Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-09

sorely needed now and not later,
will depart.
Our First Duty As Americans.
The ground thus cleared, il is our
first duty as Americans to re-estab-
fish certain essential principles
which have been both shaken and
invaded-shaken by the shock OF
war, invaded by those who had
their own selfish purposes to serve
even in the hour of the countrys
danger,
The earliest beliefs of men re-
veal the trust of mankind in order,
as the divine conqueror of chaos
and eternal night A famous poet
tells us that order is Heavens first
law" and history repeats the same
injunction. All the civilization ever
built up and treasured by mankind
has rested upon the establishment
of law and order. Law and order
the supports of true liberty. the
firm foundations of prosperity and
progress, have always ruled in the
United States and have been very
dear to the hearts of the American
people They must never be weak
ened or impaired unless we are
ready to see all that we have care
fully built up go down in ruin and
men forced once more into the
struggle against chaos, followed by
the slow and tOilsome climb out of
the darkness of anarchy to the
height of freedom and accomplish
ment To maintain law and order
and a stable government where
justice rules and the rights of all
men, high and low, rich and poor,
shall be protected. we must have
government of the people, duly
chosen by the people, and never
must there be permitted any gov
eminent by single man or by
group of men or by an organized
minority. Tyranny turks in them
all and true freedom withers when
they ascend the throne. There
must be but one law in this coun-
try and that is the law framed by
the men chosen by the people
themselves TO make the laws. The
chief magistrate must understand
that il is his duty not only to en-
force but to abide by the laws. the
laws made by the Representatives
of the people, and when those laws
are once made they must be obeyed
until the people see fit to change
them. The will of the people. ex-
pressed in lawful manner through
the government of the United
States, must be supreme. for the
government of the United States
can neither suffer revolt nor sub
nit to any question of its authority
on the part of any man or any
group of men or any minority OF
the people. When free government
fails, autocracy and revolution and
the downfall of civilization as we
have known it are at hand. Prog
ress will cease and the decline to
lower stages of development will
have begun. True progress must
rest upon and proceed from the
sound principles which sustain all
free government and to such prog
ress the republican party always
has been committed. Loyalty to
the United States and obedience to
the peoples laws are the corner
stones of the republic and should
be sustained and upheld by every
man and woman in every corner of
our great land. Keep these princi-
pies sacred and untouched and all
the rest will follow.
Let me turn first to the economic
conditions. so profoundly distorted
and confused by the war. which af-
feet our daily life. are essential to
our business and upon which our
material prosperity and all the
benefits, both mental and moral,
which flow from it when honestly
acquired, so largely depend. AL
ready a beginning has been made
by republican congress working
under all the difficulties and OPP
position imposed by a hostile exc
cutive. Many vital economic meas
ures and especially protective tariff
legislation to guard our industries
are impossible with democratic
free trader of socialistic proclivities
in the White House. To accomplish
such measures as these we must
have, as we intend to have, a re-
publican president in sympathy
with a republican house and senate.
Great reductions in expenditures
have been effected but we have
/
! Of the departments and also by
habits of waste backed by malad-
ministration. by sacrifice of effic-
| iency to political purposes, never
so recklessly INDUCED in before,
and in certain cases by an incom-
potency so marvellous that 1t can
not be due to nature but must De
the result of art. Yet despite all
these lettering conditions an
amount of work has been done
| which in days of peace would
have been considered remarkable
but now passes almost un-noticed
because great events have so
crowded on each others heels IN
the years of world war that the
comprehension and appreciation OF
legislative accomplishment are
well nigh lost Let me give a rev
examples of what has been accom-
plished.
The estimates have been re-
duced over a billion dollars. The
oil-leasing and water-power plils,
two measures Of large effect ana
high importance, which have been
hating and stumbling for many
years in the incapable hands or a
democratic administration nave
passed both houses. but the presi-
dent has vetoed the water power
bill We have passed the vocation
al rehabilitation act for the benetit
of wounded soldiers and several
acts for the disposition of war ma
terial, very necessary to our IL
nances. We have amended and i'm
proved the federal reserve and the
farmers loan acts, We have cared
! for the soldiers of the civil war,
straitened in their old age through
the rise in prices, by an increase In
their pensions. The civil service re.
tirement law. long deferred ACT
of justice to faithful servants OF
the government, has been passed
We have been obliged to restore
the army and navy to peace foot
ing, a work as difficult as 1t was
necessary. We have met TINS py
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