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Show No More Force Bills Disputes must sometimes be settled by the compulsion of force, but such settle-ments are seldom conclusive or satisfactory The side that suiters from compulsion com-pulsion always remains resentful and the winner secretly gloats over a victory achieved by force. A settlement made by an appeal ap-peal to reason, or arbitration or by any of the other methods of peace, is always more satisfactory satisfac-tory on both sides. If the beclouded issues which led up to the awful war abroad could have been submitted to arbitration, ar-bitration, giving- time for the beat of passion to cool, for calmer calm-er councils to prevail and for the universal voice of peace to be heard, Europe would not be deluged de-luged in blood. When the question of the constitutional con-stitutional right of the negro to vote was considered, in the heated heat-ed strife of partisian struggles, and it was proposed to compel the south by force to accept the the equality of the negro at the ballot box! a silent protest was heard throuout the north,- and the South was left to settle this grave issue in the light of patient experience. Every labor dispute settled by arbitration is well settled. Arbitration Ar-bitration leaves both sides in a better frame of mind and restores re-stores and continues peaceful conditions. A labor struggle settled by a strike is never definitely defi-nitely settled. The strike embitters em-bitters both sides, is destructive alike to labor and capital, and works serious injury to the public pub-lic welfare. A family dispute settled by compulsion leaves lasting- marks of disruption, severs family ties, often divorces father and mother and sends children adrift from the tender, helpful influences of the home. When the four Brotherhoods at Washington refused to arbitrate the eight-hour-question and insisted tha"t Congress and the President yield to their cemand, they raised once more the issue o force bill an"d challenged an expression ex-pression regarding the righteousness righteous-ness of arbitration from the business bus-iness men, farmers, workmen and all who constitute the thinking think-ing patriotic masses. Leslie's. |