Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-10
PRAYER for Industrial Peace.

within than it is watchful against enc
mics from without Our fundamental
law recognizes no class, no group, no
section. There must be none in legis-
lation or administration. The supreme
inspiration is the common veal HUI
manity hungers for international
peace, and we crave it with all man
kind Ny most reyerent prayer for
America is for Industrial peace, with
its rewards widely and generally dis
tributed amid the inspirations of equal
opportunity. No one justly may deny
the equality Of opportunity which made
us what we are We have mistaken
unpreparedness to embrace it to be a
challenge Of the reality, and due con-
cern for making all citizens At for
participation viii give added strength
and citizenship and magnify our achie-
vement.
If revolution insist upon overturn-
ing established order, let other peoples
make the tragic experiment. There is
no place for 1t in America. When
world war threatened civilization, we
pledged our resources and our lives to
it's preservation, and when revolution
threatens we unfurl the flag of law
and order and renew our conservation.
Ours is constitutional freedom,
where the popular will is the law
supreme and minorities are scarcely
protected. Our revisions, reformations
and evolutions reflect a deliberate
judgment and an orderly progress, and
we mean to cure our Ills, but never de-
stroy or permit destruction by force. a
| had rather submit our industrial
controversies to the conference table
in advance than to a settlement table
after conflict and suffering. The
earth is thirsting for the cup of good
will, understanding is the fountain
source. / would like to acclaim ean
era of good feeling amid dependable
prosperity and all the blessings which
attend
Protection of Industries.
1t has been proved again and again
that we can not, while throwing our
1parkets open to the world, maintain
American standards of living and op-
portunity and hold our industrial emf
nence in such unequal competition.
There is a Turing fallacy in the theory
of banished barriers of trade, but pre-
served American standards require our
higher production costs to be reflect
ed in our tariffs on imports. Today,
as never before, when peoples are
seeking trade restoration and expan-
sion, we must adjust our tariffs to the
new order. We seek participation in
the worlds exchanges, because therein
lies our way to widened influence and
the triumphs Of peace. We know full
well we can not sell where we do not
buy, and we can not sell successfully
where we do not carry Opportunity
is calling not alone for the restoration.
but for new era in production, trans
portation and trade. We shall answer
it best by meeting the demand of a
SURPRISING home market, by promoting
self-reliance in production and by
bidding enterprise, genius and eff
cheney to carry our cargees in Ameri-
can bottoms to the marts of the world.
An America OF Homes.
We would not have an America liv
ing within and for herself alone, but
we. would have her seIf-reliant, inde-
pendent and ever nobler, stronger and
richer. Believing in our higher stand
ards, reared thruogh constitutional
liberty and maintained opportunity, we
invite the world to the same heights.
But pride in things wrought is no re-
flex of a completed task. Common
welfare is the goal of our national en-
deaVOr. Wealth is not inimical to well
fare, it ought to be its friendliest
agency. There never can be equality
of rewards or possessions so long as
the human plan contains varied talents
and differing degrees of industry and
thrift, but ours ought to be country
free from great blotches of distressed
poverty. We ought to find a way to
guard against the perils and penalties
of unemployment. We want an Ameri-
ca of homes, Illuminated with hope and
happiness, where mothers, freed from
the necessity of long hours Of toll be-
yond their own doors, may preside as
BELTS the hearthstone of American
We want the cradle of
American childhood rocked under con-
ditions so wholesome and so hopeful |
that no blight may touch 1t in it's de- |
velopment, and we want to provide |
that no selfish interest, no material |
necessity, no lack of opportunity shall |
prevent the gaining of that education |
so essential to best citizenship
There is no short cut to the making |
Of these ideals into glad realities. The |
world has witnessed, again and again, |
The futility and the mischief of ill-con-
sidered remedies for social and econo- |
mic disorders. But we are mindful to- |
lay as never before of the friction of |
modern industrialism, and we must
earn its causes and reduce its evil |
by sober and tested
methods. Where genius has made for
great possibilities, justice and happi-
less must be reflected in greater
welfare.
Service, the Supreme Commitment.
Service is the supreme commitment
If life. would rejoice to acclaim the
,ra Of the Golden Rule and crown it
With the autocracy of service. pledge
IN administration wherein all the
agencies of government are called to
erVe and ever promote an understand
ng of government purely as an ex-
iression of the popular will
One can not stand in this presence
md be unmindful of the tremendous
responsibility. The world upheaval
las added heavily to our tasks. But
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