The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-27
TO EUROPEANIZE AMERICA.

At a time when to sane people the plight of
Europe would seem to warn Americans against
going down the road which has led the civilization
of these older lands to ruin, the air is filled with
the clamor of those who would Europeanize Amer
lea.
It is seriously proposed that we should abandon
many of the most fundamental of American insti-
tutions and traditions, and take up instead the
European system of class government, group gov
eminent, bloc government, and remodel our poll
tics along the lines of class cleavage.
There is no country in the world so free as is
our own from conditions justifying the appeals
of revolutionaries, whether of the pink or the
red variety, to that class consciousness, class envy,
class hatred and ultimately class violence which
the stock in trade of socialists and near socialists
both in Europe and in the United States.
The motto of the United States is e pluribus
Unum." Out of many one. Out of many races,
classes and conditions of men, out of many racial,
national and religious strains, one people unified
in their fealty to the fundamentals of justice and
ordered liberty which are the basic principles of
the American form of government.
Those who are seeking to Europeanize our poll
tics would change all this by melting division
among the American people. They would set class
against class, occupation against occupation, re-
ligion against religion. Whatever will stir up
discOrd among the American people they are act
i've in fomenting.
The continual preaching of this type of politi-
clan, who usually has never been associated with
productive industry in any capacity, is that human
rights and property rights can not exist together.
The truth is that property rights are among the
most precious of human rights. The right to
possess that which one earns, for the good of
himself and his dependents, is the thing that
keeps most men on the job in this work-a-day
world. No one would work effectively for so
! remote a master as society in general: least of
all would those do so who preach the sour doc
trine of social hatred and whose affection for the
people is never exhibited except in connection
with some plan involving power for themselves.
Russia is today a working model of the COM
( plete triumph of the preachers of envy and hatred
Protesting themselves friends of freedom they
have proved that the state socialist is an i~ncipient
autocrat who wants to increase the power of
! the state because he hopes to WELD it for his own
glory and the oppression of others, especially those
whom he most envies and hates.
It seems to be an accepted doctrine with poll.
ticians of this ik that all that stands in the way
of the enrichment of everybody is the existence
of wealth in the hands of individuals or comDa.
mics, however wisely and well and with what con.
%tribution to social welfare this capital is employed
They continually preach the sophistry that the
'private payroll is a menace and the private EN-.
.ployer an exploiter, and that the private payroll
should be supplanted by the public payroll and the
private employer by the office holding politician
There is an underground connection between
the red revolutionaries of the old world and the
pink upheavers of the new. What these politicians
actually seek is the complete political control OF
industry, with themselves exercising through that
bystern mastery over their fellows.
That the abuses of private industry should be
and are being corrected is true. That the Ameri
IAN people would be reduced to industrial surf
Joan by the complete politicaIixation of industry
4ought by our home grown Lenines and Trotzkys