Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-11
Truth Made Clear
Solution UrsOund Theory

iio3l'oh' Maine, sept. 1O-ln his
speaking trip through Aroostook
county today, Elon H. Hooker said,
in part. as follows:
Our forefathers founded this self
governing Republic upon the hope of
properly educated citizenship.
| Wherever the prairie schooners
stopped they build a schoolhousc.
| Inc native American impulse is to
organize intelligence in the face of
F, wilderness and confusion of thought.
| Experiments in living. and gov
eminent are spread among us from
! abroad by nations passing through
the kindergarten of self-expression
ana group control. The robust gen
! eral health Of our community will
| wear down these germs in the end
! Meanwhile loose thinking on eco
! nomic problems has been fostered bv
inexperienced idealists in control of
our Industrial life.
! we must publicly discuss and
teach widely sound. straight think
ing. Economic and physical laws
are immutable. We cannot lift orr
serves over stile by our bootstrons
oustenance comes from work and
brains and the use of capital end ;s
iiot 'he gl1t OF nature or the gods.
IN the last few years. largely
! through foreign leadership. attempts
nave been made to divide our work
trS INTO classes along horizontal
/ hhes, making the poor feel thew have
! a grievance against the rich. tho
iazy-that they are oppressed nv tho
! cherseuc-a sense that labor cani-
tai management and the public are
iiot associated but antagonistic aIa-
nehts. This tends towards q rever-
SION from higher type of free So
| ciety to lower and outworn eroun-
| ing belonging to feudal times. A dir
| iereht spirit must be infused into ou,.
! industries.
! The sense Of injustice and s,s-
Pic4oh which exists on both sides
between capital and labor must ha
removed The head of the State can
accomplish much by a firm stand
AGAINST all lawlessness. In orr frea
country lawlessnesS is unnecessarv
10 secure reform and must NOT he
pertnlt'ed. People must rely on the
p"hot ana peaceful persuasion. The
id"leSS element here is largely for
elsn. such people . should citber
chahge their mental attitude and he
come whole heartedly American ci+-
liens ready to work Under o,,, 10 ~,
VI 'liey should be put out of the
/ country. We must squarely face the
ei.orts OF a grasping minority to get
what lhey want regardless of thc
rest OF the citizens 1t is contrary
10 every tradition of America nism
ana against the essence of orr con-
stitution.
There will never be either morale
or the correct spirit of work among
the laborers of America while the
country Is filled with radical agita-
tlon' the application of whose princi-
pies has already wrecked one conn
Try. | believe the time has come 70
meet this Widespread evil. he
lieve it can be met only when we
hrst realize that the bulk of tho
asitators are sincere and the only
suitable answer to agitation of eco
nomlc and social fallacies is ex-
PLANTATION of the truth.
"hefe radicalism urges overt acts
OF violence it should be dealt with re-
ientiessly under the criminal law
where it agitates only in thought if
may be dealt with by education. 7
believe the truth made clear is tho
solution OF all unsound theory.
AFTER all what is called capita,
ana organized labor represents only
perhaps eight per cent of our peo-
pie. The strife that has taken n1aca
between these two elements has
Victimized the other ninety-two ner
cent or us, In the fight, we arecsn
receipt of daily Commissions which we
call the high cost of living. sugar
taxation. disorganized delivery of
1000 and materials, interrupted sub
urban traffic and sufferings for lack
OF coal. The great body of us have
neen patient under these sufferings.
but our patience is at an end.
1T is time that we took a stand
for the submerged ninety-two per
cent of us.
The American workingman. with
all his inventiveness. energy and ma
tive Skill. Is as a rule. unframed.
and there Is no adequate educational
machinery for teaching him.
"A mans profession or trade is his
strongest link to society. and to get
the boy or girl to fhinl, RIGHTLY