Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-01-22
END INTOLERANCE. SAYS u. s,
SENATE
BY Senator Joseph Irwin France ef
Maryland.

AoANB Jan. iS.-At tue
present time, destructive extremism
and stubborn reaction are running
mad race, the Bolshevistic and
Bourbonistic naughty charioteers be-
ing utterly regardless Of the dangers,
of the rights of millions Of progress
i've Americans, and of the principles
and provisions Of our fundamental
law
The time has come for the Ameri-
can people to call halt. The coun-
try has been ruled long enough by
emotion, by hatred and by stupid in
tolerance. believe that the sound
sense Of the American people is soon
to assert itself and to speak in no UNI
certain tones.
Plato, in an immortal work, com
pared the Individual to chariot
drawn by two horses, one the good
and the other the evil passions, while
reason, the charioteer, guiding and
controlling, holds the reins For too
long in this country, during and since
the war, well-meaning and bad-in-
tending passions have been. running in
riotous madness, rushing in the di-
rection Of destruction, while calm
reason has been displaced, Let us re-
call reason to the helm, before the
great Republic rides to the rocks.
Let us examine the deportation
question. Where are we? have
heard Of the practise Of cleaning the
room by sweeping the dirt under the
bed To set ones house in order thus
is deplorable always, and may be de-
structive. To hide evils is not to cure
them
I Dangerous germs delight in dark
ness and die in the disenfecting light
of the sun. Is the sweeping Of the
virulent and destructive anarchists
from our own domiciles and doorsteps
into the homes Of our neighbor nations
good world housekeeping
Is it salutry? Is it consistent
with our high professions of interest
in and responsibility for other ma
tions? Is the Constitution of our
country so much less rugged than that
of theirs, that we might perish from
the dangers which we expect them to
resist?
Some Of the hypocritical reaction
aries, speaking words and platitudes
which they themselves did not believe,
have been telling US Of late that
America had become the LIST power Of
the world, and that therefore she
SHOULD assume the great leadership
among the nations to which she had
been called For that reason J op-
posed her being shackled with the
manacles Of European ideas and tied
back to the material and imperialistic
ideals Of many Of the Old World coun-
tries.
did not wish 70 See cur country
enter an evil compactNin order that
good n1ight come. I would have our
fair republic, not as the Pharisee,
pass by, but as the Good Samaritan
90 to the succor Of bleeding and down
trodden people.
And now we see, O STRANGE and
self-revealing inconsistency, these
same stone-faced, bone-headed and
hard-hearted Bourbon reactionaries
who, but few short weeks ago in
holp SUPPLIES, with deep junction
were with such cant and SNUG phrase
telling US that we were now our bro
theirs keeper, advocating the policy
Of cleansing our own country, not by
the educational eradication Of false
doctrines from the unfortunate minds
which dwell in darkness: not by the
disinfecting power of free discussion;
not by the restless power of reason
but by ruthless repression Of violence
and the wholesale deportation of the
undesirable unfortunates, regardless
of the consequences of such acts up.
on the other countries of the world
Have these reactionary saints fall
en- from grace that they should nov
urge. indeed demand, the dumping Of
all these devastating ills, the anar-
chistic teachings and the destructive
extremism which we cannot cure, up
on our sister nations?
i He grOsp Of progressive leaaerz
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