The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-07-28

cause patriotic production Is no less a
defense of our best civilization than
that of armed forces. Profiteering is q
crime Of commission, under 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 feyered 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 to
ignore the activities in our own coun-
try, which are aimed to destroy our
economic system, and to commit us to
the colossal tragedy which has de-
stroyed all freedom and made Russia
impotent. This movement is not to be
halted in threated 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 liberties are as
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
stitie menacing contempt for law, to
stamp out peril to the safety of the
republic or its people, when emergency
calls, because security and the majesty
Of the law are the, first essentials Of
liberty. He who threatens destruction
Of the government by force or faunts
his contempt for lawful authority,
ceases to be an alert citizen and for
feits 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 perma-
nent. We do not oppose but approve
collective bargaining, because that Is
IN outstanding right, but we are un-
alterabIe insistent that its exercises
must not destroy the equally sacred
right Of the individual, in his neces- 1
sary pursuit Of livelihood. Any Amer1-
can has the right to quit his employ:
ment, so has every American the right
to seek employment. The group must
not endanger the individual, and we
must discourage groups preying upon
one another and none shall be allowed
to forget that the governments obliga-
tons are alike to all the people.
We are so confident that much Of the
present day insufficiency and inef-
ficiency of transp ortation are due to
the whitening hand Of government OPP
Grafton that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership,
we want to expedite the reparation
ana make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
A state Of inadequate transportation
facilities mainly chargeable to the fall
ure Of governmental experiment, IS
losing millions to agriculture. It Is
hindering industry, it is. menacing the
American people with fuel shortage
little less than a peril. 1t emphasizes
the present day problem and suggests
that spirit of encouragement and as
sistance which commits all America to
relieve such an emergency. Gross ex-
pansion Of currency and credit have
deprecated the dollar just as expan-
sion and imitation have discredited the
coins Of the world. We inflated in
haste, we must debate in deliberation.
We. debased the dollar in reckless
finance, we must restore in honesty.
In all sincerity, we promise the pre-.
lvention of unreasonable profits. We.
challenge profiteering with all the NOR
al force and the legal powers Of gov
eminent and people. But It. is fair,