Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-30

pressing deep concern for the people
of the United States, he wrote:
1T is a fact too notorious to be
denied that the greatest embarrass-
ments under which the administra-
ton of this government lGbors pro-
coed from the counteraction of peo-
pie among ourselves who are more
disposed to promote the views of
another nation than to establish a
national character of their own;
and that unless the virtuous and in
dependent men of this country come
forward, it is not difficult to pre-
dict the consequences. Such is my
decided opinion"
Thus the founders of our country
saw hat the power and prosperity
of the state is derived from the char
acter and the free action of citi-
zens whose fundamental rights are
securely protected by just laws. And
at a later day. When Abraham In
coin, who may truly be called a
product of our free institutions, was
called to the presidency of
try, he declared that his hope for
the future rested on the power of
our free institutions to develop in
the individual citizen a spirit of in
dependence and self-reliance. In
IN hour of great danger to our gov
eminent he said:
This is essentially a peoples
contest. On the side of the I'm
ion it is a struggle for maintaining
in the world that form and sub
stance of government whose lead
ing object is to elevate the condi-
ton of men, to lift artificial weights
FrnNa oil c1nYI1Inrc ~ n1nnn fha
paths Of laudable pursuit for all, to
afford all an unfetted start and a
fair chance in the race of life"
This, in substance, is the mean
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence where it asserts that "all men
are created equal" that is, that
men should have an equal right n
der the law to develop their capa-
cities and to be rewarded accord
ing to their integrity, enterprise,
industry and thrift. Thomas Jeffer-
son, one of the authors of the Dec
laration of independence, in his in
augural address as President of the
United States, defined equality n
der our Government as:
Equal right to the use of our
own facilities, to the acquisitions
of our industry, to honor and conf
dence from our fellow-citizens, re-
sulting not from birth but from
our actions and their sense of them;
equal and exact justice to all men
Of whatever state or persuasion, re-
ligious or political"
But no man among our great
national leaders saw more clearly
than Theodore Roosevelt, the basic
dependence alike of our institutions
and of our prosperity on the char
acter Of the individual citizen.
Speaking of our national welfare
and with our latest problems in
mind, he thus emphasized this truth:
1.-The Chief factor in the success
of each man-wage-worker, farmer
and capitalist alike-must never be
the sum total of his w individual
qualities and abilities"
THE slightest study of business
conditions will satisfy anyone cap
able of forming a judgment that
the personal equasion is the most i'm
portant factor in a business opera
ton; that the business ability of the
man at the head of any business
concern, big or small, is usually the
factor which fixes tie gulf between
striking success and hopeless fail
ufe. Each man must work for him
self and unless he so works, IL outs
side help can avail him."
Never did self-reliance and power
for independent action appear to
greater advantage in our country
than during the recent war. In ev-
cry workshop throughout the land
changes to meet the pressing needs
of the hour were made by our a
ufacturers and workmen with a
speed and certainty that was one
of the chief factors in the victory
of freedom ov autocracy. The
inventions, the enterprise, the en-
ergy, that characterized American
industry in those mighty days, were
the fruit of our American institu-
tons and of individual liberty, fos-
tered and protected by our form
Of Government.
Does not this Fourth of July ap-
peal to something more than nation
al pride? Does it not call forth
our united determination to main
tain in their purity those principles
that for one hundred and forty-four
years have distinguished this coun-
try in the thought of all nations as
the Land of Opportunity" where
all who in honest endeavor exercise
Industry and thrift shall find an
open door and a fair reward what
ever be their station In life?
Taken from a Leaflet issued by
National Industrial Conference
Board, Boston, Mas.