The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08

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enlargement from the Administration
Many of its advocates have occupied
high place in the government. In
stead of encouraging a class dicta-
torship it is the business of the gov
eminent to preserve the ordered lib
erty of the people, and to protect by
every means in its power the insti-
tutions on which it is founded. De-
tenders and advocates of those who
have been convicted by due process
of law of crimes of violence, COM
mitted in pursuance of a revolution
airy and communistic program, should
be dismissed from the government
service.
The process of making a supreme
sacrifice" of America and of "join..
ing our fortunes with the fortunes
of men everywhere" should be stopp-
ed. The oppositite and ancient policy
of our fathers must be restored,-of
saving instead of sacrificing our
great institutions, and of promoting
in every honorable way the interests
of our people. The process of inter-
Matchmaking our fortunes must be
reversed, and the separate interests
of this nation, with due regard for
the rights of others, must be cherish
ed again.
America, in her mighty separte
station which the fathers gave her.
leader and champion of the new
world, the friend of the old, must
preserve her sovereign independence
as the one secure seat and refuge of
genuine liberty.
EXtravagancies produced by war,
and governmental waste. must give
way to a wise economy. Direct taxes
upon industry and consumption
should be reduced and supplemented
by increased duties upon imports,
and surplus revenues derived there
from should be expended duties upon
imports, and surplus revenues de-
rived therefrom should he expended
in a liberal extension of land recla-
nation and internal 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 train
ing school for seamen; and every
facility for the development of these
essentials of national defense should
be provided.
favor an aytan Give cvctar, Of M
tional roads-built on approved en-
gineering principles, located with a
view to military defense as well as
civil and commercial use. co-ordinat-
ed with existing highways so as to
form a national as well asl ocal sys-
TEN.
Peace with Germany should be de-
clared at once.
The Peace Treaty should be stripp-
ed of the extraneous membranes
which have been placed upon it;
and which have so long delayed it,
and the permanent burdens which it
is proposed to place upon the United
States in the conduct of European
affairs should be at once rejected
Every American soldier, except
peaceful service, should be at once
withdrawn from Europe and the
continent of Asia; and the work of
recruiting 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 be devoted to their own
interests instead of to thoise of
foreign nations.
The proposal which has been re-
Gently presented to the American
people that the United States should
become trustee for the world should
be denounced as destructive of liberty
and Tuinous to the American people,
as well as injurious to the peace and
safety of the world.
The formal proposal recently laid
befoe the Senate by which the case of
future emergencies the American
people cannot increase their army
or navy without the unanimous con-
sent and permission of a combina-
ton of foreign powers. would vio-
late the Constitution and surrender
the sovereignty Of the nation. 1t
should be denounced as reasonable.
The Monroe Doctrine should be
re-established in its full vigor; and
the participation which it is pro-
posed to give Europe in the control
of Americon affairs should be de-
MED.
Should future exigency in Euro
pean affairs again arise of such pro-
portions as to menance 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
officials of our government of juris-
diction of the settlement of foreign
controversies, which are of but re-
mote concern to us has engendered
racial animosities against the United
States. We should cease oflicious
meddling with other peoples affairs.
The ancient American doctrine of
combining our participation in govern
mental matters to the American con-
tinent, while we stand as afriendly
neutral to all nations with which we
are at peace, should be restored. /
The ancient policy under which we
have enjoyed peace and prosperity.
and attained greatness. with honest
friendship and intimate social and
comercial intercourse with the rest