THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1923.
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PROPAGANDA BP PESSIMISM HAS NO
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Gospel of Despair and Faultfinding.
Indianopous, Ind., Feb. 14. George B. Lockwood, Secretary of
the Republican National Committee and editor of The National Re
publican, was the principal speaker at the annual convention of the
Indiana Republican Editorial Association. Mr. Lockwood's theme
was the torrent of destructive propaganda which is poured into the
ears of the people through the medium of the press, the pulpit and
the platform. He not only showed that such propaganda ha dno justi
fication in existing conditions in this country, but that, if persisted in
and encouraged, it would end in a program that would menace all
business, industry, progress, orderly institutions and even the govern
ment itself. Mr. Lockwood said:
The greatest contribution it would
be possible for patriotic men and
women to make to their country!
welfare at this time would be to get
the American people out of the polit
ical and economic dumps and arouse
in them a full realirution and active
appreciation of their blessings and
their opportunities.
Never before did there beat against
the foundations of our governmental
structure so high and strong a tide
of popular unrest.
The causes of this unrest are as
many as the waves that rise on the
surface of a storm-tossed sea. Many
of them have little or no real relation
to government; many are the conse
quences of policies and programs it
is no longer possible to change be
cause! they are of the past.
Many of those now deeply dissat
isfied have views as to the causes and
remedies of evils real and imagined
that are in direct conflict with the
views of as many other malcontents;
the only point of agreement is in as
sault upon the existing order, which
if long continued, in its present vigor
and venom, will threaten the stability
of government and society.
No demagogue today believes he has
lived up to his opportunities unless
he has painted as black a picture as
possible of existing conditions.
Like the quack medicine vendor
operating under a gasoline torch at
the village street corner, he must
make people believe that they feel all
the dread symptoms of the disease for
which he offers a sure remedy at so
much per bottle. The chief crime of
the demagogue agitinst popular gov
ernment is that he constantly seeks
to inject into the veiws of the people
the envenomed virus of pessimism.
Gospel of the Demagogue.
Since the days of the Greek democ
racy the demagogue has taught the
black gospel that whatever is, is
wrong; that government is an engine
of oppression operated by corrupt of
ficials for the exploitation of the peo
lor
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ple; that he, the demagogue, is the
only honest man in public life and
that the only hope of improvement
is the promotion of himself to some
place of power.
The political adventurer, however,
is not the only preacher of pessimism
in public affairs.
The thoughtless citizen who may
have no political purpose in view, but
who, with all the blesjinn-t and op
portunities of free institutions, feels
the pinch of governmental refutation,
restriction or taxation 3omuwhere, is
often all too ready to jjin hir voice
to that of the very agitator who will,
when opportunity comes, infinitely
multiply the exactions of ov-irnment.
The conservative citizen who docs
not like prohibition end probably did
nothing to prevent the adoption of
the constitutional amendment which
has made it a fixed governmental pol
icy, cries out against the federal in
strumentalities which enforce the
law.
The substantial property owner
who may have enjoyed and profited
by the war while it was on, now
shrieks aguinst government because
the war debt must be "paid through
the levying of taxes on the only
source from which taxes can come,
namely, private property.
The Hii porting interests, cut off by
a protective tariff measure from fur
ther Inordinate profit, spread the doc
trine that -the new tariff law was
framed in the interests of the rich
for the purpose of robbing the poor.
The international banker and the
sentimental internationalist accuse
the national government of the most
sordid motives in refusing to in
volve the United States in the polit
ical and financial bankruptcy of Eu
rope. Appeal to Hatred and Prejudice.
From these and 100 other sources
come the constant outcry against
Congress, the Provident and against
the government, all based upon the
selfish interest of those mnking these
the peoplo"
Abraham Lincoln
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SPEECH IN INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA
February 22, 1861
MR. CUYLER: I am filled with deep
emotion at finding myself standing
in this place, where were collected togeth
er the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion
to principle, from which sprang the insti
tutions under which we live.
You have kindly suggested to me that in
my hands is the task of restoring peace to
our distracted country. 1 can say in re
turn, sir, that all the political sentiments
I entertain have been drawn, so far as I
have "been able to draw them, from the
sentiments which originated in and were
given to the world from this hall. I have
never had a feeling, politically, that did
not spring from the sentiments embodied
in the Declaration of Independence.
I have often pondered over the dangers
which were incurred by the men who as
sembled here and framed and adopted that
Declaration. I have pondered over the
toils that were endured by the officers and
soldiers of the army who achieved that in
dependence. J have often inquired of myself what
great principle or idea it was that kept this
Confederacy so long together. It was not
the mere matter of separation of the col
onies from the motherland, but that senti
ment in the Declaration of Independence
which gave liberty not alone to the people
of this country, but hope to all the world,
for all future time.
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appeals to the hatred and prejudice
of the people in a republic where
public opinion rules. All of this out
cry is either purposwly or tgnorantly
adding to the general dissatisfaction
and unrest which, since the war, has
been easily aroused everywhere in
the world, and which in some parts
of the world has overthrown govern
ment and public order and visited un
told miseries upon the masses of the
oitLe. v
All of these Interests unite in tell-
Wijfthe people that they are in a des
perate plight.
They tell the people not only of the
ills they have, but of many that are
imaginary.
They tell the people not only of
the trouble they are in now, but of
the horrible things that are going to
happen to them unless revolutionary
changes are quickly effected.
They magnify the abuses and evils
and oppressions of the time until
they are viewed with distorted vision
by millions.
