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Show THE CITIZEN 7 TWO TYRANNIES most used and LIBERTY Is the word of our day. It Is a , magical word. Even those who have no clear idea of its meaning dream of it as something every man should desire, for no man wishes to be a slave. And indeed to be a freeman is to be the noblest work of the Divine Creator. And yet how few there are that are really free in the Scriptural sense, Delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. Much that goes by the name of liberty is mere license and libertinism. No man boasts more of liberty than he who is the slave of passion. None talk more volubly of freedom than the blind led by the blind. No step is taken to enforce law and order, to protect the public, to safeguard institutions, to save government from destruction but that those who feel the restraint cry out that they are being enslaved. There can be no liberty without law. Destroy the law and you have simply the rule of the strong. If you destroy the laws that keep the stars in their orbits, the rivers and the oceans within their limits, and the grains and fruits of the earth growing in their season you produce only death and chaos. Necessarily we are free only within the law within the law of our being and the law of nature. absurd it would be were one violates the laws of health and thereby becomes the victim of disease to boast that he is in perfect health. We know that there are certain laws that must be observed to keep us free from disease and we learn to observe those rules. We insist on a water supply that is free HOW from germs. We provide sewers to carry away corruption. We clean our streets and we bow to the laws of hygiene. And if we succeed in maintaining good health we feel that we are freer than the man or woman who has become the bondslave of disease. We believe in liberty within the law because there is no liberty without the law. The body politic must observe the laws of political health. If it lives within the law of justice there will be liberty. If it violates justice it becomes sick and all kinds of errors creep into the state. Man-mad-e law is notoriously fallible and that is why there is so much dispute about liberty. When the capitalist is restrained by law he immediately begins to prate about liberty. When the law is invoked to repress the laborer he immediately cries out that he is being enslaved. We have just had an exhibition of this form of pleading. strong with power and establish a despotism of the proletariat, certain organized workers immediately invoked the sacred name of liberty when the government, for its own safety and for the of its citizens, security and GROWN well-bein- g began the rigid enforcement of certain laws passed during the war. The government itself was in peril. The whole body of the law was menaced. Failure to enforce the law meant destruction of government and the enthronement of a dominant class. On the one side was the law of the land, on the other the will of the law. Those who plotted the destruction of the government, those who sought to set up the rule of a class for the rule of the people began to use the glorious language of liberty to sway the hearts of their followers. No political or economic movement is so accursed in these days that its champions do not plead for it in the name of liberty. By F. P. Gallaghet archy. Now we see whole nations di vided by the class struggle. In Russia the despotism of the czar and the grand dukes has been replaced by the despotism of a class at the other ex-treme of the social scale. One wore the mailed fist in a glove; the other holds aloft its bared and brawny hand dripping with blood. The two despotism face each other and challenge each other to combat for possession of the world. Democ- racy looks on in fear and trembling, knowing that if either power wins free is doomed. 0 despotism does not even claim to be benevolent. It holds out bright hopes for the remote future, e It pictures on a canvass wondrous visions of what the world will be when the proletariat owns all the means of production and can hold mankind in awe. For the present it preaches only violence. By violence the old institutions must be swept away. The sword, the cannon, the bomb and even the gallows are to be the heralds of the new elysium. We must pass through hell into this ised paradise and we do not even know whether the paradise exists. Atter all the blood and suffering, after humanity has passed through unspeak- able miseries it may arrive at nothing, In fact, there are those of us who are sure that after the battle will come HE other np 1 "ten-leagu- prom-governme- - EACH of these fac- - world-shakin- g talks glibly the language of liberty. The imperialist assures us that certain races are not fitted to gov- are seeking TWO despotisms ern themselves and must continue to of mankind today imperialIm- the deluge, ism and Bolshevism. One strives for be the white mans burden. the control of subject races, the other perialistic governments, at this very strives for class control of all other minute, are trying to form a League YT 7E had hoped that our own coun-o- f Nations which shall divide the classes. One would make a nation try would be free from both among a few white races and tisms. We who had freed the people powerful over other nations and peoples. The other would make a single one yellow race. They have framed Qf Cuba from the tyranny of Spain, class the proletariat powerful over a covenant which, in its present form, we who had pledged liberty to the all other classes. One exaggerates permit these strong races to pinos, we who believed that we had the right of a nation to extend its dominate all the other white, yellow, established on indestructible founda-browand black races indefinitely, tions a government of the people, by rule beyond its borders. The other would do away with nations and give When one strong race is threatened in the people and for the people, are those who work with their hands the its possessions all the other races are assailed today by the threats and pleas power to control the destinies of all bound to rush to its rescue with 0f both despotisms. The despots of armies and navies as big or bigger imperialism invite us to help them classes. The two are alike in many things. than have ever existed. The cham- plunder the world, and they do not pions of this despotism endeavor with even promise that we shall share in They have existed almost from the beginning of human history. Both begolden words to portray it as a benev- - the plunder. The despots of class lieve in the rule of the strong. The olcnt despotism, but those who believe hate have demonstrated that they can strong nations make war and domi- in free government suspect the mo- - take control of organized labor and nate other nations. They set up a tives and the plans of the proponents make it fight their battles for them ruling class among the nations. The proletariat now seeks to set up a rul- of the league and fear that we shall It would be unfair to say that organ-seestablished all over the world the ized labor has surrendered to this ing class all over the world. Both are opposed to the right of the rule of the strong. (Continued on Page 18.) people to rule themselves. In the Rojiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii man empire a Roman citizen was a m 5 privileged being. He was set above the men of the subject races. He en- I joyed rights and immunities denied to 1 the conquered races. He was the I member of a ruling race. He belonged to a ruling class. Bolshevism in our day is simply a Insurance Of All Kinds i - - - W despo-worl- d Fili-woul- d n . e Thomas Insurance & Investment Company special form of despotism. It, too, means class rule. For the aristocracy of birth or wealth it would substitute the aristocracy of sheer class might We see these two despotism struggling for the control of the world. When the curtain fell upon the great tragedy of the world war it rose again on a struggle of even more titanic proportions. The new drama has not even completed the first act. The stage has been set and the chief characters have merely suggested the plot. From what they have said and done we can see that the struggle will be one of the most in the tide of time. soul-stirrin- g struggle EVEN before the war the in progress, but none of us - could see the lines of battle clearly. We were fairly familiar with imperial- ism and its armies and navies which divided the world into hostile camps, but we understood but dimly the power of radicalism, socialism and an I 5 5 Telephone Wasatch 3164 Boyd Park Bldg., Salt Lake City m ?llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'MIIIIIIIIIIIII'lllllllllllilllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll' Kauainiiiiiiiiniiinnminiiiiiiiimminiinnnmiimmiiiiiiiiiiiniiimiiimniimuig OUR ROTISSERIE 6:30 to 9 i Will operate dally from chicken i p. m., get a nice roast dinner.- for your family LADIES! I - Get the habit of lunching and dining at ROTISSERIE INN Where tempting dishes can always be had. 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