The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-05-08

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This industrial civil war in England
has able, earnest, educated and hon.
est men leading. You sympathize with
both sides--with Baldwin. the pre-
mier, devoted to the empire and the
welfare Of the British. and, with RAM
say Macdonald, equally. sincere, and
determines that the masses of the
people, after the great wars sacri-
fices. shall have better conditions.
MacDoAeld's tone is, conciliatory,
but there is an ugly ring to the state.
ment of his associate, ]. H. Thomas,
head Of the railway union, "Let Us not
lose our heads, whatever wreck il may
bring" The wreck would not be for
any one class, and the hungry children
would be the children of working men,
not Of the aristocracy.
There is ugly fighting and there
may be more Of it, and uglicr. But
there will be no "butcheries Of aris-
tocrats," as in France in the eigh-
other day. That is not the British
character.
The losses to Britain will be gi-
gantic and values cut down, for 4 long
period. Striking workers alone will
lose $l2.000,O0 a day in wages.
The direct cause justdfies the strike
among wOrkingmen everywhere, and
helps the game of foreign agitators,
it such are involved, as is alleged.
Owners Of coal mines that do not
work, the greatest among them hav-
ing inherited, in idlcness, coal depos-
its millions Of years old, announced
that they would cut wages IL 1/3
per cent, and increase the hours
OF labor from to 3 per day, wiping
out concessions made to workers whe
the war ended and the cost of food
went up.
In the Irish crisis long ago, the
British simplified their problem by
notifying Irish land owners that they
must sell to the Irish farmers at cheap
prices, fixed by the government on
long credit. government financing
the transactions. The farmers made
their lands pay.
The same thing may be done with
coal mine owners, much IS organized
finance hates government operation,
or ownership. OF course, individual
miners could not own and operate
parts of coal mines, as Irish farmers
work their land. Groups Of miners
might try hut would probably not
succeed in making of mining . COM
mercial success.
j Thus the government would be
forced to undertake the work. But
thst would be only one step. Railroads
would come next. Other industries
would follow.
It was proved in the French revolu-
ton that the only way to content an
their lands. 1t may be shown in Eng
land, where lands are less valuable
and not able to support the popula-
ton. that the only way to content an
angry industrial nation is to let that
nation own its industries, as the
French, Swedish and Russian peas
ants own the soil.
This strike will tell more about
that.
England's difficulty is lack of OPP.
portunity for all her ambitious men.
Imagine great Britain's population Of
from AZ, to 43 millions crowded into
county little more than half the
size of California, with one-tenth of
CALIFORNIA; fertility.
Such a country cannot feed its pop
ulation. or supply openings for all
the ambition developed there. More
of it, must 60 to Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, India, and
the rest Of the world. The British peo-
pie should be more anxious to keep
those territories for overflow" than
to fight each other in their little
"main office" on the. foggy northwest
coast of Europe.
British aristodracy is divided into
utter fools and remarkably able
statesmen and thinking men. The ut
ter fools are already holding Lloyd
George responsible for today's
troubles. saying he has arraycd class
against class, arousing dissatisfaction
with his attacks on aristocratic mon
opoly of unused land.
They. forget that, had it not been
for Lloyd George, they wouldn't have
any British government problem.
Without him the kaiser, or one of his
sons, would be looking after this
strike, attending to it with machine
guns carefully located in Trafalgar
Square, at the Marble Arch and other
useful points.
American high finance is worried,
az usual. The fatter your white rah-
bit, the more timid. Fat keeps him
from running.
But there is nothing 50 worry the
United States, except its own foolish
fears.
In New Jersey on the Atlantic. the
cheerful Charles N. Schwab, tells this
country it needn't worry, Having
one-sixth Of the worlds good pppula-
ton, and most of the worlds money"
At San Francisco on the Pacific,
Herbert Fleishhacker, head of q great
bank with dealings all over the world,
said yesterday, "A bad situation, hut
the British will wsrk their way out,
as they always do. Nothing to worry
this country"
The best words came from Baldwin.
Britain's able. earnest premier, at the
end of what seemed discouraged
speech in the House OF Commons.
Everything cared for is smashed
to bits. Only faith and courage re-
main.."
Faith and courage are enough, and
will solve any problem.
Goethe wrote, Courage gone, every
thing gone, better thou vert never
horn"
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