The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-11
FoRp's MIXED METAPHORS.


ctntroycrsy can scarcely be cla8'od as valuable
Tke gentleman mixed his metaphors too much
" ramblcd ana barely missed meeting him
s6lf returning
bIt Ia apparent that the disturbed relations
bsiwccn employer and employe cannot be
healed completely ana permanently by en-
pfoyers treating their men moro considerably
ifthe unions nre sot up and maintained by the
money Kings of Wall street" Yet Ford mnkcs
bhth statements In most dosmate manner
fMr Ford cnternins tho same affection for
tAe money kings OF wall street" as does the
Professional labor aRitator, yet he has scarcely
more affection for the professional labor agi-
tGor what more natural thon that he should
couple his two pet avcrsions ms matter OF
vtrbul convenience.
iIfad the Detroit manufacturer said that In
their objective and their practices the manpula-
,Sfs Of organized labor are in no sense different
fx,m the manipulators Of finance he would have
bscn on ground from which nc could not BIO
dfivcn by any amount Of logic, testimony or
Argument Tho money kings OF Wall street"
sfsk more and moro power. greater and greater
ptsfts; they would dominate the republic IN its
efory activity And that statement applies With
oat the slightest qualification to the captains Of
ltjtor VINO have learned 20 herd labor and mar
PFhl 1t foE ATTACK, ftli'W or ueploNhVht "H
either flank. best arl's their designs
sso far. as the republic i'sclt is concerned,
fkr as tho great mass OF citizenship is CON
chrned there is no moro dagger In an autoe-
raey OF capital than In an autocracy Of pro-
ftxional lnbor The Is moro neces-
sfy than is the other; nor Is the one entitled
tyfa whit more consideration at the hands OF
fpyernmont than is the other. Because while
f'may be contendod that capital is the off
caring OF labor IT is equally true aud und.sput-
sble that labor is the nasceut offspring ,ot cap
itsi While labor was first being Van's PRIMAL
eetnte Ia tho sense that the term is employed
ih these days. It cannot oxist without capital.
Fence conflict het.yeen the two, especially con
oSruing priority Of right or prmacy before tho
lhw, is grotcsquely absurd ms a similar con-
%oversy would he between natural father
lSd son.
s"There isn't labor union In the country
Ermed primarily by the men or run for their
apneflt" says Ford. In this the gcntleman IL
aknently correct Organizers OF unions arc
Iept afoot for precisely the same basic reason
tAat proselyting or evanEel2hng is practiced by
al organ Ions hat the money may he Kept
Tpwing IN. Tho organizers and the controllers
a. unonlsm have as much and no moro interest
Ia tho Individual welfare OF the membership AZ
ee public utility has In the individual welfare
u its patrons,
kUnlonism grows because It IS profitable To a
Nv; bringing 10 those few vast opportunities In
y financial way vast authority and dstinc-
ton which they would not otherwise attain.
inst now thcra is perfec, epidemic OF new
aScleties. lodges and organizations ot various
xnds Take any single one Of these orgunza-
tions and apayze il aud what do YOU lind
Charitable concern FOR the individual welfare
N It's members? Not b!t OF Il. They are the
Vehicles used boy ambitious and desEninE pro,
moters g. attain the prime objective OF almost
syery Mechanical Independence and the pos
Session OF unusual authority over an unusual
humber OF fellow human beings.
HThe fluancier adopts money Tor his purposes
the labor leader seles.. labo'lns men, the pro-
motor OF Ku-ItluNlsn chose prejudice hatred
and religious hysteria. And 20 on ad nfinitum
There is difference only IN the method, the
sas!c objective being tho same IN all cases
What do You think, IS the motive impellina
those vto are now preparing to launch fe
male Vu-IiluN Knn9 Nothing but the finaucia
Auccess lch has come 70 tho founders and
packers Of tho parent Ku-Klux Kan and tht
nope Of reaping a similar reward,
Man IN his individual capacity free OF all art
fcial -.s,raints, is difficult phenomena T.,
herd ana handle. Bring half-do2eu men 10
sether 10 discuss any single proposition and 81
loug az no extraneous Influences are allowed {,
Sntcr, so long as each man represents himself
here Is considerable division the verdict fin
ally going to the side where the greatest natura
reason and justice reposes witness the atmos
there Of the jury room, whore traditonally on
is alone with one's conscience. oue's fellows an
the law and evidence
! But n men can bc induced 10 enter organi2a
zion hedged about with pomp, ceremony, mys
Acsm ana secrecy. they become plastic IN tn
hands Of tho chief manipulator. The obga
tion. frequently weird and blood -curdlinp iu IN