Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-02-27

inaiS 10 ioT u purpose Suil worse han
: the criminals purpose.
The outlaw plots against a man or
la group of men. He takes his risk
i and sees disconcerting visions. Soon
D er or later gets his. EXECUTION.
The high piotters strike against ma
tons or a group of nations. Person.
ally they risk nothing, neither their
: thing annoying, there is the firing
, squad or a fortress. They also see
{ visions but charming ones and unfor-
tunately in too many cases they get
I what they have been looking for.
/ GLORItICATION. AS q consequence
on this state of affairs, Europe has,
politically speaking, by far more
r black than bright spots. many ogly
ones, not a few ~disgraceful, some ter
rife.
The American books, the American
newspapers and magazines always try
to impress these facts in the child's
mind. with preference to any other
facts or actions or doings of any
nation.
Generally they do not give, as now
and h a serious writer does. the
fact that the majority of these horri-
bic episodes and massacres did occur
hundreds of years ago. when the
world and every nation and every
ruler and every race and every man
tNCNAo vastly OG COttipdIc GU 10 Jig DuC~
kets of an old fashioned chain pump.
In a single turn the same bucket Will
occupy all levels. In the same day
all the institutions mentioned, man
Included, would likewise be liable to
occupy all levels. All the chain pump
needs to move is somebody to turn
the crank All the world or the races,
or the nations or the rulers, or men
at that time needed was somebody to
| start them going.
Publicity and criticism are the two
weapons that men and nations alike
do fear. They had neither to reach
the people, the suffering class, the
class that always did pay, Is paying
and will pay for every war the world
had, has or will have in the future.
The ancient world was founded and
conquered and in its way civilized,
first by barbarians, after by conquer
ors, later by feudai masters, after
that by tyrant crowns, finally by
crowns and aristocrats and always by
revolution and war and that means,
BY TERROR.
America on the other hand was
founded by men OF good will, desert
ers of other ands which ruling tyran-
lied them. which laws martirized
them, which men made them work
as slaves for a miserable piece Of
black and dry bread.
This country was formed and given
its atmosphere of Freedom and JUS
tice N Right by men whose ances-
tors a to agree to monStrous feudal
laws of levies and yoke. BY men who
had to give their masters not only
their work and their blood but also
their honor. Remember the shameful
laws of the right of choice, the right
of the first night, etc.
The men hat founded America
found a land hiding a world of treas
w. -- -- 49,
wanted to live their way and toll n
prosper. yet they had to fight and
fight hard to get their franchise, their
freedom and independence.
They had to fight over Inc over
again. first with the self-appointed
masters. After with the sore once
defeated masters. Later with a COM
pacity and spite brought about the
Terrible Civil War. terrible and yet a
war fought with more honor than
most of the civil wars of other lands.
Through all this time America was
progressing n its progress beats
every record on hand. She went up.
always up Independent, alone show
ing to the world what men can do IL
given The TTgpei shelter. the proper
flaws and the rightful freedom.~
After the period of bloodshed. de.
/. VISITATION and ruin was over, America
: worked hard and today is a giant. the
; creditor of the world and the one
country that had the pleasure to save
from destruction and humiliation the
very same country once her powerful
master. Today, her amazed friend,
This black European record. put
against h constantly spoken, writer,
, and heralded words OF "the best IN
the world, the finest in the world. the
greatest in the world" etc, makes
the Ameriman young. mind stick TO
the Idea that the outside world is rot
ten. that its people with the exception
of England and France and Germany.
are nothing but q bunch of ignorants
and criminals or at least ready-to-be
malefactors. Such idea is responsible
for the common saying in this and
many other communities. The white
people mad the Austrians, H~ungarians.
Polish. Italians, etc.
or course any man with education
can answer and laugh hearing such
stuff hat gives SO poor an idea OF the
labor done in the primary schools but
the illiterate that can understand that
talk never forgets it. This, the insult
ing nicknames and the shameful facts
of his country thrown against his face
whenever two or three natives meet
him gives him only two ways TO fol-
low.
BE patient and hate and make his
non-Engiish speaking people hate. or
else go to blows IL he sees one of his
foes single handed.
What happened then? Practically
every judge will tell you something
like this. Next time you start trou-
BILE / am going to take you in for
awhile. Now behave. Five dollars
please" If this man gets pinched
again. and ~supposing is only a ques-
ton OF blows. six months. If there is
blood. Nor less thar four, nor moro
than six years, or whatever It is"
If two foreigners fight. both go to
Jail but IL a foreigner fights a native,
h foreigner Is invariably the loser,
no matter what caused the fight.
= Don't forget that / am speaking
about iliiterate persons. In my opin-
ion every nation has good and "a
people and II some may have more of
the latter kind, is not their fault per-
haps.
American are q very sentimental
people when II TO horrors and
terror. The American boy Is grown
free. with freedom and without any
home discipline. He goes through a
very mild school. college and work
discipline and he never had until this
war required IL. any military Gisci-
pline at all. So he rebels when he
reads about such things While he is
not wealthy. Money seems to kill the
human feeling of the majority of men
in every corner OF this earth of ours.
In my opinion. the stated facts do
lots of harm and are for