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Show DESERET EVENING NEWS FRIDAY APRIL 23 . 1020 The Americanism of the Constitution By Warren G. Harding fundamental are unchangeable and everlasting, toil never was and never can be. Ease arid competence are not to be ached in frenzied envy; they are the reward of thrift and industry and denial There can be no excellence without great labor. There is no reward except aa it is merited. Lowered cost of living and increased cost of production are an economic fraud. Capital makes possible while labor produces, and neither ever achieved without the other, "and both of them together never wrought a success without genius and management No one of them, through the power of great wealth, the force of knowledge, or the might of great numbers, is above the law, and no onp of them shall dominate a free people. CERTAIN ' There can be no liberty without security, and there can be no security without the supremacy of law and the majesty of just government. In the gleaming Americanism of the Constitution there is neither fear nor favor, but there are equal rights to all, equal opportunities beckoning to every man, and justice untram- meled. The government which surrenders to the conspiracies of an influential few, or yields to the intimidation of the organized many, does justice to neither and none, and dims the torch of Americanism which must light our way to safety. Government policies change, and laws are altered to meet the changed conditions which attend all human progress.. There are orderly processes for these necessary changes. Let no one proclaim the Constitution unresponsive to the conscience of the Republic. We have recently witnessed its amendment w ith less than .eighteen months intervening between submission and ratification, with some manifestation of sorrow marking the fundamental change. It promptly responds to American conviction, and is the rock on which is builded the temple of orderly liberty and the guaranteed freedom of the American Republic. 1 The insistent problem of the day, magnified in the madness of war and revealed in the extreme reaction from hateful and delike stroyed autocracy to misapplied and Bolshevist democracy, the pathos of impotent Russia, is the preservation of civil liberty and all its guaranties. Let Russia experiment in her fatuous And folly until the world is warned anew- by her colossal tragedy. let every clamorous advocate of the red regime go to Russia and America I . revel in its crimson reign. This is law'-abidi- ng Our American course is straight ahead, with' liberty under the law, and freedom glorified in righteous restraint. Reason illumines our ownward path, and deliberate, dntelligent public opinion reveals every pitfall and byvray which, must be avoided. America spurns every commmittal to the limits of mediocman to climb to the heights and rewards him rity, and bids every as he merits it. ' This is the essence of liberty and made us what we are. Our system may be imperfect, but under it we have wrought to world astonishment, and we are only fairly begun. ,r nS i v-- N I - "T r |