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Show THE CITIZEN 4 d How much of his propaganda is purely of is difficult to tell at this time. How much of it has its attempt of that personage of more or less renown according to ones oiled tentacles grounded in European soil is, also, a matter of Eternal Vigilance is still the price of liberty, and Americans personal point of view who went abroad two years ago and conducted himself more as a citizen of the world than specifically of love their country and their form of government, who hold sacre America. their constitution and incline to the belief that the Declaration And again the hope is father to the wish when the propagand- Independence is still the Magna Charter for all humanity, and ists dwell lovingly upon the wide breach which they assume has that it shall not be scrapped, will do well to reserve judgment regard, come about in the ranks of President Hardings advisors with the ing a cabinet debacle and lend their loyal support to President Hard appointment of Colonel Harvey to the court of England. In this ing in his obvious efforts to untangle the nation from the iniquity astute representative of Americanism who uttered defiance of the and idealistic skein of international tangles into which it was being idea for the world, in his maiden speech directed ; and back his effort to the limit, to again place it on that Wilsonian in London, they sense a hostility to international plans of Secretary firm, independent national footing, with Americanisn Hughes, which they covertly hope will lead to an open eruption and. which was the legacy and the glory of the great men who ma4 America what it is and all that it stands for today. place President Harding in an embarrassing position. chief advisors and that this porch climbers attempt to barter away the sovereignty of America will fall as flat as did the notable super-governme- wide-sprea- America-origi- nt shot-throu- gh CONGRESS PICKS PROHIBITION FLA WS In congress some critics of prohibition are pleased to call it a If it is the failure they believe it to be it is not a national, joke. joke but rather the gravest error the people of the United States have made in the framing of laws. The hearing in congress emphasized those defects of prohibition which are becoming common knowledge and which cause us to wonder whether prohibitory regulations ever can be made effective. One argument that influenced the people in final days of the fight for prohibition appears to have been wholly without merit. We were told that prohibition was ineffective because intoxicants could be shipped from wet states to dry states and that it would become effective if a national law were passed. Enact national prohibition and it will be successful, said the drys. They were perfectly sincere. They believed what they said and they persuaded many of the wavering to believe with them. A disturbing phase of prohibition was stressed during a colloquy between Representative Hill of Maryland and Representative Tillman of Arkansas. The Maryland solon was urging that the enforcement of the law be placed in the hands of the attorney general. If you are trying to repeal the Volstead act, why so solicitous about its enforcement? inquired Representative Tillman. As long as we have the law it ought to be enforced, was the But when you have a law that is a national joke because nf reply. it is calculated to bring all laws into contempt. non-enforcem- ent THE OBVIOUS INTERDEPENDENCE OF CAPITAL AND LABOR In summing up the relation of raw materials to finished products the age old question of the relation of capital to labor is brought prominently to the fore. It was Colonel Bob Ingersoll, in his day one of the most forcible and noted platform speakers of the world, who was credited with pointing out the fact that a ton of iron in the ground was worth approximately twenty-fiv- e cents, while in the form of steel rails it was worth almost two thousands times as much. Colonel Ingersoll gave utterance to this trueism several years ago and while prices and values have changed somewhat since that time, the relation of raw material and its finished product remains about the same and especially so in the relation of capital to labor. It would be a mistake to assume or assert that cither capital or labor alone, has transformed the relatively unimportant raw material into the highly valued finished product. No laborer, no group of laborers, could go out with implements at hand and dig out a ton of iron from the side hills of Utah and transform it into a steel rail which could be sold at a profit at the price at which steel rails sell today. At every stage of the process there is a necessary organization, backed by capital, comprehending an accumulation of tools and That the non-enforcem- the of prohibition is bringing all ent into contempt, especially among the younger generation, become increasingly apparent. The more strenuous the attempt to enforc the law the more strenuous the effort to defeat its purposes. Everywhere the drinkers and the purveyors of intoxicants tax their i genuity to escape the law. And so successful are they that they cannot but hold the officers of the law in contempt, especially whe they find so many of the officers more intent on getting a drink tha: enforcing the law. When every other home is made a sanctuary of lawlessness co& tempt for law cannot but become general. When the heads of fam ilies become brewers and distillers in violation of tht law the youn;f people are sure to hold the law in derision. The making of beer, wine and even whiskey is not confined the homes of the well-to-dWorkingmen and their families art; equally expert in brewing and distilling. Even the dandelion, object of unlimited profanity, is now courted for its alcoholic1 potentialities. The business of patent medicine men and of the manufacturer;-oflavoring extracts is probably the most prosperous business i the country in these dull times. The elusive moonshiners and boot-- . leggers are also thriving, but they cannot be classed as businesst men. They lack the respectability of those who know how to maktl the liquor traffic look like legitimate business. o. ona-th- t s equipment, means for transportation and handling the raw materia in an extensive way, so that the unit cost of production may btj kept relatively small. There must be tunnels and shafts and metor. equipment' for moving the ore in the mines. There must be smeltersand steel milling plants. There must be organization for transacting-thbusiness, employing the laborers, paying them and finding l kets for the finished product. All this cannot be done by labor alone. t It must be done by men who have accumulated money and invested; it wisely until they arrive at that time when they can finance industries of the magnitude of steel mills and iron mines. This vas process that built up the gigantic steel industry of the nation as know it today. It is the process that will continue to build rp m" and greater industries. Capital could not have succeeded alone; without labor it wouM, have never attained to the great success that has marked its effort in the past history of the country. Without labor and its light)' contribution this country would have played a minor roll n worlds war. Labor is not a commodity ; it is a dire necessity. But laboi vrithr out capital back of it is akin to the lost tribes wandering n thb wilderness. Neither capital nor labor is Tiny ar. indissoluble and in this indissolubility lies their greatest str When will they recognize it? cc tl j e mar-f- Y - h j ; 1 self-sufficie- nt. l |