New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-28


natural rights and personal liberties Of |
I the sovereign people of the Republic.
aBourbonism is not Americanisrn, and
all of the foolish efforts Of the reactionaries
| to create the new American crime of
Iradicalism are bound to fail. Our great
Americans have always been political
radicals, and this Republic has alwaysi
been the great radical among the ma
/ tions.','
The Democratic party has created
! the most powerful despot in all the world.
The Republican party has connived in
the setting up Of this autocracy."
we resolve to resist to the uttertnost
the recent enormous growth Of executive
poWeef;l 4 ri ~ liz
I'VE hold it TO bee, an elemental and
4 evident; truth that there can be no free
government without practical and alb
Isolute freedom Of speech, an uninfuenced
land unfettered press, and the unabridged
] right of the people to assemble to petition
Flor a.redress of their grievances. We de-
Emand the immediate restoration Of these
rights, the repeal Of the unconstitutional
and tyrannical Espionage act, and a re-
commentator of amnesty for all political
prisoners held under this federal statute
only for political opinions or for words
spoken or written, as distinguished from
direct incitementto Whence, acts of vio-
lence, or overt acts against the govern
ment. You have condemned Bolshe-
vism for Its confscation Of. real and
personal property. But that is worse
form of Bolshevism which confiscates
real and personal rights. Confscation
Of real and personal property affects the
few. The confscation Of real and;
personal rights impoverishes all. /" s n;
Is sssThere is but one test of loyalty: Is.
a man loyal to this Constitution and does
| he feel whole hearted love and devotion,
for the institutions Of liberty which it
creates and insures? Judged by this
test, fear that in federal prisons today
there may anguish true patriots and
that there may be sitting in legislative
halls men with disloyal and traitorous
hearts" sss5
We demand an end to the taxing of
the people for the payment Of swarms
of federal spies, agents and special
officers, who may become parasites,
blackmailers, sappers of political morality
and a menace to liberty
we urge the repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment to the Constitution and
Reconsideration by the people Of the great
question involved in it under conditions
which will insure an unimpa con-
sideration, unclouded by the temporary
conditions of war and unaffected by the
hysteria and prejudice which were in
cident to its submission at time when
. full and free discussion we're impossible"
I'VE believe that the iniquitous Treaty
of Versailles is largely responsible for
the present confusion and chaos in
Europe and that we can restore order and,
sanity to the world only by approaching
the whole problem Of peace in a new and
| different spirit from that in which this
vindictive and impossible document
was drawn. .
eve urge the immediate re-establish-
ment Of peace on the general principles
enunciated in the fourteen points. : - :
We urge the principle Of determine
! ton for the nations Of Europe, particular.
| ~ Russia and Ireland
1--WE express our qualification that one
Of the great political parties Of England
| the party which we hope will shortly
come into power-has taken a definite
stand in favor Of the principle that it is
incumbent on all countries having colo
MES to meet the responsibility OF fitting
the subject peoples for self-government
and for ultimate admission into the.
society cf nations" i
eve denounce the League Of Nations
Gas proposed) as a scheme worked out
in secret by imperialistic interests for a.
new armed coalition designed to preserve
the old international order with it's in
tolerable system OF colonial expansion
Eand human exploitation. We urge the
leallingiof an international conference to
consider an international arrangen ent
| for agconcert of nations forathe elevation,
education, liberation and ultin ate self
determination Of the backward peoples
sof the earth
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