The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-09-18
WALLACE, IDAHO THUR soAy SEPTEMBER 10, 1919.
Shoshone County Celebrates Adoption
of Constitution--S speech of D. A. CAL
lahan at Mullan


stood on guard
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
Liberty"
80 it is for you and for me to stand
on guard today and hand to our post
Gritty this shield of human rights un-
tarnished and unpierced.
IF we believe in this constitution
because we revere the men who franz
ed it; If we love it because it has serv
ed So we'll the needs Of a changing So
ciety for more than a hundred years;
il we venerate it because thousands of
splendid American lives have been
sacrificed that it might be preserved;
If we behold in it today the safe bull
wark against the ills Of social and
economic unrest,-then our duty Is
plain. For this constitution is in
danger. 1t is in greater danger than
it has been since the. day when Daniel
Webster, standing beneath the dome
of the capitol, wrapped the bleeding
form of notification In the Stars ana
Stripes. 1t Is in greater danger than
when Abraham Lincoln took up the
challenge at Fort Sumpter and called
for American volunteers. For the
danger which threatens 1t today Is in
sidious and clothed in the phrases of
a class appeal
There is no room in America for
this constitution and the class consci-
BUSINESS which unscrupulous agitators
are seeking to arouse. Either the |.
w. w. and kindred organizations
must go, or we must admit that the
fathers of thisconstitution framed but
a hollow mockery Of words. If these
men are right, then Washington, Madi-
son, Hamilton and Franklin were
wrong; Webster but a spouter of
empty phrases and Abraham Lincoln
the silly exponent Of false theory. II
you are going to choose the constitu-
tion, then stand on guard, for our
the fathers gave it to us.
The Cause of Unrest.
| HOW are we 10 Sudlu IL nv"
to preserve it and send it down to un-
born generations? Not by merely
gathering and listening to a discus
sion of it; not merely by reading it. It
is an instrument given to the people
Of this nation whereby they may in
sure justice, domestic tranquility and
the blessings of. liberty and equality.
It provides the means to an end, and
its application is in the hands of men
and women just like you alG over this
land
what is It that threatens our gov
ernment, our constitution, the very
fabric of society in this nation? 1t Is
the growing hatred Of those who tot
for those who possess the materia'
things of life. 1t is the growing belie1
that the laborer has not received fod
his sweat and blood just compensa.
ton. 1t is the opinion growing day by
day that a physical struggle between
those who have and those who have
not must come before justice shall
prevail for the toilers of the world
These opinions are not alone the re-
suit of the tireless propaganda of the
malcontent The field had been pre-
pared before he came to sow his
poisonous seed. Every wrong COM
mitted by the grasping employers OF
men, every stripe laid on by crue
taskmasters, every steal perpetrated BY
conscienceless financiers, every barter
of our precious rights made by plain
politicians have fertilized and made Il
ready for the coming Of the agitator
1--WE have come upon days which
demand genius, courage and singleness
of purpose as much as did the time.
when the trainers of this constitution
! met In Philadelphia. Each day tina
passes now means further division ant
/ discomfort, or 1t means a drawln'
= nearer to the time when industr,a
' democracy and union shall supplan
the old system of autocracy and dis
union.
The Right Of Every Citizen.
Il trust there Is no man In this ma
ton who holds today that those VIII
D toll shall not find under our constitu
:, tion a full opportunity to live lives G
comfort and happiness. Surely there
s not one American who will say tina
I those who give of the golden days tha
e will never come back to them again
d full need of honest effort shall not re
e ceive just and adequate compensate
q from the great storehouse Of our ir
!" dustrial resources. We have passe
Is the time when we look upon or
T. worker as a competitor with his felo
in the labor market. And we hay
come upon the day when we look upc
le him standing erect among his fellow
e the possessor of capital of brain ar
Is strength and will to do, given him
l. his Creator, and when he puts tn
N brain and strength and will to bril-
lie forth from natures storehouse som
ut thing which did not exist before, h
10 reward shall be commensurate with h
,e kcontribution to the walfare and hapr
IN ness of mankind. The first char
as against any industry in this land
1t sufficient compensation to enat
g the toilers in that industry to II