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Show (One of the first newspapers this editoi worked on was the Alice, Texas, News. We don't know whether the Old Journalistic Wheel-Horse we knew is still there, but the following- sounds like it came from the pen of straight-talking- C. L. Tanner: "I may be excessively dumb, but at that, ' I know that the people of the United States are being- taken for a RIDE with the ultimate end shrouded in Old World mystery; mys-tery; perhaps in the main, Oriental mystery the nation-wide tying- up of big and little industry being- the 'vehicle' and Organized Labor the 'motive power' if you get what I am trying to say. To put the situation in another light, do not the signs point to ? llands-Across-the-Sea Nationwide movement to THROTTLE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE? When General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, et ail, as well as the great steel industry, the railroads, rail-roads, Armour and Swift Packeries, Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph systems, are prostrated prostrat-ed by secretly financed strikes, then, when that time arrives, Government will benignly TAKE OVER and poor, inefficient private enterprise will have been KILLED and YOU will be in bondage until time shall be no more. Wages and hours are NOT a part of the real picture ..." |