The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-09-07
SANITY ASSERTS ITSELF IN THE END.

Many people in This country wasting a
lot CT valuable time and energy in trying cause
others TO think thai We have net free speech free
press and majority rule in Che United States. The
contention usually is advanced by people whose real
objection to conditions is that they, themselves are
not ruling. The trouble with those who com
planning is they don't want the majority to rule
They their little bloc to rule.
This spirit is one that right now is harrassing
the Harding Administrator. Every little bloc that
supported Mr. Harding in the last election interprets
great majority he received be popular verdict
for the peculiar ideas it supports and demand to
place in office only those whom approves Because
tie bloc temporarily moved under the banner of the
Republican Party it assumes that it is the Republican
Party.
For instance, have just Martin Carl
sen, General Secretary of the Railroad Industrial
Workers, the !. w w. branch among those working
the railroads, complaining that the railroad work
about to be betrayed" by the President of the
United States and the American Federation of Labor
because they may settle the strike without turning
the railroads to the l. w. w, and he assumes
that this probable solution is due to a military
despotism. He assumes the attitude that if we
actually had government by the majority in the
United States, the men who supply the Drawn and
muscle and skill TO do the physical work of moving
trains and handling the freight passengers of the
country would be given complete control of railroad
management
1t all reminds one of a statement issued by Bryan
after of his defeats by immense majority of
Americans in which he said that the great question
in the United States is Shall the people rule OF
course his yexation due the fact that his
supporters not ruling.
This is the spirit that we manifested
and again throughout all phases of public ac
tvities The people elect local government Ii it
proceeds to according to its mandate from the
people it is accused by those who in a minority
Notwithstanding. of course it has failed to take
orders from the particular critic
If hundred, or or less, people
get together and spend their own money and CO.
operate to advance the interests of the community
those who do not join complain that the organza-
ten is scheming to njure those who do belong.
The fact is of course, the people do rule in the
United States. We do have free speech, free press
and majority rule. Progressive people do associate
themselves and they aid in State community
progress And in the end in spite of multitude of
absurd criticisms and contentious, the parrying and
misrepresent atoms of faultfnders seeking control
the ascendencyOr because of it all-the old country
is sweeping always forward to greater progress and
bigger and better things. While once in while
people permit mischief makers, those tinged with
fanacism influenced by prejudices and passions
upset things, and periods of unsettled conditions fol-
low. in free country is long held in
allegiance. Truth nearly always quickly comes to the
front to point the way. The majority may be sub
merged cnce in while by the skilful manipulation
Of blocs and disposition give major place to
minor matters but canty and sound Judgment always
assert themselves in the end