The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-15

actuated by individual. factional or
sectional motives: but the interests
Of each must be subordinated to the
common good OF all. Inspired by ma
tional aims, purposes and principles
that appeal to all patriotic and in
telIigent citizens let us become a
more cohesive body polite
A danger ever present for democ-
racies, or nations organized upon
tho democratic principle. is that they
should lost their common and CO.
herent purposes. should fall into
divided and even. antagonistic inter-
ests, should forget the general well
fare I'm the midst of the efforts OF GER
tain classes or sections to obtain an
advantage over the others.
Tt has been the unhappy history OF
democracies in the past that. while
during the period OF their CITATION
and establishment they have been
inspired by the fervor and governed
by the unanimity Of the great strug-
gle for an object desired by ali, they
have later fallen into distraction and
disintegration through the inability
OF their citizens to remain steadfast
to common principles or to co-op-
crate to common ends.
This having been the experience of
democracies in the past, It is not
without reason that the great mod
ern democracies. including our own,
are still often called by thinking
persons, Experiments in govern
ment." In the minds of the judicious
it is not yet an assured fact that
these democracies will endure. What
10 an assured fact. in the opinion Of
the judicious, is that they viii not
endure, unless they can demonstrate
their ability TO think and act
harmoniously, and not sectionally or
factionally.
The Supreme Test.
To remain triumphant democ-
racy we must have broad and firm
cooperation Of thought and action,
resolutely maintained as our nation
al policy and as the policy govern
ing all our Industrial and social
activities. To quote again from
President Wilson's proclamation:
THE supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all speak, act, and
serve together"
Cooperation in all branches Of in
dustry and along all lines Of endea-
vor is the imperative need of the
hour. Employer and employee must
unite to meet the conditions that
have been thrust upon US in this
world crisis. Great Britain and her
allies are looking to us to furnish
them food, clothing and many of the
implements and munitions of war;
while the wants of the people of our
own land must be supplied. These
demands that are now being made
upon us can be met only by united
effort. There never was a time in
the history OF this nation when there
was such urgent need for earnest
and hearty cooperation between
men employed in all branches of
industry and in all sources of produc-
tion and distribution. The farmer,
the day laborer, the miner, the
mechanic, the manufacturer, should
all put forth their best efforts to-
ward increased production. Not an
acre OF land should go untitled, not
an idle man should be found and
the professional agitator and politi-
cal demagogue should be muzZled
and put to work at some useful en-
The shackles of restric-
tive legislation should be loosed from
the fettered limbs OF hampered in
dustry and the employer and employee
should be as loyal to each other as
the soldier on the battlefield is to
the nag OF his country. The man who
dBlbdICS 1n0uSIE1d4 1EIGI1Ou ana SITlIS,
who appeals TO class prejudice, who
seeks to array one branch OF indus
try against another, is as certainly
an enemy OF his country at this time
as the man who matches intrigue
against his government.
just Half Truths.
"The American farmer can win
the war;" said Herbert Quick, mem-
Der Of the Federal Land bank board.
HE can fight with his corn and
wheat and hogs; and he will have to,
for corn and wheat and hogs and
foodstuffs OF all kinds are to have MS
q part in this great con-
hict as the big guns in France" That
is true in the sense in which Mr..
Quick meant it. but It is not literally
true. Because the same may be said
Of the miner, who delves into the
ground and brings forth the coal and
the ore, without which this great
war cannot be won. The same may