The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-24
RETURNING SANITY.

screening immigration. There is lump OF refractory
humanity in this country almost incapable of assmila-
ton The handling of aliens has been bad and the sub
jcct whole has been neglected Instead of scattering
the aliens and thus forcing them to mix with Americans
the rule has been to concentrate them rather to permit
them concentrate in colonies where they have need
of English and thus have little opportunity learn any
thing of America American ideas.
The fury of the stirred up the intelects of all
peoples good and bad and the strain of the war period
proved too much for many brains The confusion result
ing from the downfall of three great empires enabled
cranks of all kinds to try their nostrums upon the people,
From boshevsm tremendous scale through all kinds
of socialism and democracy the most despotc autoc
racy Europe has suffered governmental operations
bling in their damaging effects series of major opera
tons upon the human body. In the United States the
repercusson has started into activity pesten lot of
native and foregnborn world reformers, mostly ndvid
uas incapable or unwilling to their living but
perfectly willing to remold the universe. Some of them
are Anticipated brawers and others are scheming
Williams ready to commit hideous crimes for the sake of
gain The of them, leaders and dupes constitutes
strain upon the digestive apparatus of the United States
and more or less of menace to the health of the
country
Yet there is abundant for confidence. The stu
pendos size and momentum of the United States are not
kept fully in mind by those who imagine that bolshevsm
or social revolution of any kind will upset the country
In spots the agitation seems be dangerous but in the
vast stretches of the nation throughout the scores of mi
lions who pursue their daily duties the germs of treason
have not spread On the contrary the healthy millions
are immune. They cannot be infected, because they
know liberty, they have the habit of voluntary restraint
their brains shocked by the war
Nowhere else in the world is there single body of
individuals enjoying the measure Of prosperity safety
and liberty that is enjoyed by the people of the United
States They are aware of this towering fact and are
fully cognizant of the for 1.-THE reason being
that their liberty security and prosperity are selfmain
tanned and not dependent upon the outside world Amer
leans kknow that they are not accidentally Free cas-
uay safe, incidentally prosperous They know that
the art Of government is the most difficult Of all arts
and that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty Thew
have been somewhat negectfu out of an abundance of
strength and perhaps contempuous Indifference to the
strength of evil in the world But they have not the
SgheSt intention of raising the question whether they
shall retain the government handle ddown to them by
their fathers and anybody else cares to raise the oues
ton Americans will soon answer it.
There are vague fears that capital and labor may crap
pie and bring into jeopardy the present structure of the
United States Those fears unnecessary and would
not exist if tho tr,aS
DOUBTS the sodity of America let him ask what American
workngmen did when syndicast agitaor askel them to
paralyze the steel industry The Ameri a w,rk;npnen
exercised their own judgment and refused to sacrifice
themselves for foreign agtators and foreign ideas The
bulk OF the strikers proved to be foreigners of the
ignorant and creduous type individuals resembling those
oeuaed Russians who have been ridden destruction by
the archdevils Lenne and Trotzky The steel strike like
Russian bolohevism emphasizes the fact that ignorance
is the worst enemy of mankind and enlightenment the
greatest blessing that man bestow upon himself.
There are unmistakabe evidences of an improvomort
n the world situation The shaken old world is ROUNDING
nto better form and it will give the lie to
reamcrS and soothsayers by recovering its equilibrium
The portion of the earth that will recover first io the
United States because here there less shock and more
Intelligence. Americans do not have to be taught the
of regulated liberty. They have merely to be
warned that their country is beset with an extraordinary
lumber of knaves and their dupes who want to make
Mischief Other nations may take more time in recov
ring their balance and in establishing liberty based upon
aw But they are all recovering even bewildered Rus
Post.
The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but -
apltal and labor prefer to stand up