The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-29

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mum. Maximums, not minimums, is
the call of America. 1t isn't new
story because war never falls te
leave depleted storehouses and always
impairs the efficiency Of production
War also establishes it's higher stan
dards for wages and they abide.
wish the higher wage to abide, on one
explicit condition-that the wage
Garner will give full return Tor tbs
wage received.
II want, somehow, to appeal to the
sons and daughters of the republic
to every producer. to Join hands and
brain in production, more production.
honest production, patriotic production
because patriotic production is no less
a defense Of our best civilization thar
that of armed forces. Profiteering is
a crime of commission, under-produc
ton is a crime of commission. We
must work our most and best else the
destructive reaction will come. The
menacing tendency Of the present day
| is not chargeable wholly to the unset
tied and fevered conditions caused by
| the war The manifest weakness in
popular government lies in the temp
| tation to grouped citizenship for no
| litical advantage.
1T would be the blindness Of folly
| to ignore the activities In our own
country which are aimed to destroy
our economic system, and to commit
~ ha f,.oo nd1y 1Ihich !,
destroyed all freedom and made Rus
sia impotent This movement is not
to be halted in throttled liberties
We must not abridge the freedom OF
speech, the freedom of press, or the
freedom Of assembly, because there is
no promise in repression. These lib.
critics are as sacred as the freedom
Of religious belief, as inviolable as the
rights Of life and the pursuit Of happi.
ness. We do hold to the right to
crush sedition, to stifle a menacing
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 the first essentials of liberty.
He who threatens the destruction of
the government by force or flaunts his
contempt for lawful authority, ceases
to be loyal citizen and forfeits his
rights to the freedom of the republic.
No party is Indifferent to the welfare
| of the wage Garner. To US his good
| fortune is of deepest concern and we
seek to make that good fortune per.
| nanent. We do 10, oppose but APP
'rove collective bargaining because
hat is an outstanding right, bat sc
ire unalterably insistcnt that Its eXer-
Use must not destroy the equally sac
| ed right of the individual in his
| Necessary pursuit Of livelihood Any
| american mas the right to quit his
employment, SO has every American
he right to seek employment. The
| group must not endanger the individu-
u, and we must discourage groups
| )reyins upon one another and none
shall be allowed to forget that the
governments obligations are alike to
Ill the people.
We are so confident that much Of
he present day insufficiency and in.
,.ticlency of transportation are due
o the whitening hand of government
ownership that we want to expedite
he reparation and make sure the
mistake is not repeated A state OF
inadequate transportation facilities
mainly cnargeable to the failure of
governmental experiment is losing
millions to agriculture, 1t is hindering
industry. 1t is menacing the American
people with fuel shortage little less
han peril. 1t emphasizes the pres
snt-day problem and suggests that
spirit of encouragement and assistance
which commits all America to relieve
such an emergency.
Gross expansion Of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expension and initiation have dis.
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste, we must deflate in
4 elaboration We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we rust restore
in honesty. In all sincerity we prom.
Use the prevention of unreasona be
profits, we challenge profiteering with
all the moral force and the legal
powers of government and people but
it is fair, aye, it 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 nationwide drive
against extravaganza and luxury to
a recommittal to simplicity of living,
to that prudent and normal plan OF
life which is the health Of the republic.
New conditions, which attend amazing
growth and extraordinary industrial
development call for new and for.
ward looking program. The American
| farmer had a hundrod nna $780,. -.