Not a Stump Speech

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Such sincerity and temperance of thought and speech in a labor leader as Mr. Plumb displayed in his masterly argument here cannot be safely or successfully met in these times by the utter repudiation of it as a "stump speech." It is not in any spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise can in the end be effected. If we are agreed on principle, we lose that gain which is half the battle by throwing over as worthless the propositions of any party to the problem. D. T. EATON Unc.