The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-02
FOURTH NAT
IONAL CRISIS
Coming Campaign Will De-
eide Results
Foreword

The first crisis in our national life
was precipitated BY the Declaration
Of Independence, July 4, 1776.
The second crisis came in 178.
when the thirteen states were called
upon to surrender certain of theil
rights and powers to the nationa
government for the purpose of estab
fishing "a more perfect union"
The third crisis came in 1861 wher
we engaged in a great civil war test
ing whether that nation or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated" should
endure
The fourth crisis is now upon us
and the only issue is whether we
can create and maintain truly ma
tional soul and such a degree of ma
tionaI economic efficiency as to de
monstrate to the world that Demo.
cratic Republic is the best means OF
achieving the true advancement of the
human race.
| Over against these high ends and
exalted purposes stand the paralyzing
disintegrating, destroying forces of
the Democratic party, illustrated and
exemplified by the course of Wood.
row Wilson during the three years
he has been in power; for he truly
| typifies the real significance of demo-
cratic rule.
First. In peace at any price,
course. seen in weakness, vacillation
and "watchful waiting" with the ma
tural, the necessary, consequence
invasion, robbery, murd r and rapine
upon our own soil.
Second. In persistently insisting
upon the retention of the State mjli-
tia as part of our national defense,
in the teeth of all our past history
and tragic experiences.
Third In free trade and slave
wages, dragging American labor down
to the lowest level rather than COM
pelling the rest of the world to rise
to ours.
Fourth. Instead of the principle OF
the broadcast personal responsibility
and it's natural sequence-national ef-
ficiency-we have resorted to organ
lied political tyranny, illustrated by
the Federal Reserve Bank Act
Fifth. Instead of freedom of effort
n building up an American Merchant
Marine on equal terms with other
nations, Woodrow Wilson would curse
this country with the blight Of social
ISM, illustrated by govarnment-owp
ed rerchant marine, theraby preclud-
ing all individual effort.
Thus 1t my Re clearly seen and
demonstrated By these fats that the
L,ndency, that the course of the Dem
oc,auc party Ic; DIS to weakLess and
l,ieffJCiency,- ne natural prelude to
tyranny, which in turn leads to So
cialism and must inevitably result,
ultimately, in revolution.
Never before were the principles
of the Republican and Democratic
parties more sharply defined than
now. Never were the differences more
fundamental than now.
These influences are subtle, far
reaching, all comprehending, and as
oouorfuJ ood oorfo;,, II, ttofs~ oporo
ton as the law of gravitation. Time,
time only is waiting
Behold written across the very ze-
NTH of the heavens in letters of liv-
ing light the names of George Wash
ington, Alexander Hamilton, Daniel
Webster and Abraham Lincoln, the
unerring guides that point the way
to perpetual union of strength, pow
or and efficiency which are essentio.
to the high mission and the true
glory of this Republic.
Behold written in the twilight zone
where the darkness and the daylight
with each other for the mas
terry, along the skyline where it meets
the earthline, the names of Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, John c.
Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the un
erring guides that point the way to
weakness, inefficiency, tyranny, So
cialism and revolution
NJ fellow citizens, which way shall
we go? Which way?
Voter, which road will you take:
Which road, upward and onward, fol
lowing tho ever-ascending footsteps OF
Washington Hamilton, Webster and
or backward and downward,
following the Notwithstanding foot
steps of Jefferson, Madison, Calhoun,
and Davis? Which road That is th-
question.