Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1916, Page 8

1205 e 7 S r * their lives and property would be WILSON YIELDED T0 EVERY COMER Gave- Way in Case of Japan, in Mexico and in Railroad Wage Fight. BIG CROWD AT AUDITORIUM | | Ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge of | Indiana held the close attention of a| large gathering in the Auditorium for two hours Friday evening. He was greeted with frequent outursts of applause. His clean manner of ex-| pression and his forceful presentation | of arguments completely won the | crowsl, which gave a rousing checr:‘ at the close wien the name of Charles | E. Hughes was mentioned. John L.| Kennedy and Ben S. Baker likewisc{ were checred when their names were | mentioned by the speaker, County Chairman Howell duced Norris Brown, former col- league of Mr. Beveridge, Mr. Brown in turn introducing the In- diana man. Policy of Yielding. The speaker referred to the Wil son administration as having attained a record of yielding whenever (her‘e was trouble ahead. He said Presi- dent Wilson yielded in the Japanese exclusion bill, in the Mexican policy and the Adamson bill. He won enthusiastic applause when | he said, “American rights should be | maintained peacefully, if we can, but forcibly, if v.e must.” S A few of his characteristic state- ments follow: ; “We are interested more in con- Struction than in criticism. “The scheme of localism, out of which democracy was born, is dead; a new nationalism is being born. “They stole our label, but our goods are not in their package. “Not one single constructive re- form had its origin in a democratic brain. The commerce and banking law was written by a republican statesman. A republfican started the fight for a child labor law. The na- tignll Business Trades commission was started by a republican. Emergency Confronts Us. “The protection of our industries hecomes an emergency. It is our busi- ness to look out for ourselves. “Our Mexican policy has been such that you cannot state it truthfully without seeming to exaggerate. “Americans went to Mexico upon invitation of that government and the sanction of this government. They went there under a guarantee that intro- protected and that guarantee was a treaty solemnly entered into between thn country and Mexico.” i r. Beveridge handled the Adamgson wage-raising bill without gloves. He began this phase of his talk with this statement: “I speak @s one whose written record shows that he has a right to speak as a friend of labor.” Analysis of Adamson Law, Then he discussed the Adamson bill in the following language: ..'?III! as the administration, in prin- ciple, I\:{ dered American sove- reignt; mu:lumy 7 foreign power in the "fl apan, so, in principle, the adm istration abdicated govern- ment in forcing congress to yield to the threat of a nation-wide strike. “If the precedent shall be followed, which the president forced a cowering and timorous congress to make, when it passed the Adamson bill, the gov- ernment is at an end. The question thrust upon us by the ten-hour-pay- for-eight-hour-day law, is this: Do we want government? “It is not whether we prefer the rule of all the people rather than that of less than 1 per cent of the people. It is whéther we desire any orderl management. whatever of public af- fairs, g “If a small majority of 100,000 out of 100,000,000 people can compel the submission of the other 99,000,000, another like group can do the same thing. Government by Caste. “To concede that a small part of the people may coerce the govern- | ment of all the people, is to deny the very idea of popular government. It is to assert the wisdom of govern- ment by a caste strong enough to ex- act special privileges by force. Such an idea is fatal to a republic of equal men under equal laws, “This is the issue raised by Mr. Wilson’s action in forcing a timid con- rren‘ to pass the ten-hour-pay-day- or-eight-hour-day-law, “Congress did not enact a statute— they merely carried out a ukase is- sued by a power outside and defiant of the government chosen by all the pccfllg.' . “Legislation by intimidation is ab- dication of government, Congress only went through the forms of legis- | lation in ignorance and without voli- | lic life . | limit in the immense operations of | | this increase that the president forced | tion of its own. It acted under duress, upon a time limit so short that there were barely hours enough to draw the bill and vote upon it. Matter of Wages. “If the cight-hour-day had been the proposition, congress on its own initi- ative, would have had reasonable ground for Approving it. That prob. lem has been studied and discussed for years. I fought for it all my pub- It has long been the work- the government itself. The whole in-| dustrial trend is toward it. But the eight-hour-day was not the point in | dispute. The controversy was over | the raise of wages for one-fifth of the | railway employes who were already | paid much more than four-fifths of their comrades. It was to legislate | congress with the menace of national catastrophe. The Supreme Court. “The abasement of government, and that alone, and nothing else, is the issue. The national government lies with its face in the dust and the feet of force on its neck. It is our duty and privilege to put it once more on | its feet and make it again the impar- tial agent of all the people, instead of the whimpering slave of any faction, to the pliant tool of any cabal. “The legislative department makes the laws, the judicial department in- terprets them. This law will be tested in the courts. Suppose the same power that overawed congress by threats of national disaster, should say to the supreme court of the United States, when the law comes before it: ‘If you do not, without argu- ment or consideration, forthwith de-| cide this case as we dictate, the na-| tion will be paralyzed immediately!’ What answer would the country make to that? Yet forcing a court to hold a law valid is the same as forcing congress to pass or defeat a bill. “The president's course was not necessary to prevent the strike, Peace With Honor. “A strong, calm president would have said to both sides: ‘Gentlemen, there is a third party to this dispute; this third party is more important than both oryou put together, because it gives the railroads the right to ex- ist on the one hand, and it pays every dollar out of which comes the wages of the men on the other hand. That third party is the American people. Iam lgeir official representative. Tfiey desire only justice to both railroads and employes. They wish you to ar- bitrate your differences, As the party most interested, they demand that you do so. 1f you railway managers re- fuse, I, as (Kc authorized agent of the principal party in interest, will ask the national courts to appoint receiv- ers, and there are a dozen grounds for their appointment, If the rail- ways accept and you heads of the brotherhoods refuse and strike, I will see that not only every train carrying a mail car is run, but that every train on which there is an ounce of gov- ernment propery is also run. I will a}‘:peal to the power of the courts on the one hand, and I will use all my authority as commander-in-chief of the military forces of the nation on the other hand.’ If the president had firmly and quietly taken that attitude, does any man suppose that either the railways or the men would have re- sisted Turmoil Were Better. “If, in spite of this, either side had chosen wdfr, it would have been better for the country to have gone through the turmoil and damage than for the THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 29, legislative and executive branches of the natfonal government to have re- nounced their functions and become the manikins and puppets of organ- ized force. “Peaceful arbitration would have permitted the nation to consider and give judgment on the merits of the case. But the grim issue now con- fronting us—the issue of government or no government—does not admit of that. Whether the men or the roads were in the right, has nothing to do with the question of forcibly compel- ling the representatives of the people to do the bidding of either.” What Is War? The senator assailed the “kept-us- out-of-war” claim, asking, “With whom did he keep us out of war?” On this subject he said: “Have we been kept out of war with Mexico? What is war? Merely a declaration? Our naval war with France was waged for two years without a ,declaration. Japan struck Russia wAthout a declaration. War means offensive and deadly acts. We invaded Mexfco and withdrew; but fighting took place and American marines were killed. Our territory was invaded by Mexicans who were driven out; but again Americans were killed. We invaded that country once more and today our militia forces, with seige guns, are interenched in the heart of northern Mexico. They have fought with uniformed Mexicans and soldiers of both sides have fallen. Almost the whole of our effective military forces are kept on the border and lines of communication estdb- lished with Pershing's men. Our War department has held officially that a deserter from our army must be punished as in time of war. The gov- ernment’s censorship of all news is more rigid than that of European bel-| ligerents. If all this is not war, what is it? If such a-state of things ex- isted between ourselves and any other nation what would we call it? What would the world call it? Who Kept European Neutral Nations Out of War? Who kept Sweden out of the war? Yet Sweden is so near the flames of battle that they almost scorch her. And what has been done to us has been attempted gvith Sweden. But, although not so large as the average American state and not so populous as some, Sweden has progected her interests and her honor by the firm word of a government that meant what it said, backed by a prepared people, peaceful, but spirited, and not to proud to fight. When Great Brit- ain seized Swedish mail, Sweden seized British mail; after that retalia- tion Swedish mail has not been vio- lated. Yet Sweden is at peace. “Why don't they run Wilson for president of Sweden? “Who kept Holland out of the war? Yet you may hear in Amsterdam the roar of the guns. \ “Who kept Switzerland out of the war? Yet its flames mount to the heavens upon its very borders. “Who kept Spain out of the war? “Who kept Norway out of the war? “Because none of them wanted to get into the war and because, while each side wanted them to fight for it, neither side wanted them to fight against it. “And how did they keep out of the war? By practicing an honest neutrality and being prepared to maintain it. “And where do these little nations who kept out of the war with honor, We Are Selling Thousands of Our G. L. W. 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They have kept out of war. | Yet nobody is running for president | of any South American republic on | the plea that he kept the countryout | of war, | “The campaign slogan that the “ad- ministration has kept us out of war’ is no more argument in its favor than | to say that the administration ought to be kept in power because the presi- dent did not burn down the White House. Surrenders “Kept Us Out of Trouble.” “The administration argues that our surrender to Japan in the matter of the imrigration bill, to the broth- erhood chiefs in the ten-hour-pay-for- eight-hour-day-law, and all o(fier sur- renders of American rights on land and sea, kept us out of trouble. But a man or a nation can keep out of trouble in this way so often that trouble is created by the very process. Just that is what already has hap- pened to us. “The administration submitted to | wherever it is sent; to uphold the 1916. permission of a foreign power which |land, and to maintain American is our commercial rival. I'rights everywhere on earth? “If the administration is right in| “Those who believe that all things all this, what is government for? for which civilized governments are “If the purpose of our government | established should be sacrificed in only to punish our own citizens when | order to keep out of trouble for the they murder fellow citizens, but not| time being, with a certainty of get- to object to the murder of our citi-| ting into greater trouble thereafter, | zens by bandetti in another country? | should support Wilson and Marshall. “Is the object of our government| “On the other hand, those who be- | to prosecute and imprison our own | lieve that the American government, citizens when they interfere with our | without bravado or bluster, should mail in our own land but not to prc-‘ firmly stand for all these things for vent the same thing when done by a|which civilized governments exist, foreign power? | and which every other modern nation, “Is the purpose of our government | little and big, except our own during courts for honest and necessary acts| upheld, should vote for Hughes and contrary to ancient, absurd business | Fairbanks. laws, but not to prevent the utter| e rle§truql_i0n of the husincss of m"i Indian Girl, Whose Spmt own citizens by nations whose sub-} Haunted Campfires D'e , UlIes jects compete withgthem? . ; Mnmtammg Rights. | Julia Faumfaumfoci, the pretty In; Or is it the duty of our govern-| dijap girl, who was stricken with ap- ment to safeguard the _lwes of it | pendicitis during Ak-Sar-Ben celebra- citizens wherever they rightfully go,| jon, passed to the Happy Hunting to protect. American property | Grounds yesterday. Julia was 21 years wherever it lawfully is, to maintain|old. Indians at Fort Omaha predicted the inviolability of American mail | her death, saying that they saw her spirit hover close to the blue flames of the camp fire. 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