The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22
The Great Destroyer

higher all the time until than vefold higher
than was and still rising 1t is under such superficial
that the nations past pershed For
the treatment to be effective, the people themselves
control Not legislature congress could hope
results without going the people referendum
The control of the people simply application of the
principle of majority rule The organic the
domain of the state is the simplest and purest of
democracy The people have right such vital
question, and majority have right The scope of
this principle extend the political unit to
the largest If superior law prevails, the
ship has perfect right decide by majority what
methods or system shall pravail in its midst.
True Local Option.
Likewise the people of the city right vote and
to decide by majority what shall prevail within city
limits and decision of the city supersedes all decisions OF
wards component subdivisions 1t could be questioned
whether city council board Of right to
impose system ward against its WILL but the right
of the people of the whole by popular impose
be questioned Similarly the of whole people
OF county is egitimatey competent impose the will
the majority throughout the county. Similarly the
the whole people of state is competent impose the will
of the majority throughout legislators have
undertaken establish laws for whole state but only
when referendum the people has been made has the
result been fully satisfactory Congress might pass national
prohibition law but the results could be permanently
satisfactory the treatment could be definitely effective
until the people of the nation their
Constitutional Prohibition
That part of the law resting in the hands of the people
the real organic law of state and nation The people only
make and unmake constitutions Therefore the constu
ton of state is the ultimate abiding place of prohbi
ton for the state The constitution of the United States
the true abiding place of prohibition for the nation
War the Death.
In the domain of the individual and in the the
state in both domains everywhere and all the time let
be forgotten that inch of ground will be
tested that the struggle with the great destroyer
that he cruel unreenng, deadly than any
savage of determination No nation has yet kept this
destroyer its midst and survived America is different
from the nations of history The records 5000 years leave
for doubt. One the other perish. Between
America and the great destroyer it is the death
The Laws of War.
No great has been without following the
laws of In applying the organic treatment especa,
in the domain of the the struggle be effective
be conducted according those fundamental laws that give
victory.
The Law of Preparation.
The first law adequate preparation based that prin
cipe in the universe by which effect always proportional
The foundation for strength The rank
file of the army be recruited To the popua
ton enlist the work of education be widespread
education the dangers before the nation the fact
that great If reached by the truth they
will enlist for their country; enlisted they to
enlist with the great destroyer Each recruit is equivalent
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