The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-19

/ government so different from others
in the world?
when our fathers came over to this
new world we live in, they came from
country where they had suffered
from tyranny and oppression.
"The thing they wanted above all
else was form of government that
would give the greatest amount of
liberty to the individual, but which
would at the same time be strong
enough to withstand aggression from
without and dissention from within.
They saw that the difficulty with a
democracy was that it finally degen-
Grated into mere mob rule; that the
minority had no rights that the ma
jority was abound to respect.
"They saw on the other that mon
archial government, while it had pro
duced many privileges for the few,
never produced opportunities for the
weak. They saw that neither form
of government would do. They erected
here representative republic; not
democracy at all.
Faith Against Force.
where did they go for the corner
stone for this government? into the
divine law. We all come fnto thE
world differently endowed with mind
and strength, but there is no place
where there is no distinction of per-
son, wealth or power. That is in the
sight of He who made US all. So they
reached into the divine law and said,
Every citizen in this republic shall be
absolutely equal before the law
"Then they did another thing. They
went into the divine law for another
principle every individual comes
into the world with rights that are
sacred with rights that no government
can justly take away. Just govern
ments, they say, are formed for pre-
serving these rights-the right to life,
to liberty, to the pursuit of happiness,
to be free in person and property, and
so on. They wrote these into con-
stitution and provided that there
should be no power in the government
to take away from the smallest child
in the land these fundamental and in
herent rights that are born with him.
Therefore we have equality of
every individual before the law, and
protection of every individual in the
rights that come to him from the hand
of God, This is the distinctly new
thing in American government
equality of opportunity and justice to
all. It's the American idea.
Non-Partisan is Marxianism.
snow let's take the opposite idea
Karl Marx who wrote 'Das Capital
started with the theory. There is no
God He said that society and indus
try would progress only through the
struggle of classes against each other
1--WE don't have to guess what hap
pens under this form of government
/ We have only to look at Russia to see
what happens. There we see the
logical working out of the socialistic
theory as predicted by Marx. The
workers rose in rebellion. They took
over industries, farms, factories and
all productive property, acting through
the soviet which is the bolshevist,
majority form of government. And
they went down into the ditch.
'The Man on Horseback"
Finally comes the strong man on
orseback-T4enine, with a million five
hundred thousand soldiers at his back
and today, in the name of democracy,
we have conscripted labor; men sent
to work at the point of a bayonet
and stood up against a wall and shot
if they refused.
"In the name of democracy they
have turned the clack back two thous
and years. In Pagen Rome they chain
ed men to the galleys and forced them
to row the commerce of the world
across the Mediterranean Sea- But in
Rome they were frank about it, they
called them slaves and they were
slaves. In Russia we have the same
thing under different name. 1t is
the logical result of the doctrine of
class struggle and direct democracy, as
proven by history time and time again.
"The drift today is toward putting
too much trust in legislation. Law
is only the crystallized sentiment of
the people, and can advance no faster
than the people themselves.
"The great need of today is to
change the attitude of the individual
toward his fellow. AS long as capital
and labor insist on treating each other
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