The Washington times., 1922-07-15

H<iSsASS&ssSSyD "So' iio hno
WILLIAM HARD. the Republican
regular reservation three times. He
went off II on the League OF Ma
tions. He went off II on the last
revenue bill. ~ went off 1t yes
terday on the tariff. He is a man
of the most varied talents. He is
a deep student of the Greek lang.
uage and OF Greek literature. He
Is an able practitioner of precinct
politics. He has learning and he
has rough stuff sense. His speech
on the tariff yesterday was a mas
terpiece in the handling of facts
and a masterpiece in the handling
or words. He illustrates what liter
ally hundreds of men in Washing
ton illustrate. Few OF them arc
as able as Moses, but they all of
them are able enough to illustrate
the following fact:
There is plenty OF ability in
Washington. There is plenty of ma
tive mental power. What is lack
Ing is a popular mandate broad
enough and clear enough and
strong enough to send the mass Of
this mental power in some one
dominant direction.
Moses has a direction of his
own. So has Borah. In fact,
Borah has several directions OF his
own. l meet Republicans who want
to nominate him for President. L
meet Democrats who think he
would make grand Democratic
nominee. On the political prairies
i meet escaped mavericks who are
certain that Borah's proper destiny
n t.I
who will piece Borah together will
find that the pieces are admirable
pieces of several different philoso-
phies, all Of which are contending
for mastery In the mind and con.
stIence of America today. Which
o. these philosophers will win is
not yet clear. And 80 II Is ESQ
Among the leaders of labor who are
supposed to have made but who did
not make these present railroad
and coal strikes.
The public should realize that for
year after year now the leaders of
the railroad unions have been
checking strikes and not in any
way fomenting them. Bert M.
Jewell, the head of the Railroad
Employees Department of the Fede.
ration of Labor and the chief
spokesman of the present railroad
teen hours a day in Washington
during the war keeping railroad
workers working. w. II. Johnston,
president of the machinists, would
much rather give his time to run
ming his Committee on Progressive
Political Action" and to being-as
he fs-a director OF a bank in
washington than to managing a
strike and to persuading strikers to
keep their fists off the eyes of
strikebreakers. The leaders of the
railroad unions are persons with
strong sense of property. Their
unions have property.
j. A. Franklin, president of the
Boilermakers, has just built a nice
big building owned by his union for
Its own offices in Kansas City. Kan.
Martin F. Ryan. president Of the
Carmen" who are exceeding num-
erous, has just been authorized BIZ
them to build an office building for
them and also to start a bank. The
machinists already have a bank, and
the locomotive engineers have two or
three banks.
AS for J. w. Kline, president Of
the Blacksmiths, he would rather
address mems meetings in Methodist
churches than strike. And as for
Glenn e. Plumb, whose Plumb plan
creates such terror in the corners
OF our safest clubs, the whole lesson
Of his propaganda is that striking
against the railroads for better wages
Is an endless task, and the counsel
of common sense is to vote for a Cor.
gress which will pass the necessary
laws for making the railroad en-
ployes a responsible element in rail.
road management and control.
The conservative railroad union
leaders detest strikes because they
prefer being happy to being worried,
and because II pains them to see the
union treasures depleted The so.
called radical leaders detest
strikes because they think they know
better methods of progress. The
rank and file OF railroad employees.
exactly like tho rank and file of
voters in general, seem to be in
sort of halfway house between being
conservative and being radical"
and they seem to % devoted neither
20 quiet acceptance OF existing in.
stitutions nor 10 a resolute creation
OF new ones.
The result is that tho railroad EN-.
ployes are Just as difficult a problem
today to their leaders as the voters
In general are to tho politicians. The
whole country today is saying to it's
leaders:
"I don't know what I want; but
give II to me or I'll bite YOU"
Political opinion at Washington is
that anybody who will now finally
tell this country what Il wants will
have to be a high mixture of a states.
man, a psychoanalyst, and a wild
animal trainer.
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