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Show RADICALISM A POLITICAL FORCE IN AMERICA The growing popularity of strange creeds in the United States should be the cause of grave reflection on the part of every serious minded American, according to Fred R. Marvin, editor in chief of the New York Commercial, who writes in convincing fashion in the current issue of the National Republic under the title, "Radicalism and the United States Constitution." Mr. Marvin says that radicalism is everywhere manifest in the discussion of public issues, arid that so powerful have some of these forces become that they have at times sought to wield the balance of power in the American Senate and House of Representatives. Continuing Mr. Marvin says: "In all history no government has ever secured for its people the same measure of freedom and lasting prosperity that is enjoyed "by the people of the United States. No other nation has prospered as has the United States under the form of government established by the Constitution. Yet there are many in our lancl today who would set at naught the Constitution and substitute theories that are wholly incompatible with the ideals of this great republic. Radicalism Radi-calism is no longer a negligible factor in the life of the. nation. It has become a political force with which the patriotic thinking citizens citi-zens of the United States must reckon. ., "It is a peculiar truth that most persons only vaguely understand under-stand the political philosophy of the present day radical movement never having studied revolutionary or socialistic teachings, they fail to perceive the ultimate effects or the real purposes of the numerous numer-ous 'reforms' and legislatve measures put forward in the interest of the radical cause. The radicals, who, on the other hand, have studied stud-ied exclusively the teachings of revolutionary leaders, usually have little conception of the ideals and principles inherent in the existing form of government. Others besides radicals are frequently influenced influ-enced to espouse unsound policies because of similar deficiencies in their education with respect to American institutions of government and American traditions." |