Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-14
STRAIGHT FROM
The SHOULDER
Senator Miles Poindexter of Washing
ton Announces His Candidacy For
the Republican Nomination For the
Presidency and His Attitude Upon
Vital Questions of the Day

/ We are moved to publish the fol-
lowing not because we are advocat-
I ing the candidacy of Senator Poin-
/ dexter, but because we do admire the
straight forward, all American way
in which the gentleman states just
where he stands and just what he
thinks in regard to the questions be-
fore the nation. 1t may not be good
politics but it strikes US that It's
mighty good Americanism.
This government was founded on
the principles that no special class
should control it;
The absolute security of every man
under the law in his person and pro-
perty;
The safeguarding of the general
welfare of our people by keeping the
government at all times under their
own control both as against any speci-
al class at home, and as against any
foreign power or combination Of
powers;
And the active use by the govern
ment, in the sphere of its action, of
the full powers of the nation to. pro-
tect every citizen, of whatever sta
ton he may be both at home or in a
foreign land, or on the sea, from un-
lawful injury to his person or his
property by any individual or special
class, or by any foreign power.
h Every necessary agency of the gov
ernment should be used to give COM
plete protection to the lives and law
full rights of American citizens in
Mexico; and the international duties
we have assumed as to that country,
by reason of our proximity, and as
incidental to the Monroe Doctrine,
should be at once performed. The
launching and withdrawing, without
definite purpose or result, of military
expeditions to Vera Cruz and other
yportions of Mexico, also as at Arch
angel and other portions Of the
world, are criminal in their reckless
disregard of life and national trea-
sure expended without the possibility
of any benefits whatever.
Alien slackers, who renounced their
first papers" of naturalization in or
der to escape military service, should
be denied citizenship in the future.
and should be deported without delav
e. the several foreign countries from
which the came to the United States
IN order that the opportunities thew
enjoy may be left for loyal citizens
and soldiers.
Revolutionary communism, by what
ever name it may be called. must be
met and put down wherever it APP
pears, as subversive- OF liberty. There
can be no compromise with anarchy.
The attempt of certain radical labor
leaders to coerce Congress to enact
legislation proposed by them, if sue
cessful. would be government by a
class, as IN Russia, and not "by.-th
people" as in the United States.
The threat to tie up transportation
until the railroads are nationaIzed
and delivered to the control of the EN-
ployees If successful, would be gov
ernment by terror, for a special
class.
The effort of certain radical leaders
of Labor organizations to secure con-
troll of the police force of the various
cities of the country, if successful,
would give to small special class
absolute control of officers Of the
law. 1t would give certain class
control of the enforcement of the law,
and of governmental agencies estab-
lished to preserve the peace. Its
success would mean the abdication
of the government in favor of class,
and the immediate establishment cf
dictatorship. It should not be open
to debate or negotiation.
This nation cannot be ruled by
hcapital, and it cannot be ruled by
labor. Both capital and labor must
be subjects to the rule of the peo-
pie, The government must be su-
preme.
The Just claims of labor should
oe recognized ard every opportunity
should be given to laboring men
and their fani:lles for comfort and
happiness. The laborng man, above
all others, is benefited by the pre-
servation Of law and order, the Sc
curity of life, person and property
against violence and arbitrary rule.
But the effort of any labor leader TO
put labor in control of the govern
ment, by means of industrial block
ade, economic pressure, intimidation
of violence, or so-called direct action,
cannot be tolerated, any more than
such an effort on the part of COM
bined capital would be tolerated.
! Either would violate the cardinal
! principles of free government.
Communism is fncpnsistent with
s. the vested right of laborer to the
wages of his labor. The right to
work, to join or not to join union,
and to accumulate, or to use, as one
sees fit, and to transmit to his chill
dren the wages of his work, is an
essential part of "life, liberty and
s the pursuit of happiness"
These essential elements of liberty
are menaced by revolutionary doc
trines. This revolutionary move
ment is international in its scope
and purpose. It has received pow
erful encouragement from the Ad-
ministration. Many of its advocates
have occupied high place in the gov
& ernment. Instead of encouraging a
class dictatorship it is the business
of the government to preserve the
ordered liberty of the people,. ana
to protect by every means IN It's IS
power the institutions on which It
IS founded. Defenders and advocat,
es of those who have been convicted
b bv due process of law Of crimes OF
j violence. committed in pursuance oof Of
: revolutionary and communlstlc
program, should be dismissed from
the government service.
socrifice, of America and of join
eo,+1poc with the fOrIuncS