Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-11-13


mitted in pursuance OF revolutionary
and communistic program, should be
dismissed from the government SER
vice.
The process of making a supreme
sacrifice" of America, and of Join
ing our fortunes with the fortunes of
men everywhere" should be stopped.
The opposite and ancient policy of our
fathers must be restored,-of saw
mig instead of sacrificing our great
institutions, and of promoting in ev-
cry possible way the interests of our
people. Tie process of international
izing our fortunes must be reversed
and the separate interests Of this ma
ton, with due regard for the rights
of others, must be cherished again.
America, in her mighty separate
station which the fathers gave her,
leader and champion Of the new
world, the friend Of the old, must
preserve her sovereign independence,
as tn one secure seat and refuge of
genuine liberty.
Extravagancies produced by war,
and governmental waste, must give
way to wise economy. Direct taxes
upon industry and consumption should
be reduced and supplemented by in
creased duties upon imports, and sur
plus revenues derived therefrom
should be expended in liberal ex-
tension of land reclamation and in
ternal improvement.
Radio communication between the
United States and the rest of the
world should be under American con-
troll; and full cooperation by the
Navy Department towards that end
should be assured.
An ample merchant marine under
the American flag is ESSENTIAL to ma
tional prosperity. The merchant SER
vice and the fisheries afford a train
ing school for seamen; and every IA
cility for the development of these
great essentials of national defense
should be provided.
| favor an extensive system of ma
tional roads-built on approved en-
gineering principles, located with a
view to military defense as well as
civil and commercial use, co-ordinated
with existing highways so as to form
Ia national as well as local system.
Peace with Germany should be de-
clared at once.
The Peace Treaty should be strip
ped of the extraneous membranes
which have been placed upon it; and
which have 50 long delayed it, and the
i ornament burdens which it is pro
posed to place upon the United States
in the conduct of European affairs
should be at>pnce rejected.
Every American soldier except
those engaged in diplomatic or other
peaceful service, should be at once
withdrawn from Europe and the CON
tinent Of Asia; and the work of re-
cruiting and transporting military
forces of the United States for SER
vice in Siberia and Germany, and the
plans being made for sending an
American army to Turkey should be
at once suppressed. The resources of
our people and the activities of their
government should devoted to their
own interests instead of to those of
foreign nations
The proposal which has been recent
ly presented to the American people
that the United States should become
a trustee for the world should be de-
nounced as destructive of liberty and
ruinous to the American people. as
well as injurious to the peace and
safety of the world.
The formal proposal recently laid
before the Senate, by which, in the
case of future emergencies, the Amer
lean people cannot increase their
army or navy without the unanimous
consent and permission of com
bination of foreign powers, would
violate the Constitution and surrender
the sovereignty of the nation. 1t
should be denounced as reasonable.
The Monroe Doctrine should be re-
established ID its full vigor; and the
participation which it is proposed to
give Europe in the control Of Amer
lean affairs should be denied
Should future exigency in Euro
pean affairs again arise of such pro-
portions as to menace the interests of
the United States, the American
people must be entirely free to de-
termine for themselves, in their own
generation the extent and manner in
which they shall intervene.
The recent assumption by certain
oiIclals OF our government of iuris
dlctlon OF the settlement of foreign
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