The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-12-27

er than through congress. The World court ana
the child labor amendment have right of way &C
cording to the joint committee.
In the meantime Mrs. o. II. P. Belmont, presi-
dent of the National Woman's party, is predict
ing third party In 1924-wth woman candidate
for presdent-in case neither Of the major parties
receives the equal rights amendment with faVor
Boy, page Mr. Prophet againl
Mrs. Belmont and her cohorts will have to hurry
things or they will find themselves the fourth par
ty, instead of the third. For the call for nom-
mating convention in May has gone forth and
its keynote is the Establishment of special priv
iIege." By special privilege" is meant the I'M
just economic advantage by possession of which
a small group controls national resources.
transportation, industry and credit, stiles compe
tition prevents opportunity for development Of
all, and thus Dictates conditions under which we
live"
Here's real job for the puzzle expert. Who
will head this party? How Is this special priv
iege" to be abolished? How is this small group"
to be identified? And what will be done to them
for officiating the conditions under which we liver?
Anyway, they should not be boiled in oil or any
thing like that, for on the whole the conditions
under which we live might be worse. If $4,000 of
us want to see prize fight and are willing to pay
something like million and a quarter dollars for
the privilege, they let us. They let us own about
100000 motor vehicles and burn all the gasoline
we want to pay for. They let us crowd the movies
and make the high-fare railroad trains run In sec
lions They offer no objection when we increase
denosits in savings banks by $5O0.000000, running
the total up TO seventeen billion. They have al
lowed the establishment of fifteen new working
mems banks in the last three years with resources
of S45O00,0O0. They are letting workingmen In
vest millions in the business of their employers.
They allowed workingmen last year to send back
S4OOOOOOOO to friends and relatives in Europe.
WHY they even allow the women of the country
TO spend a million and half on hair nets. So
down with this special privilege that so controls
our Industry and credit and dictates these rigor-
Gus conditions of existencel
Here is one thing which might be puzzle, but is
not: Approximately $4,000 of CALIFORNIA; jap
anese are planning to migrate eastward or return
to Japan, as a result of the United States Su-
preme courts decision unfolding the states alien
land laws. Nearly a million and a half of the
richest agricultural lands of the state, now leased
to Japanese must be returned to white owners.
1t is heavy blow to the Japanese. OF CALIFORNIA;
enormous vegetable and fruit industry, more than
so per cent has been for ten years controlled by
Japanese Naturally the Japanese government
does not like this; the Japanese press reflects Its
feelings and those of the Japanese people. But
whatever Japan may do about this wholesale BAN
ishment of her nationals there will be no yellow
Peril in 1924 or for many years to come.
Theoretically, of course on New Years Day all
the world is going to swear off, turn over new
leaf, and make good resolutions and live up to
them. Everybody is going to pay his debts quit
quarreling with his neighbors and act like gen.
tleman. In theory 1924 will begin business with
human nature reformed and the Golden Rule in
full operation. And as with men, so with nations.
1t should be So Else the Grim Reaper may find
us unprepared "In the midst of life we are in
death" few months ago the kindly gentleman
and sincere patriot at the head of this great ma
ton was alive and well. A little later a four
year-old boy, representing the children of the
ton, tiptoed across the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington and reverenty placed wreath upon
his bier. And that same boy Is also In his
graye-run over by motor truck