The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-09

poses 10 strike at them and 10 debass
our politics 10 the uses or foreign in
trigue, Their number Is not great IA
1 compared with the whole number ol
those sturdy hosts by which our ma.
ton has been enriched Ia recent gen.
erations out OF virile foreign stocks,
but II Is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon US and 10 have
made IL necessary that we should
promptly make use Of processes OF law
by which we may be purged OF their
corrupt distempers.
America never witnessed anything
like this before. Ii never dreamed it
possible that men sworn into its own
citizenship, men drawn out OF great
free stocks such as supplied some Of
the best and strongest elements OF that
little, but how heroic, nation that In
high day OF old staked Its very life to
free itself from every ENHANCEMENT
that had darkened the fortunes OF the
older nations and set up n new stand
ard here-that men OF such origins and
such free choices OF allegiance would
ever turn in malign reaction against
the government and people who had
welcomed and nurtured them and seek
to make this proud country once more
a hotbed OF European passion. A lit
tie while ago such thing would have
seemed incredible. Because 1t was in
credible we made no preparation for
It. We would have been almost
ashamed to prepare for II, as II we
were suspicious of ourselves, our own
comrades and neighbors! But the ugly
and incredible thing has actually come
about, and we are without adequate
federal laws to deal with It. urge
you to enact such laws at the earliest
possible moment and feel that In doing
so | am urging you to do nothing less
than save the honor and self respect
of the nation. Such creatures OF pas
sion. disloyalty and anarchy must be
crushed out. They are not many, but
they are infinitely malignant. and the
hand OF our power should close over
them at once. They have formed plots
to destroy property. they have entered
into conspiracies against the neutrality
of the government, they have sought
to pry into every confidential trans
action of the government In order TO
serve interests alien to our own. Ii Is
possible to deal with these things very
| need not suggest the
terms in which they may be dealt with.
| wish that 1t could be said that only
a few men, misled by mistaken senti-
ments Of allegiance TO the governments
under which they were born. had been
guilty Of disturbing the self possession
and misrepresentlng the temper and
principles Of the country during these
days of terrible war, when 1t would
seem that every man who was truly an
American would instinctively make IL
his duty and his pride to keep the
scales Of judgment even and prove him
self q partisan of no nation but his
own. But It cannot There are some
men among us and many resident
abroad who, though born and bred In
he United States and calling them
selves Americans. have so forgotten
and their honor as citizens
IS to put their passionate sympathy
With one or the other side in the great
European conflict above their regard
or the peace and dignity Of the United
states. They also preach and practice
No laws, / suppose. can
each corruptions Of the mind and
leart but | should not speak Of others
Without also speaking of these and ex.
'ressing the even deeper humiliation
nd scorn which every self possessed
nd thoughtfully patriotic American
must feel when he thinks Of them aud
4 the dlscredlt they are daily bringing
pon us.
What Is more important Is that the
ldustries and resources Of the country
hould be available and ready for
IobiliZatlon. IL IL the more impera
yely necessary. therefore, that we
JDulu pioIlBtig biNiSS Hutuho iDi w
lg what we have not yet doDe--that
e should give intelligent federal aid
nd stimulation to industrial and y0ca-
onal education. as we have long done
the large field Of our agricultural
ldustry; that at the same time that
e safeguard and conserve the natural
sources Of the country we should
Ut them at the disposal OF those who
ill use them promptly and intelli-
entity. as was sought 10 be done in
le admirable bills submitted 10 the
st congress from it's committees on
le public lands, bills which earnest
recommend In principle to your con
that we should put into
,rly operation some provision for
lral credits which will add 10 the ex-
nsive borrowing facilities already
forded the farmer by the reserve
INK act adequate instrumentalities
: which long credits may be obtained
land mortgages and that we should
udy more carefully than they have
therto been studied the right adapta-
IN OF our economic arrangements 10
anglng conditions.
Many conditions about which we
,va ranaa ta1lv IeDialnfed are being