The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-30
AMERIcANIsM VS..
B0LSnEvISM IS
PASTORS SUBJECT
DIR. John Barbour breaches sermon on
the Close Of the World War and
the Approach Of Inde-
pendence Day.

DR.. Barbour preached to large au-
dlence yesterday a sermon appropri-
ate to the end OF the World War and
the approach Of Independence Day.
He said "The war In bringing
about vast changes has opened new
and difficult problems. Who could have
foreseen five years ago that we would
SO soon be facing questions involving
the very constitution of society In Eu-
rope and In America, that getting rid
of the Autocracy Of Cars and Emper-
ors we should be confronted with the
worse autocracy of the Bolsheviki?
Destructive and reactionary forces
are actually at work ip America striv-
ing to turn our representative Repub-
lie into a socialist autocracy.
1t is asserted by them that the dis
parity and the injustices between
classes has become so marked that the
present system must give way to an
organization Of the people, and that a
part of the people, the workers who,
it is claimed, have gathered the prop
erty on which our social structure
rests. The conduct Of our daily lives,
what we at and drink, our incomes, all
our affairs are to be under the control
Of collectivism.
1t is the question whether one shall
abandon the principles and traditions
which have made America so great
and so free and substitute therefor a
state built upon the absolute power Of
the new socialistic council.
The corner store Of our system is
the civil liberty and equality of the in
diyidual Our government is not a
government of absolute power before
whom the individual must bow. Ours
is one of clearly defined powers under
a constitution limiting to the govern
ment of state or nation what is dele
gated by the citizens. We are free
people. We do not derive our powers
from government. We make the gov
eminent and invest it with power as
we wish.
This protected liberty of the individ-
ual is what has drawn the oppressed
and the enterprising from every land,
and this it is which has given America
such unexampled prosperity. Perfect
equality and perfect justice has not
yet been attained but it far surpasses
the liberty and privileges of other
lands.
The fundamental contention of the
Bolsheviki is the idea derived from
Marx that there is an memorable
struggle of classes in present day So
ciety.
In answer, we say there is no per-
manent inequality or fixity of classes
in this country. Men and women by
the thousands rise out of their classes
every year and become heads Of the
business they learned as mechanics.
Section hands becoming Presidents Of
Railroads and farmers boys going to
the head of every calling. In fact the
upper departments of American life
are reckoning constantly to those be-
meath them to come up and share in
social and business privileges just as
fast as they are able to do so. There
is a premium put on aspiring talent
and energy to rise to the great oppor-
tunities.
In contrast with this socialism is
the absolute domination of class and
the destruction of the liberty and op-
portunity of the individual. They even
reject majority government giving to
a particular class, the class of labor
ers, the government of the land. They
strike down remorselessly every other
class that stands in their way.
Now this scheme seems so prepos-
ferrous and so un-American that many
of our people have no interest in 1t
and are consequently asleep while
these plotters against our liberties are
at work. They we're just as free from