The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-04-19
UNANIMITY

Uc 1llliioi1ey VI Je'iA>NA S~~~
tors and congressman together with
the junker press insist that the coun
try is not unanimously back of the
President in his recent action.
Of course it isn't. The United
States of America IS quite a slzable
country, containing, including its col
onial possessions, approximately foul
million square miles, the fourth larg.
est national area in the world. So i'm
mense is its extent that somewhere
the sun is always shining on the Stars
and Stripes, the symbol of its domin-
ion.
1t is the greatest cosmopolitan coun-
try meath the bending heavens.
Among its citizenry are found natives
of every country that flies flag and
a good many countries that would not
know what flag was if they met one
in the road.
While English is its official speech
more than 1926 different lam
guages and dialects are spoken in its
countless households and its news
papers are published in more different
tongues than any other nation in the
world.
1t possesses a respectable minority Of
"non-resistants," who believe it IS
a sin against high heaven to oppose
with force either physical or armed
any encrOachment upon their rights
1t possesses an army Of notoriety
seeking freaks, whose only aim in life
is to get themselves talked about, who
are always against the majority in or
der to 2CrTocC attention. VINO Go Not
possess ability enough to attract at
tention by construction so they would
fam acqt~Ie l,ieGrlJy by des .ruction,
who would trample religion, morality,
patriotism. home, country-everythine
high and holy under their venal feet
in order that the irresponsible might
point az them an aQmrling finger and
declare: there goes the greatest SON.
of-a-gUn en- carth," who would dig into
their grandmother's grave and exhume
her shin bone and wear it as a stick
pin if it would put them in the public
eye. Men who feed on discord and
fatten on foulness.
Thete are some, not many, but some,
II t<os'es Of other lands who, although
they have fcresworn their former po-
itical allegiance, and accepted Ameri-
can citizenship with all its response
bilities ard BENEFITS, who believe ana
assert their belief in word and action,
that the home land and the old home
government is infaliiDie: that t CO. i
no wrong and in case of clash, when
ever they say or do thing to injure
the land of their adoption and benefit
The 1an,, IF their NATIVITY. they consld
er it their God-or3alned duty to speak
the word or do the deed.
This IS a free country, the liberty
of speech and press is practically i'm
restricted. Any ratty newspaper can
rant and roar without fear of suppress
sion; any yapper can zap his head
off on any subject if he feels so inclin-
ed.
Under these circumstances it must,
indeed, be an optomistic idealist who
expects any governmental action to
meet with unanimous approval, much
less so grave end ir.aportant an action
as was recently taken by the govern
ment.
The only governments in the world
that can secure unanimous approval
for all Ct its measures are those who
those that refuse to IMAM un
against a wall and perforate their
stomachs with dunn dunn bullets.
Yet, in spite of these conditions, the
recent acts of the President and the
Cong rcsS LET Win more unan nlUy q
sunn0rt t"at the g'vor,rNert wos ever
accorded in any previous similar &C.
ton.
The revolutionary propaganda put
forth by our ancestors was much more
bitterly opposed than the President
proclamation and oy Dcuter c.ass o.
men.
The war of 1912 was mos
irt rscl~- opposed. Go~crih~T as
a money" war, a wicked expenditure
Of life and treasure for private gair
by such large percentage of our cit
izens that it was made almost impos
sible to conduct it and almost made i
a failure.
To this day there are large mum
Der of our citizens who believe tina
tie Mexican war should never hav,
t"on fo'"'+ and Of the time it wa
carried on it was denominated slave
holders war, a criminal transaction
end in IS r
press and pulpit openly frowned Of
enlistments.
When the Civil war was threatened
more than one-third of the senate an
House resigned their seats. To thei
everlasting credit be it said they di
not attempt to hold their seats an
draw their salaries while aiding an
abetting the enemy; that is a moder
idea; and cast their fortunes mort
foes of the Republic. In eyery north