The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-30

ia great free and fair principles
should DO compared with this mons
trous system OF tyranny and crime. II
Is asserted that the rich are getting
steadily richer and fewer and the poor
steadily poorer and more numerous
among us.
Now Just recall that twenty million
Of persons have subscribed to our Lib
erty Loan and this did not represent
all who could have done 80.
There are 100000 dwellings occu-
pied by some 100000 families. Full
ly sin million Of our families own
homes, three million of them with q
mortgage which will generally be lift
ed. Twelve million Of our people have
stock In Banks of various kinds. Pub
lie school and libraries and parks are
provided for all. Labor has liberty to
organize and contract and there Is
even a Partially shown them by pub
lie opinion, manifest in legislatures
and the courts. There are dangers
from great corporations, but these
corporations are arrangements for the
employment of small capital combined
for great enterprises. They are crea-
lures Of the law, and subject to the
courts at every point.
There is steady growth in the SEN
timent for social reform in our coun-
try, for regulations conserving the
public health and providing better
housing for ALL better water, better
food and protecting against illness
and unemployment and INDECENT old
age. All this grows out Of the Amerh
can principle that the individual does
not exist for himself alone, but that he
has responsibilities and rights also.
This is Christian American social
reform. The socialist however de-
mands a political social revolution,
and strange to say they have had just
such a revolution in one of the great
est nations in the world with its 170,-
100000 people. There are signs how
ever already of its breaking down by
its own weight. 1t is only by a gi-
gantic bluff that they are able to hold
on at all,
They are operating today under
constitution, and constitution that
is neither Marxism nor Communism
The class struggle has practically
gone. Lenin entered on power an
nouncing the government Of the
Proletariat. Two years have passed,
With power responsibility has come,
The industries must be run, cities
must be fed A great nation must be
economically organized. Lenin found
out Proletaranism could not do this.
The masses could not administer the
government They could not run the
factories. T hese are still in large part
privately owned. They have to call
in the Bourgeasie and the CAPT
talists to manage the industries.
The intellectuals too are no longer
murdered. They were always needed.
Lenin is an intellectual. Trotsky
journalist Tchicherin a noble.
They were to have no parliament,
but they have in fact parliament,
a delegated body geographically cho-
SEN There is Capitalization of power
and the real rulers are the peas
ants who have become land owners.
The mines and factories are either pri-
vately owned or owned by the state
The workers are still being exploited
Militarism rules the nation through
an usurping caste.
Lenin having to face international
relations now offers to pay the nation
al debt, and remunerate alien land
owners.
Capitalism is in the saddle and the |
proletariat are putting on the yoke
again.
Lenin and his crowd have learned |
that in this world there is no class
struggle. They have learned that in
dustry is a practical not an idealistic
problem that society is made up of
groups of workers each of them need
ing the other. We should really be
thankful that this monstrous expert
ment has been made
Government Is not a creation, but |
is brought about by the evolution of
all classes of the nation according to
their character.
Our great America stands over
against all this as the development OF