The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-01-24

spheres a. hol ~ no n%ullOtineH on
American soil y hehcaded no srisi-
oernsa. The American people thrash
ed the issue out and went GA thor
way.
rs q rot possible thet they stiii
retain " acanty remnant OF their
anclent senacg " Il o possible that
they might even listen TO a sympe-
thotlc exposition OF the mnniacnl
principles Of Buirhrvism without be-
lng seized with an irreprensible desire
to destroy ~everytnins they have cree
ated and give themselves over 70
famine and disease and anarchy In
order TO establish a dictatorship OF
The ~pfoletarlat2
BoIshcsfrm IN the Opcn.
Il am not AFRAID 81 B0lshevism IN
the open. whore the American pcu-
pile can examine II ana weigh it.and
consider a. J am not afraid that the
American people are going To rise up
en- mnsse and Join zoe 4 W. w. 10
destroy the Institution OF their own
private property, unless government
prevents them by force. II IN Just
- well TO remember mat the pee
nmhle 81 the o~onstltutlon OF the
United States does not Desin We the
government Of the United states but
I'VE the people OF the United states.
The history of this country for more
than i40 years pr0Nes that the Amer
lean people can be trusted. and ~ inc
long run they san be trusted "a great
deal further than the professional
politicians that they generally select
20 represent them IN their govern
mcnt.
The failures OF popular govern
mont have HlWaNs lecn failures OF
public opinion mostly OF public
opinion that was iii-informed, Of pub
lie opinion that VAS denied ne nets
OF public opinion that wns mlsguided'
hv seif-constituted masters. That
Will always remain a great menace.
and public opinion is never To be
snfeFuardtd b trying TO prevent y
by law from coming into contact with
political heuaay. There - no surer
way to give those doctrines O. foot
hold han To prescribe them. II Is
not tho re%voiuuonary doctrine which
" shouted from the market place
that IN 10 be feared, hut the revolu-
tionhry doctrine that n whispered
everywhere In the err OF discomfort
and that ear claim IN its favor the
test Of martrydon..
Military Patriotism.
There ~ no other such prolific
breeder Of revolution ~ reaction, and
reaction is row engaged In capitalize
ing the militant patriotism that the.
war aroused. IL In denying freedom
OF speech. denying freedom Of
COMMUNICATIONS the most sacred
guarantees Of the constitution thut u
PROGRESSES 10 guard ana defend.
When the French soldiers began
~ return home after four years In
the trenches. thousands Of them de-
clured shat they would never ufttin
do any work. II sometimes seems
that after tho armistlce was signed,
millions OF Americans must have
taken o. vow that they would never
again do any thinking for themselves
They were willing Co die FOR Their
country. but not willing to hin for
IL. and under the influence OF propa
nunda they haze lost the habit uf IN
dependent thought.
IT b. here hat we suuureiy con-
front the question OF the RESPONSE
bility OF newspapers ln respect 10 the
formation OF an enlightened ana fully
responsible public opinion.
New spapcr- aud the War.
"Of the work OF the American
newspapers In the war the moft
chronic fault-findcr can not justly
/ complain They printed an the news
that government would permit them
IN print. They almost bankruptcd
themselves To obtain o.. They Were
the first victims Of the censorship
md the daily prey OF the proqngnnds
ists. They never h%eSitnted In render
ing any service OF which they Were
capable. and they never counted he
cost ON h whole. they displayed
"a sense Of responsibility that In Itself
is the highest decoration for dis
unEuished service.
when We come 20 the newspaper
In relation TO the events OF the last
year. 1t b. q very different story and
a less satisfactory tory. Newspapers
are very human institutions. and
I when the fighting ceased they reacted
In much the way the general public
reacted. The notion was general TINT.
with hostilities ended, prc-wa cor
ditions would naturally be- restored,
and the newspapers followed the cons
mon notion,
"Ttot was "a great mistake. They
were not prepared FOR the waves Of
discomfort and unrest hat spread
over the country. They were MOI
prepared for the social terment that
] followed the war. They were me-.
prepared for the Industrial u~pheavals
That came. For the most part they
had settled down to the comfortable
assumption that with Germany beat.
I'm. with the kaiser eNiled. with the
war Won everything was going to he
for the best In the best possible OF
worlds. and hat b. not the way II
turned out at AN.
The IA,ic Cause.
when strike followed strike, when
Industrial disturbances became nu-
/ uuu-widr. when labor and capital in
stantly began % hand-tu-hand fight
over q new division of the profits and
the spoils, when the labor leaders dis
covered hat there was e tight labor
market ana began 10 squeeze tho
employer, lust us the banks squeeze
the borrower when there IN a tight
money market, ~ vast number NJ per-
fectly good % respectable people
were much disturbed In their souls.
and the newspapers reflected this
disturbance Instead Of irving to get
90 tho basic tHuse Of 10 all. they
adopted HE primitive mcdicine-man
procedure OF hunting nut the devil
upon whom the responsibility could
be- laid.
Pour hundred thousand steel
workers hud gone NIT because the
leader Of the strike had once been
% -yndicaliEt. NI the shipping M
Now York was tied up because ! W.
W aHitators nae AXE possession Of
10000 iungshorcmcn -Four hundred
thousand miners quit in defiance OF
federal law because two factions in
the union we're battling for control.
Aud so II went. Nothing iu the com
p~licaied world BE- ever quito 10 simple
|us that