Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-21
FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 1921
POTENTIAL IOI.SIIf.NIk
FACTORIES

There are thirty-five factories IN the
United States that are at present work.
ing overtime and that have within
them the delegated power of the pco-
pie, which IL rightly used Will strength
en- the fabric of our government and
allay the growing discomfort among
the people as nothing else can do; but
IL that power Is wrongly applied. IL ii
gives to the pressure of the innumer-
able lObbies operating in the interests
Of fanatical or hired refOrmers: 1t can
turn ouk Bolshevikis at "a rate that will
compare favorably with the propagan-
d. Of the foreign Reds. The factor
les are tho state legislatures now in
session and the workers in them are
members Of those legislatures. The
members are the most Of them. patri-
otic. loyal American citizens. suppos-
edly above the average in ability and
Intelligence and are enjoying the confi-
dence Of the American People. but in
practically all Of the state capitols
there 10 an active lobby. practicing
all the arts known to the trained lob
biest, insistent In their demands for
the enactment of drastic laws for the
purpose Of still further abridging the
already curtailed libsfties Of the peo-
pie. Should the proposed drastic leg
tslation proceed no further than the
agitation stage the harm would still
be done. The people would be imbued
with the idea (Which IL not far wrong)
that the tendency Of our law makers
10 toward autocracy and intOlerable
tyrany.
Tyrany is still tyrany whether i'm
posed by fanatical majority or by an
autocratic overload. As the tyrany
OF the Russian czars begat the hor-
rors Of Russian Bolshevisn, 30 will the
tyrany Of the fanatical few, IL left
uncurbed, beget an American brand OF
Bolshevism which will cause the Rus
sian article to shrink into Insight.
ficance.
States Right are IA memory; the Con
stitutiOn OF the Fathers is being cas-
into the discard: the God-Eivcn right,
Of the people are one by one b-int
surrendered. The elected guardian.
OF Democracy are sleeping at thci
posts or are following after stranG,
gods. bureaucracy is smpplantin,
Democracy: Sclfshncss paradcs in tn,
public places gnrhrd in the stolen robc
Of benevoience atS patriotism,
The overwhelming Republican ma
5ority In the recent national election
was Il prOtcst--an Intellectual protest
against the trend of the times
was IA natidl in agony striking hlindl!
in the dark was the inarticulat,
cry Of millions for relief from th
Oppression of forces which they can
not see and cannot understand -hu
II brings no relief
The writer has an ahoundinp faitl
people, hut before that intelligence cai
act II must he informed of the Obsta
cles to be overcome and the ohjcct
to be attained. Avoiding m"ntio q
the dangers that threaten is not th
way to guard against them
The low murmur Of the multitude
is drowned in the insistrnt orator.
of the paid reformcr and the rancor
GUS clamor of the. selfish seekers aftc
political spOils.
There IL a limit beyond which IL II
not safe to so. that limit may he ia
In the distance now. hut unless thcr,
10 a change, sooner or later II will b
reached and the murmur of the multi
tude will grow into AN angry roar tina
will shake our government and Ou
social institutions to their foundat ION
and write In needless blood and aHon,
what should and could and must b,
written now by the proper applicable
Of the power which resides in the rep
resentatives of the people.