The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-11-02

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the first step of its advocates said, toward the
naturalization of railroads. coal mines, and other pro-
ductive industries
There was threat expressed from at least part OF
the forces behind the bill of nationwide strike If
there were not an immediate increase in wages and the
adoption of the Plumb Plan Fortunately, Congress de-
MED them the arrogant demand But OF the
alarming tendencies of the day is the shifting OF power
from the Government to organized classes-and this
tendency of times is grave that threatens the
very existence of organized society," When any class
becomes so numerous powerful that it can force
its will upon the Government, not through the ballot
box but through it's control the necessities OF fe
then the Government exists in form and not in name,
and as some speaker has said "Such nation has been
Bolshevised' Bolshevism means the rule of the ma
jority But in its practical operation IN Petro
grad Budapest Vienna, Munich and Berlin, it is the
rule of class Of all oligarches that of class is the
most to be feared.
Lately, there has been attempt to organize the
police and fremen of the country and thus divide the
allegiance of those who pledged to enforce law
and protect property.
During the past year we have suffered enormously
from strikes in every basic ndustry-and threat
ened every day with nationwide tieup OF our trans
portation nes which essential to the life of the
nation the circulation of the blood to the life OF
the Individual
It is clearly apparent for the time being that the
ganized workers in many lines of industries in America
have fallen under control of radicals like Foster and
Fitzpatrick. These radicals would natonalize rail-
roads and coal mines first and then all the other in
str,1nents of production. They would bring this
ton of ours under the domination of the class to which
they belong. They would substitute for private owner
ship and initiative Communal ownership and opera
ton and thus reduce man to dull instrument Of pro-
duction and dry up the impulses of his ambition.
This same class has threatened to defeat every Con-
gresham who failed to vote for it's special interests by
any means whether right wrong They intend to
get control Of the Government itself is
There is no more dangerous force operating among
us today than the class minded man, whether he is
laborer, capitalist or farnler-the who demands a
privilege for his class at the expense of the American
people. s:
What Of the great unorganzed and defehseless
masses of Americans? What Of the intermediate
naillions"-cerks, ministers, teachers, newspaper
writers, small business men, farm hands, unorganizec
aborers in industries Office help, stenographers ana
the multitude of segregated and unallied workers!
Upon these toers will rest the burden of sustaining
the classes which by threat and force, exact their SCI
fsh demands No will deny the right of any class
of workers t. strike for their protection, but the
light to strike does not exist when the stability OF our
institutions is inperiled.
Some one has recently said tnat, by unreasonng
promisors of Utopia, millions of honest Americans are
being drawn into debauch of industrial revolution.
Orderly processes leading to equitable adjustments @
social and industrial wrongs are cast aside. Acason
langushes in resort to violence. License suppants
liberty and justice is forgot in mad chase for the
ranbow's end"
The time has come when every citizen of this ma
tion should halt in his daily dongs and searching ms
soul. ask himself the question: Am an American:
Am taking advantage of my neighbors and fellow
men? In my actions am squaring myself with the
great constructive forces for the advancement and up
lift of humanity?
Upon the answers to such questions as these de-
pends the future of our Republic. Amercanism can
not 1ive-his nation conceived by our fathers can
not endure under the shackes of class control Such
control strikes at the very foundation of the Republic
and destroys the essence Of Americansn1.
Whenever class arises in this country where caste
and class out of place, whenever class arises IN
this country that threatens the life and the peace and