New-York tribune., 1920-05-25

equal consideration with property, and
that both be equally protected and
conserved; If it be radical not only to
guard what man has acquired, but to
bring wherever possible little of Gods
sunlight into the lives of men and
women and children; if it be radical
to demand and require that rich and
poor, high and low, big and little, alike
obey the law; if it be radical to in
slst that great corporations pay the
same tax RS small merchants; if it be
radical to fight with all that is in you
that just common folks may have the
blessings OF democracy as well as pow
erful privilege; if it be radical 10
scourge the invisible government from
governments temple and to make the
state. as California was made, a state
for its people; if it be radical to
oppose the suppression of legitimate
tree speech and peaceable lawful as
sembly, and to uphold with all your
vigor and strength the Constitution and
bill of rights; if it be radical to pre-
serve THIS great nation from the wles
and pitfalls of European and Asiatic
dlplomacy; if it be radical to resist with
all your power in fair weather and foul
the impairment of the Republics sover-
elgnty, the destruction of it's national
policy and perversion of its spirit; if,
finally, it be radical to be Just Amer-
can, then | admit the charge and accept
the challenge"
Senator johnson was never more
strenuous IN his attacks on the can
didate "of the vested interests" or in
his denunciation of the international /
banking group, headed by J. P. Morgan
and Company whom he mentioned
specifically, or in his condemnation of
that "oeatitic, altruistic and ideais-
TIC document, the league Of nations,
particularly Article X. The collar
which he Wore wilted under his exer-
tons and caused his friends to adj
wise against an outdoor address be-
cause Of his overheated condition. The
Senator. however, refused to consider
disappointing the hundreds who had
waited so long for him outside.
Quotes Roosevelt
He referred several times to Theo-
dorc Roosevelt and quoted from one
of the messages of the late President
III summarizing his own theory of gov
eminent
There was time in the life of the
greatest American of this generation
when he was confronted with a stu
alton akin to that of to-day said Sen
ator Johnson. The expression Of his
i
The enmties he aroused among some
OF those who now cry loudest of radi-
callsm lasted for more than decade
His eloquent words. | adopt In them
is expressed my own theory Of govern
ment. In one of his greatest messages
near the end of his Preside ency, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
Under no circumstances would we
countenance attacks upon law abiding
property, or do aught but condemn
those who hold up rich men as being
evil men because Of their riches. On
the contrary, our whole effort is to in.
sist upon conduct, and neither wealth
nor property nor any other class dis
tinction. as being the proper standa re
by which to judge the action of men
For the honest man of great
wealth we have hearty regard. JUS
as we have a hearty regard for the
honest politician and honest newspaper
But part Of the movement to upholt
honesty must be a movement to frowr
on dishonesty. We attack only the
corrupt men of wealth, who find in the
purchased politicians the most efficien
defender OF corruption.
"'Our main quarrel is not with these
agents and representatives of interests
They derive their chief power from the