The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Gompers, Farseeing
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 day will do we'll to consult real his tory, for real history offers many les sons of value in our present turmoil. l have no desire to disparage the efforts of any group, either as to motive or result, but it is clear that certain special pleading has been most effective during the past two or three years, and that as a result Congress stands at the verge of decision as to whether .or not the Government must stand sponsor for the economic well being of certain groups.
 The Best Government.
 Many who freely charge the Gov ernment with incompetence feel no hesitation in trusting government to relieve them of the necessity for seek ing their own economic we'll being and safety. There may be temporary relief in that direction, but there is surely no permanent cure.
 The political government of the United States and the basic activi- ties by which life is sustained are as far apart as the poles, and recogni- t1on of the fact ought to be the first lesson in the economic and political education of those who preach vari- ous doctrines for the healing of pub lie i1ls.>
 Our Government, which, as an in stitution, 1 regard as the best in the world, is thoroughly competent in the realm of political affairs, and it is just as thoroughly incompetent out side of that realm. There are reasons. historic and otherwise, for this In the first place, our political govern ment was instituted and given it's character before the coming of the industrial revolution which has changed our whole mode of life. In the second place, our Government is representative of political divisions and subdivisions
 These divisions and subdivisions have unity of interest in certain political affairs, and they have a para mount common interest in the political stability and unity of our country. But when it comes to industry that unity of interest ceases. Any effort to reconcile the political machine with the varied industrial divisions and re- qurements of the country can result only in the most hopeless complica- ton and conflict
 I have said repeatedly, and I be- lieve l voice the overwhelming senti- ment of the organized wage-eaTners that political government is incompe- tent to direct the world of industry I use the word industry" in the broadest sense to mean our whole economic life. I am convinced that this thought is at the very bottom of our national structure, and that to adopt any other concept will be to part company with the America we have known, with the characteristic American institutions we have known and with the traditions we have known.
 Sees Worse Condition.
 tl will be something very much un- like what we have known It will be a departure from the political and economic philosophy that has brought us to our present state, that has given us opportunity for the development of great liberties and that has given us the most remarkable and efficient in dustrial plant in the world We shall come to something new-and some thing, in my opinion, much worse and much more productive of abuses and injustices.
 The injustices begotten of our present order are sufficient. I have for. them no soft words. I think may say with safety that have in weighed against modern mjustice as