The labor world., 1922-03-18
PRODUCERS ARE
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Signs Of Times Indicate Great
Political Revolt Is in.
Maxim & in Several States.
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thoroughly business-like manner.
They know that they have reached
bottom so far as any influence they
may possess with the federal gov
ernment is concerned. They also
know that if they are ever to get
favorable consideration it will be
after they have demonstrated, in
manner so convincing as to leave no
room for doubt as to it's meaning,
that they are perfectly we'll able to
take care Of their interests when
they are invaded.
Privilege gets what it wants be-
cause privilege has been farsighted
enough to know that in political
government it. must control those
who do the governing. It has placed
it's own men on guard, and they
having been doing as fine a. job Of
ship-of-state scuttling as could be
imagined.
Labor Left in Cold.
The workers have been left out in
the cold, cold world because they
have not been similarly forehanded.
They have been rather Indifferent
of citizenship. They have not only
delegated government. but they have
also delegated the power to select
those to whom government has be
delegated: That they have got it in
the neck followed as a natural Incl
dence of their neglect.
It is silly for the producers, con-
stituting as they do a vast majority
Of the electorate. to repine when
things go badly with them. It would
be worse than silly to tolerate an
almost unbearable situation without
trying to improve it..
It would be rather serious mat
ter if any easy and efficacious rem
edy were not at hand, and there
might be some justification for the
general dependency and dread in
spired by this first year Of nor
malcy government. But when every
thing can be made right simply by
the exercise Of the ballot, the work.
blame if they do not break the bonds
that are holding them in CALLING
subsection.
Learns Some lessons.
1t has been truthfully said that
"the Lord helps those who help
themselves" This is perttnently
true when applied to the affairs of
government. The voters may not be
blamed for bad government unless
they permit it to remain bad. Ac-
quiescence is as bad as connivance.
To accept tyranny INTERESTINGLY is
to give approval to the. tyrants.
Labor has learned some bitter
lessons in the school Of adversity.
It has Jared badly during the past
year. It has witnessed an effort
upon the part Of the political indus
trial masters to reduce it to state
of humiliating impotence. It has
also noted that their government
has been an active agent in this con-
spiracy. From this series Of pain
full experiences has come the in
spiration for united and effective
political effort. having for it's pur-
pose the emancipation Of the op-
pressed.
Lincoln Saw 1t.
Lincoln once declared that when
a government was not beneficial to
the people, the people had right
to change. That is all the people
can do, unless they are willing to
grin and bear it.
The workers have done about all
the grinning and bearing -with-it
.that frail human flesh can stand,
hence they are going to adopt the
advice of Lincoln and do the next
thing.
The job won't be we'll done unless
every privilege-serving reactionary
is sent to retirement, where he be-
longs, for the good of the nation.