The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-07
ARTICLES OF FAITH.

The Baltimore Sun on the occasion of a birth anniy recently, restated it's articles of fait and the statement is one that should be read by the people of the country. It's declaration that all the evils threatening this country today the gre est Is the constant imitation of government" is epigram that should be pressed home, slogan t should be met with response from the Amcri, masses.
 Writing under the head, Articles of Faith" treat Baltimore paper said:
 If highwayman say, the lamented Dick Turpn-were to present a pistol and demand to know in one word just what The Evening Sun stands for, we should perforce reply, witout hesitation, conservatism"
 And if, as would be likely this forth rightness should take him off his feet and put him. rather than us. the defensive, We should follow up the one word with another, tolerance
 If he a wise highwayman accus- toned to using the brains with which his Creator had endowed him, he would find in these words complete explanation of the constant of this paper with job holders, politicians. the Anti-Saloon League and its spiritual offspring the K. K. K. Chi cago Congressman, the Reverend William David Upshaw, Rabbits, boosters, the war to end war, the Lords Day Alliance uplifters reformers, the Bolsheyiki, taxes the farm lbloc horse racing, ship subsidies, the tariff MT. Daugherty and his injunctions, and all the phantasmagoria of this amazing land and time.
 Conservatism implies holding fast to that which is good Much that was good in this country has ibeen lost beyond recall It. therefore behcoves the true conservative to hold on to that which is left and strive to undo SO far as in him lies the evil which is not already irrcmediable
 The most important things in this country are the men who make 1t up Experience has taught--the founding fathers knew it better than know it today-that men or mon nd not as children. The important thing for the conservative is to conserve the op- portunity for men to grow to their full stature Hence The Evening Sun opposes all those measures. all those organizations, all those movements which seek to encroach upon the right of men to be men.
 or all the evils threatening this country today the greatest is the constant imitation of government We Americans have mere government to start with than most peoples We have our local governments our State governments and on top of them the Federal Government. This last is the most danger ous because it is furthest removed from the people over whom it rules
 And 1t is swelling enormously. Nearly every law which Congress passes clips little of the edge of the citizens independ- ence And the same law takes little more out of his earnings. The lawmakers get us coming and going If they keep on we shall soon have little of either left The Eve mhg Sun proposes to try to conserve that liberty which we still have and get as much back of what we have lost as 1t is possible to get
 In addition to this vastly bloated legal government, there whole host of extra legal governments which are striving with might and main to do their bit toward talk ing away from the citizen his few remain ing rights. The Anti-Saloon League is the arch example of this kind of extra-lega gov ernment The Ku Klur Klan is one of it's absurder manifestations. One is run by shrewd fanatics, the other by avaricious