The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-10-16
WHICH ROAD, CITIZEN
OF MINNESOTA?

Minnesota in this election stands
at the parting of the ways.
On the one side lies the devious
and precipitous and uncertain road to
radicalism.
Mr.. La Toilette beckons US that
way, and every Socialist, every radi-
cal of whatever brand, joins in the
hullaballoo of excited incitation, be-
sides some who do not yet seem to be
aware of the company they are in.
On the other side lies the old
road, the straight road, the road of
ordered and steady progress, the
road of sound, steady business, of
regular employment, of continually
improving conditions, of fairer field
for every man but without Elusive
hopes of a sudden and miraculous
transformation that will do away
with the need of hard work and thrift
and ingenuity, by which men grow
and find contentment, and without
which they die even though they may
seem to live.
And Calvin Coolidge, the calm,
the wise, the sound, the fearless the
just, beckons us that wiser way.
Which road, citizen of Minnesota?
The old road, that has carried US
far in safety and prosperity?
Or the new road, that carries us
we know not where, except as we
may learn from the hard fate of ma
tions that have gone that way?
Shall we be led by LaFollette, chief
of the forces of discomfort and revo-
luton?
Or shall we be led by Coolidge,
who summons to his standard the
forces of order, justice, prosperity,
plenty and progress?
Shall Minnesota turn to the ban
ner of La Toilette, on which desper-
ate men are blazoning the slogans of
destruction?
Or shall Minnesota turn to the
banner of Coolidge, on which calm
and sure and wise leader has written
the slogans of peace and order and
fair dealing and steady-going prog
ress- the only slogans under which
humanity can make any gains that
satisfy and that last?
It is the duty of every citizen of
Minnesota, at this moment when
Minnesota stands at the parting of
the ways, to pause and give serious
thought to his own answer to the
question (which road shall I
.choose?"
If the citizens choose the road
of La Toilette and the Socialists and
the forces of bitter discomfort that
include everybody who has nothing
to lose by change, that is his right
But he ought not to choose it un-
til he fairly considers whether is is
the right road, and whether he has a
right to risk his own present situa-
ton, and the hopes of his children,
by an uncertain and probably unwise
choice.
There are those in the throng that
presses toward the road of radical
change who have nothing to risk.
But the man who has a home, who
has a family, who has business
whether large or small, who ha.
money in the bank, who has a steady
job with hope of betterment through
ingenuity and industry-that mar
has a good deal to risk. He shoult
not risk it all by a hasty and dubious
choice at this crucial moment in tn,
history of Minnesota and the nation
Nobody who has fairly judged tn,
honest and decent and just motive
of Calvin Coolidge will believe for :
moment that he is an obstacle to rea
progress, or doubt that he will be ,
s real i"daer in the kind of progress
that America has made from the be
ginning-with occasional pause
when American was too deeply de
voted to the fleshpots of materialisn
to reuenohar ifc daSfinu
And who can be sure that Mr.. Il
Follette's program, with its threats a
the Constitution which safeguard
the liberties of every man, with it
hazardous proposal of government
ownership of railroads when it is s
manifest that government in bushes