The sun., 1919-04-20
IDR. BUTLER
III. S. MENACED BY
/ SOCIALIST PLOT
Fraud and ViciOusness Used
I to Make Bolshevism SUI
preme Here, Shown.
WORLD PEACE DWINDLING
Educator Appeals to Ameri-
! cans to Save Nation From
Evils Of Europe.
specini Dospntch 10 THE srN.

TIT CINCINNATI, April 19.-Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni
yersity, speaking before the Commercial
II Club in this city tonight, delivered the
strongest indictment against socialism
Il and its resultant BolsheVism that has
lever been heard in the Middle West
ise Speaking on the topic, us America
EHWorth Saving?" DIR. Butler\discussed the
Ismain tremendous happenings OF the times
f-%ith their influence on civilization and
especially their effect on American po-
tlitical and industrial life. After pointing
slout the fraud and the viclousness of
dSociallsm. he made his main argument
what the intelligence OF the American
espeople will save them from the evils now
g sweeping over Europe.
& There Is turbulence not only in the
Z world of events but In the world OF
Is IDEAS" said DR.. Butler. Loud and angry
g voices are raised on every hand urging
X the overthrow OF the foundations of So
ciety and of the marvellous civilization
has taken 5000 years to build. Crude
.;tthinking accompanies unconsidered and
action. Force. either military,
economic or political, and not reason
81 .ableness or Justice, is everywhere ap-
y pealed TO as the arbiter of differences
q IL is probable that the world Ia now fur
s<ther removed from peace and order than
II was on November IL when hostilities
ceased"
y Victims of Tricky Talk.
8 The president of Columbia aroused
hearty applause and also caused a good
deal OF laughter when he said that we
are victims of an orgy of crooked think
of he fa1 nd
I Language, words being twisted from their
true meanings and used to mislead the
public.
So 1T Is now the fashion" said DR..
T5Butler. 80 describe doctrinaire as an
lsidealist: to call Liberal Tory: and
ito steal the splendid term Liberal to
sfcover the nakedness of the Revolution
list. 1t is high time to attempt to dis
seipate the fog In which we are living
and to get back to first principles and
isStraight thinking along the lines Of hard
Sand practical common sense and human
Experience"
" All American life. Or. Butler said, is
= based on the civil liberty of the indi-
Il Yidual. Under this system the country
has prospered nightly. While there
has been and Is inequality, It Is also
s true. he argued. that where there is In
s dividual opportunity there Is always in
& equality. 1t can only be prevented by
sAsubstituting tyranny for liberty. He
,pcontinued:
~ Men Of Ohio, this Is the first long
srand dangerous step on the path back
toward autocracy and militarism. Once
"a State becomes all powerful 1t easily
Athinks OF itself as unable to do wrong,
and so becomes the immoral state of
(which Prussia and the German Empire
1have been the most perfect types. The
AL powerful and immoral state can see
snothing higher than itself. 1t admits
mo principle of right or justice to which
II must give heed such state Is an
end In itself and what is chooses TO do
Us necessarily right.
70
r. Question Confronting U. q.
HI The most pressing question that now
@confronts the American people. the ques-
stlon that underies and conditions all