The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-09-24
LET AMERICA PROTECT THOSE
WHO SUSTAIN AND PROTECT
AMERICA!

AMERICA!
There are two classes of International
ists,-the idealists and the commercial
lists. The idealists would sacrifice nation
atty to theory of universal brother
hood, as the communists would sacrifice
individual freedom to the same beautiful
doctrine. That theory fails to work only
because human beings happen to be built
on another pattern, and there is a good
deal of work to be done before it will be
safe to assume that they have been made
over on new design. In Russia these
ideaGsts attempted to create millen-
nium through the application of this the
DRY, and they have made Millennium in
stead.
The commercial internationalists have
nothing to do with ideals. They are in IA
vor of the sacrifice of nationalty,-thhe
removal of economic barriers, and the es-
tablishment of equality of trade condi-
tons among nations" not with any
thought that they are thus going to help
humanity, but because such a system
would afford them better opportunities
to profit themselves. To this class of in
ternationalists what befalls the American
people or their republic is not matter
of consequence. They wish to make the
world their parish financially and as to
whether or not their system of interna-
tionalism reduces the level of life in the
United States to that prevailing in Eu-
rope, South America and the Orient is
not to them question of consequence.
The American people have overWhelm-
ed the political internationalists They
have ended forever the dream of world
super-state to which the ideals, interests
and independence of America were to be
sacrificed In the great debate of 1920
the issue was made clear and the Ameri-
can people have passed upon it.
But the commercial internationalists
are still active. Concealed under the
cloak of idealism during the debate or
political internationalism, they are now
more or less in the open in their fight
for "the removal of economic barriers
and the establishment of trade equality
among nations" They are out to estab-
ish in the world an international com
munism which would put all nations anG
all peoples on dead level economically
That this level is far below that to which
the American people have been accustom
ed does not interest them, and they de
not care if the process of bringing TIT
American masses down to the status O.
the coolie, peon and peasant were II
wreck our civilization. They have visions
of world conquest commercially, mos
of them mirages, it is true, but new
erthless alluring dreams of international
financial organization and operation
which would make them masters of /;
real commercial imperialism.
The object of attack by these interest
is the fundamental doctrine of the Re
publican party, the protective policy
what Henry Clay so well called the Amer
lean system,-a system which has pre-
served to America the peculiar advan
tages of cur own rich resources, our owl
favoring political institutions, and on
more liberal social system, without divi
sion into caste and class. The administra
ton retired from power by the over
whelming mandate of the American pee
pie tore down the protective sea wall
and the commercial internationalist
would keep it down. Nor do they car
what alien flood comes through to inun
date American productive industry Tn,