The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-26

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 The only real field for Bolshevism in America is among the ignorant and half-assimilated foreign-born; our only danger from it is in permitting it's alien-enemy leadership to operate among tho credulous and the vicious. The cure is courage and common scription will take us through the re- construction period to a better and stronger America.
 No one but fool will shut his eyes to the faults of our democracy or de- ny that many grave abuses exist in our country. The American conten- tion is simply that no other system yet devised by man has given so much peace, prosperity and happiness to a nation than ours, and that none holds out so much promise for the future America has been good place to live in; it must be better one in the fu- ture. To make it so is our job, and we must go about it with courage and American common sense, not with pes simism and Russo-German theories.
 We want prosperity in America, but not swollen fortunes. We want big rewards for men who do big construc- tive things, and jail sentences for the big fellows who steal the fruits of their work and the savings of small investors. There have been alto gether too many mavericks loose on the range, sucking cows on which they had no claim. There would be no real railroad mess, no necessity for trying to pare down wages in basic indus tries, if there had been no banker con- trol and no fragrant watering of the stock of these corporations. For this reason, if for no other, reductions in high dividends must precede reduc- tions in high wages during the adjust ment period.
 The wise business man Is not the one who is talking about liquidating labor, but the one who is sharpening his pencil in order to figure out way to keep wages up. The reactionary business man must get it clearly in his head that the country is not inter- ested in speeding up business in order that he may have a new motor, or new country house and flock of foot men, but that the whole mass of Americans may move up to higher plane of living and self-respect. He must be satisfied with a fair but a smaller share of the profits. Labor must not only be kept employed but we'll paid. Courage and common sense will do it-courage to go ahead, to ex- pand, and to bet on the country that has never failed the man who be- lieved in it-common sense to under stand hat TO prosperity is worth | while that Is based on the exploitation | of others, and that no gains will be lasting that are not fairly divided. America is big and rich and she has been able to stand a lot of damned nonsense, but this is not the time for any sort of nonsense from either Bol- sheviki or Reactionaries. And one of the best symptoms of the times is the determination of intelligent and for ward looking business men to stand for square deal. We have passed | library of laws trying to stop the growth of evils, but not to stop the evils. At this very minute We are lifting the restrictions that safeguard, ed small investors during the war-in effect saying to the wolves: "There are the sheep; they are fine and fat; help yourselves" We might as well repeal the health laws while We are about it.
 We have been very busy trying to save the world-a laudable enterprise but large contract. Let us by all means try to help our neighbors, put | incidentally let us try to help our selves. Every paper, every speech ls full of references to our debt to Britain, our debt to France, our deb' to Belgium, until it looks as if we owe everybody and nobody owes us. But in remembering these multitudinous 1 debts we need not altogether forget our debt to America. We can pay Il ! with a little courage and common sense at this time.-Saturday Evening | Post.
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