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Industr
fage Awards
By Permanent
Courts Urged
Judges Elected by People
Would Settle Disputes
Between Employer and
Worker Under Proposal
fair Play for Capital
Exodus of School Teachers
to Commercial Life Seen
a9 Peril to Education
To the Editor of The Tribune.
<t<r- The question in which the
ffTtatest amount of public interest now
L-ers undoubtedly is the question of
>L'relationship of capital and labor.
?0- to establish a permanent, har
fflo"ious working program satisfactory
?both and to those who consume their
Products as well is the big question.
' por the solution of this problem my
?.-gestion is the establishment of in?
dustrial courts to be composed of
:^ges nominated and elected by tho
L0Pie, to take full jurisdiction over
Jndisputes arising between capital and
'?cor, or, in other words, honestly en
?isvo'r to introduce the doctrine of fair
??it into the settlement of labor dis
In the past we have tried to settle
such disputes through boards of arbi?
tration appointed by Mayors, Gov?
ernors and Presidents. These have
oiled of permanent success, largely by
reason of" the fact that in almost all
?f these disputes both parties are
nartiy right. They have failed because
it Is impossible to arbitrate a thing
that"in itself is ether right or .wrong,
?ut it is possible for a court of jus?
tice to ascertain and establish what is
right.
The creation of permanent courts,
where all may go, should do away
with the necessity for Congressional
action, denying the right to strike to
ar.v croup of workers, whether they be
school teachers, policemen, railroad
men, coal men, steel workers, skilled
mechanics or government employees.
It is said in this state there are some
five thousand rural schools without
teachers, this in spite of the fact that
the State of New York spends large
sums annually for the maintenance of
normal schools for tho education of
teachers. They renounce their chosen
caU:r.? because boards and bodies of
apportionment and appropriation fail
to furnish funds sufficient to pay them
an adequate salary. They are, there?
fore, compelled to go into commercial
callings to subsist.
Will the leaders of the Republican
party recognize that the "laborer is
worthy of his h i re."" and seek to estab?
lish a national jurisprudence under
which all men mav procure justice?
DANIEL W. WILBUR.
J'oughkeepsit-, N. Y.
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'Finis' AJready Written
ai
On Dry Issue, Is View
Republicans Advised to Con?
cede Complete Victory to Foes
of John Barleycorn
To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: It ?3 significant and noteworthy
that every plank in the platform of the
Repablictn parly of the State of New
York has been advocated by readers of
The Tribune in the contest you are
now waging. It should be gratifying
to you also that few of the planks
submitted by your client?le have
touched upon other subjects than those
outlined by the great leaders.
The need for Americanization is em?
phasized in the state platform by the
enunciation of the principle o
"equal rights for all" and the declara?
tion for "vigorous measures to curb
Bolshevism." Mr. Root's stand for
"j?il br deportation" for violent radi?
cals is most reassuring to those who
ere imbued with the fear of overthrow
of the government by force.
It should be noted tha* very few of
your contestants have touched upon
prohibition as an issue. The omission
ft" this problem from the state platform
probably is by way of conceding final
and ultimate victory to the enemies of
lohn Barleycorn in the adoption of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
The stand of the Republican party of
the State of New York for "the treaty
*ith the Lodg? reservations" throws
iown the gauntlet. There is every as?
surance that tho treaty issue will have
seen removed before next November,
ret our state leaders fearlessly tell the
people of the nation where they Btand.
whether or not the treaty is disposed
M? it is to be written in Republican
archives that the party stood solidly
in opposition to the outrageous Article
K, at the same time planting its stand?
ard firmly upon tho irrevocable tenets
W the Monroe Dostrine.
Can it be that The Tribune contest,
* sounding the mind3 of the great
juass ot the people, gave our state
leaders an inkling as to whnt should
be written down at Chicago? M. C. B.
Conditions of the
Platform Contest
The Tribune inviten you to writ?
PUnks for a Republican platform
?nd to write letters about planks
Proposed by other readers through
to columns.
For the best plank? and letters
The Tribune offers these prizes:
For the best plank.$500.00
For the second best plank.. 250.00
For each of the eight na?t
?est planks . 100.00
For the bent letter a dally
Prize of . 10.00
For the best letter in the
whole competition . 100.00
To? Tribune will make np a plat?
form of ten planka to be determined
or your votes. Tho ten issues re?
ceiving the most votes wHl be the
P'Mki. Tho ten planka that best
?*Pie*s the chosen issues will ba
??lasted for t?o prize awards.
Each plank is limited to 100 word?.
