The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-07-28

Dram IA product.0n, moresproducuon
honest production, patriotic produc.
don, becausel patriotic production Is
less q rdefensesof our best civilixa.
ton than that Of armed force. PROFIT.
eering Is q crime Of commission.
underproductlon Is a crime Of .onls.
ssion. We must worksour most and
best else the destruction reaction win
come. = -
The menacing tendency OF the pres
ent day u not chargeable wholly to'
the unsettled and fevered condition.,
caused BY the war. The manifest
weakness I'm popular government lies
In the temptation to appeal to grouped1
citizenship for political advantage. II
would be the blindness Of folly to
ignore the activities in our own coun.
try which are aimed to destroy our
economic system, and to commit us to
the colossal tragedy which has de.
stroyed all freedom and made Russia
yimp0tent. This movement is motto be
halted in throttled liberties. We must
mot abridge the freedom Of speech,
the freedom Of press, or the freedom
Of assembly, because there is moi
promise in repression. These liner.
ties are as sacred as the freedom Of
religious belief, as inviolable al the
rights OF life and the pursuit Of
happiness. We do hold to the right ia
crush sedition, to stifie a menacine
contempt for law, to stamp out a peril
to. the safety of the republic or its
people, when emergency calls, be.
cause security and the majesty Of the
law are first essentials Of liberty. He
who threatens destruction Of the gov
ernment by force or flaunts his con.
tempt for lawful authority, ceases to
best5a loyal citizen and forfeits his
rights to the freedom Of the republic
Nosparty is Indifferent to the welfare
Of the wage r To us his good
fortune Is Of deepest concern and We
geek to make that good fortune PEI
manent We do not oppose but ap-
prove collective bargaining because
that Is Notwithstanding right but we
are unalterably insistent that its ex-
erclse must not destroy the equally
Shcred right Of the; individual in his
necessary pursuit Of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his
employment; so has every American
the right to seek employment. The
group must not endanger the indi-
vidual, and we must discourage groups
>preying upon one another and none
shall be allowed to. forget. that the
governments obligations are alike to
all the people.
We are SO confident that much of
the present day insufficiency and in
efficiency Of transportation are due to
The whitening hand Of government
operation that we emphasize anew
opposition to government ownership.
We want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake Is not
repeated.
A state of inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the
failure of governmental experiment, is
losing millions to- agriculture. It Is
shindering industry, it is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than-a peril. 1t emphasizes
the %present-day problem and suggests
that spirit Of encouragement and as
distance which commits all America. to
relieve such IN emergency.
Gross expansion Of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
rs expansion and imitation have dis
credited the coins Of the world. We
Inflated in haste, we must debate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
In reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty. In all. sincerity we promise
the prevention Of unreasonable profits,
We challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers Of
government and people but 1t issfair:
ave. 1t Is timely to give reminder that.
& w. .EE.Htftrs SIS" ...#a4Hs .&1 tEs#... 90. E-. 81