The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 14

N \\\\\\\ R N\ 1) 7%, %////"f Y 17 gy g 1 AR W IR AN T ”%,,g :?45%4 . v 5 WY G 5 4D 555 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ALSO Los Angeles, Cal. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: . Am writing & few lines to let you know that we have been traveling .most of the time for about a month, therefore I have been unable to get my- Leader. I have missed it very much. Now, however, I am having it remailed from Jessie, N. D. Owing to failing health, I decided I must get out of North Dakota for the winter; so I sold out, rented my farm and started south in my Ford. -We got snowed in, left the Ford and changed our course and came west. Have had a very pleasant trip and am now in Los Angeles, Cal., where we expect to remain for some time. I have been here in Los Angeles long enough to see that the same po- litical sentiments exist here as in North Dakota—even in the city to a considerablé extent. Today I heard a ‘very prominent man talk in Temple Baptist church, one of the largest churches in the ¢ity, and attended to- day by perhaps 500 people. This man expressed the opinion that the Ameri- can people will make democracy a reality in "America, and that this must be brought about not only by political education but by religious education as well. In this I heartily agree with him, It seems to me that if we are to have real democracy in America, it must be brought about through re- ligious as well as political education. It must be brought about by such edu- cation as will bring the American peo- ple to a realization of their duty to God and create a desire among them for right, honesty and truth. Those are all necessary qualifications for the creation of a brotherhood among men so that men may work more harmoni- .ously together for the betterment of our people and nation, casting aside selfishness and greed, the destroyers of all nations. JAMES A. McCULLOUGH. TO KANSAS LEAGUERS J. L. Coates of Kiowa county, Kan., has some points which he wishes to put before his fellow League members of his state; so he has sent the Leader the following letter for publication: Greensburg, Kan. Fellow Farmers of Kansas: There is no doubt but that you wish to see the Nonpartisan league pro- gram enacted into law in Kansas. Otherwise you would not have signed up and paid your $16. You also wish to see the Kansas farmers co- eperating politically with the farmers of other states through the Nonpartisan league for the-good of the na- tion. We,- every one, want to see this ' farmers’ political movement succeed in this state because it is the surest way as well as the quickest way of getting any results at all. And I be- lieve it is about the only way too. Kansas has a great record for being- first to launch out in progressive -ideas, but in this great idea we have fallen a step be- “hind. But let us make it only a step. Let us be a close second. Better returns ' in money is. not: the only reason whyswe. farmers need to have the state program enacted into law. We believe it will - inevitably incurs. mean better social and general condi- tions for the farmers as a whole and this state and nation will be a better place for us and our posterity to live in. The management, office force and organizers in the field are working manfully to build the League so strong that Big Biz will be buried un- der an avalanche of votes in 1920. If - we could add another hundred organ- izers to the force we would be doubly sure of the result. Let -us, every one, be always on the lookout for good or- ganizers. There are hundreds of men in this state in sympathy with and un- derstanding the farmers’ problems who have ability to express their ideas in language easily understood and to whom it would be a joy to work for us. Let’s single them out. Talk to them about the League, Tell them of the great principles for which we stand. Ask them to work for us. Send their names and addresses to Box 453, Topeka, Kan., so that the League of- fice can send them some literature, do some corresponding with them, and thus get them into the service. Yours for victory in 1920. - J. L. COATES. MACAULAY ON REVOLUTIONS St. Paul, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : Macaulay made at least one gener- alization regarding revolutions which seems to me to be particularly appli- cable at this time. He was speaking of the English revolution and he wrote in 1848, a year memorable for revolu- tionary feeling all over Europe. He said (Chapter XI, “History of Eng- land from the Accession of James IL.”): — The most just and salutary revolution must produce much suffering. The most just and salutary revolution can not produce all the good that had been expected from it by men of uninstructed minds and sanguine tempers. Even the wisest can not, while it is still re- cent, weigh quite fairly the evils which it has caused against the evils which it has removed. For the evils which it has caused are felt; l-ud the evils which it has removed are felt no onger. 