Show I i I The Danger EN of foresight aro are turning turpin their r attention to the fife fifee f e r new now order ot oi thought which threatens tho tine security r I and ana prosperity of ot tho tiro United Unite States The Tho tendency I to centralized control while it is not generally recognised t w niT niT-cd as ns a concerted mo is none the less a move move- t I I I I Hem A. A Wise Wis Wood WOOl is isone is isone ment meat toward state soda socialism Henry one of man many nn national tonal tonal onal 1 lenders leaders to sense t the he impending danger In a a. recent address he lie sounded a n g interested in in III inthe which has an nn appeal for every cry individual A America of the tho principles oC or the Ithe preservation on great ho he ho said sma aid i Comma Commenting im g on the present tendency chal- chal chal challenge There are nrc those who now c come coma mo forward to lenge e our distrust of autocratic control in in peaceable peace peace- peaceable able able limes times They offer us a n new theory of democracy democracy with which men lC to p pass 3 tho luo racy i in ill l accordance arc machinery by hy which the they subsist out of their own 11 and into tho the l hands ands of oE han hands 19 ns as individuals centralized authority Several cral of or tho the rights of ot the individual including that of possession which men won from from froll the fo sovereign anointed of ancient boin being asked to return to times limes free o men arc firc now the sovereign appointed of or modern times limes Is there thero then so much difference between emperor nn and president that the one should ho bo feared fearell and nna the theother theother other trusted 1 Both arc men vain vain un and ravenous alike aliko to l bo suspected for power and as such are o and aud watched The moro more extensive o their powers powel tho the more reason for dread dreadA A strange excursion indeed has democracy made mado if men having ing pined gamed their liberties every everyone everyone one at the cost of their blood they ther no now supinely consent to surrender these liberties into any man roMS mans a hands however ho specious tho the pi plea pica en upon which their surrender rl be bo sought Aro Arc then tho the days clays of f King John at and mId tho the days of Lenino to bound bonn l the tho gigantic experiment of or tho the freeman freemans fi enjoyment of or his hig rights rig Public ownership I The railways and express companies the tho telegraphs telephones cables and wireless mines lines and oil wells and water powers tho the ba basic ic industries thence to the common machinery machin machin- cry ery of life Public ownership p 1 I In Russia it ex ex- extends tends to wives wives and and children What let Jet us aek nek is the great boon in exchange for which tho the hard won ri right of p pa possession session is to be bo surrendered for all aU time lime by llY tho the individual Is it a n moro more precious right that comes to him lam in return A fresh hold upon liberty A new moral conquest i It is none of oft t these these j it is merely tho the fancied advantage of being able able- to buy tho the goods and services ho lie consumes consumes at ata a n lower price Ho IIo i is to sell for cash cosh this right that c cost t him his blood lood 1 But the tiro right of possession is ig not the tho only right that the tho individual loses when ho yields W to tho the sirens of socialism Ho surrenders still another right but what is of vaster importance ho lie shakes shake when hen henI the foundations of oC representative government go h he ht consents to tho the erection of the tho enormous bu bureaucracy which is part of the tho plan of public ownership ownership own own- when ho countenances an nn organized force orco entrenched in the seats of government to whoso whose in interests interests in in- it is to maintain 11 in power the sovereign so head hend of f tho the reigning political house Could ono conceive conceive con con- e cei a n more moro effective means for perpetuating political political po po- po power than w would soon become o a n burc bureaucracy racy sufficient in sizo size to operate no more mora than tho those e public utilities which aro arc now jiow temporarily I in in the hands of the the- government Co I Tho The words of Mr Wood are aro worthy of ot tho the serious consideration of tho the American people State tato social ocial socialism I ism ism drives at the very foundation of their liberty and whether jt ji comes in in the tho guise of public publio ownership or Bolshevism makes little difference Thu Tho American people have ha delegated much authority in tho the interest os ol of war ar Their future protection lies in regaining thit authority for the tine perpetuation of personal libOTt liberty f tn l pa Perhaps when the pence penco conference gets through there will kill be nothing for tho tine r rest st of tho the world to do I Its P. P P-a P a Pa Jn n Go ern Government ent mints pro produced cent cent 1 pieces I in Ill 1918 1018 1018 Now 1 someone will ask what you ou can buy uy with pennies I Its It's ab about ut time for some uplift society to start a movement to put the life of the kaiser kniser in the same class i as the dime novel noel Pa a pa u Pa Mr r. r McAdoo's i idea of playing n safe with the tho railroads railroads rail rail- roads seems to be one of both boLh cu ends s against the middle tn ten II Several 1 Men cn SI Slated For Fot J. J Place head head- line And to think it is only one of his places head I |