Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-29
DAUGHERTY ASKS
OBSERVANCE OF
LAW AND ORDER
Urues Business and Indus
trial Trade Associations
TO Maintain Respect for
the Government

Washington, Dec. 2S,--Aetion by
business and industrial trade asso-
Citations to maintain respect for the
law and the government would go
far toward preventing unrest
among our people engendered by
certain dissatisfied and radical ele-
ments," Attorney General Daush-
erty declared today in letter TO
the Philadelphia Board Of Trade.
Tho letter was in response to a
resolution adopted recently by tho
board declaring its opinion that
tho time had come for business
men to rally to the support Of the
government.
Mr.. Daugherty declared he was
'twhole heartedly" in sympathy
with the boards declaration de-
,nanding maintenance Of the SUI
premacy OF the law and overthrow
Of those destructive forces which
oppose the orderly processes. So
long as the mass OF the people real
ize, he said, that government can
endure only through righteous OBJ
servance of law and order and JUS
tice," the nation had nothing to
fear,
A Critical Stage
"Our government today Is pass
ing through a critical stage" he
wrote. mot since the civil war has
the nation been confronted with
economic conditions so acute. so
complex, so fraught with danger.
Vet we are not isolated in this re-
speet. All the nations of the earth
have felt the blight more seriously
at times. Some have recovered,
others are recovering and few
possibly never will recover.
'At this period of our history,
especially, the economic or sub
stantial basis Of constitutional gov
ernment must be preserved and
fostered at al hazards, for out of
unstable economic substances pour
the fumes Of unrest, distrust, re-
bellion against organized and law
full authority. Placidty or nation
nlism throughout the world is more
essential today to peace and pros
perity than ever before in our CIV
ilization.
"Since the termination OF the
world ar our government has met
and conquered most OF the eco
nomic ills that threatened our body
polite. From a period of inflated
and unhealthy price levels we have
come back to q sane and equitable
asis. Our industries and our
inances are stronger than before
e war. The unemployment prob
4 that dazed the country for a
spell was mastered. Subse-
It nationwide industrial dis
lnces were corrected. Today
nation is prosperous and at
2, militarily. with the rest of
Grorld. On the surface, or su-
moSially at least. it would seem
in little remained on our ma
lonal horizon for which we might
be seriously concerned.
NiciousIy Founded Theories
"Yet there are in our midst to-
day some elements striving vain
gloriously for. the plaudits of
those who wou1o rear down con-
stitutional government through
viciously founded theories and vio-
lent attacks upon those public
servants called by the mandate of
the whole people to preside over
and preserve the sacred ideals of
the greatest government ever es-
tablished by the hand and brain Of
man.
So long as we have a nationalism
purged Of malice and hatred and
dedicated to all that is best in
government and people, then shall
we have little to fear from those
contentious elements which, in
their infinistesimal minority seek
TO practice deceit upon the people
through unhealthy and viciously
acquired views"