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Show MOT IS HAVE PEACH. There is too much unrest in this country. Conditions are entirely too unsettled. Ther is bickering, backbiting, jabbing jab-bing and confusion everywhere. La.hor anil m.nilol n re cnntinnnllv at each other's throats,' probably more so than they have ever been before. Every srike, every cessation of activities, sends the price of living higher. If one group of men demands increased wages and wins out in the contest, that increase is paid for by an advance in the cost of the product which they produce. This causes an increase in the cost of living and other groupes demand increased compensation in order to meet it. And it goes down the line always a boost somewhere. No one is satisfied, practically everyone is more or less disgruntled, and nowhere does a remedy or a stabilizing influence appear to be in evidence. To bring order out of the present chaos requires the mind of a Solomon Solo-mon and Solomon is still to be found. It would seem that one of three thincs must eventually happen. Trices will g0 back to pre-war dtys, a standard of prices for all trades or professions will be fixed, or a great cataclysm will overtake the country and do its own leveling. The first is difficult to conceive, the second appears impossible of attainment, at-tainment, and the latter is an alternative al-ternative to be dreaded and shunned. Two facts stand out as clear as day. The man who is making the money will not relinquish his advantage, ad-vantage, and the man who is not making it is determined to have it. And with these two powerful forces constantly battling each other it is difficult to conceive from what source industrial peace will come. Hut we want peace industrial, political and every other kind of peace. We are weary of sitting on the lid of a volcano that is continually at the point of eruption. |