The Alaska daily empire., 1919-12-11
By EDGAR A. STANTON, Superinten dent of Juneau Public Schools.

Several years ago I had occasion to make a rather intensive study of that time. I decided that the real heart of the matter was the extent to which our foreign born and their children are assimilGted, how far they remain of the country from which they or their parents came, how far they get the real spirit of our own. And I became convinced that America had within her Dor ders far too many people who did not understand her history or her ideals.
 Events since. the time that study was made have served to strengthen my conviction. And at present we have large groups of men who not only do not care to aid in perpetu- ating and improving our present in stitutions but who are bent on put ting new and strange ones in their place.
 Those customs, laws and ways of thinking that we term American 1re based upon principles that have developed through the constant moulding and recasting of many cen 'ures. Such ideas as the limitation If the rights of one individual by those of every other and of all, lib ery under the law, constitutional re- strictions upon the powers of the Neoples agents. government of, by, 1nd for the pe0ple.-thcse and many more are but expressions of the long continued growth that stretches from
 he days before King John up to our own.
 Source of American Ideals
 Only the man who has studied :losely our American ideals realizes LOW far back they go, how much they have been modified from time to time and at what cost of effort and sacrifice have they advanced to their present forms. And I believe that the careful student will conclude that in the future these institutions will be adjusted to suit new condi- tions and also that the adjustments will be made in the same orderly manner
 It is true enough that too few of ,ur citizens know our country as hey should but until recently it ap peared that nearly all of them un derstood eniugh of the spirit of Am erica to work together to make the promise come true. Today it is quite apparent that there is in this country group who do not intend to assist the rest of us in carrying on this or much of any government. As one writer puts it they have the idea hat "any kind of government at all is aucocracy" They believe, fur ther, that only those actively labor ing in particular industry have any right to say how it shall be con lucted This last statement I con sider the essence of sovictism. Sure, " this is far removed from Lincoln . oft-quotcd phrase and the principle that the rights of each individual Ire limited by those of his neighbors.
 The Russian Brand
 A large group there is of these un- Americans who wish to take down the government built through cent uries of struggle and put in it's place some hastily fabricated structure patterned after what is supposed to be operating or trying to operate in Russia with such notifications and Improvements as suit the fancy of the gentlemen who would superin- 'endent the change. There are sev- eral interesting economic and indus rial experiments that they wonuld start at the same time but of which we must neglect the discussion
 I do not think that these leaders has as many followers as they would have the public believe, but there are enough mon in their ranks Q constitute real menace And hose of us who have faith in Ameri ean methods do not intend to sit as irec'ators while the self-styled sci. anfists perform their experiment The ruickest way for the Bolsheviks and he l. w. W's. to realize their great