The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-07-29

lences the impassioned voices of in
tsrnational envy and distrust Heed
ing this call and knowing as do the
disposition of the Congress, promise
you formal and effective peace so
quickly as Republican Congress can
pass its declaration for a Republican
executive to sign.
1t is better to be the free and
disinterested agent Of international
justice and advancing civilization.
with the covenant of conscience, than
be shackled by written compact
which surrenders our freedom of ac-
ton and gives to military alliance
the right to proclaim Americas duty
to the world. No surrender of rights
to world council or its military al
lance, no assumed mandatory how
ever appealing, ever shall summon the
sons of this republic to war. Their
supreme sacrifice shall only be asked
for America and its call of honor.
There is a sanctity in that right We
will not delegate.
Leaving America Independent.
Disposed as we are, the way is very
simple Let the failure attending as
sumption, obstinacy, impracticability
and delay be recognized, and let us
find the big, practical, unselfish way
to do our part, neither covetOus be-
cause of ambition nor hesitant through
fear, but ready to serve ourselves, hui
mainly and God. With a senate adj
vising as the constitution contempates
would hopefully approach the nations
of Europe and of the earth, proposing
that understanding which makes US
willing participant in the consecra-
ton of nations to a new relationship,
to commit the moral forces of the
world, America included, to peace and
international justice, still leaving Am
erica free, independent and self-reliant,
but offering friendship to all the world.
1t is folly to close our eyes to out
standing facts. Humanity is FESTIVE,
much of the world is in revolution,
the agents of discord and destruction
have wrought their tragedy in pathetic
Russia, have lighted their torches
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America as part of the great Red
confiagration. Ours is the temple of
liberty under the law, and it is ours to
call the Sons of Opportunity to its de-
tense America must not only save
herself, but ours must be the appealing
voice to sober the world.
1t must be understood that toll alone
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vancement, and righteous possession is
the reward of toll, and its incentive
There is no progress except in the
stimulus of competition.
The chief trouble today is that the
world war wrought the destruction of
healthful competition, left our store
houses empty, and there is minimum
production when our need is max
imum. MaXimums, not minimums, is
the call of America. 1t isn't a new
story, because war never fails to leave
depleted storehouses and always inn
pairs the efficiency of production. War
also establishes its higher standards
for wages, and they abide. | wish the
higher wage to abide, Oh one explicit
condition-that the wage-earner will
give full return for the wage received.
Production, More Production.
l 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 produc-
ton, because patriotic production is
no less a defense of our best civiliza.
ton than that of armed force. Prof
teering is crime of commission, IN
production is crime of omission.
We must work our most and best, else
the destructive reaction will come.
The menacing 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
in the temptation to appeal to grouped
citizenship for political advantage.
1t would be the blindness of folly 10
ignore the activities in our own coun-
try which are aimed to destroy orr
economic system. and to commit is tic
stroyed all freedom and made Russia
impotent This movement is not 20 be
halted in throttled liberties We must
not abrdge the freedom of speech, the
freedom of press, or the freedom Of
assembly, because there is no E-oLliSe
in repression. These liberties are rs
sacred as the freedom of religious be-
lief, as inviolable as the rights of life
and the pursuit of happiness. We do
hold to the right to crush sedition, to
stifie menacing contempt for law.
to stamp out peril to the safety Il
the republic or its people, when emec-
gency calls, because security and the
majesty of the law are the first es-
sentials of liberty. He who threatens
destruction of the government by rec
or fiauntS 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-earner. To US his good
fortune is of deepest concern, and we
seek to make that good fortune per-
manent. We do not oppose but ap-
prove collective bargaining, because
that is an outstanding right, but we
are unalterably insistent that its exer
else must not destroy the equally sa-
cred right of the individual, in his nee
essary pursuit of livelihood ANY