Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-26

Governor FRANK u. LOW0en.
"As much unity is needed now
as in time of war;" Governor
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois said
in an interview in Davenport to-
day, where he addressed the open
ing session of the Iowa Bar asso-
citation.
THE united efforts put forward
to win the war are necessary to
preserve the liberties won in the
war" he continued
There is always danger for a
liberty-loving people" he said.
THE remark that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty is as true
today as the day 1t was made.
There is a school, A new school
that We did not know in those
days. when 1 first came to Iowa,
that breaches that our form of
government is founded upon a lie,
that breaches that all property be-
longs to the great majority. We
have just succeeded in putting
down the great peril of military
despotism. We are now confront
ed with the peril OF International
ism. We had been careless in re-
gard to the former We were care
less as to preparedness, and we
learned that there was but one wav
to combat the great peril that
Swallowed US. That was through
every man forgetting himself
through the united efforts of all
such a united effort is needed to-
day. The next few years will de-
eide for centuries whether people
are capable of governing them
selves.
"As I passed through Iowa to-
day, l was reminded that there
are other areas just as rich and as
productive as this. l am told that
in Mexico, and in great areas in
Siberia, there are rich prairies as
rich as ours. But those today are
lying idle, while the world looks
to us for food, and l gathered the
belief that there the people count,
that the government which encour-
ages people to accomplishments,
that the government which prom
ised those early pioneers life, lib
erty and property are responsible.
To preserve for ourselves and for
the world these geat advantages
which we have we must unite now
to meet the single peril of bolshe-
vism and anarchist, as we united
to meet the peril of military au-
tocracy."
One result of the war, which.
the governor said, showed him one
great good that came out of the
war, was that people learned to
know their neighbOrs through the
united war work better than they
mad ever known them before.
IN Springfield this matter was
brought to my attention more than
ever before at a meeting of the
war work board. A man who had
been appointed to unite the farm
ers with the people of the city, de-
clared that he had found in his
work that there was no difference
between the Americans of the
country districts and those of the
city. A worker between the en-
ployers and the employees declar-
ed that he found the laboring man
and the employer the same sort of
man. A Protestant minister found
no difference, except that minor
one of religion, between the Pro-
testant, the Catholic and the Jew.
when the great issue was before
them. We are all alike, and unit
ed we must remain, if we are to
decide for the world that a govern
ment such as ours can succeed
A slight shot at the modern
school system was taken in clos
ing the address. THE present day
teachers look upon US old-timers
in the teaching profession as old
fogies," he said. but there was
Virility and emergency in the
schools of those days which I am
not sure is not lacking today"