Show J Fighting Each Other 0 COMPETITION Oj Oi is the life of trade Tho words arct arc are t nth ns true irue today as when they were first uttered They Thoy heY arc are the c essence of the American principle live 1 and l let t live With tile the present tendency toward or ore j l tion it t is well weIl for our people to reflect upon r t the old t truths The rhe basic American principle of or equal z opportunities or unities for all ll is being ground into dust under f t c. c tc tendency of or classes and und groups to organize against each I other othet There should be one great organization in this the land lain of the tile free and that should be that o of the Amer- Amer people What best est sen serves es their interests best serves ti th lisp needs of the individual citizen Th These e persistent cries against particular groups and classes are arc not cementing the union union of the people Instead they are arc arct t driving i us to class struggles les promising not good but now f trials and tribulations for all j r Every EclY man is possessed of the inalienable na le right toof to th of 1 work fork under conditions mutually satisfactory to himl himlI him him- l t l lI and his employer Organization which ith Ibis right is un-American un and contrary r to the pol- pol rcy- rcy of pf a fair deal for all In the beginning labor organized organized or or- to correct wretched conditions which existed in the sweatshops under the domination of selfish pro- pro l I ers It was their only hope of changing intolerable Hiving t ng conditions But it did not stop when it fp i its ts purIO purpose f fr i- i Since then organization org has bas gone on and on until v it threatens the welfare of the nation and the American ri people Labor organizations lions are met by em- em t Jers organizations which abuse the privileges or- or w ion affords them just as often as do the bodies of laboring men It has bus become a struggle between two classes Whether labor or capital capit-al moves mo first firstI I makes cs little difference in the general scheme I l labor demands a bur burdensome wage organized industry in in- ll counteracts tile the action so far as its particular organization or is concerned with organized effort One p follows s another with each h sido side vainly striving for all t the o advantage d by the policy of If lf the evils of the thc struggle confined to the thc were ere to 1 1 1 n tO L Yu q Sc aCtuallY engagIng Hi In u Ule LU or ut w. ui uno u- u J no complaint could be offered i i Bu But the policy of classes organizing against each carries arries distress and suffering into the homes of tHc innocent the noncombatants Th There re is one class u American merican life which is is symbolical of all nIl that is Ame Americanism cn That class is what we are arc disposed to c middle cia class st although it is nothing more nor Jess es than the people the great reat majority of or in individuals i vho O battle f for r fame and tf suc success ess a asking king none of f the handicaps i ps provided l by organization They ask no odds they compete for fm the prize with what they themselves them them- selves l cs have to or offer er 2 They arc are entitled to the same consideration 1 I rife hrc ii entitled to a chance chalice to win in which is precisely ely the be struggle het between org organized forces is depriving them c. c j Producers of or certain articles op operating under a variety varity lri t of circumstances and with different margins of o p profit fit who sell selI at a price fixed through the m medium ium of organization are arc as much their enemies as those who would wo deprive them of the right to work ork because they belong l Hong to no organization Opposing organizations organizations' struggling for advantages over each other place the costs coits and and burdens of class war directly upon the i of or the innocent bystander The middle class is today paying the thu freight on i every ery e ry organized effort to get ct all that can ein be bad had no I rn matter how right or just it mil may lie be Th There l 1 re is a n. limit t to their tolerance and the clashes are arc gradually driving ing- ing ing them to conditions as ns intolerable as those faced facet by I the Hie sweatshop workers when they found justification for foi f r l labor bor organization We do not want to see sec tb this cl class s organize which is precisely what it will be forced to do if jf the or organized struggle is continued against them t tl cm That would be the first step toward BoIs Bolshevism the only medium of or organization open to what is coming corning com corn ing fo be lC the oppre oppressed sed class No o constructive effort follows in the tho wake of Bolshevism ism and it would b be bi much niu mu h better to correct the evils ils existing than to fall into to newer and greater reater ones n It t The middle class is a natural majority in the United States but it is not felt as such such- I because its ils members are are arc pleased to pursue the fundamental principles les of Americanism Organization whether it com comes s from capital or from labor must not be permitted to destroy principles ples for it is t on ou them that all aU classes must base nse their future prosperity The destruction of the foundation q not only sinks the one class but those who brin bring a about out the destruction as well It Itis is high time timo we WC casci CC to organize against each other and worked to together tOe to- gether i th tin in one great grent American organization for the thc general gen gelle ei eral il progress and prosperity of the people as a n whole O Organization for pecuniary gain or selfish n advantage e i O i be stud studiously avoided if we keep to the high prin- prin 1 on which this tIns government go w s founded t t. Th The fads newer would indicate that women have j ceas ceased ceased- dr to carry their hearts in their sleeves and anti j now wearing them on their backs are j 1 t t Vy t tr nce is a asking ins President nt Wilson to explain Well Jf if fi tl they y dont don't t get any further than Congress did they t I ire e wasting time tune 7 t Th The Tife percentage of alcohol in quantity that is latex latex- is extremely difficult to determine when there ji no quantity I 1 r- r 4 Br of f New Orleans is regarded by bv scores of f cripples as a second Saviour Once more moro Barnum is 7 vindicated j tc j ff f ff p pr f i r i o le are beginning to get a look at at the Great elcan desert lesert s f I i i 1 i X Is R n f c What again aini I t |