The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-10-20
SECURITY LEAGUE
ISSUES WARNING ON
SPREADOF DOCTRINE
Declares Country Faces "Soclal Re.
yOlution Downard- with All the
Evils Of Minority Glass Rule.

NeW ioTh, OCtODtT lJ.-NdTnlnB
the public generally to wake before
1t Is too late to the real meaning of
the radical agitation throughout the
country, the Executive Committee of
the National Security League issued
the following statement on the indus
trial situation today
1.-THE time has arrived for the peo-
pie of America to wake to a reali-
cation of what is taking place. 1t is
social revolution downward-nothing
else. The radical agitation which is
menacing the foundations of our in
dustriai life is not based upon speci-
fc grievances, but is aimed at the
overthrow of American institutions
shevik army was marching on Wash
ington. The American poole are con-
fronted with all the destructive forces
of minority class rule which have
made waste of Russia. The bloody
method of the Bolshevik revolution is
the only condition lacking. In fact,
its absence is the sole reason for the
long binding of our citizens eyes to
what is going on.
This country should have emerged
from the war the strongest nation
industrially, socially and morally that
ever existed on the face of the earth.
Instead, our reconstruction, our re-
turn 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 won the
war, has been almost lacking and APP
parently forgotten. Its immediate re-
suscitation is essential to save the
day
"Internationalism, syndicalism, com
munsion, socialism, are the antitheses
of Americanism. Americanism means
the best DIN the ideals of the peoples
of all the world, the best of human
ideals-manhood Manhood means
ambition, self-denial, thrift. These
ideals can spring only from the pro-
lection of personal liberty and the
right of property-the right of indi-
vidual possession of property as guar
anteed by the Constitution. He who
does not believe this canot be an
American. Manhood, and the oppor-
tunity to prosper, are the essential.
OF Americanism and are inconsist-
ent with communism. Loyalty, pa
triotsm, love OF country, are, In the
final analysis, willingness to abide
by the laws of the land which give
to all their rights, and demand from
all the rights of each.
"The true American spirit has been
splendidly illustrated in recent times
by the prompt action of Mayor Ole
Hanson in dealing with the l. w. w.
revolutionary element in Seattle, and
equally so by Governor Coolidge in
Furnishing the deserters among the
police force in Boston, who, to serve
their own ends, deliberately violated
their paths and turned the municipal
ity over to thags and criminals. The
time is now here when American citi-
zens must decide whether they in
tend to run this country or whether
they will permit the radical foreign
born element to do SO.
Property rights must be declared
invaluable to protect every man IN
the community ip his rights and am
billions, and those who would try tC
break down that law should be rea-
soned with gently, II that will suffice,
firmly, in any and every case, and
without mercy II persisted in.
America needs its American doc
trine to be understood by ALL"