The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-10-08
LET'S GET BACK TO EARTH

"HE issue of this presidential campaign is
very simple. 1t it this:
Shall America settle down to steady going
and regular meals and regular work, growing
and building, prospecting and progressing?
Or shall it go on a political and economic
rampage, initiating, in milder degree, what has
happened in Russia?
Shall America get down to brass tacks with
Coolidge?
Or shall it jazz around with LaFollette and
his following?
The war brought about universal 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..
LaFollette.
There was a worldwide breaking away from
old mornings. There was unrest, unsettlement
and upheava There was disturbance that rang
ed all the way from revolution, as in Russia, to
mere vague irritation and dissatisfaction in AM
erica.
This country, perhaps, was affected least of
all, but still it was affected by the war
produced nervous disorder that gave most of
Europe sort Of political st. Vitus dance.
This disorder is passing. Europe is well on
the way toward recovery. The extremists there
have shown thinking men and women everywhere
the danger of extremism. In that, at least, they
have done humanity 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 politics and jazz economics is near an end.
1t is time for America to get down out of
the. air upon the solid 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 most sane
and sensible American, Calvin Coolidge?
Can any reasoning American doubt that fol-
lowing Mr.. LaFollette is to continue in the haz-
ardous path that leads to heaven knows what
length of upheaval and disorder?
Senator LaFollette may not be socialist;
but every Socialist in the country, every follower
of the Marx doctrine of the proletarat revolution,
is with him.
Senator LaFollette may not deliberately in
tend to scrap the existing American system of
government and industry, but every advocate of
drastic and revolutionary change except hand
full of wid-eyed Communists is back of him.
Americans have no business with these i'm
ported doctrines of upheaval and revolution, with
fantastic schemes of burning down the barn to
get rid of the rats.
The American system, born on American
soil and devised and carried on by patriotic AM
erican minds and hearts, is capable of any sound
improvement and it is good enough for Ameri-
cans.
Shall Minnesota, with its rich stake in stable
prosperity, with its thousands of comfortable
homes in city and country, with it's prosperous
business enterprises small and great, with its
people depending for peace and prosperity upon
steady profits and regular employment and good
wages, run the risk of trying the hazardous en-
terprises of the miscellaneous cults that surround
Mr.. LaFollette?
Or shall America, confident in his loyalty
to the county and to the best interests of every
man, woman and child in America, sure of his de-
votion to steady and ordered and sound progress,
follow President Coolidge, the sound, the calm,
the righteous, the fair-minded, the just~leader
whose success in November means the contnu-
ance Of the best traditions Of American progress
Shall Minnesota get down to brass tacks
with Coolidge?
Or shall Minnesota jazz around with La
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