The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-08-09

pdlny at the White house.
IH!ltD-That there will be TO
radica. railroad legislation as pro-
posed ln some quarters, at the next |
session OF congress, except over d
presldential veto. /
In support of these conclusions, !
there are cited numerous extracts |
from the public archives and papers
OF Calvin Coolidge, when he was gov
ernor of Massachusetts, among them
being mis- Labor day address at Ply
mouth Sept. |, 1919, in which he said: |
"The great outstanding fact in the
economic life of America is that the |
wealth of the nation is owned by the
people of the nation. The stockhold-
ers of great corporations run into the
tradesmen, the thrifty householders,
the tlllers of the soil, the depositors
in savings banks and the owners of
government bonds, make the number
that includes nearly our entrie people.
"The great aim of our government
is to protect the weak-to aid them to
become strong. How can our people
be made strong? Only as they draw
strength from our industries. How
can they do that? Only by building
up our industries and making them
strong. This is fundamental. 1t is
the place to begin. These are the in
struments of all our achievement
When they fall, all falls. When they
prosper, all prosper. Workmen's COM
pensation, hours and conditions of
labor, are cold consultations if there
be no employment. And employment
can be had only if some one finds it
toh 10 thn
the greater the wages.
Taxes must be measured by ability
to meet them out Of surplus income.
Industry must expand or fail. It
must show surplus after all pay
ments of wages, taxes and returns to
investors. Conscription can call once;
then all is over"
Public Spending Will Be Curbed
Those hopeful Of an era Of free
public spending or the expenditures
of large funds from the national
| treasury to benefit certain classes of
recipients, including proponets Of SOL
diers' bonus, are finding little comfort
from Coolidge's message to the Massa-
chusetts legislature, in the early
spring Of 1919 returning house bill No.
| 1929 without his approval.
In the document accompanying the
vetoed bill, Governor Coolidge said:
This bill raises salaries of mem
bers of the general court from $1,000
to $500 and is retrovative. It's
necessary to decide whether the COM
monwealth can well afford this sd-
ditional tax and whether any public
benefit would accrue from it. These
are times that require careful scrutiny
of public expenditure. Burden of taxes
resulting from war is heavy. The ad-
dition Of $4,000 to the expenditures
of the commonwealth in perpetuity is
not to be undertaken but upon pro-
found necessity.
"The skill of the physician, the cour-
age of the soldier, that which we call
courage in all men, are not matters
Of hire and salary. Honor has been
the reward for what they give. Public
acclaim and ceremonious recognition
paid to returning heros are not on &C
count of their government pay but of
the service and sacrifice they gave
their country"
And again, from the same dOcu
ment: "The most solemn obligation
placed by the constitution on the ex-
ecutive is the power of veto"
While Coolidge's handling of the
police strike in Boston has eclipsed
some of his noteworthy utterances
while governor of Massachusetts,
there appears to be food for thought
today in his address in Oct. 1919 to
the Republican state convention, at
Boston in which he referred to the
police situation.
Among other things of peculiar ap
plication today he said:
"That agitation and unrest which
has been characteristic of the whole
world since the war has had some
manifestation here. There is natur-
al desire in every human mind to seek
better conditions. Such a desire
is altogether praiseworthy. There
must, however, be discrimination in
the methods employed.
Urges Thrift And Industry
"Wholesale criticism of everybody
and everything does not necessarily
exhibit statesmanlike qualities. Not
all those who are working to better
the conditions of the people are Boil
sheviki or enemies of society. Not all
those who are attempting to conduct
successful business are profiteers::
"What we need is thrift and in
dustry. Let everybody keep at work.
Profitable employment is the death
blow to Bolshevsm and abundant pro-
duction is disaster to the profiteer.
"Our salvation lies in putting
forth greater effort. in manfully as
suming our own burdens, rather than
entertaining the pleasant delusion that
they can be shifted to some other