Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-14

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| cry human being who applies muscle
or skill or brain or all to the CONVEX
| sion of natures abundance into the
necessities and Injuries Of life or par
ticipates in the ways and means OF
their transportation and exchange.
Far better a high cost of living and
ability TO buy than a lowering of cost
attended by destruction of purchasing
capacity
Square Deal for Business.
No honest business in this country
is too big to be good and useful, or
too little to be protected and encour-
aged. and both big and little deserve
the American shield against destruc-
| tion by foreign competition. and pro-
| lection from the raiders, political or
| otherwise, at home. Business and its
agencies OF transportation are so in
separable from each other and from
| the common veal that the political
party which does not pledge them a
square deal, no more and no less, does
not deserve the confidence of the peo-
| pie. The strength of the business
heart shows in every countenance in
all the land, and the weakness of that
heart holds a nation ILL., We must
strengthen the heart of American
business in government cooperation
rather than official opposition.
1t is not inspiring to recite Demo-
cratic failures l shall not dwell on
that party's insincerity or incapacity.
The country indicts and the record
convicts. 1t proclaimed the sacred
ness of its pledges and then profaned
them. II professed economy and is
staggered by its own extravaganza.
1t has turned adequacy or revenue UNI
der direct and unfelt taxes to insufii'
cheney and direct taxation.
The National Expansion.
The president has said ours IS a
provincial party, evidently forgetting
the federalist founding of our nation.
atty and Republican expansion to
greater national glory. The Demo-
cratic party not only fails to grasp
our immensely and importance, it is
sectional on the mainland and unheed-
ing of our island possessions. It's vi
sion does not catch the splendor OF
Old Glory in the sunlight of the world.
Right new when the devouring flames
of war are burning most fiercely,
when our national view must be
worldwide to be comprehensive, he
Democratic administration has pro-
posed to set adrift an island empire,
in violation of our obligations to the
world, to the Philippine people and
ourselves No administration which
hauls down the flag and none which
proposes to haul it down ever can sue
coed in directing the affairs OF the
American people.
One century of marvellous develop
ment has led US into another century
of international sponsorship This
mighty people, idealizing popular
government and committed to human
progress, can no longer live within
and for ourselves alone. Obliterated
distance makes 1t impossible to stand
aloof from mankind and escape wild.
ened responsibility. If we are to be-
ilization and Gods great intent-and
to believe otherwise is to deny the
proofs of American development-we
must assume the responsibilities of
influence and example, and accept the
burdens of enlarged participation.
To meet the obligations we must
first make sure of maintained mental,
moral and physical health at home
The American Spirit.
In the travail Of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness the Amer
lean soul was born. Set aglow at
faces of patriots of fearless repub.
lie, where men dedicated themselves
to the solemn and momentous task
which was traced by an infinite hand.
They were not all Americans by
birth, but they were dedicated Amer
republic and new patriotism. They
could not all sign the Declaration OF
Independence, but they committed all
Americans to it for all succeeding
time. They could not all join in max
ing the Constitution, but they pledged
the succeeding millions of Americans
to its everlasting defense.
The gates of our ports have swung
inward ever since, there has been a
welcome to the foreign-born, whom
we asked to drink freely of the waters
of our political life and find their
places in the sun of American oppor-
tunity. They are an inseparable and
important and valued part of Ameri-
can citizenship and the few zealots Of
any origin who violate our neutrality
do not and cannot impugn the loyalty
or the American patriotism of that
great body which adds to the swelling
chorus of
MY country, tbs of thee,
Sweet land of liberty"
1t is not surprising that in their
hearts there is sympathy or Partially
for the land of their nativity when it
is involved in life-and-death struggle
like that which saturates Europe with
the blood of their kinsmen. Search
your hearts deeply, my countrymen.
One must be human to be an Ameri-
can, he must have human sympathies
and human loves, and / should pity
the foreign-born and the sons of for
eign-born whose very souls are not
wrung by the cataclysmal sorrow Of
the old world But sorrow is the test
OF soul and the very altar of recon.