The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-06-21
BOMBS VS.. BALLOTS

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American preference. 1t lis an importa-
ton. American, possessing universal
suffrage as the basis of self government
and recognizing the right of other men
to opinions, have never had much patience
with the European device. They have
conceded some excuse for it where it
chiefly flourished in Russia, under the
military tyranny Of the old regime, but
they have not been able to see anv iusti-
fication for it in this country. With the
ballot and freedom of speech and of the
press any man may have his way, if he
convinces majority of his fellow citizens
that his way is right or better than exist
ing ways. 1t may be long pull to con-
vince so many, it may even be impossible:
but Americans do not believe that JUST.
flies any one in this country in adopting
the bolshevist's method of getting his
way by numbering those who do not agree
with him.
AS long as no innocent victim has fall
len, it is perhaps good thing that this
bomb plot was attempted so spectacular
ly. 1t should emphasize in the American
mind the character of revolutionary i'm
portations from the old world and wax
en- us to the need for a determined resis-
lance to their workings. The destruction
wrought by few bombs, even if they
were successful, is as nothing to the in
jury done by sentiments and ideas born
of old world conditions and preached here
in contempt or ignorance of American
principles Of liberty and progress. We
are hearing more and more revolution
airy jagon about wage slavery, bourgeois
ethics, the profiteering middle class, the
rights of the proletariat. There is de-
termined attempt of extremists to spread
the headlong Impotence of the most ig-
norant classes. to organize it and to over
turn with it the existing processes of
progress. The dismal and costly expert
ment of this method of getting forward
by going backward tried by Lenine in
Russia means nothing to these fanatics
and their sentimental followers. They
are too certain of their own infallibility
to bother about experience. But the
great mass of Americans of all classes,
and especially the intelligent wage earn
err, would do well to remember the old
old maximum, eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, and to realize that our
American institutions are worth our
trouble to defend them.
Americans have had so fortunate con-
dition as compared to other peoples that
the danger is they will not appreciate
what they have until they have allowed it
to be invaded. We have taste for nov
elites and gambling. We have shown lit
tie respect for what experience, the past
has taught. Like the spoiled heir of a
great estate, we have little realization of
the nature of our wealth or its value.
The bomb plot, we hope, will result in
something more decisive than few ar
rests, to be followed in due time by LONG
trial at which assorted sentimentalsts
will protest eloquently against the das-
tardly conspiracy to martyrize the A DOT
men who merely tried to ,efc,,1a' an. :"
mer bv raising him, and incldentaliy eV-
erybody else in his house - -. q ";s'er
spneIe, anu sentence followed in few
peni.e1h, y, ! parole and pardon We think
year s;p,e that men who try to save So
Fer. y = and nplft the downtrodden by in 4
discriminate murder should taste the
penalty for murder We think men who !
1lot murder or incite to murder should =
e executed. Chicago Tibune.
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Supposing you don't own an autOmo-
did Julius Caesar nor
gorge Washington nor Abraham Lin /
pin.
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