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Show THE CITIZEN 4 self as always the imposing leader, as one supported not only by the applause of his own people, but by those voices in the air which he proclaimed to be the voices of humanity. And, indeed, humanity was ready to honor the United States by honoring him and accepting his dictation. Great Britain, as did all the other nations, assumed to bow to his decrees. He was like one of the elder gods come down from Olympus ' to preside at the peace table of Versailles. But that peace table was his ruin. From the hour that he took his place there he became the victim of his own conceit. His way was to be the only way. His solutions were to be the only solutions of the world's problems. But soon the statesmen discovered his weakness and they beguiled and deluded him to the top of his bent. While he was battling with the Senate across the Atlantic and calling his senatorial critics pigmy minds, and committing other indiscretions, his rivals at Versailles, while seeming to comply with his wishes regarding a league covenant, took everything and gave him nothing. After weeks and months of pitiless exposure of his ineptitude and failure, he finds himself deserted by his last friend Great Britain. To the British empire he had attempted to surrender American sovereignty. His covenant guaranteed the money and war power of the United States for the use and behoof of the British empire, for its safety and preservation. And now Great Britain abandons him banishes him to his own St. Helena as ruthlessly as it banished Napoleon a century ago. LANDIS HITS HARD simulated, is no doubt the political duty INDIGNATION, correctly Dakota congressmen who denounce Judge Kene-sa- w Mountain Landis for declaring that the I. W. W., the Socialists and the Nonpartisan leaguers are in the same boat. If the two congressmen will not arise to defend their constituents who will? It may have been improper for a federal judge to express what he believes to be the truth in such forcible language, but, speaking for ourselves, we cannot see why it should be. A federal judge has convictions and usually they are founded on evidence more definite than the evidence most of us have the opportunity to study. No one, we believe, will question the fact that Judge Landis, as the trial judge in the case of the I. W. W. and other terrorists, had ample opportunity to inform himself fully concerning not only the I. W. W. but their associates as well. If the judge proclaims an affinity between the Socialists, I. W. W. and Nonpartisan league members, one for another, it is because he has thoroughly familiarized himself with the practice and preaching of all of them. Perhaps, in the interest of exact justice, the judge should have drawn fine distinctions between the. theory of socialism and the cus- tomary teachings of those who preach its propaganda. In theory, socialism is not necessarily a movement to overthrow the. government by violence. It is a system which, if established, would subvert our present republican form of government, but a Socialist is at liberty to believe that the revolution can be accomplished gradually through the ballot. In fact many so believe and have nothing in common with brand. the communists of the Lenine-Trotzk- y Judge Landis, we assume, was not speaking of theory but of conditions. He had seen the sinister connection between these groups of agitators traced unerringly and pitilessly in his own court. Indubitably there must have been, in the course of the trial, some very definite references to the connection between the I. W. W. and the Nonpartisan leaguers in North Dakota, a connection which has become a matter of common knowledge. Not only was there a practical connection between them, but also a theoretical affinity. During the war the Nonpartisans were tainted with disloyalty. They shared the sentiments and ideas of their sneering, cynical and pestiferous leader, Townley, who has been convicted of sedition by due process of law and sentenced to prison. Not all of them, it is true, sympathized with him,- but so many were tainted by the same disloyal spirit, or were the victims of an unconsciously disloyal outlook and attitude toward conscription and the war generally, that they are not defamed when they are put in the same class with the I. W. W and the violent-minde- d - Socialists who did what they could to wreck our war machinery. And surely the defenders of the Nonpartisan League will not contend that the scheme of the party is not largely socialistic. Nor can they contend that the working out of the socialistic scheme has been so pure as to be above reproach. The nauseous bank scandal, in whichj hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to the state were lost through methods common to crooks, is still a stench in the nostrils of the country. Of late some attempt has been made by the new party leaders to deodorize themselves and their party. The conviction of Townely, the' bank scandal, the dealings with the I. W. W. during the war and the partys lukewarmness toward, if not open hostility to the war, have brought the movement into such disrepute that some reform was necessary to save the party profiteers from political disaster. The two congressmen who criticise Judge Landis are the beneficiaries of a movement which, to say the least, adopts a sneering and denunciatory manner toward our government. And when they set all of the time out to challenge a judge who has been they are simply calling attention to the defects of the party they represent and are bringing not a little odium on themselves. all-Ameri- can LINCOLNS EXAMPLE struggle of Abraham Lincoln up from poverty and ignorance THE the leadership of a people has many lessons in it for the workingmen of our day. It never occurred to Lincoln, in his youth, that he should be given high pay for a few hours of work a day. His idea of the workers life and all his life he was a worker was that the toiler should make progress from youth to age, should have equal opportunity with other workers for material success, and should succeed only in pro" portion to his increasing merits. How vastly this differs from the socialistic standards of .radical workers today is manifest. Workers, good or bad, young or old, are to receive virtually equal compensation. Youth is no. longer to begin at the bottom and work to the top. The lad of nineteen, just starting to work, believes that he should obtain just as much by way of compensation as do his elders. Life, for him, is not to be a struggle toward achievement. There is to be no hard. work of hand or brain, no discipline, no combat with experience, but by means of strikes or violence or both, the young and the old, the unskilled and the skilled are to share alike. It is a scheme of life that will not succeed. No plan of life, either for the individual or the nation, can succeed that does not present to mankind the necessity for discipline and development. .The Indian whose ideal of life was to loaf and let his squaw toil for him never produced anything approximating civilization. He was always a savage. His plan of life debarred him from progress. Abraham Lincolns life is a valuable example not simply because movement and because, as he was the chief leader of the President, he became the Great Emancipator, but also, and perhaps mainly, because he came from a low and attained the highest estate by struggle, by discipline and by character. Only by suffering an; sacrifice can any man serve mankind greatly. First there must be the discipline of character that makes for preparedness. When the opportunity comes only the man of character is ready to contribute anything worth while to the service of his fellow men. When Lincoln came of age he was ill fitted for achievement. Five or six years later he was chosen a member of the Illinois legislature was admitted to the bar. Evidently in and, at the age of twenty-sithat brief period he had developed from a mere yokel into a leader of men, but his progress was due to the struggle that had gone before, to the iron that had been infused into his character by his agonizing combat with circumstances. At the age of nineteen he had made a journey as a hired hand on he assisted in a flat boat to New Orleans. At the age of twenty-on- e building a flat boat and in floating it down the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Up to that time he had been a and a river boatman. Afterwards he was a clerk in a country store. So far he had accomplished nothing, but he had been pre- . anti-slave- ry x, rail-splitt- er |