Judge — October 18, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Judge Editorials Joun A. Suricner, President Revnen P, Stxicner, Secretary Pereiton Maxweit, Editor J. A. Watoron, Literary Editor Rottaver, Treasurer Grant E, Hamunton, Art Director Lawton Mackatt, Managing Editor A Striking World T is melancholy to reflect that the gorgeous I prosperity of peace, and the industrial splendor of America, should sink in the dust of prophetic dreams—because a brotherhood of railwaymen wants to eat ortolans, a steelworker’s union wants to wear satin pajamas, and policemen demand that their clubs be decorated with gold union buttons. It is laudable for men to enrich themselves—but it disturbs the poise of civilization when they gather in mobs and turn out the pockets of the helpless public. Mobs are the mad dogs of society and ought to be muzzled. The historian, sitting under the lamp of Bedloe’s Island, might note a change in the psychology of strikes, recalling that at the Tower of Babel the strikers all talked at once, but left the job without throwing bombs. 1 When the Israelites struck against Pharaoh, they did not seize the public streets under Marquis of Queens- berry rules to get their jobs back—they did not care who built the pyramids, but left, struck, finally, for good, forever—and have had better jobs ever since. When Spartacus, the Pretorian guards, the Janis- saries, struck, they were logical. Having cast them- selves out they did not turn to castigate themselves back. When Cataline, Coriolanus, the Pilgrim Fathers, Brigham Young struck, they packed their tools and left the works.. Ceasing to be producers they did not hang around like wild-cats in ambush tearing peace- able consumers to meat scraps. They, being sensi- ble, recognized the false logic of choking the sewers with human gore over “rec- ognition” or an advance in wages—realizing that it was a matter of expression rather than oppression, of figures rather than frenzy. All life is labor; all America is liberty, and se- cessionists who fire on our 3 Fort Sumter of equal rights might still see the warning apple tree growing at Ap- pomattox. The hundred Drawn bp Sanford Tousep Pruckep! When Japan eventually returns Shantung and ten millions of us might endure a strike of manicur- ists and caramel wrappers philosophically, or even the justices of the Supreme Court tearing up the statutes or bishops burning down the churches, But when hosts of the children of men strike like babies pouting against their mother’s milk, we are re- minded that we are all of the commonwealth of fellow- citizens—that the earth is the mother of us all, and that when miners cry for five six-hour mining days a week, with a forty per cent. advance in wages, some flesh-and-blood mothers are doomed to a bitter time getting warm milk for some flesh-and-blood babies this winter. T of peace and reconstruction we can sense it coming. Let us prepare for it, for avoid it we cannot. Within the next few weeks and months the list of prominently mentioned will grow by leaps and bounds. Every state governor and every big-town mayor who has departed far enough from the norm to get the story of his activities on the press wire is going to be sug- gested as a likely candidate for president. Local poli- ticians in every section are due for mention as possibili- ties for governor or senator. “Hank” Grubber, precinct committeeman in the township of Hoopole, will be touted vo- ciferously for county auditor or sheriff. There will seem to be an astounding number of prominent men—more than anyone ever dreamed of. Now we really possess a very small reserve of outstand- ing men. There are many more of them in print than in fact. Let us, therefore, read the ramblings of the news huck- sters with intelligence and humor. And if any of us, meek and lowly though we be, get 2 prominently mentioned for this or that, let us craftily lower our sights forty degrees and see if there is anything in range that we want. Political Timber HE open season for being prominently mentioned for office is before us. Amid this awful turmoil