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Show THE CITIZEN r 9 mr"H1llllimifl"HIIj CASINO AMONG THE NEW BOOKS ; LIBERALISM IN AMERICA. old Stearns. New York: Y Hew Bill Sunday By HarBoni & LiverighL PEGGY DYLAN) if not always or even often, convincing, is this work. It is destructive criticism which enables us to see ourselves as a people in a new light. If we accept the authors dictum we shall believe that we have little reason to pride ourselves that we are liberals. We shall come to think that we are one of the most intoler, standardized peoant, straight-lacedple on the globe. It is a strange view, is it not, of a country that has been called The Melting Pot, a country to which men come with all kinds of ideas? One who did not stop to analyze the dominance of ideas imposed ont he mass by the few would be inclined to think that this was the land of diversified thinking and acting, but Harold Stearns takes a hammer with the eager grip of an iconoclast and smashes our idols. We seem to have acquired the notion, he thinks, that force and force only is the remedy for all ills. Tyrannous opinion, compulsion through law or actual force are the weapons the ruling caste of citizens employ to standardize our thoughts and actions. No war in history, says the writer, has witnessed a more deplorable degradation of public. life and public men than this, nor a quicker growth of conviction, among many, that orderly processes of reform are no longer adeThought-compellin- g In a comedy romance FAITH and six snappy acts of VAUDEVILLE petty-minde- - 8torage We Never Close Murphy Does It Better WHAT? AUTO REPAIRING WELDING RADIATOR WORK ACCE880RIE8 MILLER TIRE8 When others fall down on your job bring it to us. Joseph Morphy 761-63-- Incorporated So. 8tate quate. 65 When Buying or Selling Stocks Phone 1373 or See Exaggeration? Look at the world as it is today. In Hungary and Russia men have been shot for refusing to fight in a conscript Red army. In America today men have been sent to prison for ten and twenty years for expressing sharp dissent at our present social and political order and if many of our patriotic organizations had had their way, these men would have been hanged. In Soviet countries it is a serious crime for a man to drink a glass of wine; in America it will also shortly become a serious crime to do the same thing. In Soviet countries there is In fact no freedom of the press and no pretense that there is. In America today there is in fact no freedom of the press and we only make the matter worse by pretending that there is. . H. B. COLE & CO., BROKERS so-call- Hm. 1, Stock Eich.nl. Bldt- - Sclt Lokc IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII A Business Opportunity s n, E E S is before you if you are prepared 5 for it. 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We have become standardized and this has brought with it a certain fatal docility from which there must be reaction: E E is related of Lord Northcliffe that when he was visiting this country an American friend asked him if he believed there would ever be a revolution here. 5 E The National Bank of the Republic E d, It H. W. Lane SEBKEE & LANE Home of 7 In 1 Show iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiMiuiyiMMimiiiHiimiiuiiiimnmiumiiuiiiiHmjmMiiiiiMiimtiiiipmm;;;; J. R. 8ebree nnimmiiipiiiuinimiiinuiuiiniiiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiuiiiiiiiii3 At the time they were in a downtown office building of New York during the lunch hour. Lord Northcliffe led his friend to the window and asked him to Do you see look at the crowd below. all those people? he said. Every one is wearing exactly the same hat Every one looks the same.- Every one Is the same. There will be no revolution. Mining and Industrial 8tocka and Bonds ' Liberty Bonds Bought Wasatch 4010 - 335 Main 8t., Salt Lake City It is a standardization that has been carried into every department of life. We dress alike, act alike, think alike. We read the same machine-madopinions and laugh at the same EDWIN G & FRED R. WOOLLEY Salt Lake Stock and' Mining Exchange Telephone Was. 2885 Mining, Bank and Industrial Stocks and Bonds Liberty Bonds Bought and Sold Member e jokes. The American mind is fed by syndicates, and a popular writer contributes to a dozen great newspapers. Even the fashions of our furniture and our decorations go in cycles and sweep compulsorily from Atlantic to Pacific. How easy to destroy liberalism where only one note need be touched. Autocracy finds its most fertile field in matters of reform. We are always ready for coercive campaigns: at Market Prices seem that they had considerably more justification lor such action than had Mr. Arthur Henderson for resigning from Lloyd Georges government. The standardization of the public mind was nowhere better shown than in the readiness with which the public followed the president, the complacence with which it received impossible dieals and impractical theories: ms . ca'il . 