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...longstanding war in Illinois between the rival miners' unions makes Labor's current internecine strike look like a taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal...
...although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...
...almost the right to ask that their comrades in the new world should, during these years of exceptional and not diminishing danger, set an example of strength and stability. There is one way above all others in which the United States can aid European democracies. Let her regain and maintain her normal prosperity...
Puppet governments are expensive, however, and it is in this respect that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
Wishful thinking should not blind us to Japan's capacities. She may be expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come