New Britain herald., 1918-01-14


 benefcient working it demands self restraint, a sane and clear recogni- ton of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our pow CT to change.
 HLiberty can, does and must limit the rights of the strong it must in- creasingly guard and promote the we'll being of those endowed with les- ser gifts for the struggle for existence ence and success, it must strive in way consistent with sane recognition of the realities to make life more worth living to those whose existence is cast in the mould of the vast average of mankind, it must give po- litical equality before the law, it must throw wide open to talent and worth the door of opportunity.
 Under the system of wisely or dered liberty, combined with incen- tive to individual effort whereof the foundation was laid by the far-sighted and enlightened men who created this nation and endowed it with the most sagacious instrument of gov- ernment that the wit of man has de- vised America has grown and pros pered beyond all oher nations
 Tt has stood as republic for nearly a century and half, which is far longer than any other genuine re- public has endured amongst the great nations of the world since the begin- ming Of the Christian era. It's past has been glorious, the vista of it's future is one of boundless opportunity, of splendid fruitfulness for it's own peo- pie and the world, if it remains but true to it's principles and traditions, adjusting their expression and apDli- cation to the changing needs of the times in a spirit of progress, sympa- thetic understanding and enlightened justice, but rejecting the teachings and temptations of false though plau- siblo prophets.
 Tt fills me with burning indigna- tion to see the very foundations of that majestic and beneficent struc- ture clamorously assailed by some of those to whom the great republic generously gave asylum and to whom she opened wide the portals of her freedom and her opportunities.
 Found An Asylum in America.
 These people, with many hundreds of thousands of their countrymen, came to our free shores after cen turies of oppression and persecution. America gave them everything she had to give-the great gift of the rights and liberty of citizenship, free education in our schools and univer- sites, free treatment in our clinics and hospitals, our bOundless opportunities for social and material advancement Most of them have proved them selves useful and valuable elements in our many-rooted population. Some of them have accomplished eminent achievement in science, industry and the arts Certain of the qualities and talents which they contribute to the 1 common stock are of great worth and promise.
 "But some of them there are, spirit ually and actually kith and kin of the Bolsheviki, who have shown them selves unworthy of the trust Of their fellow citizens; ingrates, disturbers 1 ignorant of or disloyal to the spirit of 1 America, abusers of her hospitality. | Some there are who have been 1 blinded by the glare of liberty as a man is blinded who, after long con- 1 finement in darkness, comes suddenly into the strong sunlight. Blinded | they dare to aspire to force their guidance upon Americans who for generations have walked in the light l of liberty.
 Drunk With the Wine of Freedom
 They have become drunk with the l strong wine of freedom, these mer who until they landed on Americas coasts had tasted nothing but the bitter water of tyranny. Drunk, they ! presume to impose their reeling gal upon Americans to whom freedom has been pure and refreshing fountain for a century and a half.
 "Brooding in the darkness of age long oppression, they have evolved { i fantastic and distorted image of free 1 government Tn fatuous effronterS | they seek to graft the growth Of thei1 stunted vision upon the splendid ane ancient tree of Am merican institutions
 we will not have it so, we wht 1 are Americans by birth Or adoption l We reject these impudent pretensions l Changes the American people vii ] make as their need becomes apparent ] improvements they welcome, tht l greatest attainable well being for al those under our national roof-tree i their aim: but they will do all that 1T the American way and in the Ameri 1 can spirit-and in none othFr.
 Time to Call a Halt.
 | '.The time is ripe and over ripe t | call H halt upon those spreadcrs 0