Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-03
Our National Menace

cere!y wish this country had few
more Mayor Hansons. Grover Cleve-
lands and Theodore Roosevelts,
handling the nations affairs. This
country never needed more than now
men of blood and iron and instant
decision between RICH, and wrorg.
We are suffering from vacillating.
trucking, weak spined ofhcialdom.
Mayor Hanson says the present
policy Of starting CONFERENCES
WITH |. ". W. and other govern
ments hating propagandists instead
Of CEMETERIES FOR them, is
mistake that is a growing menace.
He says the conspiracy to overthrow
Thursdays demonstrations following
the bomb plots confirm his words. He
demands instant action by the gov
eminent to establish confidence in
Law and order. to remove uncertainty
from the necks of business and in
dustry, and to promote normal con-
ditions before unemployment and
consequent hunger play into the
hands Of anarchists and society de-
stroyers.
OF course the first act should be
the calling Of Congress and the in
slant consideration by legislative and
executive bodies Of the great national
problems which all recognize. The
politicians now playing with the coun-
try's great utilities should be sup
pressed as drastically as should be
the bolshevists and bomb makers.
The railroads Of the country, which
under government operation have
cost the country An added billion to
run, with diminished service, should
be turned back to their owners. The
telegraph and telephone political
swindle now before the eyes of every
body, should be ended. And the
country's business guessers should be
relieved of their uncertainty and
anxiety.
The first need Of this country is
executive grasp Of the seriousness Of
the times. The next is prompt and
effective suppression of bolshevist
cultivation Of w-breaking. And
third. safety for business to make
contracts
The spectacular crusades Of certain
organizations for pro
are all right. but a few thousand un-
occupied, uninformed and personal
liberty loving laborers easily over
balance the entire program. They
are fertile soil for the seeds Of class
hatred sown by law haters and advo-
Gates Of common property-property
common for those who are too lazy to
earn and have nothing to turn in to
the common store.
Forced labor, u hours a day, for
the government, to reduce the COM
mon tax in support Of law and order,
would be the ideal plan for dealing
with every one Of these "eommon
property" folk.
The American government. nation
al. state and municipal. has been too
lenient with this dangerous and grow.
ing menace. We have only one Ole
Hanson mayor. We have few mop
politics playing governors. We have
no Grover Cleveland President. We
need them all-such an executive in
Washington, in every state and in
every city. And then We need real
Americanism to back them.
To get such executives the masses
must be aroused to the need and ed
ucated to make the demand-to put
starch and pep into executives: to
show politicians that the bringing out
Of Ole Hansons and Grover Cleve-
lands and Theodore Roosevelts is a
political asset.
The first surety Of high American
ism is enthusiastic industrial and
commercial activity, and plenty Of the
necessities Of good home life. Then
there will be no sympathy for proph-
cts Of "socialized" women and abol-
ishment Of the family.
Bolshevism 10 the offspring Of isno-
rance conceived by constituencies
souls in indoIent bodies. To subsist
by what others earn. to indulge in
lust at another's shrine. to turn pro-
sress backward because illiteracy il
more readily dominated. is the plot
and the purpose Of the social revolu-
zionist. Our job Is to maintain social
evolution ~ q total differentiation.
AZ Mayor Hanson says. these men
know NO kindness. for kindness to
them means weakness. They. know
no friendships or holy bond. One
would take his brothers wife or turn
his sister to the mob. That il boil
shevism-socialism in the ultimate,