New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

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selection of representative and the
problem Of deciding the question it.
self; there is just as much differ
ence as there would be in selecting
a surgeon and having to do with the
details of where he should make the
incision, and just as much difference
as there would be if an artist should
be engaged to do a piece Of work,
to decide whether or not you thought
ne was a good artist, or whether or
not, in the midst of the making Of
his picture, he should pause and
ask. whether he should use red or
gray coloring at a certain point; if
he did that, he would make mighty
poor picture.
Whenever question is submitted
to the people, we have found that it
simply drifted into class appeal.
The Government ceases in this wav
to become strictly representative
Government. The difference be-
tween an autocracy and a democracy
and a republic are that an autocracy
and derives its power through hered-
ity, a republic through regularly Sc
lected representatives, and democ-
racy derives its power through d.
rect voice, and every democracy
founded has gone down into chaos
and an autocracy has had to rise on
its ruins to save it.
Russianizing
I see you are talking about
democratizing your industries, and
I want to say that when you do
you will take the first step toward
Russianizing them. What I am
giving you to-day Is no millennium.
1t Is something that has been tested.
I am simply telling you what Ari-
stotle had in concept and what
Hamilton and his followers created
and what John Marshall Interpreted.
what Daniel Webster expounded.
what Abraham Lincoln saved, and
what, in my Judgment, Mckinley
tried to perpetuate.
Daniel Webster stands at the
mountain peak Of New England his
tory, and for one reason, that he
devoted as stateman his entire
life to the study and comprehension
and expounding Of the Constitution.
1t is the only thing that Russia
needs to-day to straighten out her
problems, and the only thing that
will do it; it is the only thing Ger
many needs to start her off; it is
the only textbook they need at the
peace table.
Now Daniel Webster, you know,
when he rose to make his reply to
Hayne in that greatest debate in
the history Of the United States
Senate, which is the greatest leeis-
latlve body in the world, said.
when the mariner has been tossed
Tor many days, in thick weather.
and on an unknown sea, he naturally
avails himself of the first pause in
the storm, the earliest glance Of
the sun, to make his latitude and
ascertain how far the elements have
driven him from his true course
Let us initiate this prudence and
before we drift further upon the
waves of this debate let US return
to the point from which we started
in order that we may ascertain
where we now are"
I am glad to make this appeal to
business men. You know Bolshe-
vism is nothing but extreme de-
mocracy. I have never yet met any,
body who could refute that PROPOSE
ton. When any one is extremely
gluttonous they say they are hog
gish. 1t is the same thing, and what
hoggishness is to gluttony, Bolshe-
vlsm is to democracy.
The four most dangerous groups
OF Bolshevists in this country are
hrst, large percentage of our So
called educators, and the next most
dangerous group are the men who
are babbling about industrial prob
lens from the pulpit without know
ing anything about them, instead
of being we'll grounded in the
Bible. And the next most danger
Gus group are newspaper men; l
mean a large percentage of them.
who, for circulation, ETC., are will
ing to appeal to the mob mind. and
who are very reckless about print
ing the truth or moulding public
sentiment in the right direction.
the thing for which the press was
really created; and the fourth most
dangerous set, much beyond the
dlrty-faced, long-haired fellows
who try to make us think they are