O? two planks or letter? of ?aquel
??rit the shorter will be chosen.
Every plank and letter most bear
*J?? name and address of tha sender,
slthough a nom de plume will b?
Published If the wr>ter desires.
The contest will close-at midnight,
April W, 1920. Manuscript? will not
"? returned. *
The Judges of tha contest will be
?** of The Tribune's ?editora. They
*P base their decisions on sound
i ??"km* and brevity, clearness and
?"?Mfth of statement.
ial Tribunal Suggeste
To-Day's Prize Letter * I
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some such queer notions of
Americanism hava been expressed
by some of your readers, and I feel
a few words upon the subject would
be timely.
For instance, one of your readers
would deny the ballot to all but
those born in America. Another
would bar from the Presidency any
one whose parents were not born in
America. The unsoundness of this
becomes manifest when it is pointed
out that the former proposition, be?
sides disfranchising something like
one-third of the American people,
.also would deny the ballot to such
men as Ole Hanson and leave all the
American-born Bolsheviki secura in
their rights; while the latter propo?
sition not only would deny to per?
haps more than half the American
people the right to aspire to the
Presidency, but under it our present
President would have been ineli?
gible. While I have heartily dis?
agreed with Mr. Wilson in nine
tenths of his policies, I doubt
whether any one would question his
fitness for 'the office from the point
of view of his love for America.
All this has been written by your
readers, honest Americans, on the
theory, no doubt, that it is real
Americanism. I submit that such
an un-American and altogether nar?
row and provincial conception of
Americanism is a challenge to the
conscience of the Republican partiy.
This challenge cannot be met in a
platform alone. It also should he
made a part of our campaign next
fall, to the end that the meaning of
America and Americanism may be?
come so thoroughly understood by
the vast masses of the people thai
the writing of such letters as I have
commented on by Americans woulc
~o~~' ???- ??' ' ?? '. ' ?? ?
Wake Up, America,
And Be Prepared*
Otherwise, Republican
" Are Told, Lack of Viri
ity Will Sap Amerie
To the Editor of The Tribune. %
Sir: Assuming that human natu
has not changed any since the war ai
that selfishness, avarice and arrogan
are still playing their part in t
settlement of the affairs of the wor
it is the paramount duty of the Unit
States, in view of these facts, to
prepared for war.
We should utterly disregard t
emasculatiiig doctrines of the pacifii
and those who wish us to become
ternationalists and enmeshed in 1
political intrigues of Europe, and,
the next war will be a chemical vi
we should prepare along these lir
The battleships and submarines
to-day will be obsolete to-morrc
Any nation that so desires ?
secretly manufacture enough che
cals, such as odorless and color]
gases which would be capable
destroying" all life in a large area
a few hours, and then some day ap;
become impossible in this great Re?
public.
What is Americanism? It is the
belief in America; it is the love of
America and its institutions that
we call Americanism. As Secntary
Lane put it, Americanism is th .^sim?
plest thing in the world to .define,
if a definition were necessary. I
love something; I admire some?
thing; I appreciate something. I
want you, my friends, my neighbors,
to love, appreciate and admire that
thing, too; and that something is
America.
Thus it will be seen that the proc?
ess is not one of science. It is not
of the head, but of the heart. Amer?
icanism, therefore, must be to us a
political religion, and religion is
nothing but the drive of the soul
towards an ideal?and an ideal is
always something noble towards
which wo are aspiring. Therefore,
just as all history shows that re?
ligion cannot Be forced on men?in?
deed, if it is to do them any good,
it must not be forced on men?so
men cannot be made Americans un?
less they are inspired by our ideals.
That being* the case, how, then, may
men be made Americans by forced
naturalization, as some of your
readers have suggested? Yes, what
0 relevancy, then, has the birthplace
of a man to his Americanism? Yet
one of your readers would bar a
man from the Presidency simply be
( cause one of his parents happened
to be born elsewhere than in
America!
Americanism,? I submit, is not a
matter of race, creed, birthplace or
a figure of speech. It is an ideal, a
scheme of life, a dedication to a
principle of human action. One may
be a true American without being
born on American soil, while an
Qualification of
Suffrage Urged
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am a Northerner, but to
those who understand conditions in
the South the reason for declining
woman suffrage is apparent. Suf?
frage ought never to have Jjeen an
inherent right of citizenship, but
always dependent upon qualification.
It is imperative that all citizens
shall be able to read and write the
English language, have a knowledge
of the ideals, history and form of
government of the United States
and be truly loyal to the country.
