The Pulaskian., 1921-12-29
PLEASANT HILL WEST.
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A thought for today is, Are we Americans losing our liberty?
 No real red-blooded one hundred per cent, law-abiding American ever thinks he is losing his liberty, but there are bolsheviks good and strong, and other criminals that are always getting in wrong. And they are the nuts that are always harping that we are losing our liberty because of the stringent laws. There is an awful howl in some sections about the pro- hibition law. Now whom can we blame the most for causing such a stringent prohibition law to be en- acted? As 1 see it, if there is any fault with the law, the fault was cer- tainly caused by the doings of the whiskey traffic. Their disregard for the rights and liberty of the peace ful, law-abiding citizens caused the lid to be showed down a little harder on their traffic. Had they run their nefarious business within the bounds of reason, and had some respect for the rights of all other real law-abid- ing citizens, without a doubt there never would have been a bone-dry whiskey law. So, as see 1t, the only people that are losing their liberty, as they call 1t, are the people who bring it on themselves by their own nefarious deeds and actions. How many, many times have I heard men shout that we are losing our liberty and that this country is going to the dogs, because 1t is a free country, but a fellow can't take a drink or make his own liquor. As I see it, we are not losing any real liberty, as all true red-blooded one hundred per cent law-abiding Americans are not losing their liberty. If it were as the howlers would have it, we would lose all OUT liberties and everytkiis 2 else. We would have no govern ment, no nation, no country, as 1t would just be a land filled with chaos. We say that all moonshiners, bootleggers, bandits, bolsheviks, an- archists and other vile criminals are all of kind, one no whit better than the other, as they are all, each and every one of them, destroyers of all peace and harmony, and killers of all decent society, breakers of all laws of both God and man. They should not be classed as citizens of any country, not even the country they were born in, as they are out laws and undesirables, and a con tinual menace to all peace, good will and happiness, at all times. Now, the only objection we can have to the criminal laws is some of them are not severe enough. The punishment is not sufficient for the crime, and others are not enforced in some places as they should be, but as a whole our laws are all good if they are enforced properly. Now, we are not out looking for anything like the dawn of the millennium. But, how ever, at this time is the time of all times to make your VOWS and good resolutions. As you turn over new leaf to start in the new year. And we should not only make good reso- lutions, but we should enforce them and embody them in our whole heart and constitution. That 1t may be for more and better education, more brotherly love for our fellow men, more law abiding and assisting in an all enforcement of our laws. Try to get a little more Christianity in our affairs. Let us not get so much religion, but just do more religion. As you all know that 1t is not just what a person says about the great religion they have that counts. It is the person that comes across with the deeds and acts that are Christ like. That proves their religion and they never have to speak word about 1t either.
 So saying, let us give thanks to the God of Creation for the many blessings that we have received in the past. That we may be better pre- pared to receive the many blessings that shall com our way all during the new year. And may you all en- joy happy and prosperous new year. NUFF SED.