Show The American Spirit To a great many citizens Americanism Americanism Americanism Am Am- is just a word They pay it lip service service but but they have havea a very poor knowledge of its actual actual actual ac ac- meaning Real Americanism is a spirit I It is that spirit which inspired the founders of or the country country country-a a spirit of unselfishness self sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice fice Iron-clad Iron character It gave us liberty of ot church of ot press of or political belief It freed us from intolerable monarchic domination and established a nation where the government was to exist for the individual indi not the individual for forthe forthe forthe the government Today the American spirit stands for these things precisely as It did in the past They are areas areas areas as important today as ever and perhaps more important The public is beleaguered from many sides by those who would effect sudden and irrevocable change inthe in inthe inthe the very foundation stones of our government The advocates of fascism communism dictatorship and other theories are always active act act- ive and ive-and and there is danger that they may seem persuasive to a people struggling with great yet temporary ary problems The public cannot be too strongly strong strong- ly warned against seeking temporary ary benefits at the expense of permanent principles Even the worst of depressions pass pass and and we will be a sad nation indeed if after niter this one passes we find that we have lost those constitutional guarantees of corporate and individual Individual individual Indi indi- vidual f freedom that have m made ade us great Industrial News Review |