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Show THE CITIZEN been benefited. As it is, the War Department might just as well have destroyed the supplies by fire or dynamite. TUMULTY, THE AX! XTATURALLY many of us are eager for that first cabinet meet-1- 1 minor wars to amuse us we yearn ing. With only twenty-on- e for a bit of excitement. The President has not surveyed his cabinet since his return, nor they him. It will be interesting to compare the scars of foreign service with the scars of domestic broils. Our guess is that the President is sore at one or two of his cabinet members and would rejoice to run them through a sausage machine for what they have done to the Democratic party. Of course, Mr. Wilson has done things to the party himself in his own way, but the very fact that it is his way makes it impeccable. In the kings view the king can do no wrong, but in the kings view the servitor is very apt to be wrong most of the time. If we were to express a, personal preference we would vote that the little secretary of war should be put in the grinder first. And we would commit him to the sympathetic care of the executioneer before he had a chance to pin that Victory medal on himself because the medal might interfere with the grinders gears. But we greatly fear that this little student of little politics will be shriven, if not rewarded, by the great pacificator. When Prof. T. Woodrow Wilson was teaching the history of the United States instead of making it; the secretary was one. of his admirers from afar off. There is a tradition that when he was mayor of Cleveland he gave college yells for Wilson instead of saying his prayers. Somebody told the President such childlike devotion should be rewarded and so a real secre- tary of war was jiu jitsued out of his place and little Newton Baker was ushered in, giving three distinct cheers for himself and pacifism. We have not time td recount the reasons why the winner of the greatest war of all times should be retired from his position of victory, but the latest reason should serve. After the armistice was signed the secretary built a school of arms at a cost of $6,000,000 although the country had a school of arms sufficient for all purposes. Moreover, he ordered the work continued even after he had announced that it would cease. When we think of what the secretary did in Salt Lake to squander money uselessly making nothing out of Fort Douglas we can understand, though we may not excuse, him. It is just his way and it doesnt require any brains. We think, however, the President will let him live. But Burleson ah, that is a different matter. Burleson has been so bad that a word has been invented in his honor. When one says that a thing has been Burlesonized one means almost unutterable achievements in the realm of stupidity and ' self-decora- g ted inefficiency. And Burleson has Burlesonized the Democratic party. He has pounded it into a pulp and left it gasping in the center of the ring. When the President went to Paris he took Gompers with him. Every little while the President would ring up Gompers on the tele- phone and ask him if he was sure that he still had the labor vote in his possession. And Gompers would reply: Ive got it sewed up in my inside pocket. Of course the President thought that the labor vote would be his to deliver in the next national campaign, but when he came back he found that labor had been Burlesonized. One of the greatest blunderers and one of the worst autocrats this country has ever had in official life is the present postmaster general. Thats what he is, if the President should ask that lifelong Democrat, Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts. In his message to Congress the President, it will be recalled, said something grand about labors right to participate in decisions affecting its welfare. When the Federation of Labor, meeting at Atlantic City, heard that message read.it unanimously wondered why a President who feigned to be such a friend of labor should have permitted Burleson to use the bludgeon on the wire workers, Burleson, it will be re 5 membered, trapped the wire men into a strike by giving out .the false statement that he had turned over the wires to private control. When the men struck he announced that the government was still in control and he did everything he could to crush the strike. The federation was not to be deceived and adopted a resolution declaring that Mr. Burleson has pursued a labor policy in direct conflict with this (the Presidents) enunciation of principles and that the postmaster general characterized as silly the rights to collective bargaining. It added that Burleson has ruthlessly invaded the rights of employes and has interferd, in defiance of law, with the proper functioning of their organizations and has refused to recognize labors accredited representatives. The Burleson policy, says the resolution, has been fastened upon every government agency under his supervision, in utter defiance of the wishes of the people and in complete opposition to the expressed words of President Wilson. Let us have a cabinet meeting, by all means. And please admit the reporters. POSTAL BOLSHEVIKI our government to obtain notoriety postal employes who urged the Labor Federation in the enemies LATEST among of meeting at New UlmMinn. ,to indorse soviet rule in Russia and to denounce allied interference in Bolshevik affairs. If someone mildly suggested that our postal Bolsheviks should indorse their own government they would be indignant. They are against their own government and for the government of Lenine and Trotzky. We feel sure, moreover, that if generous souls should offer to pay the way of the postal Bolsheviks to Russia the offer would be declined with haste. Our postal Bolsheviks, like our parlor Bolsheviks, become addicted to any fad, even a murderous one, if it is sufficiently far away. Nevertheless these postal clerks have declared, in theory, for the overthrow of the United States government and the setting up of soviet rule on the ruins of the republic founded by Washington and preserved by Lincoln. An indorsement of soviet rule in Russia is tantamount to a declaration of revolutionary war on the government of the United States, for the Bolsheviki in this country do not intend to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat by votes but by violence. Sovietism is revolution. And it is not a revolution sanctioned by the common sentiment of the country but by the hatred of a class. Sovietism teaches class hatred, the war of the minority upon the majority and domination by bloodshed. This is a pretty doctrine for our postal clerks to be preaching in private and prating about in public convention. Sovietism is war on the government of the United; States, for' sovietism proclaims itself the foe of all existing governments. Its mandate is destruction, the tearing down of society and building anew. In Russia it destroyed not only political institutions, but industry and caused widespread starvation and disease. When we read of men, women and children dying in the streets of Moscow and Petrograd for lack of food we can understand the nature of the regime which the soviet has established and of the regime which the three postal clerks would establish in our own country. When we hear of the atrocities committed throughout the regions where .the Bolsheviki control and of the enslavement of women by free love laws we can guess what is fermenting in the cesspools the three postal clerks have made out of their minds and hearts. Dirt, disease and bloodshed have been the principal products of sovietism in Russia and the three blatant employes of the United States government call upon organized labor to indorse that kind of hell. We presume that the money of other postal clerks was used to pay the way of the revolutionists to New Ulm. We think it befitting, therefore, to suggest that instead of fighting legitimate unions the postmaster general ferret out the revolutionists in his own house and expel them. If the postal Bolsheviks wish to destroy their own they should npt bp helped by government pay to achieve gov-fcrnmc- ut |