6 West 2nd South Salt Lake City, Utah This peculiar American zeal for making every one pure of mind and body has been the impulse back of many queer and heresy hunts which so Impress a foreign observer. It is really difficult to understand the peculiar temptations to which the liberal in America is subjected, if this highly developed Puritan will to power is not kept in mind. There is excuse for the analysis of the American reform movement that confuses the liberal suggestions in that movement with the many idealistically phrased compulsions of what be called enforced meliormight ism, with which true liberalism is perpetually at war. In other countries, too, there are the Wellsian for Gawd Bakers who think the road to Utopia is paved with the Thou shalt nots of legislatures, but in our morals, as in most everything else, we are much more intolerant than other countries and consequently our reformers who believe in meliorism by enactment are proportionately larger in numbers. They Infect us all to a certain extent. As Mr. Walter Llppmann shrewdly pointed out, even so temperate and fine a character as Miss Jane Addams when confronted with the great human evil of prostitution could really think of no better remedy than to fad-dis- . But a deeper reason remains for not emphasizing the intrinsic qualities of Mr. Wilsons formaliy expressed theories of government and polity. During the war economists, who, no matter how personally modest, must have known that Mr. Wilson was beside them a child in economics; professors of International law who must have known that they were far better acquainted with their subject than the president; political theorists, who must have known that Mr. Wilsons dogmas were incredibly naive; sociologists, who must have smiVed at tne presidents constant Identification of morality with administration all these were not uncomfortable in their active support of a president obviously Inferior to any one of them in their respective specialties. The president was to them a leader, and whatever his minor mistakes or lamentable ignorance of certain details, he did to them represent the hope of liberal aspiration. His general direction was the right one; taken by and large, most of his utterances were a correct expression of liberai' sentiments. He was the only idealist among statesmen who, for the most part, made little profession of desiring other than material things. He was the rock of moral integrity in a world which had forgotten how to be decent. Consequently they trusted him; he alone could lead us' out of the morass of selfishness and greed and nationalistic passion into which the cynical diplomats and statesmen of the old .world had plunged us. , nt for a policeman. Minorities are barely tolerated, and any one who thinks differently from the conventional mass is a crank. We have not all the impetuosity, says the author, of Mr. Bullitt, who could resign his position at the peace conference and safely take his chances on the future: The mention of Mr. Bullitt's name gives occasion for putting the problem in specific terms. On reading his remarkable testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and learning of Mr. Lansings open opposition to the peace treaty and the covenant and of General Bliss and Mr. Whites implied opposition, was it not difficult to avoid asking oneself, If these three men felt as strongly opposed to this as to the entire methods and poilcy of the president, why did they not resign and publicly express that opI think that to the average position? man it; would seem that in the case of an issue so momentous and so Interwoven with the future peace and happiness of millions they were clearly under an euii-cobligation to do just that. It wouVd al The president has the "extraordinary technic of apologizing for his own weakness by preaching ths virtues of strength: By training and temperament Woodrow Wilson is an aristocrat. Ills upbringing in the south, his position at Princeton, his spontaneous sympathy and feeling of kinship with upperclass Englishmen, with those in whom the class is very strong, all attest this defeeling scription. (It was Lord Lansdowne rather than Arthur Henderson who made, at a time when the president did not ' like to be reminded of peace, discussion of terms respectable.) Yet what do we find him most famous for in his public life? Of course for his phrase, The world must be made safe for democracy. This is (Continued on Page 18.) |