Show I SOVIET OR REPUBLIC In his Indianapolis speech President resident Hoover used these pregnant and momentous words The issue is whether we f hall Khali go on with our American j system system or shall directly or I indirectly regiment the population lation into a bureaucracy to I serve the State use force instead in instead in- in j. j stead of cooperation in plans and thereby direct every man manas manas manas I as to what he may mayor or may not do dot I In those words the President named the great reat issue The people ma may r not see it pow flow no Other things thing are so ne near H their heir eyes tariff eyes tariff farm relief prohibition foreign commerce I But the penetrating eye of the President looking beneath the and ephemeral beyond the limited horizon horizon horizon hor hor- izon of the here and the now sees r a heart of the gre great t I Y d d knows that it r reaches e to the very foundations foundation at I of the Republic And so in i I solemn words he warns us Thus far America has been built upon a system which holds hol s that the mao major r purpose of a State is to protect the pe people and to give give them equality equally equal equal- ity ly of opportunity that at the basis of al l L happiness is in in development de de' development de- de of the individual that the sum o n progress rol resa can only be gaH gaid d d by hy the A progress c s of the individual that we Should hould steadily build up coo coope 1 1 pe- pe among the p n people ople ope them thern selves to these ends Shall ShaH wo we s e estand stand by that cn and remain remain remain re re- re- re main American or shall we regiment the population into a bureaucracy and dire direct t every man as to what he may mayor or may not do and become another Russia There is the real issue Individualism In In- or collectivism capitalism or communism Americanism Am- Am or Bolshevism the or the Soviet This issue in s set t terms may not be fought out in the next i campaign But the outcome of that campaign will have a very I direct bearing e on it one way 1 or another another- I |