Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-05-25
COMMENT AND
CRITICISM ABOUT
WORLD DOINGs

Gary hedges. Says he doesn't
want American people 10 think he
favors unrestricted immigration.
Thinks il would be bad II workers
got that impression.
The Judge needn't worry. We IN
derstand him perfectly.
What Gary wants is unrestricted
immigration for the steel trust.
He is willing that there be all kinds
of restriction for anyone else.
Foxy boy. that Gary man.
Bishop Blake. Methodist. goes to
Moscow and spills a yard Of gash
about the wonders of the soNletS.
His House of Bishops hears about
il and tells him 10 80 back 10 Paris
and repudiates his foolish and ridiea.
lous prattle.
England gives Moscow ten days 10
back down from lot Of insulting
propositions in which Russia has
broken the word pledged in the IA.
NOUS trade agreement.
Everybody knew just what England
would get aut of her trade agreement
with the Moscow aSsassins-evefy-
body but those who refused TO know.
Hot water for Moscow all the way
round.
Herbert Hoover says that We could
provide everybody with the same
amount of commodities they had ten
years ago and lay off 100000 work
ers. That's how fast We have in.
creased production in America. That's
what American workers have done;
that's what American management
has done.
With a record like that why do
American employers ever need to
quarrel with American workers about
decent wages?
They don't; and when they insist
on quarreling it's pretty good sign
that plain hoggishness is back of II
all.
Hoover further points to the fact
that rs per cent of the automobiles
| in international trade are American
made, at a real wage three times as
| high as the real wage paid in some
other countries. If American goods
can win in competition of that kind
il puts still bigger dent in the ef,
| forts of American employers who al
|
or fight unions.
The Cloth Hat and Cap Makers, In
convention in New York, refused t'
listen to an address by the propagan.
dist William Y. Foster.
The convention heard Gompers lay
down some hard and fast trade unloI
doctrine. Fosters friends and agents
then tried to get permission for hin
to tell the convention all about hi'
union busting Utopia. But the unior
told him to go chase himself around
the block.
That's one darned good way OF
handling the Foster propaganda!
| Twenty-one deaths in year In q
Florida convict camp owned by state
/ senator--so the newspaper reports go,
And yet the Florida Legislature
hedges and trims about abolishing the
leasing system!
1t wants to Temporarily" abolish
the lash and see how that works out.
Could anything be more prepos.
ferrous and amazing in 1923?
Florida goes to great lengths to
advertise itself to the country as a
paradise where all manner Of folk
may come and play.
Perhaps the incongruity of play
| ground where human beings are
leased into slavery and logged to
death will yet occur to the honorable
members of the Florida state legisla-
ture-even if some of the Legislators
do own and profit by convict camps!
! -
The National City Bank thinks that
"if everything had come down to-
gether" there wouldn't have been
such a crash in after-war dehation.
Banks will be banks, and no way
out of 1t.
"If everything had come down to-
gether" is the banks way of saying