The New York herald., 1922-10-05
MR.. MUNSEY SAYS NATION
II NEEDS NEW LIBERAL PARTY

higher--as high as S25 a day for plas-
terers. according to a Chilhgo dispatch
published in one of the mqrning papers
in New York a few days ago. Can you
fancy anything more impossible than
this? Can you fancy what 1t means in
house rents. what 1t means in the cost
OF the shoes we wear. the clothes we
wear. the food we eat? For all branches
of labor have direct bearing. the one
on the other. in respect of wages.
In this situation 1t lis pdrfectly clear
that the country should demand, and
that you should demanda n immediate
change in our immigtt on laws-a
change that will let int this country
the willing workers of pes Old World
who are begging at ourL0i bors for ad.
mittance. In the matter Immigration
what we need, and whatlDsdmmon intel
ligence dictates we shouli have, is not
restrictive laws but a selertive system.
Any change in the indignation law
that would let into this cbuntry more
plain labor and more skilled mechanics
kwil be fought to the limit by organized
labor Whether our present. restrictive
law was passed at the behdst of organ-
lied labor do not know hit do know
that the law Is exactly what organized
labor has been contending TOR, and what
organized labor will contend for with all
its force.
Our Political Machinery.
A country the size or America. a
democracy, must have party govern
ment. There Is no other way to man
age 1t. No big concern can exist without
organization. and the biggest business
concern in the world to-day is the Amer
lean Government.
A democracy is mutual concern
managed by the citizens of the country
With a population of a hundred and
ten millions, obviously the only way the
individual citizen can make himself felt
in the management of his bvsiness-and
his Government is his business--is
through a political party.
We are not lacking in parity organiza-
tion. Indeed, the Democratic and Re-
publican parties /are SO strongly organ
ized. have become so Thoroughly in
trenched in the field OF politics. that 1t
is a question IL they have not become
our masters. not our servants.
In the early days of the Republic they
represented distinct and positive ideas.
But with these great fund Eamental ideas
converted into history there are no
longer any big outstanding issues be-
tween them that have amy place in our
politics.
There are, to be surd many small
points on which the Republican and
Democratic parties differ to-day. 1t Il
their business to differ, to create differ
ences, to work up issues. without which
they would cease to exist as political
parties.
1t is the business OF each party to
oppose and to fight the acts and pro-
posals of the other party. There is very
| little team work between the two parties
in Congress and in our State Legisla-
tures given to constructive measures
very little team work given to the econ
omies of government, given unselhshly
| to the interests of the Government and
to the interests of the people.
The truth is that neith er party has a
sufficient margin OF safety to justify II
in taking chances on sudh cooperation
that neither party has sufficient margin
of safety TO justify it in forgetting fol
minute the vote back home.
While this political jockeying has beer
going on since the great old issues dis
! appeared, new issue has developed
that now divides all America into two
political camps as yet without politica
names. They are the radical camp ant
the conservative camp, and within eacf
camp there is a wide range of thought
ana feeling.
Some day, and not very distant da,
at that, these two groups will evolv,
into organized political parties will
names that signify what they stand for.
| The names of the Republican ant