The demands and ambitions of William, the kaiser of Germany, were not one whit more unreasonable, unjust, or excusable than the demands and ambitions of the coal miners, who demanded a six-hour day, a five-day week, and 60-per-cent increase in Refusal to grant their demands.
The demands were to be penalized with starvation, suffering with cold and hunger, the stoppage of all industry and anarchy in the United States.
The two cases are very similar. The Germans, when refused permission to go through Belgium, destroyed that country, murdering women and children, burning homes, destroying factories, annihilating industry and showing no mercy to anyone who opposed them. That was to be the program of the coal miners. Germany accomplished a part of her purpose before being whipped into subjection.
The coal miners were defeated before they got started.
Surely there is cause for rejoicing in the United States today. The constitution, the laws, the courts, and the people are still supreme and anarchy has received a low from which it will take long to recover. 