Evening journal., 1919-04-23
j. S. MENACED BY
SOCIALIST PLOT
Fraud, Viciousness Used to
Make Bolshevism Supreme,
DR.. Butler Says
ASKS AMERICANS
To SAVE NATION

CINCINNATI, April %. - Nicholas
Murray Butler, president Of Columbus
University, speaking before the Com
mercial Club in this city Saturday
night delivered the strongest indict-
ment against Socialism and its result
ant Bolshevism that has ever been
heard in-the Middle West.
Speaking on the topic, rs America
Worth Saving2" Dr. Butler discussed
the main tremendous happenings OF
the times with their influence on civil
Iizatlon and especially their effect on
American political and industrial liIe.
After polntlng out the fraud and the
viciousness OF Socialism, he made his
main argument that the intelligence
OF the American people will save them
from the evils now sweeping over Eu-
rope.
"There Is turbulence not only in the
world OF events, but In the world or
ideas" said Dr. Butler Loud and
angry voices are raised on every hand
urging the overthrow of the founda-
tions of society and OF the marvellous
civilization It has taken 5000 years TO
build. Crude thinking accompanies
unconsidered and hysterical action.
Force, either military, economic or po-
litical. and not reasOnableness or JUS
tee, IS everywhere appealed to as the
arbiter Of d fferenCrs. 10 Is probable
that the world is now further removed
from peace and order than 1t was on
November II. when hostlllties ceased"
The president Of Columbia aroused
/. al Cd a
deal OF laughter when he said that we
are victims o. an orgy OF crooked
thinking and OF the false and tricky
use Of language, words being twisted
from their true meanings and used to
mislead the public.
III Is now the fashion" said Dr.. But
Ter, ITO describe a doctrinaire as an
idealist: TO call a Liberal a Tory; and
10 steal the splendid term Liberal TO
cover the nakedness OF the Revolution
ist. 10 Is high time TO attempt TO dis
sipate the fog in which we are living
and 10 get back TO flrst principles and
straight thinking along the lines OF
hard and practical common sense and
human experience"
All American life. Dr. Butler said. Is
based on the civil liberty Of the indi-
vidual. Under this system the country
has prospered nightly. While there
has been and Is inequality, Il is also
true, he argued, that where there is
individual opportunity there Is always
inequality. IL can orly be prevented
by substituting tyranny for liberty. He
continued
"Nen Of ohio. this is the first long
and dangerous step on the path back
toward autocracy and mllltarism. once
a state becomes all powerful II easily
thinks OF Itself as unable 10 do wrong
and so becomes the immoral state OF
which Prussia and the German Empire
have been the most perfect types. The
an powerful and immoral state can see
nothing higher than itself; Il admits
no principle Of right or Justice 10
which Il must give heed; such a state
IS an end in Itself and what IL chooses
10 do is necessarily right.
Question Confronting u. 8.
"The most pressing question that
now confronts the American peo-
pie, the question that underlles and
conditions all problems OF reconstruc-
tion and OF advance as we pass from
war conditions 10 the normal times OF
peace, is whether we shall so forward
nv preserving those American princi-