New-York tribune., 1922-07-05

had moved to Marion from a farm near
Caledonia In the winter before came.
When he moved to Marion he left a
mule behind because the mule was so
we'll known in that vicinity that he
could not be sold at profit, and yet
so valuable that my father could not
sacrifice 1t. SO when came to Marion
the first Of July was permitted to ride
the mule as the easiest way to bring
me here.
II started early in the afternoon, but
this mule had only one gait. You
couldn't put him in second or third and
you couldn't step on the gas or any
thing. The evening shades were fall
ing when l reached the vicinity of the
Roberts farm, three or four miles east
Of Marion. The situation was looking
dark to me, and l stopped to ask man
smoking his pipe how far it was to Ma
rion. Without cracking smile he re-
piled: We'll, II you are going to ride
that mule it's further distance than
you will ever get
Religion Softening Influence
"As l neared the town the evening
bells were ringing for the mid-week
prayer. do not know that have ever
heard concert Of bells that sounded
so sweet. If l could somehow go back
to that day l would like to make
little more permanent and little more
influential the tendency to religious
worship, which is the softenirg influ-
ence in American life"
Resuming his prepared speech, he
said:
ain our international relations all is
we'll. They are securer to-day, with
more assuring prospects Of peace than
ever before in the history Of the Re-
public. New guarantees recently have
been added, by the very process of ex-
changing viewpoints and bringing the
spokesmen of great nations to the con-
views, and to resolve to do together
those fine and nobler things which no
one nation could do alone.
"Frankly, we have a broader view.
point than the founding fathers; we
must have, because human progress has
altered our world relationship, but we
have held firmly to all the fundamentals
to which they committed US. We can
not be aloof from the world, but we can
impress the world with American
| ideals. l mean to say it, because it is
seemly to say it, the world believes to-
day in American national unselfishness
as never before and recognizes our
commitment to justice to be no less
resolute than our determination to pre-
serve our liberties. Even Russia, to-
ward whom we remain aloof, except in
! sympathy and very practical proof
| thereof, looks upon America as friend
and example.
"But let US turn specifically to intro
spection, take stock among ourselves.
"a vi al t1ry Ill
est dreams Of the inspired founders.
saw the fifteen starred flag the other
day, the flag Of 1872, unfurled over Fort
McHenry, during the attack on which
Francis Scott Key wrote The Star
spangled Banner Ohio made the fif-
teenth star. You can little guess the
contrast between the blue field with fif-
teen stars and the same field with the
forty.eight glittering stars Of to-day,
all fastened by popular faith and
frightened by popular hope.
1--WE are great, and rich, and power
full as to states and sections; we are
In the full concord of union. This
great organic law has been preserved
and it's antiquities removed. Where
there has been enlarged Federal au-
| The Constitution has been amended
to meet the popular will. Our repre-
sentative form of constitutional gov.
ernment Is responsive to the will Of
the majority-responsive to the ex-
preston Of deliberate public opinion.
1t must be so to endure. Majorities
restrained to the protection of minori-
ties ever must rule. The Constitution
and the laws sponsored by the majority
| must be enforced. 1t does not matter
who opposes. If an opposing minority
ha rs~SO
Of public opinion will change the law.
There is no abiding liberty under any
other plan.
II mean to sound no note of pessi-
mism. This republic is secure. Menaces
do arise, but public opinion will et7ace
them. Meanwhile government must re-
press them. The Eighteenth Amend
ment denies to a minority a fancied
sense Of personal liberty, but the
amendment is the will of America and
must be sustained by the government
and public opinion, else contempt for
the law will undermine our very foun-
dations.
"The foremost thought in the Con-
stitution Is the right to fredeom and
the pursuit of happiness.
men must be free to live and
achieve. Liberty is gone in America
"HeI any man is Qenle0 the right to
work and live by that work. It does
not matter who denies.
IA free American has the right ia
,, labor without any others leave. It
would be no less an abridgment to
deny men to bargain collectively.
Governments cannot tolerate anv
class or grouped domination through
force. 1t will! be sorry day when
group domination IS reflected in our
laws. Government, and the laws which
government is charged with enforcing,
must be for all the people, ever aiming
at the common good.
War Left World in Upheaval
"The tendencies Of the present dav
are not surprising. War stirred the
passions Of men and left the world in
upheaval. There have been readjust-
ments and liquidations, and more re-
main to be made. In the making there
has been the clash Of interests, the
revelations of greed, the perfectly
natural tendency to defend self-in-
tercsts. 1t has developed groups and
blocs and magnified class inclinations.
But the readjustment is no less in
evitable, and 1t is worldwide. It is
the problem Of human kind. Your gov
ernment has sought to aid, with pa
tience, with tolerance, with sympathy.
It has sought to mitigate she burdens.
1t has sought the merging Of view
points to make the way easier. 1t be-