These only to be permitted to
yote for Representatives in Con?
gress, Senators and Presidential
electors, but the several states may
permit others to vote for officers
within the state.
This may require a revision of
Section 1, Fourteenth Amendment.
D.
at any one of our t>order libes with a
squadron of airplanes and demand that
we capitulate or be annihilated.
To quote Theodore Roosevelt i "It
is of no use talking about reform and
social justice and equality of indus
other may ?be anything but Ameri?
can In spirit although born in
America. Any man is an American
who In his heart of hearts believes
in liberty, justice, equality of op?
portunity and free institutions and
the right of the individual to
achieve his own destiny. Those
whose spirits make no response to
these ideals and principles are not
Americans, no matter where they
have been born. I also may add that
the Americanism of the foreign
born patriot is a holier thing than
the Americanism of many of us who
have been born in America, because
it has been earned?it has been ac?
quired. It often burns with a
brighter glow. He is an American
by choice and not by the accident
of birth.
Let the Republican party make it
its mission to promulgate these
ideals .from the housetops until true
Americanism becomes a living,
throbbing thing in the heart of
every man, woman and child in
America. America is not merely
100,000,000 persons. It is a 100,000,
000 people that has a history, fun?
damental ideals of life?it has a tra?
dition.
Thousands of our boys in khaki,
both in the trenches and out of the
trenches, have testified to the falsity
of the propositions advanced by
your correspondents. Americanism
can be taught and inspired just as
well as, for instance, militarism was
being taught in the schools of Ger?
many To deny this is to deny the
very success of the United States of
America. It would make one de?
spair of this Republic, not to say of
human nature, if the fallacies ex?
pressed by your correspondents
were true.
RICHARD MARLOWE.
Elmira, N. Y.
rial opportunity inside of a nation,
inless that nation can .protect itself
rom outside attack."
If we expect to keep the United
?tates for Americans and make the !
lame America stand for what it did on |
Funo 22, 1904, we have got to wake j
ip and prepare! Otherwise our love
if money and pleasure will be an in?
sidious poison sapping the very life
Hood of our national life and we will
soon fall the prey, as other nations
lave, to a stronger and more virile
>eople. CLARENCE OLDHAM
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Vote Seen as
Vital Factor
Republicans Appealed to
To Provide 'Flat-Footed'
Platform With 'Square
Toed' Candidates on It
Unselfish Men Needed
Party Should Convince the
Nation of Patriotic Desire
for Service to the People
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The advice not to trade horses
while crossing a stream is generally
good, but when one of the horses de?
velops a case of blind staggers a pru?
dent man will either trade or swim.
A political party is little more than
a name; it may be composed of one set
of men to-day and another set to-mor- ?
row, and it has power only when a ma?
jority is convinced that its principles,
if carried out, secure their peace and
comfort.
There ara enough voters ? those
whose party ties are such that they
feel free to support any platform or
any candidate their conscience ap?
proves?t<ft throw the coming Presiden?
tial election one way or the other, and
unless the Republican party wants the
doubtful honor of being chosen simply
as being the lesser of two evils it must
make an effort to gain the confidence of
these independent voters.
This is a new occasion with new
duties, and there never was a time
when the country needed the services
of unselfish men more than now.
Our ideal of liberty and the sov?
ereignty of the people was put upon a
better foundation when the Hun laid
down his arms, but the fever of war
conditions has left us materially in a
very unsatisfactory state which only
the wisest of statesmanship can bring
back to normal.
Is the Republican party equal to it? :
It is if it puts forth a platform so
simple and so sincere that it will con?
vince a majority of a patriotic desire
for real service to the people.
The independents in politics are gen?
erally more patriotic and more un?
selfish than the partisan, and to win
them the Republican party must give
us a "flat-footed" platform with
"square-toed" candidates on it.
INDEPENDENT.
Uphold U. S. Dignity Abrcad
It is the earnest desire of the Re?
publican party to bring the best
minds of the nation to bear upon the
perplexing problems that confront us.
The delicate nature of our foreign
relations and the feverish condition
of our domestic affairs must be ap?
proached by practical, broad-minded
and patriotic men. We shall do
everything humanly possible to put
only such men in authority. We de?
clare it to be our intention to bend
our whole energy, by a just compro?
mise, to harmonize and bring into
full cooperation our own people and
to make no covenants with foreign
powers which our dignity as an inde?
pendent nation does not warrant.?
