Show our changing ideas the conservative of yesterday is often the liberal of today in other words principles of government proposed before the people have had time to assimilate them are usually offered by the more daring and experimental group of cit cithens zens this group that has the temerity to seek new remedial leg a ion in an effort to meet new aal al problems is called liberal or radical or revolutionary as the case may be but the student of political history often smiles when the conservatives of one period calmly punt into law and practice those same principles the conservatives of a former day denounced as radical and dangerous just as an example or two it has not been so very many years ago since a radical political organization in the united states declared that if united states senators were elected by the people instead of by legislative isla tive action a lot of public political abuses would be reformed chis TOs same group also dared to imitate for the postoffice post office department aate I 1 ent to institute a system whereby b y parcels could be sent by mail what the conservatives of that day had to say of these ultra radical measures was plenty and yet within a decade or so the conservative serva tive republican party without so much as the wink of an eyelash accepted both propositions and so we are led to observe that the terms conservative and liberal are after all only relative liberal or even radical ideas of one generation are often accepted by the conservatives of a futures future generation ene ration this line of rumination was induced by the press report from washington last saturday that quoted the conservative U S senator arthur vandenburg foe of new deal liberal experiments in which this conservative senator presented present sd some rather radical idea that have for purpose the saving of the capitalistic system from the dangers that beset it from the abuses that have developed into serious problems involving unemployment and business stagnation the conservatives of yesterday would have shuddered to even think of the things that conservative senator vandenburg proclaims openly what a vast difference in conservative thinking between yesterday and today when we hear that labor must have participation in the final 1 si i greater profits Wro fits of its own production eu gene debs of yesteryear leadership was often jailed for milder statements than that we have no disposition to take lightly the views of senator vandenburg they may be correct certainly capitalism cannot survive if it results only in giving the owners of industry great sums of money in profits that can not be used again to expand industry and at the and earn more income same time builds up a steadily increasing army of unemployed workmen and when a conservative leader of this condition can see the danger that has been developing at n alarming rate since the world avar ar then there is hope that the nation will sooner or later find a remedy certainly Vanden burgs suggestion merits consideration in the interest of a little log logical sane thinking about aroble problems ms that seem at times about ready to ingulf the industrial life of this lation in a hopeless breakdown of business we pass sen vanden burgs ideas along to you not that hey are original with him radi als and liberals have urged such things in the bygone era but now hat they are being accepted by on ve leadership ss well they aie of especial interest said senator vandenburg there must be sound opportune ty for capital itself to earn eari legit binate profits but there must also ie e better r means eans to permit the participation of lal lalor or iii n the final ro fits of its own production we have bave undertaken in the last two rears ears to explore this field thru application of collective bargaining and its related instrumentalities the supplementary field of volunteer action thru n sharing has never heretofore ore been authentically explored at all which ch neatly removes all possibility ibi lity of a swing back to the good old days in our political and economic thinking verily the nation moves forward in its struggle to overcome depressions and recessions and to prevent their recurrence if giving labor a greater share of its own production revolutionary tho such idea may be when compared to past practices will get us out of the economic morass into which we most certainly find ourselves let it come quickly farmington times hustler |