Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-13
!. SHALL WE RUN
THE COUNTRY OR
LET RADICALS?
Timely Warning Against Minority
Class Rule and For True Ameri-
can Rule

Warning the public generally to
wake before it is too late to the real
meaning of the radical agitation
throughout the country, the executive
committee of the National Security
League issued statement on the
industrial situation today.
The time has arrived, 1t says, FOR
the peaple Of America to wake to a
realization of, what is taking place.
It is socaa revolution downward
nothing else. The radical agitation
which is menacfng the foundations
OF our industrial life is not based up
on specific grievances, but is aimed
at the overthrow of American instl-
tutions and Ideals just as surely as
If a boashevik army was marching on
washington. The American people
are confronted with all the destruc-
tive forces of minority class rule
which have made waste of Russia
The bloody method Of the bOlshev1k
revolution is the only condition lack
ing. In fact, it's absence is the sole
reason for the long blinding of our
eyes to what is going on.
This country should have emerged
from the war the strongest nation
industraally, ssOcially and morally
that ever existed on the face of the
earth. Instead, our "reconstruc-
tion," our return to normality, has
been hindered, almost irrevocably,
by internal radical agitation foreign
to our basic ideals and from sources
foreign to our shores. The great
American get-to- gether spirit, the
spirit which has won the war, has been
almost lacking and apparently for
gotten. It's immediate resusitation
is essential to save the day.
Internationalism, syndicalism
theses Of Americanism American
ism means the best in the ideals of
he peoples of the world, the best
0f human ideals manhood. Man |
1OO0 LIC0Al0 cIIlOllIOll, SCll-uCu1dl,
thrift. These idelas can spring only
from the protection of property-the
right of individual possession of pro-
Derty as guaranteed by the constitu- |
lion. He who does not believe this |
cannot be an American. Manhood, and |
the opportunity to prosper, are the
essentials of Americanism and are
Inconsistent with communism. Loyal
in the final analysis, willingness
to abide by the laws of the land which
gives to all their rights, and demand
from all the rights of each.
The true American spirit has been
illustrated in recent times
by the prompt action of Mayor Ole
Hanson in dealing with the T. w. w.
revolutionary element in Seattle, and
euqally so by Governor Coolidge in
Furnishing the deserters among the
police force in Boston, who, to serve
their own ends deliberately violated
their oaths and turned the munich
pality over to thugs and criminals"
The time is now here when Ameri-
can citizens must decide whether
they intend to run this country or
they will permit the radical
born element to do so.
Property rights must be declared
inviolable to project every man in
the community in his rights and am
bitions, and those who would try to
break down that law should be rea-
soned with gently, if that will suffice,
firmly, in any and every case, and
without merely of persisted in.
America needs it's American doc-t
trine to ge understood by all.