Y. N. P., Norwich, N. Y.
Better Types of Citizenship
Realizing that the best interests of
our form' of government depends
upon the character of the average
citizen, even more so than upon ideal
legislation, the Republican partv de?
clares itself in favor of carefully
considering and then putting into op?
eration as soon as possible the best
ways and means to produce the types
of citizenship exemplified in our na?
tional heroes, Washington, Lincoln
and Roosevelt.?M. 0. Olsen, Pastor
Summerfield M. E. Church, Bridge?
port, Conn. /
Aliens Must Respect Law
We believe this country has a
moral obligation to receive to its
shores all law-abiding, desirable
aliens, but we also believe that all
aliens have certain definite obliga?
tions to their adopted home, and that
by failure to observe such obliga?
tions, they thereby forfeit all con?
sideration to the privileges granted
by custom.?Paul R. Genzmer, 70
Parkwood Block, Hudson, N. Y.
Protect Americans in Mexico
We advocate the protection of all
Americans and their property in
Mexico. The ceasing of all "note
Referendum, Is Asked
To Insure Majority
Rule on Vital Issues
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Referendum was suggested as
a means of ascertaining the will ?f the
American people before war was de?
clared. Obviously the time to inaugu?
rate innovations was not when the j
fires of the European conflagration ?
were crackling around the world's j
ears.
The question whether referendum Is !
or is not practical should be thrashed
out while the world is at peace. That j
olve Labor Problem
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Some Suggested Planks
Among the mass of suggestions for planfa in the Republican platform are the following:
writing." (Settlement of Lower Cali?
fornia by Japanese ordered stopped
by Mexico to eliminate the growing
menace to the safeguard of our West- ?
ern coast. Recognition of present
government withdrawn and armed in?
tervention undertaken to establish
order, at first indication of Mexico
being unable or refusing to assume
responsibility for all acta of its coun?
trymen in violation of American
rights.?Arthur I. Olson, Danbury,
Conn.
Strengthen Citizenship Test
We believe that the evolution of
the "Red" will not come through a a
short cut to Americanism, but that ?
the desired privileges of citizenship
should be made harder to attain and
thereby more satisfying to enjoy.?
W. B. McV., 64 South Judson Street,
Gloversville, N. Y.
Industrial Legislation Favored
We recognize as indisputable the
rights of labor to organize, bargain
collectively and even to strike, ex?
cepting when such actions violate the
laws, menace public welfare or im?
peril the community. We believe,
however, that it is possible for every
business enterprise to be so organized
and conducted within itself as to pro?
mote that degree of mutual under?
standing, confidence, sympathy and
cooperation between the employer
and the employed as to eliminate the
need ior resorting to such stringent
measures. And, furthermore, we de?
clare the Republican party in favor
of the immediate passage of what?
ever legislation is necessary to bring
about such a condition.?H. W. B.,
Glen Cove, N. Y.
Bonus for Disabled Only
Believing that the war risk insur?
ance and compensation acts, if prop?
erly administered, should and would
take the place of the much abused
pension system, the Republican
party is opposed to any form of
bonus to physically able and men
is the time to decide whether one man
or a group of men, however able, should
have the right to make a decision
which involves the lives and properties
of millions of their fellow-citizens. It
would seem a question for a majority
decision, not the decision of a few
men who feel confident they know I
what the majority really should have?
whether they want it or not.
Considering the fallibility- of a?l
human judgments and the complexity j
of interests at stake, it is amazing to j
see the rank and file continue to ac- ;
cept the dictates of a chosen few on
such a vital matter as war.
R. M. FURNISS.
233 West Thirteenth Street.
tally sound men wtx ifbnght for the
country in toe late war. We feet
?hat it is the duty of every able-bodied
man to fight for his own, but we do
favor a just and ample allowance for
all men who have been incapacitated
in the country's service.?G. G., Fort
Hamilton, N. Y.
Aid Humanity's Progress
The Republican party pledges itself
to initiate and support every con?
sistent measure to accelerate human
progress in the United States*, and
throughout the world.?Reid Da,vies.
Against Government Ownership
To the Editor of The Tribun^.
Sir: The Republican patty stands
unalterably opposed to government
ownership or control of railroads; to
the Plumb plan or any cither schem?
correlative to the idea of guild social?
ism. It was private energy, private
initiative, private courage and private
genius that built up oux vast railway
systems; in fact, were it not for pri?
vate effort our railroar. s would not now
exist. To take away the incentive for
private endeavor by making the in?
dividual a slave of ?he state would be
a horrible blunder and would certainly
jeopardize the future development and
efficient management of American rail?
roads. A. L. PLAUT.
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