Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-28
AMERICANS ARE
CONFRONTED BY
GIGANTIC TASK
Governor Coolidge Urges
People to Accept Larger
Responsibilities. &
> 1t.
FREEDoM HAS HAD lt y
/ NEW BIRTH, HE SAYS
People Must be True to
American Ideals, if Coun-
try is to Lead.

AA~AASSSAAS VI 1lohIf JUue ES.-
Inc American people wore urged to
accept the larger responsibilities of a
! world of greater economic and politi-
cal freedom and to employ their
moral force in solving the problems
OF the future, in an address by Gov
ernor Coolidge Of Massachusetts, Re-
publican candidate for vice president
, at the University of Vermont COM
mencement today. The degree OF doc
tor of laws was conferred upon him.
Ihe university graduated a class Of
.125. s- ....
The conflicts of the past six years.
Governor Coolidge said, have
! strengthened the determination OF all
Americas people now as in the past
to resist all aggression and support
and defend her political institutions
with whatever power may be neces-
sary for the preservation and the
maintenance Of larger liberties they
bestoW upon all her citizens.
1T is absolutely impossible for the
public to cvade or shift the burden Of
meeting the cost Of the war and pay
ing the public debt. This is oul part
.of the price of victory. Until this is
met. a, higher range of costs will be
the price of prosperity. There has
been and still is in some cases a range
of artificially high prices which has
not been caused by, but has resulted
in profiteering. There is but one cure
remedy for this and that Is al in
crease in production.
We have been preaching and en-
gaging in a great crusade. It's pur-
pose has been to destroy despotisln
and preserve freedom. There has
been new birth of freedom.
ITO some it has been disappoint-
~ friK StNr
faction. II any expected to find satis-
faction merely in an enlarged income
| they were foredoomed to disappoinl-
ment. Greater liberty does not mean
less responsibility, it means more re.
,sponsibility. If economically our
citizens are to be no longer cheap they
must be no longer without RESPONSE
bilities.
But II America is to lead, her peo.
iple mpst be true to her ideals.
| "In our economic life as in our po-
litical life, progress comes from va.
riety. A division of labor has xiven
to the individual larger economic ex-
istence., But a division Of labor pre-
supposes that each division performs
its part. BY choosing to adopt it the
individual imposes upon himself q
new duty toward society and receives
In return q new economic power and
vastly increased economic liberty.
4 No one denies that he has the right
to withdraw, but it is equally clear
that he cannot have a right to use
his position to levy tribute.
The American people desire prog
ress and when they come. as come
they must, to a comprehension that
all kinds Of selfishness and tyranny
interfere with It, they will discard
their advocatessa sas they discarded the
leadership of toryism, notification and
secession.
."Whether we seize the opportunity
Ito lead in great advance depends
isources, the power. the material
force. The only question concerns our
moral force. What leadership shall
we follow? We have through ad-
versity. Can we bear prosperity 2"