| Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS written for this thib paper b bi frank P litschert the entire country applauded president william green of the american federation of labor when hen he cath rejected the plea of arthur A purcell visiting ariti british li delegate to the american federation co contention mention that american labor establish close fraternal relations with nith the labor of soniat russia mr air purcell said that it had often struck him that while the americans have hae been the mot most advanced and the most receptive in ideas concerning mechanical indention and business or gamza tion they have hae been mot most slow in accepting new nea social and pol political ideas mr air purcell was as only half right our organization I 1 is far advanced but we me were mere also alo the firt first to advance and accept the newest and most successful political idea in fact we me perfected it in 1787 and are proud of it that is why ay iy all of us regardless of whether we me are bankers farmer doctors docton or workers or kers keep aloof from communism we are afraid that the effect of our original idea will be injured or des destroyed troed the american constitution is the latest and best thing in social and political ideas it was as sprung on the world just sears ago and was mas declared by man economists of eu rope to be revolutionary and unworkable the results haie hae surprised the civilized world and me e are today capitalist and worker alike the envied nation of the globe the trouble with mr air purcell is that his new social and political ideas idea are not new at all they hae been tried out in some form or other b bi every civilization since written history began and doubtless before that they hae been tested on a big scale and on a small scale and ha haie e at always a s failed just as the latest and bluest biggest experiment e peri ment of russia is failing many a so called economist has prided himself on discovering something new when ben in fact he has only rediscovered for himself something that is older than the christian era and which has been discarded as unworkable vor kable many times in the past it was as not until the framers of our constitution ution completed their work at philadelphia that the world was gen graen som something ething new nem in government this was a real representative government ern ment a goern government go emment ment of checks and balances with the duties of the executive the legislative and the judicial departments interlocking and clearly defined and the most canelous ma nelous thing was that it worked and has continued to work until this da As the people have hae followed it they have prope pro prospered pe red and it m was as when hen them strayed awa aa from the con constitutional pith that the nation has suffered we hie bie advanced ideas in business and advanced ideas about our workers worker ideas which make them the freet freest and the most prosperous pro workers in the world orld and we me haie hae the farthest t advanced adian ced goern government ment if ou dont behee it look at the income ta returns the salaries and wages the savings banks deposits deports dep oits and the life insurance records watch john doe as lie he whizzes back and forth to work nork with his dinner pail in the back seat of his automobile then compare this with nith the picture in eu rope after all it is the results which count |
