The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-13
Rule of the Rich Controls
The United States TodayZs
Bryan s Theory of Trouble
Government Seems to Think Society Is Suspended From
Top Instead of Supported From Bottom-He Is Not
Discouraged With Reports of Breakdown of Prohibition
Enforcement.

New York, Dec. 13.-Tho optimistic
of what the coming year will bring to
the United States. William Jennings
Bryan today emphatically denounced
the rule of the rich that he claims
now controls the country and urged as
NEW policies which would strengthen
the nation at home and abroad, the
giving of all possible moral support
to European nations and a stringent
enforcement of the prohibition laws
by blunt talk to foreign powers.
The commoner in an interview to-
day saw little of the discoura ging in
the reported breakdown of the ma
Itional and state machinery to cope
with the liquor problem. Reports OF
the breakdown, he said, are greatly ex-
laggerated.
problem. he suggested boards of in
lvestigation that would make clear 10
the public the real state of affairs IN
1.-The industry in question, relying upon
ipublic pressure to force settlement be-
Ifore actual strikes or lockouts oc-
icurred. But in event of strike or
lockout, Bryan advocates laws that
would give the government the power
Ifo take over the industries and oper-
late them for the public welfare unit
a settlement between the opposing
forces is reached
League of Nations Needs L. S.
| He said:
| II think it very unfortunate that
we did not go into the league OF ma
ltions with reservations, when we hau
an opportunity and unfortunate asa sar,
That the Republicans did not carry
out their promise of an association OF
s@The name is immaterial and the
details are comparatively unlmportant-
THE outstanding fact is that we have
a moral influence that we are not US
ing and a world confidence that is not
helms, employed as it should be.
! Europe seems unable to forget the
I nj a future
| international cooperation ana gooo
will and no nation except ours Is IN a
position to act as a trusted ADVISER
and bring about harmony
| SeT am glad we have a representative
az lausanne 1 think that We should
respond to every call for ADVICE VIII WIZ,
the understanding that we reserve the
| right to decide for ourselves what we
ebaii do and that we are not bound
nv anv action taken by other natlons
in regard to European affairs
In other words. without surrender,
ing independence of action, we should
| exert our moral influence to the run
toward the promotion OF universal
| peace. ,-o,
There is no sentiment. whatever
towards alliance such as Clemenceau
advocates If the question were sub
| mitted to a popular vote. doupt II
there is voting precinct IN the Dnl.eo
/ States that would vote tor any aIIlaa l
| with France or any other European
| country. ,,,;1i1
| tarv aspirations, commercial anpi-
| tons and colonial policies with Wn .c
| we have no sympathy and with WhicH
| we can have no part. These interests
| wholly their own, would make IL nm
| possible for them to consider our posi-
! ton, our wishes or our weI1are " WEI
| they took measures that might Ieao
II believe that they would be more
likely to follow a peaceIul cou ,,id
without an alliance than they Wo1 GI.
if they commanded our resources 10 !,
{ the advancement of their interests.
| The commoner, tho expressing an
optimistic tone in considering Whal
| the year may bring to the country,
was vigorously opposed to what ne
| termed a country ruled by the r1ch-
| '1The disease from which the coun-
| try is now suffering, ne SAID can
best be described as the ruls ot ne
rich This explains the results OF the
| last election The farmers, one-tn-ro
of our nation, have been turned oHei
| to the profiteers for plumber ana eA-
ploitation. The laboring men were
/ sa crificed to the demands of big cor
| porations and people with small IN
comes were sacrificed in the interests
of those with big incomes.
1.-THE present administrator is re
dictionary.
wrong View of Society.
1.-The president and his advisers are
/ all honest men, well meaning anu
patriotic in purpose, but they thlnh
| that society is suspended from the top
| instead of being built up from the
bottom They have acted on the
theory: Let the government take care
| of the rich and let the rich take care
of the poor. -
"Plutocracy has never been more
bold and it is fortunate that the re-
buke came in time to prevent any
further reactionary legislation.
THE friends of privilege are max
ing their last stand in the fight for
the ship subsidy, Their motto seems
| to be: Get it while the getting is sooo.
Their battle hymn: Work 1or tne
night is coming T., b,s
recent message, that the findings OF
the labor bureau, which he proposes
in connection with the interstate com
nerce commission, be made pinolhe::
| is exactly in line with the deslres %
hitratio1 which all depends upon the
\ bias of the third man, the uInPIe
And the umpire will always De on ~
eide of the employers, so long as tHeS
elect the president
Investigation Is Needed.
ct would have. instead, lnvesuga
lion investigation brings out facts
80 nuhIic opinion can be relied upon
/ 20 bring about Cancellation when an
Itha facts are known. Compulsory ar
bjtration is not in harmony with our
institutions and will not be sausLae
| tory but invest cation, leaving the
IA rites independent as to the acton
in Conclusion, would in nearly every
ease prevent strikes or lockouts.
| a.F311t where a strike or LOCKOUT ac-
tuaIIv occurs as in the last two sum-
n7ers. 1 think the best remedy is au-
thority on the part of the government
STATE or national, so far as the dlf1i-
1 or general.