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Show NOT ANOTHER CLEVELAND Harding has hesitated to call federal fed-eral troops into the strike situation in the face of some criticism. Nearsighted Near-sighted persons have been inclined to looking Harding's non-interference as a weakness, erroneously believing 'that the moment a local mail train happened to be 15 minutes late the executive should get the big war ma- ! chine in motion. Harding probobly acted from a sense of fait- play or upon the dictates dictat-es of a balanced judgment; but in the absence of these, he could have cited a precedent. j In 1904 a railroad strike broke In : Chicago. Eugene V. Debs was president presi-dent of the labor organization that called this strike. A few mall trains were delayed in the Chicago yards. Apparently without consulting any of his advisors Grover Cleveland, then president, precipitately ordered federal troops into the strike zone and after some bloodshed the strike 'was broken, the union disrupted and Mr. Debs sent to jail. Bitterness that followed this action ac-tion on the part of President Cleveland Cleve-land never quite subsided and the hatred of those upon whose head the blow fell heaviest was kept alive un- j til Cleveland passed out ! This and many other ill-thought-1 out-acts of Cleveland alienated him ! from his party and he died practical- ly without a political home. The lesson drawn from the life of Cleveland is that a man can not treat ! his fellow-men as outlaws and escape the consequences. Even a president ; of the United States is not immune; from the law of values. The average citizen may feel that i he has suffered great privation because be-cause of industrial upheavels. but in j time he will be aided by perspective; to see thinks more clearly and then) he will rise up and call President Harding blessed. |
