The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-13
The Cherry
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We tell the truth
shout many things. sometimes pre-
feundly, sometimes Aippantly,
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| Two arguments have been worked
overtime by wage cutters. One is
that commodity prices are falling. The
other is that nobody is buying any
thing because nobody is sure of his
income.
AS far as validity of logic is con-
cerned the wage cutters might as
well say that wages must come down
because the bear went over the noun
tain. Or they might as we'll chant,
"All bound round with wooden
string" or "a mother was chasing
her son round the ROOM"
cts all the bologna, with the "g"
silent like paper dollar in bucket
of water
But now comes the clinching proof
of inconsistency. Commodity prices
are moving upward! Now what will
the wage cutteers argue? What will
be their excuse, their stall, their dish
of tripe?
/ Wage cutters have been in many
cases commanded to cut wages by
their bankers.
| A public, disgusted with the ways
and doings of the big Wall street
bankers who dominate American
banking, has been rapidly souring on
bankers, to the injury of a great many
bankers who have no more to do with
general banking policy than the man
, in the moon. They, too, are caught in
the net.
But the public has been taking a
lot of matters into their own hands.
1t has been taking money and putting
it in the old family sock, or tin box,
or safety deposit box.
During the last two months postal
savings deposits increased 100000, ,00O
which is lot of dollars, if placed end
: to end.
However, what do we see now
, What we observe is that the post
office department, having oodles OF
money, is making it available to
needy banks. That is just what the
law provides for.
: So it turns out to be true that the
world is round, after all, and dollars
will roll down hill to their own level.
But if bankers are as wise on the
whole as they are wise in spots they
will begin to see to it that sound
basis for public confidence is created
to check and reverse the tide that is
flowing steadily against them in the
public mind.
When said and conservative
: periodicals talk about "the silent
run on the banks" as they do, it
is time for somebody to do some
tall thinking-it is time for bet
ter deal, fairer shake.
A great many will point to the
English elections and say the people
are swinging "to the right" which
mtans toward conservatism In the
popular sense that is wrong. In the
stricter sense it is right. Conserve
means to guard and save and that is
e the spirit of the people-to guard anf
n save things dear to them. Chie1
among these is liberty and publ,
honesty.
The people will conserve gooe
n things and they may tear hell out O.
: what they consider bad things
= The election in England, rightly
seen, is an election in which the peo
pie determined to conserve goot
Y things, precious things. Conservation
e in that case did not mean something
;. next door to reaction.
E There is nothing reactionary abou
the public mood today. Let such meI
as Banker Wiggin, of the Chas,
National, get that out of their heads
More people know more abou
e economies today than ever before
! They are less easily fooled. The pub
! lie appetite for apple sauce is at it!
lowest The wage earners don't wan
''boloney."