The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-22
THE REDS MENACE FREEDOM

THE REDS MENACE FREEDOM
Communists are raving their heads
off about immigration bills now be-
fore congress. The communists are
not particular about describing these
measures truthfully. They want
something to rave about and truth
never was anything for communist
to be careful about.
The situation is this: There are
hostile proposals before congress.
But the outlook is that nothing hos
tile to labor in the way of immigra-
ton will get through.
Perhaps the main reason for hos
tile bills is the existence of COM
munist movement organized to pro-
mote revolution, together with the
fact that the greater part of the conf
munist membership is foreign born
| OF of foreign descent.
The more the communists protest
against hostile immigration legisla-
ton, the greater is the chance that
such legislation may pass.
The communists furnish one of the
chief reasons for the registration pro-
posal. The communists want the
doors left open, naturally, and they
don't want any restrictions that might
bar European communists from Amer
lea.
What the American Federation OF
Labor wants is exclusion. That woulo
not only keep out communists; il
would keep out all low wage Euro
pean competition with American
standards of living.
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SELF-HELP BEST FOR FARMERS
Evidence accumulates that the pro-
gressive farmers of the nation are
gradually coming around to the view
that the only solution of their prob.
lens lies with themselves.
Latest to endorse the plan that has
/ proved so successful in the case OF
the organized workers is the National
Council of Farmers Cooperative
Marketing Associations. At recent
meeting in Washington the council
| declared that the depressed condition
| of the farmer is an economic problem
and can be solved "only by the wise
application of sound economic RENE
dies by the farmers themselves" The
principal difficulty of the farmer is
| the "lack of an efficient system of CO.
| operative marketing" the council de-
clared, adding that price-fxing by the
government would ultimately bring
ruin to the farmers and endanger the
government.
Labor has learned that it must de-
| pend upon itself for enduring results.
| Economic action brings greater bene-
| fits to the workers than other meth
DDS. The farmers of the nation have
yet to learn that the same principle
| applies to themselves, but evidently
! they are awakening. They are begin
ming to realize that there is no sal
vation through politics and politicians.
| AS Samuel Gompers said at the ma
tional wheat conference at Chicago in
June of last year:
"If the farming interests of Amer
lea can devise no sounder method of
maintaining their proper place in the
economic scheme of things than re-
sort to legislatie cure-alls, they are
inevitably doomed to disappointment
/ see no reason why farmers need to
expect hope from anything that does
not also offer hope for labor; and
labor long since abandoned any dream
of salvation through politicians.
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POLITICS A-BOILIN'
The local political pot is heating
up to very near the boiling over point
these days. The candidates are
beyond the bud dding point
they are sprouting right out, seeming
to think too the first to the post has
the best chance for leading to the
wire. There isn't any doubt but that
the primary fights this summer fol
the county berths are going to be the
warmest ever put on in old Butler
county, and that's saying something
as she has certainly seen some hot
ones in the days gone by. But the
contests of past years have mostly
been confined to the democrats. This