3 And again, later on in the same chapter, he tells us about the com- plaints which the new regime in Eng- land stirred up, and of these com- plaints he says: This is the kind of tepr?aeh which a govern- . ul ment sprung from a pop m such. a government men naturally think themselves entitled to de- mand a more gentle and liberal administration than is expected from old and deeply rooted power. Yet such a government, having, as it always has, many active enemies, and not having the strength derived from legitimacy and prescription, can at first maintain itself only by a vigilance and a severity of which old and deeply rooted power stands in no need. Extraordinary and irregular vindications of ar revolution almost A Bilgian mare and colt owned by Lefebure Farms at Fairfax, Iowa.g At the Panama-Pacific exposition this mare was awarded the grand championship for Belgian mares and her colt - has taken numerous prizes at western state fairs. - PAGE FIFTEEN public liberty are sometime necessary; yet, however necessary, they are almost always followed by some temporary abridgments of that very liberty; and every such abridgment is a fertile and plausible theme for sarcasm and invective. . Macaulay, while a Whig and an ene- my of royal prerogative, was punec- tilious in matters of ancient form, prec- edent and authority. He conceded the right of revolution, but only as a last and desperate resort, and to him the most admirable feature of the English revolution was- the fact that, while it interrupted the succession and banished a tyrant, it did so while out- wardly observing all the forms of the con- stitution and the ceremonies of long- established and respectable gov- ernmental procedure. If I re- member rightly, Macaulay in another work condemned the American Constitution as giving too much opportunity for sud- den, radical changes in govern- mental personnel and policy, and provided a system which afford- ed too much chance for control by fac- tions with immedi- ate grievances and the arts of dema- gogues, Yet Macaulay per- ceived the fallacy of too hasty condemna- tion of popular revo- lutions by contem- porary opinion and pleaded for a fair weighing of the suf- fering a revolution necessarily entails against the evils which it has ban- ished. It may be too much to ex- pect editors and publicists of our own day, uneducated in history and pat- ronized largely by men and interests who wish to protect special privileges, to profit by Macaulay’s generaliza- tions, er to seek an interpretation of the present revolutions by a study of those old ones of France and England. One need not be an enthusiast for any revolutionary faction in Europe today, nor yet need he be as stupid as the critics of 1688 whom Macaulay con- demned. HOWARD SCOTT. WANTS MONEY REFORM Grover, Col. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Will the people of the United States allow themselves to be caught in another tight financial squeeze? - All the po- tential possibilities are present. The war has showered billions . of bonds in the pockets of the little fellows.” One of those horrid old money panics would send them fluttering into the hands of our conspicuously patriotic profiteers. While it would be tough on we little fel- lows, -it -would be a - . glorious day for the ultimate bondholder, because it would facili- tate him in the gather- ing of the bonds and further serve to en- hance the value of the bonds by reducing the money value of labor and products. Decrease the money value of labor 50 per cent and all the products of labor will de- crease 50 per cent, hence the interest and bond value will increase 50 per cent in purchasing power. So the dis- tress of the masses may exalt to high- er pinnacles of wealth the few thrifty patriots. Under the federal reserve act could such a catastrophe be brought about? This all depends on administration; under President Wilson such a thing could hardly be expected, but under an administration amenable to the financial autocrats Belgian draft horse, Mon Gros, owned by Lefebure Farms, Fairfax, Iowa. with white on face and hind feet. He was imported from Belgium August 1, 1911, and comes from the best blood of the breed. Belgian department of agricuiture is trying to secure to regenerate the breeding of Belgian draft horses on ‘their own land. He is a dark sorrel in color, This is the type of horse that the Mon Gros weighs 2,360 pounds. the thing would be entirely feasible and indeed quite a possible thing. Of course the military machine should be readily at the disposal of the super- citizen to police the masses while they are induced to stand and deliver. If we had a true and honest stand- ard of value, one that was fixed in- stead of the ever fluctuating gold standard, with a fixed law of impartial issue of money direct to the producer and owner of wealth, there could be no easy or secret understanding to inflate or contract the money volume or its value. With a ‘true and fixed standard of value and no special favor in the matter of issue, a dollar would remain fixed in value whether there were but one dollar in circulation or - billions. : What would you think of a yard- stick that would change in length ac- cording to the number of yardsticks in . use? You would conclude that some- thing was wrong with the stick. Now let me whisper in your ear that there is something treacherously wrong with our present value measure— money. First, the adopted unit of value measure is 25.8 grains of gold. This monopolized product is a travesty on the meaning “fixed unit .of value.” A fixed exertion of labor should be adopted as a unit of value measure. All labor products should be meas- ured by labor or exertion and their values determined under free compe- tition. Then money should be furnish- ed direct by the United States govern- ment without special favor to profit- interested agencies, like the present so-called mnational banks, between the producer and the government. CHARLES T. PHILP. The statesmen are just discovering that starvation produces bolshevism; they used to report that holshevism produced starvation.