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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
WHAT AMERICANISM
MEANS
Americanism means serving, through
government, the general welfare,
rather than the selfish aims and ends
of groups, classes, elements or indi
viduals.
The system of organizing groups
and crowds and gangs of people and
then forcing upon the people schemes
hatched in the special interests of
some one particular element, is a vio
lation of the fundamental principle of
Americanism.
The man or woman to whom the
general welware is not more import
ant than the attainment of the imme
diate selfish ends of the particular
group to which he or she belongs, is
not a good American, because not pos
sessed by the true spirit of American
ism.
Government by bullyragging, govern
ment by threat, government by fear,
as against the common good, has been
the constantly increasing menace by
which, now, the very life of this re
public is threatened.
Class loyalty, group loyalty, gang
loyalty, racial loyalty, loyalty to
dynasties or persons rather than
principles, as opposed to loyalty to
government existing for the service of
all. without regard to caste or class,
is the curse of European civilization.
A larger fealty to the common good
is what Americanism stands for. It is
what Republicanism must stand for, if
this nation is to be saved from that
form of civil war which arises from
the continuous battle of classes, with
in and without the law, for advantage
attained at the sacrifice of the princi
ples of equity in human relationship
fundamental in a real republic.
nairope is a cra^y qum ui waning
tribes, races, tongues, each hating and
ready to fight the others. Its age old
religious and racial .antagonisms, its
class and caste divisions, its commer
cial and dynastic jealousies and rival
ries, are the things that have kept
it and will keep it at war so long as
they persist, regardless of scraps of
papers or leagues of nations founded
upon gradiloquent phrases.
Here in America we have a govern
ment whose national motto is “Out of
many, one.” Out of many races, re
ligions, classes, groups, one people;
one union, indivisible, now and for
ever.
To lose that ideal would be to lose
America.
Yet many forces are at work seek
ing to destroy that for which this re
public was founded and has to this
time been maintained by the brave and
the great who have fought and
wrought that this nation might be
born and live in the fulfilment of its
mission.
There are those who would Euro
peanize America. They would involve
it in the tangled web of European in
trigue which we had had no part in
weaving and which would enmesh us
only to our own destruction.
Then they would transplant here the
same system of caste and class and
warring groups that is keeping Europe
face to face with civil as well as inter
national war.
They are preaching here the gospel
that every element, every occupation,
every “class,” should hate and fight
and oppress the others; and that the
purpose of every such class should be
lo seize the government and use it as
a means of oppressing, undoing and
even exterminating the others.
Those who preach, and those who
accept, such a gospel, are traitors to
representative republicanism in the
true sense of that term, little under
stood anywhere in the world beyond
the borders of the United States.
Now is a time for standing true to
the real, underlying, fundamental and
eternal truths of American republican
ism and republican Americanism.
The Republican party must stand
forth as the apostle of this historic
conception of Americanism.
It must boldly fight for it if this
nafion is to be saved.
The perils of the time are not imag
inary. We are face to face with them.
The nation will survive them. But
only through the patriotic, the de
voted, the consecrated service of men
who comprehend and love and are will
ing, regardless of immediate conse
quences, to battle for true American
ism; the Americanism of Washington,
of Lincoln, of Roosevelt and of the mil
lions who have stood by and with
them in all that they did to the great
end that
“Government of the people,
“By the people, for the people,
“Shall not perish from the earth.”
LOOKING FOR A GOAT
Democratic politicians, their dupes
and tools, persist in the pretense that
the responsibility for the high cost of
living and failure to correct it, belongs
to congress. Certain political dema
gogues, some of them masquerading
in other occupations, have recently
been issuing public statements to the
effect that the adjournment of con
gress without bringing living costs
down is a confession of congressional
unwillingness to come to the relief of
the people.
The assumption put forward is that
some act of congress could remedy
the high cost of living evil. President
Wilson, when he asked congress to
stay in Washington last summer while
he left his post of duty to go about on
a stumping tour, suggested to con
gress that it ought to reduce the high
cost of living which had attained such
aggravated proportions since his elec
tion as president on a platform prom
ising relief from what was denounced
bv his party in 1912 as high living
cost. He didn’t of course tell just
how an act of congress could accom
plish this purpose.
All this demagogoism is of course
intended only to befool the American
people, and relieve from responsibility
for existing conditions the party and
the political leadership under whose
control they were created. The in
sincerity of the performance is so
manifest that it only serves to disgust
the American people with the poli
ticians who, having got the country
into such a mess, are now trying to
make capital out of the fact that the
wrecking crew cannot clear up the
debris and reconstruct the track, the
cars and the engines as quickly as
the incompetents who ran the train
into the ditch were able to destroy it.
The high cost of living, is, primar
ily the low value of the dollar. We
have a forty-cent dollar in this coun
try because the present national ad
ministration, in its vast war expen
ditures, proceeded to treat the dollar
just as if it were worth forty cents.
