Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-01
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trinity Of which wH rust -r justly p-oud because it vas the soil that produced the Fundamentals of triurrrrsnf dsrrn,- racy. The church trained ,hs young lad in character, ihr school i,-oadrued his intelligence, and the ;ss,n -rretInF showed him how local affair -,sre con ducted. If he shoScd rsn. fu,ftu5s soJ civil affairs he was given some minor office 1T he did well fn a zmsi odJcS he was given a bigger one After the War of the Revolution rybe7 NC hao state and federal ofIiCrs .Nfs -r-jnR -nAr
 might be sent to ths legislature and occupy other state officts. even ths gOvernorship. Tn those days !. yss ne, of ability and character ratirr han rpsr Aof party who were elected 'o office. Tn, is one Of the things that is bringing our present day democrscy into The shadoz Of decline. Until recen- years thsss three great things were ;hs i1v and The nope of derRocratic inst- It'c-- r-hars,- ter, Intelligence and Enicirrc,. Y VI
 are wise VIC shall insist that ;hsy rs- main.
 Make Safe for Tomorrow [ Thirdly. We are thankfol for .i- ,r.I cnt opportunity 10 make ,.rnss-.s-,. which is now being tested. ssf, .o- is- morrow.
 l We must face. firmly and r.s-l,s,i-.
  | life. The first great danrpr coJres iron tie singular fact Of our large-aea-t.1- ness. Because we have always nes7
 generous and sympatheiic people. ST. | have opened wide our doors fp Inc ;J-- fortunate and downtrodden prpulez of ths
 earth, and offered this country -7 zr ! asylum 10 all those who found -1.nr 1; conditions intolerable elsewhere, We -s;o l 70 all the weary and neavy-izden: "Co-,s and I will give you rest" And -h.s came with the avowed purposc 10 be-. ter their conditions, and 70 strengthen this organic Union. That they nave bseI i a real asset to us is beyond all question English, Irish, Scotch ana Welsh, rssI
 and women of blood and iron, with Tn.n-.
 al and moral power came under Gos'I oenediction. People Of ether tonEuei
 came, Dutch, Germans, Swedss and Nor. lwegians. They came with intelligent !n.
 stincts that would make any nation rea
 and under the impact of this racial "a,
 riety was developed a race Of men uns
 psralleled in the history of humanity.
 With the Civil war there cans
 change. and only state an sndisputzsR fact of history when I say that subss. lquent mlgratfons from central sorthe7n and southeastern Europe were not. for chs
 most part, peoples of the same mora i caliber as those who carne from WeSters . and northern Europe. They, too. had tho . opportunity of building up this country and themselves also, and theJ put ths
 emphasis mainly upon the latter. TheV
 peoples certainly have some claim upor
 our sympathy and helpfulness, and they ought to be willing 10 accept our guId-. . ance. Let us remember that they arG 3 peoples who were oppressed by civil au- thority. They felt that their homo gov.
 ernments were their enemy and. in their
 ignorance supposed that all go7ernmend | were aiiKe. Crossing the Atlantic Tn tD !. steerage did not convert them Net . few of them played the part Of the viper - stinging the only hand under heaven thf offered them bread Whether through lg- 2 lonance or not propaganda was started l. against all governments, human or oth- erwtse, a fact that was clearly brought l out In courts of justice. To say tho n very least there was not the right kind Of
 response that we had a right to expecf Y to our kindly and generous invitation. 2 Instead Of strengthening the walls of our D democracy 1t simply put those walls te
 the test.
 The next peril that Is testing our ds.
 mocracy Is the tendency 10 disinteeration q This ts duo to failure to amalEamate 6J 3, perpetuating differences in languages ?. manners and customs If we have a It, D tie colony here, another one there and q
 third wonder, and multiply these by all Il the nations that are among uss with their c various dialects and ways vf living. tn, le tendency will be to produce A rope of l' sand and not to preserve the rod of lroa e. It was this very thing thsk underntn' y cd the Austro-HungHrian Empire We l. have a right to insist that in due time al
 foreigners in thIs country shall have le speaking acquaintance with the Englist ,- language, with perfect freedom to pre- '5 serve the rative tongue. We would hav'
 no such cruel rule of uniformity as dts - potism put on Alsace-Lorraine, but
 simply learn the vernacular speech E. Another testing of democracy 10 thl y growing dlstespect for law. It is ver1 C. serious when self-detemInation is looke' in iupon as the only rule of authority, whiei sh is simply taking the law into onss ovl hands If the individual Is allowed q le take the law into his own hands the eHI m. will be national anarchy. The question " ls not what our new corners or our oli es citizens may think about the merits Q CT female suffrage or prohibition, for tha rd stage of the controversy is passed; the. 10 have become a part of the organic laT K of the land, and all must be made 10 fee ny that laws are to be obeyed or punish a. pent will follow.
 no Fitted fer wesid serfiss or Lastly. Our. Democracy ought to be ht
 ted for world service.
 I will assume that no argument Is rs
 quired to show that society has D "r same claim to eeif-preservztlon that th ,e. individual has. The well-belnE of th ds country is to be thought of as well ae.t be interests of the alien. We have the un at doubted right to limit immigration .th 1le physically, mentally and morally At; ey have right to apply the llteracy tet or just as far as the interests of democTae it require. But while we safeguard our dt we mocracy we must be careful not to pet I ng or pamper and eoddle 1t, or in any va " make a fetish of t. We are not : de put it in a glaes case and make 1t -ai parlor ornament, but we must make IT. At to render a mighty service fU ohrtI IS ard humanity.
 he We have a perfect right to rejoice lp- the might of America: as to it's vast sig ed as food producer, as to it's edacationi lot facilities, as to its industrial system, its to It's enormous ysealth.sf we are thanl Ich full for these things by making an iHvtt ed. ious comparison with the littleneas. b hy weakness, the poverty and suffering { 've other nations, our thankfulness ts pit nf ably selfish. But if we are thaa6l ity for our mighty ability to aid deyasrzte 'u: world in the work of restoration, we shn me tehahFc the tears of the world into q mt smiles of giadness, and rBake the .rei to arches of heaven ring with gisdness. Dlc need to consider our fabulous veal the with no little caution when VIC think 10 re- some of t Was made. During the Vol crf war Europe was consuming and n bis producing. This country was the gre e5- produced from Ipi9 to 1918, and we we ley in a position to hx prices. Europa Q ac- eepted but oftentimes under PrOteH' -