Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-07-30

vancement and righteous possession
is the reward of toll. and lis incentive.
There is no progress except in the
stimulus of competition.
The chief trouble today is Thar lLe
world war wrought the destruction OF
heathful competition. Iefl our store
houses empty, and there is Il minimum
production when our need is maximum.
MaXimums. not minimums, is the call
of America. 1t isn't a new story, be-
cause war never fails TO leave de-
pleted storehouses and always impairs
the efficiency of production.
War also establishes its higher
standards for wages and they abide.
| wish the higher wage to abide, on
one explicit condition-that the wage
Garner will give full return for the
wages received.
| want, somehow, to appeal to the
sons and daughters of the republic, to
every producer, TO join hand and brain
i'm production, more production. honest
production, patriotic production, be-
cause patriotic production is no less
defense of our best civilization than
that of armed force. Profteering is
a crime of commission. under prOduc-
ton is a crime of omission. we must
work our most and best else the de-
structive 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
to ignore the activities in our own
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 thrOttled liberties. We must
not abridge the freedom of speech,
the freedom of press or the freedom
of assembly, because there is no prom
Use in repression. These liberties are
are sacred as the freedom of religious
belief. as inviolable as the rights of
life and the pursuit of happiness. We
do hold to the right to crush seditiOn,
to stifle 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 flaunts his contempt for lawful au
thority, ceases to be q loyal citizen
and forfeits his rights to the freedom
of the republic.
No party is Indifferent to the vel
fare of the wage Garner. To us his
good fortune is of deepest concern and
we seek to make that good fortune
permanent. We do not oppose but
approve collective bargaining, because
that is an outstanding right, but we
are unalterably insistent that its ex-
ercise must not destroy the equally |
sacred right of the individual In his !,
necessary pursuit of livelihood; any
American has the right to quit his en-
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 govern
ment's obligations are alike TO all the
people
We are so confident that much of
the present day insufficiency and i'll
Of transportation are due
to the whitening hand of government
operation that we emphasize anew our
To government ownership.
We want TO expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated
a state Of inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the
failure of governmental experiment, is
losing millions TO agriculture, it is
lindering industry, it Is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than peril II encompasses
he present Gay problem and suggests
hat spirit of encouragement and as