The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19

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The only real field for Bolsheyism
in America is among the ignorant
and hali-assimi ated foreign-born;
our only danger from it is in permit
ting its alien-e nemy leadership toI
operate among the credulous and the
vicious. The cure is courage and
common sense. The same simple
hcme prescription will take us
through the reconstruction period TO
a better and stronger America.
No one but a fool will shut his
eyes to the faults of our democracy
or deny that many grave abuses exist
In our country The American con-
tention is simply that no other sys-
TEN yet devised by man has given so
much peace, prosperity and happi-
ness to nation as ours, and that
more holds out SO much promise for
the future. America has been good
place to live in; ii must be better
one In the future. To make 1t so is
our job and we must so about II with
! courage and American common
sense, not with pessimism and Russo
German theories.
We want prosperity in America
but not swo' len fortunes. We want
big rewards for men who do big con-
structiye things, and jail sentences
FOR the big fellows who steal the
| fruits of their work and the savings
OF small investors. There have been
altogether too many mavericks loose
en- the range, sucking cows on which
hey have no claim. There would be
real railroad mess, no necessity of
lrying to part down wages in basic
industries, ii there had been no
banker control and no fragrant water
Ing of the stock of these corporations.
For this reason, If for no other, re-
auctions In high dividends must pre-
cede reductions in high wages during
the adjustment period.
The wise business man is not the
one who is talking about liquidatine
labor. but the one who is sharpening
his pencil in order to figure out
way to keep wages up. The react
ionary business man must get II clear
ly In his head that the country is
( not interested in speeding up bust
Il ness in order that he may have Q
new motor, or a new country house
and q flock Of footmen, but that the
whole mass OF Americans may move
up to a higher plane of living ant
self-respeet. He must be satisfied
with a fair but smaller share Of The
profits. Labor must not only b'
kept employed but well-paid Cour
J age and common sense viii do it,
, courage to go ahead, to explaine, ant
to bet on the country that has neye
failed the man who believed IN IL
common sense to understand that II,
, prosperity is worth while that i
. based on the exploitation of others
A., and that no gains will he lasting tina
are, not fairly divided.
) aAmerica Il big and rich and sill
IIh4s been able to stand a lot 3
|, damned nonsense, but this is not th
!. time for any sort Of nonsens
, from either Bolsheviki or Reaction
.aabies,p And ono Of the lest symptom
, Of the times is the determination :
|. Intelligent and forward-looking bus
4 ness men TO stand fer q square dea
I I'VE have passed 4 library OF Law
{ i~ying - stop the growth Of eHs, bp
e not to stop the, evils At this yer
n minute we are lifting the restriction
!. ttllat safe-guarded small investor
s during the warm effect saying |
4 the wolves. There are The SHEEP
n they are dnc and fat; help yourself
? We might Is wen repeal the healt
e laws while WEI are about IT,
o We have been very busy trying
II lssvc thelworld--a laudable enterpris
d but a large contract Let us by 4
q means try to help our neighbors, bl
d incidentally let us try to help gu
v selves, Every, paper, every speech
full of references to our debt to Bri
Q ain, our debt to France, our debt
II Belgium. until It locks as II we ow
O everybody and nobody owes us, BIT
Q in remembering these multitudinol
n debts we need not altogether forg,
: our debts to America We can pa
70 1t with little courage and commC
n. sense AT this time.