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Show , PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Going before congress on Friday, President Harding addressed congress on the industrial situation and in that manner brought before congress and the country generally the administration's administra-tion's views of the strikes which have been crippling industry. The Prcsi dent disclosed more firmness of position posi-tion than had been credited to him up to the present and ho dealt vigorously vigor-ously with the offending by both sides to the conflict. He condemned interference inter-ference on the part of strikers with those who desired to work, sharply rebuked those guilty of abandoning I trains at desert points and then turned on the railroad executives for their part in defying the laws of the land. The President's addross, because of its evident aim at fair dealing, will be well received. For the first time the President made official reference to the massacre mas-sacre at Herrin, 111. He asked for greater power of the federal government govern-ment to deal with outrages perpetrated perpetrat-ed on aliens and said: I "My renewal of this oft -made recommendation rec-ommendation Is Impelled by a pitiable tense of federal impotence to deal with the shocking crime at Herrln-Tll., Herrln-Tll., which so recently shamed and horrified the country. In that butchery butch-ery of human beings, wrought in mad nesa, lMs alleged that two alien? were murdered. This act adds to the outraged out-raged sense of American Justice the humiliation which lies in the federal government's confessed lack of authority au-thority to punish that unutterable crime. "Had It happened in any other country coun-try than our own, and the wrath of righteous justice were not effectively expressed, we should have pitied the civilization that would tolerate it. and sorrowed for the government unwilling unwill-ing or unable to mete out Just punish mcnt, "I have felt the deep current of popular resentment that the federal government has not sought to efface this blot from our national shield, that the federal government has been tolerant of the mockery of local Inquiry In-quiry and the failure of Justice in Illinois." Referring to the lawlessness in the railroad Strike, the president declared fjat the federal government would uphold up-hold the right of men to strike, but ... . , . -m fc muxl V,n Itne ngni oi meu io iuu amu ujuoi defended. "If free men," he said, "cannot toil according to their own lawful choosing, choos-ing, all our institutional guarantees I born of democracy are surrendered to mobocracy and the freedom of a hundred millions is surrendered to the small minority which would have How law." Encouragement of organized labor was afforded by the president In a defense of its righls and its benefits and a denunciation of organized efforts ef-forts to make war upon it. In bis attempts at-tempts to settle the existing conflicts, the president said, he had discovered the existence of such an effort and he said the government had no sympa thy nor approval for this element of discord in the ranks of Industry The President's address should tend to bring about an understanding on next Wednesday when the railroad executives meet in New York City, for the message has a sting for both railroad managers and railroad employes em-ployes and centers attention8, on the conferences, with responsibility for a U great national upset fixed on the side which fails to yield to the paramount Interests of the public. 1914 equal to $31,000, his wealth now would be reduced to $100. No country of commanding position In world affairs has ever suffered a depreciation in currency equal to that which has borne Germany down to the verge of financial collapse If Germany Is to remain one of the great Industrial nations of the world, doing business with other nations financial hHp must, be extended from the outside. With the danger of militarism eliminated, elim-inated, the problem is humanitarian, in that it Is the saving from wreck age of countless thousands of homes and the re-establishing of industry capable of making millions of thrifty ! people self-sustaining oo 4- |