The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Says Programs Of Liberals
and ReactiOnaries Mean
Disaster.
REAL AMERICANISM NEED
Calls on Plain People te
Waken and Rise to Coun-
try's Rescue.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HnRALp.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-Former Senator
Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, in a
speech here tonight at the annual
banquet Of the Indiana Society, de-
plored the tendencies of the moment
in American government, declared re-
dictionary and radical factions alike
guilty of attempts to shatter American
fundamentals and predicted disaster,
industrial and financial, III the pro-
gram Of more drastic business oppres-
sion is adopted"
And this course OF destruction
this defiance of economic law. this con-
tempt for fundamental Americaniaxn.
this legislation by hatred, this govern
ment by suspicion. this program OF
envy-is called progress and LIBERAL
ism!" he exclaimed, and added:
"It Is as progressive as annihilation,
as liberal as tyranny"
Prosperity Being Blockaded.
lie declared taxes "confiscatory." said
American railroads. once the best In
the world. are now crippled; noted the
plight of the farmers asserted labor is
hampered in its struggle to better itself
and pictured prosperity 'in the feeble
bud when it should be in full and splen-
did flower"
"A genuine and permanent revival of
plain horse sense and straight out
Americanism" he prescribed as the
great need of the times and called upon
all plain Americans" particularly
young men and women. to rally to the
rescue of the nation.
His address was at the annual BAN
quet of the Indiana Society He said:
"The preservation of American insti-
tutions unimpaired Is the supreme duty
of our times. Let us not blindfold our
selves with SNUG supposition that they
are secure. for they are not secure.
THE plain fact IS that to-day more
disintegrating forces are at work upon
our peculiarly American scheme of or
dered liberty than at any time since
the civil war.
Horse Sense Need of Times. ~,
'.In this dangerous public bewilder
ment the rescue of the country andeth
renewed well being of all the people
requires a genuine and permanent re
yival of plain horse sense and straight
out Americanism.
"Such revival can only be brough
about by the common action OF plair
American men and women.
Both reactionary and radical fac
tions. to neither of which plain Ameri
cans belong, are equally guilty OF at
ternpts to shatter American funda'
mentals.
.If one faction is intent on wreckine
our distinctly American constitutions
judicial system, the other faction is just
as determined to destroy our distinc'
lively American constitutional freedom
OF speech.
"If one faction Is resolved to over.
throw our distinctively American con
stitutional property rights, the Other
faction Is no less resolved to annihilatt
our distinctively American constitutional
civil rights.
IF plain Americans are shocked and
alarmed by radical proposals. they are
also astounded and dismayed by reac.
tionary ideas.
I'm the same fashion. and from the
same causes OF the assault on Ameri-
can fundamentals, economic law Is
fiouted ruinous statutory substitutes
adopted and worse devices urged.
More Legal Wrongs Proposed.
unjust uneconomic and confiscatory
taxes. un-American Governmental In
terference with and espionage on bust
ness already exist, and increase OF
these restraints on enterprise are pro
posed.
"All see-all feel--the effects. Wit
ness American business hobbling along
on crutches when 1t should be and
could be running as strong man. re-
joicing in his strength.
Witness American transportation
crippled, bedeviled, all but exhausted
when. but yesterday. American railways
afforded the best. speedlest. most ample
and least expensive service In the world
and should and could do so tomorrow
witness the farmer without profitable
markets. the manufacturer struggli ~ to
escape loss, workingmen uncertain OF
the future, prices disarranged. costs
high and prosperity In the feeble bud
when II ought 60 be in full and splen-
did flower.
Tho result OF the onslaught upon
American methods and economic law Is
as certain as sunset. Not only will the
return of prosperity be further delayed.
but IL the program Of more drastic
business oppression Is adopted, indus
trial and financial catastrophe will be
made inevitable.
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