The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-12

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idea that is abroad in the land that
politics is too low for good people to
take part in it, and that bad people
are politicians and handle the poll
tics of the country, is damnable
heresy. The best man and woman
who lives in America has no more
right to shun their political and civic
because it is a dirty,
mean, o. unpleasant duty than they
have to refuse to worship God or
obey the DEGREES of their government,
and if the dirty machine politician is
to continue to be responsible for the
government of our country nation
ally, in states, counties, precincts and
communities, we may expect that the
mighty deeds Of growing nation
will soon be greater than the small
vision of selfish, designing men can
end that our government
will fail to function and chaos and
ultimate destruction of our Chris
tian civilization will ensue.
So the thing that am trying to
bring home to you today is that you
had better be about your country's
business. 1t is not my job to tell you
what your country's business is. It
is not the job of anyone else to tell
you what your country's business is.
1t is your job to find out what is the
best thing for, your country you can
do, then follow as nearly as possible
in that channel. The lives, pros
perity and liberty of the mass of the
people are dependent upon your &C
tions. Of course, the duties will be
varied in accordance with the chang
ing needs of the people of the country
but when the God-fearing, conscien-
tious men and women of America
realize and know their responsibilities
to law and government, and God and
these G, hand in hand, the problent;
that seem mighty and overwhelming
today will be. easy of solution and
suitable conditions will return and
not only material prosperity will be
with US, but spiritual prosperity, and
we may expect a generation to fol-
low after US working in paths of
pleasantness, whose ways are ways
Of peace.
1. am rather disguised today that
the master minds of politics and many
Of the really thinking patriots seem
vastly more interested in the diseases
Of war-torn Europe and Asia than
they are in the problems which are
pressing in America today. Let's
get out and begin to teach and preach
and practice the doctrine of Ameri-
canism and let's make the word
mean Americas bust
ness, and let's make it come to be
The primal duty of every citizen to
practice Americanism i'm a broad way.
The recent war taught US one les
son, and that is that not a few, not
a select class, but that all the peo-
pie of this country, at least, are pos
sessed of patriotism, and that the
latent arms Of this whole force can
be assembled again whenever the
country calls. Let each man (and
each woman) make it his duty now
and for the next few years to preach
a renaissance of patriotism. Let's
light anew the fires of consecrated
love of country, and by this fire let's
warm the hearts of the people Of this
nation, and when all are working
side by side in a holy and unselfish
cause, strife and bitterness will pass
away. Unity and peace and broth
erly love will come in and we will be
a one hundred per cent nation work
ing under God toward the accom-
plishment Of His wondrous purposes.
The quickest way on earth to do
away with law is not right is to
see that the law is obeyed by the
people of the nation who owe it
obedience. The righteous mind of
the people of the nation will then
bring to pass the certain repeal or
of the law to meet the
requirements of the body polite. In
order that I may not be misconstrued
today, want to 60 on record here
and now AS subscribing to the primal
laws of the United States of Ameri-
ca in it's entirety. For me. the Con-
stitution of the United States of
America is a thing. sacred. While !
firmly believe that the turbulent
mob who wrested from King John at
Runnymead in exchange for his life
and liberty the Magma Charta
brought about the first real step to
real freedom, just as firmly be-
lieve that it was an instrument OF
Almighty God, and as I look back
over the pages of history, makes me
think the work of these brutal, igno-
rant men marked a great stepping
stone toward human liberty, and that
neither you nor 1 would be present
today in the enjoyment of our pres
ent liberty unless these men had
acted then. So. the thing accom-.
plished there set stake or mark
from, which mankind has moved on
the first great fundamental of human
freedom-the right of trial by jury.
I think that the convention which
formulated the Constitution of the
United States after months Of
weary, heart-breaking discussion anG
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