The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-12-04
VIZ ORLD-WIDE econmoic instability may be a

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w chiefly to the clouds of revolution which overhang
Europe, Asia and America So-caed capitalism in
the old world and in those nations of the which have
patterned their social and systems on the Euro
pean model has failed in the effort to make cheapness of pro-
ductonthe aim of production through the lowering of the
standards of existence for the worker Nations which have
measured their progress in civilization by the standard of
developing economic and intellectual upper crust imposed
upon an economically and cutuTay dsinhered which
have given to labor the fixed status of class whether peas
ant, eoole or peon are in the midst of upheaval
Nor these upheavas lead by men who cherish the idea
OF more Just and humane social order Their theories
have stamped upon them the class idea the class hatred the
class lust for power which has been nurured in them by
existing institutions. Their sole objective is to turn the
present order upside down. and only new and re-
Yersed form OF class dictatorship The road they travel
leads to desposm to the surrender of that conception of
Of dignity and worth of the individual upon which American
civilization founded It is true that the detectives of all
these apostles OF desposm coaked in meous phrases
about the welfare of the people, but Alexander Hamilton
long ago called attention to the fact that ants customary
rise to power through such professions Desperate men and
women are ready to seize expeden deliver themselves
from present Ills without much thought of whether or not
1t IS only malignant form of the disease from which they
are already suffering
The world in the thick of decisive war between two
conceptions OF the nature of and of society 1t
struggle to the death One Of these ideals or the other
must perish from the earth for between them there is mol
compromise One OF these conceptions that upon which
this nation was founded when cut loose European
domination and began to develop its peculiar destiny
The European conception was and is that men are SUD-
ects Of governments the state whether represented by al
monarch, dictator group of soviet commissars the
master. The American conception is that are citizens
the state nrumentaty for their service as directed
from time to time by majority opinion government chang
ing as public opinion changes.
The American coonists revoed against tyranny EUROPE
trades old yrannies for new Despotism is no less
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per cent of the people of Russia than when welded by
In both it is rule by fanatca force The prison
camp the firing squad the CELL the torture chamber brutal
y crushing out all freedom of action opinion are the in
relationships of other sort; only fragment of the
earths surface only gigantic prison house.
So welded Europe to the theory of tyranny that the
alternatives presented to such system only military
relationships Of other Sort only fragment of the
people of advanced and additionally stable nation as
Germany seem today to espouse any political doctrine which
does not contemplate the exaggeraon of state power and
the consequent slavery of the citizen to the state
Underlying this contrast between American conceptions
and those dominant in Europe Asia and revealed the
recent military revolutions in LatnAerca the contrast
in theology which these differences reflect Beneath this
alien conception is the belief that the creature of cir
cmstances against which his will struggles unvaingy
that he incompetent direct his own destiny that free
will is not factor in his developments that he should con-
fess his hepessness by surrenderng himself to the u-
brded OF politicians holding in their hands the power
Oh lie ana death over m that by breaking mans Immediate
interest in himself his family and his nation in other words
all the incentives which have stimulated our people to deve
opmen and substituting for it his submergence into the
detectives of despotsm humanity can be made over on the
model of the ant or the bee.
To destroy the theology of nation Lenn once said is the
first step toward destroying it's institutions!
And how tremendous the effort has been in this country
In recent years to destroy traditional American ideoogy
How widely the European conception of humanity and
society have been preached not only from the soapbox but
from the college chair the pulpit and editorial DESK
How devasatngy all things American have been attacked
deprecated ridiculed!