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“GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.”—(ABRA HAM LINCOLN.) (Editor’s Note—It is in the spirit of true Americanism that this article to appear later, are presented to our readers. They are sent forth to help and a number of others similar to it, stay the dangerous trend toward the undermining or total destruction of the government of the United States, now in evidence because of radicalism and the strange apathy of loyal ci tizens. No special or individual issue is to be advocated, supported or promulgated. Only fundamentals of government and the departures therefrom will be considered. Our Eternal Enemies Our external enemies are mere hazards. Our enemies within—or the internal enemies to American insti tutions—are real dangers. We can usually settle even hazardous con troversies coming from without, by statesmanship, but we have no such advocate at the bar of National safe ty. Indeed, the only bulwark for our protection from the enemies within vies in an enlightened and vigilant public conscience, which will nomi nate, elect, and back up brave public officers in the employmnt of internal protective measures. Unfortunately, it is too often true, that our public officers reflect only the listless, apa letic, indifferent, or ignorant cen are of that part of the public seared by them. One who does not Jose, is the exception, and is really a martyr to good government. One enemy from within that must be subdued is the radical His ten dencies are to tear down the estab lished order of things by destructive, instead of constructive methods. The J. W. Wes and kindred classes are ilustrations of this group. They are howling minority. They are now wor us. Their methods of wt is 0us and hidden. They kinds a cowardly enemy is he most dangerous kind. The pro cetion we have against this class is an enlightened public conscience in relation to the affairs of govern ment and brave public officials who, supported by such a conscience, will take note of the radical and all of his activities and subdue or exter minate both. All these radicals are doing is to bring to our land of the free, the present day, destructive doctrines of unrest of Middle Eur ope and Russia. Our protection is to be awake to the activities of these vicious enemies from within, and then proceed to eliminate them with a firm and determined hand. These men are intoxicated with a lust for power; their weapons are murder, anarchy, and robbery. Discontented with the results obtained, they are endeavoring to sow the seeds of dis contentment broadcast. An enlight ened public conscience, brought into effectual play, will sober them up or ran them out, and nothing else will do it. Another dangerous enemy within, is the American citizen who is too proud to be a S. W. W. or some other form of radical, but who parades in an atmosphere of tentative respecta bility and stays merely within the law. Yet, with it all, he guides the public through political machina tions and commonplace trickery, by underhand methods so vicious and cunning that they often appear to bear the stamp of virtue. Nothing short of vigilant and courageous pub ic action can detect and run this enemy from our midst. A most substle class of enemies from within, are the men who would split up the administration of gov ernmental powers, and delegate them, to Bureaus and Commissions to be administered by them for purposes that are wholly private in nature, yet wear the cloak of seeming public nec essity, both as to use and adminis tration. Notable instances of this sort of enemy activity are many of those purporting to be for the safe guarding of public welfare, etc. Such institutions furnish a lot of dictator ial political representatives of some well organized private enterprises, or organized minorities that would feist their own policies, practices and wares upon an unsuspecting public under the guise of being sponsors of the public welfare and protection. The results of the oppression and restric tion of such bureaus are made mani fest in the large and ever increasing number of paternalistic statutes and regulations that are breaking down individual liberties and undermining the stalwart iniiative of our citizens, which has brought the United States through years of struggle to its com manding position in the world today. We must have an enlightened pubic conscience to wipe out the danger ity getive tendemer toward hureau peeshaan This is the only wth government can be kept out , selfish hands and minority control. Still other enemies within are ig norant innocence, and acquiescent apathy. In the latter class are those who know of conditions, but are in different; while the former class is made up of those who do not know. It used to be said that “what we don’t know” is the thing that is like ly to hurt us most. However, to know that an evil exists and that it has a remedy, but to acquiesce in its indifferent reward it, is really worse than to be ignorant of it, because the responsibility to the public welfare is greater. Many of the radical class are densely ignorant, else they would change their company. The sleek, stay-merely-within-the-law class, on the bureaucratic class, could not exist or dare to show their hydra heads were it not for the ignorantly in nocent, acquiescent and apathetic classes. If the latter classes could be awakened to the fact that they are mere pawn upon which other classes thrive, a new regime woul suddenly dawn upon the American consciousness. The salvation of the American sys tem of government and American in stitutions rests in the enlightened thought of the American people. The Galilaean Prophet said two thousand years ago: “We shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” When our people know the truth about their government and insidious enemies within, who are gnawing at its vitals, such an enlightened public conscience will have been created as to drive out all such enemies and thereby save American institutions for true Americans.
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Wabash Plain Dealer
Wabash, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 27, 1922
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