Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-04


In an editorial entitled "Har
Heans- Soft Headss lie DInyj'.s
commercial-Ncas recently voiced 81
opinion Of the Fam-Iabar party ~
Gently iu national convention IN S.
Paul. The Cammefe.ai-News dc
elarea that the convention was Boz
s5evist IN reality; that the doctrine
Of the party are doctrines Of com
Imunism, and appears 10 fear the re-
suits that may accrue to Republican
ism because Of the split in the farmer
and lab3rer vote.
In expressing is opinion Of the
menace Of this convention tie editor
says some very coed things, indica,-
ing at times that he is inclined to
think seriously Of n few facts that
have impressed Laborine men for the
last two generations. The following
quotation from the editorial speak
| for itself:
Fighting bolshevism with bayon-
cts and bullets and court injunction
| is not a cure for IT, Aside from its
/ leaders who profit by it, bolshevism
! has its cause. Ii does not happen,
] and it is not an accident. 1t can be
/ "doctored" and cured in most cases.
/ The cause must be reached and re
moved. Bolshevist speakers are con
stantly attacking capitalism, as they
! term it, but the unrest that Is swing
ling bolhsevism for relief Is due more
/ largely to industrial leaders who have
hard spots in their hearts and soft
spot in their heads.
at is the hard spots in the hearts
of employers of labor and in the
hearts Of those who control the wealth
of the world that discourage men and
breed discomfort. And it is the dis
Outraged and Disconnected man that
becomes soil in which the seeds 81
bolsheyism readily terminate ano
take root. Bolshevism, however Is
not remedy for the hard spots in
mems hearts. As a cure, it is i'm
measurably worse than is the disease
"The bOlshevist himself can be r..
strained and rendered harmless, bat
when this is done the situation is moi
greatly improved. SO long as The
H hard spots in mems hearts are inscn
/ sible to the needs and to the diScon
tent and encouragement of the me-
whose blood and brain and muscle
are converted into wealth that neithe
they nor their families can ever en-
10Y, there will be a new crop of Dol
shevists coming on every day IN th'
year.
employers who have soft spot
in their heads think that 1t doesn
matter how their employees live no
what opportunities they may have Il
be human, much less to be happy am
contented. They are not concerne'
about the opportunities their EN-
ployes have of educating their chi
a.lse,i, -ara- eisiae them moral and .te
come good citizens. They are not con
eerned about these things, but the!
will become concerned about then
when bolShevism raises its red flaf
and lights its torch.
Hard hearts and soft heads art
responsible fer most of mans in
humanity to man, and they are in
directly responsible fer most of The
bolshevism that poisons the minds OF
honest men,"
Generally the Commentaries IS
not pro-Labor. Though it is to the
papers credit that for some time it
has not taken a stand against Labor
as have many metropolitan news
papers. The statements printed abov,
are to the credit of the editor, anC
appear to indicate that he is thinking
seriously of the danger of the labor
vote, as well as the menace of trying
to force control of Labor by injunc-
ton and other similar drastic and UNI
! lawful means.