Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-23

OA00 3SAA0N AJACNllhO ] TC0CtAOu VIII OlAA8
It's train Of sufferings, disappointments
and reversals. We want, to forestall
such reaction, we want to hold all ad-
vanced ground, and fortify it with gen.
eral' good fortune.
Let us return for q moment to the
necessity for understanding, particu-
larly that understanding which con-
Germs ourselves at home. I deNine to
recognize any conflict Of interest
among the participants in industry.
The destruction of one is the ruin OF
the other, the suspicion or rebellion
Of one unavoidably involves the other.
In conflict is disaster, in understanding
there Is triumph. There is no issue re-
latfng to the foundation on which in
dustry Is builded. because industry is
bigger than any element in its modern
making. But the insistent call is for
labor. management and capital to
reach understanding. LII
The human element comes first. and
I want the employers in Industry to
understand the aspirations, the con
victions, the yearnings of the millions
OF American w~age-earners, and I want
the ~wage-earners to understand the
problems. the anxieties. the obligations
Of management and capital, and all Of
them must understand their relation
ship to the, people and their obliga-
ton to the republic. Out of this under
standing win come the unaninous
economic Justice lies that social justice
which is the highest essential to hui
man happiness. H.
I am speaking as one who has
counted the contents Of the pay en-
velope from the viewpoint Of the earn
er as well as the employer. No one
pretends to deny the inequalities
which are manifest in modern indus
trial life. They are less in fact than
they were before organization and
grouping on either side revealed the
inequalities, and conscience has
wrought more Justice than statutes
the world rivets u thoughts on the
necessity Of progressive solution, else
our generation will suffer the expert
nnent which means chaos for our day
to re-establish Gods plan for thesgreat
tomorrow. 81. IS a
Speaking our sympathies. utterine
the conscience Of all the people. mind
full of Jul right to dwell amid the
good fortunes Of rational. conscience
impelled advancement, we hold the
majesty Of righteous government, with
liberty under the law. to be our avoid
ance Of chaos, and we call upon every
citizen of the republic to hold fast to
that which made US Whist we are, and
we will have orderly government safe
guard the onward march to all we
! ought to be.
The menacing tendency Of the pres.
ent day is not chargeable wholly to the
unsettled and fevered conditions caus
ed by the war. The manifest weakness
temptation to appeal to grouped citi.
zenship for political advantage. There
is no greater peril. The constitution
contemplates no class and recognizes
no group. It broadly includes all the
people, with specific recognition 70,
none, and the highest conservation we
can make today is a commital of the
Republican party to that saving con
st~itutionalism which contemplates all
America Al one people. and holds jus,
government free from influence on the
one hand and unmoved by intimidation
on the other.
to ignore the activities in our owr
country which are aimed to destroy
our economic system, and to commit
us to the colossal tragedy which ha.
destroyed all freedDmsand made Rus.
STA impotent. This $inoyemsntssis not tt
be halted in throttied liberties. w
must not abridge the freedom ,so1
speech. the freedqmIof press, or the
freedom Of assembly. because there /.
no promise in repression. These liber'
ties are as sacred as the freedom al
religious belief, as inviolable as the
rights Of life and the pursuit Of hap.
piness. We do hold to the right tc
crush sedftion. to stif1e a menacine
contempt for law, to stamp out a peri
to h safety Of the republic or it's PEG.
PIE, when emergency calls, because Sc.
curity and the majesty Of the law are
the first essentials Of liberty. He who
threatens destruction Of the govern.
ment by force or flaunts his contempt
for lawful authority, ceases to be q
loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to
the freedom of the republic.
Let it be said to all Of America that
our plan OF popular government con-
templates such orderly changes as the
crystaIltzed intelligence Of the major.
ity Of u people think best. There
a. be no notifications Of this under
lying rule, but no majority shall
abrtdge the rights of a minority. Men
have a right to question our system in
fullest freedom, but they must always
remember that the rights Of freedom
impose the obligations which maintain
1t. Our policy is not Of repression, but
we make appeal today to American
1nteliigence and patriotism, when the
republic is menaced from within, just
as we trusted American patriotism
when our rights were threatened from
without. q. ~
We call on all America for steadi-
ness. so that we may proceed deliber-
ately to the .readjustment which on
Germs all the people. Our party plat
form fairly expresses the conscience
OF Republicans on industrial relations,
No party is Indifferent to the welfare
OF the wage-earner. To us his good
fortune is Of deepest concern, and we
e to make that good fortune per-