Show 1 THE FOREIGN SNARL Says tbc Kansas City Star At Chicago capital and labor arc in a snarl In the field of manual industry both the employers and tho laborers havo a perfect per-fect right to separately combine After the combinations tho motto of both parties should be Come let ns reason togothcr So long as progress continues and civilization civiliza-tion endures the existence of tho two t elements ele-ments is inevitable This feet ought to be recognized by capital and labor Then common sense would suggest that there should be a compromise between the two resulting from an interchange of opinions a and not brought about by force Most of the arrangements in this world arc founded upon compacts that rest upon compromises If labor and capital would reason together it will be discovered that each one haD something some-thing to compromise to the other Yes HAt Chicago labor and capital are in a snarl The Kansas City paper might have greatly enlarged its field of I assertion and said that labor and capital were Cin a snarl throughout the length I I and breadth of the land As a basis of agreement between the wrangling interests inter-ests the Star suggests Come let us reason rea-son together From an American point of view the mild assuasive proposed by I our Kunsas City contemporary might answer But unfortunately this snarl of labor and capital is not to be judged from an American standpoint If Americans only were concerned con-cerned there would be no cause for the application of even the Stars remedy of t Come let us reason together There would be no disagreement to reason t over In this snarl of labor and capital t there are three forces to be considered 1 labor capital and the snarl Labor and capital are American the snarl is foreign I t By themselves merican labor and capital arc selfassisting and selfsustain j ing In company with the foreign snarl they are antagonistic and mutually I mutual-ly l destructive to each other American 4 labor and capital in their very nature are amenable to reason To the foreign snarl Is reason also foreign Hence in I the snarls of American labor and capital i the snarl is caused solely and wholly by the snarl itself The snarl is foreign and it is the only disturbing element This foreign disturbing element once j eliminated and the snarl between American t Ameri-can labor and capital disappears r Philosophical disquisitions on the relations of American labor and capital j abstract I assertions on the priviliges of the one or the birthright of the other j mild invitations invi-tations to come and reason together tt are worse than idle They are criminally I II useless The daily injection of Communism I Commun-ism from the shores of Europe is the true > and apparent cause of the snarls between J be-tween American labor and capital In i the human cargoes of European immigrant ships is found the root of the trouble I J This baleful Anarchist shoot this root Lk of noxious Communistic growth is J the only successful point of attack In its destruction and in its destruction alone lies the reconciling of American labor and capital This is a matter that t cannot be handled with gloves This is an I evil which cannot be abolished by silken J arguments and winning ways It is an I It evil that is savage powerful and destroy I ing It is an evil that must be met with ij I its own ruthlessness It should be at f 1 once attacked by the press the pulpit t 1 and the people Its own destroying banner ban-ner should be advanced against it and i the warfare should never cease until Communism is driven from American t soil With it will go the snarl between American labor and capital |