The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-07-22

l wish the higher wage to abide, on
one explicit condition-that the wage
Garner will give full return for the
wages received.
| want, somehow, to appeal to the
sons and daughters of the republic. to
every producer, to join hand and brain
in production, more production, honest
production, patriotic production, be-
cause patriotic production is no less
defense Of our best civilization than
that of armed force. P~rofiteering is
a crime of commission, under produc-
ton Is a crime of omission. we must
work our most and best else the de-
structive reaction will come.
The m%enacing tendency of the pres.
ent day is not chargeable wholly to
the unsettled and fevered conditions
caused by the war. The manifest
weakness in popular government lies
I'm the temptation to appeal To grouped
citizenship for political advantage.
Ii would be the blindness of folly
10 ignore the activities in our own
country 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
impotent. This movement is not to be
halted in throttled liberties. W. must
not abridge the freedom of speech,
the freedom of press or the freedom
of assembly, because there is no prom
Use in repression. These liberties are
are sacred as the freedom of religious
belief, as inviolable as the rights of
life and the pursuit of happiness. We
do hold 20 the right TO crush sedition.
to stifle a menacing contempt for law,
10 stamp out "A peril to the safety
of the republic or its people. when
emergency calls, because security and
the majesty of the law are the first
essentials Of liberty. He who threatens
destruction of the government by force
or flaunts his contempt for lawful au-
thority. ceases to be a loyal citizen
and f~orfeits his rights to the freedom
of the republic.
No party Is Indifferent to the wei
fare of the wage Garner. To us his
good fortune is of deepest concern and
we seek to make that good fortune
permanent. We do not oppose but
approve collective bargaining, because
that Is an outstanding right, but we
are unalterably insistent that its ex-
ercise must not destroy the equally
sacred right of the individual in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood, any
American has the right to quit his EN-
ployment, so has every American the
right to seek employment. The group
must not endanger the individual and
we must discourage groups preying
upon n another and o n shall be
allowed to forget that the govern
ment's 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 our
opposition to government ownership.
We want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re
peated.
A state of inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the
failure of governmental experiment, is
losing millions to agriculture, 1t is
hindering Industry, Ii Is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than a peril. 1t encompasses
h present day problem and suggests
h a spirit of encouragement and as
sistance which commits all America
to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated In past, we must debate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
In reckless finance, we must restore
in honesty.
In all security we promise the pre-
yention Of unreasonable profits. We
challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers of
government and people, but 1t is fair,
aye, IL Is timely, to give reminder that
law Is not the sole corrective of our
economic ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy. for denial and
sacrifice If need be. For a nation
wide drive against extravaganza and
luxury to a recommital to simplicity
OF living. to that prudent and normal
plan of life which Is the health Of the
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