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other peoples, and hope to see .SineTIcd
as part OF the great red contlasra-
tion. Ours is the temple of liberty un-
der the law, and it is ours to call the
sons of opportunity to its defense.
America must not only save herself,
but ours must be the appealing voice
to sober the world
It must be understood that toll alone
makes for accomplishment and ad-
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 maximum.
Maximums, not minimums, is the call
of America 1t isn't new story, be-
cause war never fails to leave depict
ed storehouses and always impairs the
efficiency of production. War also es-
tablishes its higher standards for
wages, and they abide. I wish the
higher wage to abide, on one explicit
condition-that the wage Garner will
give full return for the wages re-
ceived.
/ want, somehow, to appeal to the
soEs and daughters of the republic, to
every producer, to join hand and brain
In production, more production, honest
production, patriotic production. he
cause patriotic production is no less
defense of our best civilization than
that of armed force Profiteering is a
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 sres-
ent day is not chargeable wholly to the
unsettled and chaotic conditions caused
by the war. The manifest weakness in
popular government lies in the tempta-
tion to appeal to grouped citizenship
for political advantage. 1t would be
the blindness of folly to ignore to the
activities in our own country which
are aimed to destroy our economic sys-
TEN, and to commit us to the colossal
tragedy which has destroyed all fr"e-
dom and made Russia impotent I $
movement is not to be halted in lhrot-
tied liberties We must not abridge
the freedom of speech, the freedom of
press, or the freedom of assembly,
because there is no promise in re-
preston. These liberties are as sacred
as the freedom of religious belief, as
nviolable as the rights of life and the
pursuit of happiness We hold to the
right to crush sedition, to stifle a men
acing contempt for law, to stamp out
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 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 vel
fare OF the wage-earner. To us his
good fortune is of deepest concern,
and we seek to make that good for
tune permanent. We do not oppose,
but approve. collective bargaining, be.
cause that is an outstanding right, but
we are unalterably inSistent that its
exercise 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-
ployment; 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 in
efficiency of transportation are due to
the whitening hand of government op-
GRAFTON that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership
We want to expedite the reparation
and make, sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
A state of inadequate transporta-
tion facilities, mainly chargeable to
the failure Of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture;
1t Is hindering industry it is menac-
Ing the American people with a fuel
shortage little less than a peril 1t
emphasizes the present-day problem
and suggests that spirit of encourage
ment and assistance which commits all
America to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
iH1ldteu III HtSte, we must ueIIate III
deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance; we must restore
in honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
vention Of unreasonable 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.