Evening star., 1922-05-30
WALSH DENOUNC[S]
TOO MUCH CONTROL
Tells LegionIiaires at District
Building Exercises Tend
ency Must Be Checked.

s. =
ency Must Be Checked.
Restriction of individual liberty
was denounced by Senator David II
Walsh of Massachusetts,. addressing
several hundred Washington mem-|
bers of the American Legion and
their friends at Memorial day exer-I
cises in front of the District build
ing today.
IF we are to preserve the soul and
clared. I'VE must check the present Il
tendency of directing our govern
mental energy toward restricting In i
stead OF enlarging individual liberty
When governments carry this policy
to any extreme they cease to adhered
to true principles of liberty and tol
remain a democracy.
Termed an Autocraey.
Governmental efforts to control what
we eat and drink. how our people amuse
themselves, the manner Of educating
their children and the size of their fam
lilies is the rankest kind of autocracy.
Senator Walsh told his audience of
lOTHltT SOlUleTS WHO IOuEnl 70 Illdhe llc
world safe for democracy, but that the
forces OF selfishness and greed that are
the enemies of democracy were not all
slain on the battlefields of Europe.
1--WE have forces and forms Of
tyranny and oppression in our own
land to battle against and destroy.
Every form of social and industrial
injustice is an enemy of liberty; ra
cial hatred is a form of oppression,
religious prejudice is Incompatible
with freedom; monopolistic combina
tions that enhance the cost OF living
lessen the purchasing power of wages
and increase the already too great
disparity of living conditions between n
the rich and the poor and leads to eco-Y
nomic slavery; the possession of the
country's resources by limited few
may eventually mean for America
what it has meant TO other peoples
of the world. the establishment of
dynasty of wealth, instead Of a
democracy"
No Place fin Democracy.
"As Americans who have smellsd
the smoke and gasses Of modern war
fare, you are to be leaders in all the
great movements for the advance
ment and progress Of our beloved
country during the next generation.
Your voice will penetrate among the
masses of men as no other voices in
America. Your influence for good can
be made to know no bounds if prop
erly directed. May ! urge you-you.
the comrades of the fallen dead
whose memories We revere and in
whose honor this days ceremony is
held-to avoid that which brought
Germany to ruin, and that which de-
stroys progress and liberty every
where, what l choose to call the
II -1n s,a1 &c or-f
of the autocratic system-it has no
place in a democracy
The slave mind stands for no
truths, it has no principles, it blindiy
follows. The slave mind has been
the bane of many nations, for IL is
reliance which has reduced the state
liest races to servility. 1t makes a
race shifty, mean and evasive in
speech and argument. Free men in
free nations must always be stralgnt
and direct. The slave mind impels
men to humble yes when in their
hearts they mean no. ,
Battles Not Over.
In conclusion, Senator Walsh said;
Veterans, you have left the nring
lines of France, but do not think
that your battles are over. You have
before you in your own land battle
that will require as much moral cour-
age to wage as those you have so
courageously and successfully fought
in the past. g.,
our midst, but it is difficult to recog-
nize them, and, therefore, they are
harder to defeat. 1t will demand con-
slant surveillance and careful recon-
noitering TO recognize the Zoe wheh
YOU meet it. but if guided by basic
American ideals and principles you
60 all hazards let YOUR
every effort be to safeguard American
institutions. preserve our selt-goV-
ernment, respect and maintain our
best traditions. for these are the
great fundamental principles for
which our heroes died
Cross for Heroes.
The exercises were opened with an
invocation by Rex. Francis J. Hurney.
chaplain of Costello Post. An Army
band played patriotic airs ana me 81;
Patrick's Sanctuary Choir rendered
several selections. Watson b. Miller
department commander of the Ameri-
can Legion in the District, presided
and introduced Senator Walsh. Bene-
diction was said by Army Chaplain X.
E. Browning.
A stately white cross, surrounded
by ferns and flowers, was placed on
the lawn in front of the building as
a tribute to Washingion's fallen he
roes and added to the impressiveness
of the ceremonies
At the conclusion of the program
at the District building the legion
naires went to Arlington, where SINH
lar exercises were held in the world
war section at 1870 O'Clock, where
Admiral Plunkett of the United
States Navy was scheduled TO deliver
a eulogy to the men who gave their
lives in the war.