Show washington N news aws ily by FRED washington correspondent of 0 the park record washington D 0 sept 12 the burnt child dreads the fire it Is a sad correlative that the child heeds not the warnings of its elders as to the inevitable consequence ot of picking up a live coal it must learn for itself carlyle said experience Is the best of schoolmasters only the school fees are heavy the school fees would not be so EO heavy if childhood first or second would harken barken to the experiences of others w Is it possible that we must classify with inexperienced childhood in addition to morons marons and idiots the one track politician if there Is none so blind as he who wont look also it may be said that there Is none so deaf as he who won wont it listen the single track politician and his name Is legion will not stop look or listen he must find out by his own experience that his skin Is not fireproof the tact fact that great britain Is crushed under the load of the dole to the idle with prime minister malster macdonald struggling at the cost of his own political neck to save her has no appeal to our treasury raiders governor pinchot of pennsylvania senator norris of nebraska and others still insist upon trying to saddle the dole system upon the united states the former declares without blushing that the great commonwealth of pennsylvania has reached the pauper stage when it must call upon the federal government to feed its babies senator norris also without perceptible percept able blushes has no objection to informing the public that he has accepted the communist idea of robbing the rich to feed and clothe the unemployed with regard to whether the unemployment Is voluntary or involuntary AN 0 all in great britain the trade union council which imposes its veto upon any and all proposals for reduction of the dole confronts prime minister macdonald he depends tor for his place at the head bead i of the government upon the council w which represents about members of the labor party undoubtedly it if he cannot effect a compromise with his party he be will have to resign As there must be a cut in the dole it the gov ern ments budget Is to be balanced any compromise would seem to be out ot of the question k in such circumstances it Is apparent that the dole system has become a permanent fixture in great batain eating into the of labor sapping the strength of 0 industry and squandering the capital that should be employed in modernizing british industry to make it possible tor for that country to compete with other nations in view of the tact fact that british industrial equipment Is antiquated find and production costs very high consumers can purchase foreign goods more cheaply than domestic goods r statistics show that imports are rapidly increasing while exports are decreasing the dole Is pushing britain toward the precipice ot of ruin da i does the experience of great britain afford any persuasive object lesson to the american demagogue who would have this country adopt the dole system systems obviously it does not Is it going to be necessary to sear the hand of the childish politician with a red hot poker before ha be will admit that it Is hot it looks very much as if it were the demagogue Is insisting of course that a system of regular federal handouts hand outs cuts to the unemployed in this country would be adopted solely y as an emergency measure to be discarded when prosperity returns to us has his analysis of the situation been so superficial that he Is unaware of the tact fact that the dole was adopted in britain solely as an emergency measure with subsequent discovery that it could not be dropped in effect edert the dole system Is comparable with a poison which permeates the body poll tic britain has proven that under such system labor becomes a dole addict and refuses to work industry is so heavily taxed that it Is unable una bleto to modernize its equipment and naturally Is beginning to succumb to foreign rivals unquestionably capital which should be flowing into trade commerce and manufacture is being absorbed by the dole britain is now little else than a great almshouse where demoralized millions are eating up the remainder of the count rys substance 13 As 40 and that Is what the american demagogue would wish upon tl the e united PU states to the merest taro in political I 1 economy it should be apparent that they are catering to the votes of 1 the mob by appealing to laziness vice greed and ignorance in order to secure or retain his place at the government pie counter the demagogue demo gogue would destroy the self reliance of labor despoil capital and bankrupt industry detestable to every american tradition Is any proposal to make of the united states a gigantic abri almshouse shouse at the expense of the industrious and provident undoubtedly it Is robbery masked as charity |