level and
"trade unionists oppose labor inJune-
tons because they want to violate
law"
When the subsidy bill is wrecked
on senatorial rocks these hired intel
lects will again assume their anti
labor attitude and insist that the
rights of the public are paramount
The views of these h. IFS, be 1t
known, will contain no reference TO
the duties of the public.
Privilege must depend on warped
public opinion. Ii can not succeed
when the public understand ques-
ton. The hand of privilege is never
seen in this inflaming of the public
mind. II is the business of the bark
ers and hired intellects to confuse the
people. This they do with their
sophistry, their decoy phrases and
deceptive terms.
Their methods are shown on the
trade union question. on the railroad
question, on immigration, on child
labor and every other issue that chai-
lenges exploitation and greed.
Their trickery and disregard Tor
facts is once again shown by their
claim that a ship subsidy is Identical
to money voted by the people to
maintain their roads and Improve
these inland waterways.