The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-22

counted the contents OF the pay en-
velope from the viewpoint of the
Garner as well as the employer. No
one pretends to deny the Unequal
tiles which are manifest in modern
industrial life. They are less in
fact than they were before organ
izatiOn and grouping on either side
revealed the inequalities, and con-
science has wrought more justice
than statutes have compelled. but
the ferment of the world rivets our
thoughts on the necessity Of pro-
gressive solution, else our genera
ton will suffer the experiment
which means chaos for our day to
reestablish Gods plan for the great
tomorrow.
All America One People.
Speaking our sympathies, utter
ing the conscience of all the people,
mindful of our right to dwell amid
the good fortunes of rational, con-
science-impelled advancement, we
hold the majesty of righteous gov
eminent, with liberty under the law,
to be our avoidance of chaos, and
we call upon every citizen to hold
fast to that which made US what
we are, and we will have orderly
government safeguard the onward
march to all We ought to be.
The menacing tendency of the
praonnt dow iS nf ri 10 II
ly to the unsettled and fevered
conditions caused by the war. The
manifes>weakness in popular gov
eminent lies in the temptation to
appeal to grouped citizenship for
political advantage. There is no
greater peril. The constitution
contemplates no CLASS and recog-
nizes no group. 1t broadly includes
all the people, with specific recog-
milton for none, and the highest
conservation we can make today
is a committal of the Republican
party to that saving constitutional
ism which contemplates all Amer
lea as one people, and holds just
government free from influence on
the one hand and unmoved by in
timidation on the other.
Treatment of Radfcallsm.
It would be the blindness Of fol-
ly to ignore the activities in our
own country which are aimed to
destroy our economic system, and
to commit lis to the colossal trag-
edy which has both destroyed all
freedom and made Russia impotent
This movement is not to be halted
in throttled liberties. We must not
abrfdge the freedom of speech, the
freedom Of press, or the freedom OF
assembly, because there Is no prom
Use in repression. These liberties
are as sacred as the freedom of re-
ligion itself, as inviolable as the
rights of life and the pursuit OF
happiness. We do hold to the right
to crush sedition, to stife men.
acing contempt of law, to stamI
out peril to the safety of the re.
public or its people. when emery.
ency calls, because security ant
the majesty Of the law are the first
essentials of liberty. He who
threatens destruction Of tho gov.
eminent by force or fiaunts his CON.
tempt for lawful authority, ceases
to, be loyal citizen and forfeits
his rights to the freedom of tho re.
public.
Let 1t be said to all of Americs
that our plan of popular govern
ment contemplates such orderly
changes as the crystallized intelli.
gence Of the majority of our PEG
pie think best. There can be nc
modification Of This underlying rule
but no majority shall abridge the
rights Of minority. Men have q
right to question our system IN
fullest freedom. but they must al.
ways remember that the rights O,
freedom impose the OBLIGATIONS
which maintain It. Our policy II
not Of repression, bat We make an.
peal today to American intelligence
and patriotism. when tho republic
Il menaced from within. tust q ~
trusted American patriotism wher
our rights were threatened from
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