The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-25
LET'S GET BACK TO EARTH
Duluth Herald)

campaign is very simple. 1t is
this:
Shall America settle down to
steady going and regular meals
and regular work. growing and
building, prospecting and progress
ing?
Or shall it 60 on q political and
economic rampage, initiating, in a
milder degree, what has happened
in Russia?
Shall America get down to brass
tacks with Coolidge?
Or shall it jazz around with La
Toilette and his following?
The war broguht about a uni
versal upheaval. There was no
nation so isolated, no settlement
so remote, that it wholly escaped
the contagion of disorder.
What translated itself into chaos
in Russia and disorder in the rest
Of Europe, translated itself in
America into the various grades Of
desperation and radicalism that
have centered, in this campaign,
upon the candidacy of Mr.. LaFoll-
cite.
There was worldwide break
ing away from old moorings.
There was unrest, unsettlement
and upheaval. There was dis
turbance that ranged all the way
from revolution, as in Russia, to
mere vague irritation and dissatis-
| faction in America.
This country, perhaps, was ar
fected least OF all, but still 1t was
affected by the same war-prOducei
nervous disorder that gave most OF
Europe a sort OF political st. Vitus
dance.
This disorder is passing. Europe
is we'll on the way toward recov-
cry. The extremists there have
shown thinking men and women
everywhere the danger of extrem-
ism. In that, at least, they have
done humanity a real service.
America, too, is getting back to
earth. The day for following after
strange political gods is, for most
Americans, about over. The day
| of Jazz economics is near an end
1t is time for America to get
down out of the air upon the soli1
ground and to clear straight road
for progress.
Can any reasoning American
doubt that the way to do that is
to get behind the cool, clear, calm
and poised leadership of that mos,
sane and sensible American, Cal
vim Coolidge?
| Can any reasoning American
doubt that following Mr.. LaFoll
cite is to continue in the hazard
Gus path that leads to- HEAVIER
knows what lengths of upheava
and disorder?
Senator LaFollette may not be
Socialist; but every Socialist IL
the country, every follower of tn
Marx doctrine OF the proletaria
revolution, is with him.
Senator LaFollette may not de
liberately intend to scrap the ex
listing American system of govern
ment and industry, but every ad
vocate of drastic and revolution
airy change except a handful O
wild-eyed Communists is back O
him.
Americans have no bushes
with these imported doctrines o
upheaval and revolution, wit
fantastic schemes Of burnin
down the barn to get rid of tn
rats.
The American system, born o
American soil and devised an
carried on by patriotic America
minds and hearts, is capable @
any sound improvement, and it
good enough for Americans.
Shall Minnesota, with its rio
stake in stable prosperity, with it
thousands of comfortable home
in city and country, with its pros
porous business enterprises, smal
and great, with it's people depend
ing for peace and prosperity upo
; steady profits and regular employ
ment and good wages, run tn
risk of trying the hazardous enter
prises OF the miscellaneous cult
that surround Mr.. LaFollette?
Or shall Minnesota, confident j
his loyalty to the country and t
the best interests of every mar
woman and child in America, sur
of his devotion to steady and o,
dered and sound progress, folio
President Coolidge, the sound, tn
calm, the righteous, the fail
: minded, the just leader whose sue
cess in November means the cor
tinuance of the best traditions {
American progress?
Shall Minnesota get down
brass tacks with Coolidge?
Or shall Minnesota jazz arOun
with LaFOllette?