With cost plus contracts enriching
favored contractors, with money
thrown to the winds in a hundred
directions, with an overburdened fed
eral payroll and with every wild
scheme of extravagance in operation
that it was possible for a criminally
wasteful administration to originate,
the purchasing power of money was
deliberately forced down, while under
the operations of the federal reserve
act the currency was inflated to the
bursting point.
What wonder, and in such circum
stances, that there was a fabulous, a
fictitious rise in prices? If you can
buy a certain commodity with a. quart
of milk, and proceed to dilute the milk
with a sixty per cent mixture of wrater,
you cannot reasonably expect that the
combination will be more than twice
as valuable. This is exactly what the
administration has done with our
stock of money.
Under such a system of wraste and
inflation there has naturally and in
evitably resulted great hardship to
millions of people during the period of
readjustment. The door of opportun
ity has been opened to the speculator
and the profiteer; deliberately open
ed by the administration. It may not
be true that the administration has
purposely sought to create such con
ditions; but that it has created them
is as clear as the noonday sun. The
attempt to. shift the responsibility
upon the shoulders of congress is the
work of dishonest, designing dema
gogues, willing to “bunk” the people
if they can for partisan and personal
advantage they believe will come to
them through the unscrupulous perpe
tration of this fraud.
rm. • _•_ j . i • n n
ji iici c 10 gumg tu ue nu itJiitJL u um
the deep seated abuses congress is
insincerely attacked for not correcting
until the men primarily responsible
for their creation, and still in control
of the executive branch of the govern
ment, are ousted from power. That
job the people are getting ready to do
in November, and they will not be
turned from their purpose by the act
ivities of the Democratic camouflage
corps which is now seeking to make
congress the sacrificial goat to wash
away the sins of the party and politi
cians in power.
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By the streets of “By and By”
one arrives at the house of “never.”
Many a man throws his tongue int.Q
high gear before he -gets his brain
going.
If you keep going after worthwhile
things hard enough, they will begin
to meet you half way.
Some people are so constituted that
when the have nothing to worry about
they worry about nothing.
When both an officer of the law
and a bootlegger are forced to go to
the hospital for repairs should the
bout be declared a draw?
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin Roosevelt complains that
congress has “tied the hands of exe
cutive officers.” How long do you
suppose the federal pay roll would
be if the administration job holders
had more than their teeth and feet
to work with?
The Democratic party stands so
little show of being given another
lease of power in the United States
that it might prepare a soft place to
light by asking the League of Nations
to give it that Armenian mandate, of
course not, that we have it in for the
Armenians so strong.
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NEWSPAPERS HARD HIT
The high cost of producing a daily
newspaper is being felt in Alaska, as
elsewhere, and as a result some of
them are being “cut to suit the cloth.”
After increasing its subscription
price the Anchorage Times admits
that it will have to reduce its size
and raise its advertising rates. The
story is best told in its own words,
as follows:
“The shortage of newsprint is caus
ing a curtailment of newspapers in
the United States. The metropolitan
papers generally are materially cut
ting down advertisements and other
wise conserving on space. Practical
ly every newspaper in the United
States has raised both in advertise
ment and subscription rates. The high
cost and shortage of news print has
caused 2,000 newspapers to suspend
publication. Hundreds of newspapers
throughout the nation are offered for
sale
“Since the first issue of The Daily
Times in 1015 to the present time the
cost of news print has increased from
3 l-4c to 11 l-4c per pound in carload
lots; paper stock of all descriptions
and newspaper accessories have in
creased in proportion, not to mention
wages..
•“In consideration of the increased
cost of production The Times will
raise advertising rates“from 25 to 33
1-3 per cent, effective July 1. Also,
for sound business reasons, The
Times will change from the present
form to a seven-column, four-page
dhily. The change to a four-page
paper will not affect the news value
of The Times and we will continue to
give the same Associated Press and
local service, but in a more condensed
form.”
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The administration papers talk of
the Chicago ticket as having been
nominated by a “cabal.” A “cabal” is
any combination of voters not taking
its orders from the white house. To
differ with the Wilful One constitutes
“conspiracy.” Voting the Republican
ticket against His wishes will be
“treason.” This brand of journalism
is what comes of being more loyal to
a single politician than to the United
States government.
President Wilson cannot, understand
how it is that the Chicago platform
makers be guilty of the impudence
of failing to endorse his administra
tion.
E. T. Meredith, secretary of Agri
culture, has issued and widely circu
lated a statement in which he com
plains because of the reduction of
the appropriations asked for by the
department of agriculture. It seems
that Secretary Meredith still has
enough money left to spend in cir
cularizing the country at great length
for the purpose of attempting to dis
credit the action of congress in cut
ting down the swollen estimates sub
mitted by his department, in the inter
est mostly, not of the farmers, but
of the Washington salary-drawers.
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