Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-15
PATRIOTS FOR PROFIT ONLY
REAL AMERICANS


American should be for the United
States ponder the question: "Why
is not our beloved country made safe
for demOcracy?"
Why has the war promise not been
kept? Is it going to be kept? If so,
when? If not, why not?
We now have the spectacle of tens
OF thousands of returned soldiers and
sailors roaming the country looking
for work. We see them turned down
everywhere they ask for a decent
living wage and condition of en-
ployment bettered by the war.
Where are the great public i'm
provements, federal and national,
that were to be undertaken about
Which we heard so much early in the
year, to take up the surplus labor re-
leased by the coming of peace -?
Where are the employers whose flip
pant promises filled the very air
when these young men marched away
to the bloody fields of carnage in
France, Belgium and Italy?
Where is the government that
pledged to protect these men, upon
then return, from greed, extortion
and aVarice, and to see to it that thew
were well employed, we'll paid and
well treated? Where is the land they
were going to give the soldiers, and
Where is the "new start in life" that
was going to be given men who gave
up promising positions or a thriving
business to go forth and make the
world safe for democracy?
They are not.
On the other hand we see the
soldier being permitted to be gouged
and buffeted on every hand. We sea
big masters of industry being nor
mltted to defy the government that
went forth to make Europe safe
Tor democracy. They now seem TO
De the very government itself, iudg-
ing by their defiance, arrogance and
contempt for law and common do
cency in industry.
OF course it is very unpatriotic to
oflhg up these matters. The people
should not be reminded of promises
made In stress of war. Thev shouId
oe lett TO sleep on or to humble their
dlscontent in aimless pargon. That is
the kind of Americanism the Plundar-
bund wants.
The common people should not
disturb business" by demanding to
Know. They should be supinely sub
mlsslve-take what they get and keen
stlll-also the returned soldiers and
sailors. That is the kind of Ameri-
canlSm wanted. That is, by the pa-
tnots for moneys sake, bv the breed
OF grabbers who gouged the govern
ment out of billions during the davs
OF Its dire strife while our bows wore
giving up their lives to keen the tor
l1ble Hun" from overrunning the
world and enslaving the rest Of man
klhd-at least that's what thev told
US was the "Hun" objective.
these patriots" should not be dis
turbed They should be permitted to
substitute themselves for the HIM
lhey are the boys to now 90 forth
ana overrun and conquer the world
Let the food profteers, Big Bust
ness, the Invisible Government +bo
political sham battle fighters the re-
formers and all their pesky ilk alone
+ or are they not the real patriots
DIdnt they stay at home and bulcon
the people and rake in the coin while
Ihe pig mlX-up was going on?
What business has a poor man
man who works for wages Iiyeo
honestly IN humble way, who can
scarcely make ends meet, who has
but one wife, who can scarcely send
MS children through high school. let
alone give them a college education
"hat business has he claiming to be
patriotic? What claim has he nnon
being an American?
Wake up, Hornyhand. Enlarge
your vision. Adjust your optics to
the new day. Patriotism, American
ism, now means wealth, ease. fine
homes, servants, castles on the hills
and all that stuff.
When another war comes along, as
an outcome of the world-grabbers,
quarreling among themselves, you
will be let into the patriotic business.
You'd be admitted as a regular
American again, be trained, card IN
deXed, paraded and given a gun that
you might go forth to make "the
world safe for democracy" once more.