They tell the farmer that he Is
"broke" and about to starve to death
at a time when farm land can not be
bought in sections of the country
where land Is normally productive, at
twice the prices per acre prevailing
during the Cleveland panic of a quar
ter of a century ago a panic from
which the country completely recov
ered within two years after the re
adoption of the protective policy.
With wages highr than ever before
in peace time, with a job available
for every mechanic who wants it,
with 4,000,000 men now at work who
were idle when the present adminis
tration was inaugurated, they accuse
Congress and the President of a de
sire to grind down the laboring man
and tell the worker that unless he is
getting twice as nuch peace time pay
as he ever recr i when demagogues
were in powe. : e is not getting s
"living" wage.
Business Men Join In
However prosperous the banker,
the manufacturer or the distributor
may be, in most cases he is busy
swelling the chorus of complaint be
en use the war bills can not be paid
without heavy taxes upon property.
The opponent of prohibition who
did not make a squeak whii'j tho pol
icy of prohibition was being put into
the constitution almost wilhout re
sistance, is now accusing the federal
authorities of fanaticism bcause in
the fulfillment of their sworn duty
they are enforcing the law. These
agitators are trying to make partisan
politics out of a constitutional pro
vision which the party of opposition
has as much to do with adopting as
the party now in power. Thece critics
are encouraging a lawlessness they!
might not like to see spread to mat
ters in general and are trying to in
crease the mob Bpirit by predicting
publicly that the rightB of the peo
ple are about to be completely over
thrown. The international financier and the
sentimental propagandist of the Eu
ropean League of Nations are con
tinually holding this republic up to
contempt as a slacker among nations
refusing to fulfill its 4,duty" to the
ret of the world. Recently, in the
It was that which gave promise that in
due time the weights would be lifted from
the shoulders of all men, and that all
should have an equal chance. This is the
sentiment embodied in the Declaration of
Independence.
Now, my friends, can this country be
saved on that basis? If it can, I will con
sider myself one of the happiest men in
the world if I can help to save it. If it
cannot be saved upon that principle, it
will be truly awful. But if this country
cannot be saved without giving up that
principle, I was about to say I would rather
be assassinated on this spot than surren
der it.
Now, in view of the present aspect of
affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and
war. There is no necessity for it. I am
not in favor of such a course; and I may
say in advance that there will be no blood
shed unless it is forced upon the govern
ment. The government will not use force,
unless force is used against it.
My friends, this is wholly an unprepared
speech. 1 did not expect to be called on
to say a word when 1 came here. I sup
posed I was merely to do something to
ward raising a flag. I may, therefore, have
said something indiscreet. (Cries of "No,
no.") But I have said nothing but what
I am willing to live by, and, if it be the
pleasure of the mighty God, to die by.
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Heppner, Oregon
presence of an audience of Chautau
qua lecturers preparing to go forth
and instruct the public, such Euro
pean propagandists as Rabbi Wise de
nounced the United States on the
ground that this government is re
sponsible for all the misery of a Eu
rope we spent 60,000 lives and $50,
000,000,000 trying to save only to
earn the ingratitude of the people
to whose rescue we went, and of their
agents in the United States. The pul
pit and the platform are adding to
the chorus of opposition to govern
mental policies adopted by the Ameri
can people themselves.
Facta Give Lie to Charges.
With all this propaganda of pessi
mism in full cry, what are facts about
conditions in the United States?
If the knockers and kickers would
hold their tired tongues for a few
months this country, which la in a
better condition than any other in the
world, would be more prosperous than
it has ever been in peace time during
all our history.
While almost every other import
ant power is on the verge of bank
ruptcy, with its securities and cur
rency below par, the American dol
lar and the American bond are on a
basis of 100 per cent valule.
American foreign trade Is increas
ing, and this year's American holiday
trade was double in value and vol
ume that of any previous year.
American postal receipts and sav
ings bank deposits are higher than
ever before in our history.
Manufacturing industry and con
struction are now in full swing, un
employment has ended, and agricul
ture is sure to feel the effect of this
before the crops of 1923 are harvest
ed. Despite all the gabble to the con
trary the prosperity of the Ameri
can farmer id dependent upon domes
tic rather than upon foreign con
sumption. Increased industrial ac
tivity in the United States means in
creased consumption of what the
American farmer produces, and there
fore better prices for the output of
the farm.
If all the American people who are
genuinely attached to their govern
ment were to make up their mind
that they are not half as badly off
as the demagogues and theorists and
reactionary grumblers against gov
ernment tell them they are, they
would by that very change of mental
attitude put themselves on the high
way of the most prosperous period
the American people have ever exper
ienced. Moreover, they would elim
inate from their minds a vast amount
of unnecesssary unrest which re
flects itself disagreeably in the pri
vate life and the local affairs of ev
ery community.
Optimism Built America.
The Americans of the constructive
years of this republic were optimistB.
They were builders. They were gov
erned by courage and not by fear.
Americans of today ought to sweep
aside the preachers of envy, hatred
and destruction who contribute noth
ing but discontent to a situation that
calls for the old American spirit of
brave self-reliance and belief in
American institutions.
This is the best country in the
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world, with the freeit f overnment,
tht moat liberal inititutions and tha
fri-au-st m feature of diffuned pros
perity. V.ut men In public life are honest,
and most of those who impugn the in
tegrity of public men in general are
dishonest. It wai never before 10
much of a privilege to be an Ameri
can citizen.
All the elements are here for the
greatest prosperity and progreaa thU
nation has ever known. The politi
cians who try to teach the people that
the federal government is in the
hands of crooks of plunderers, are
more dangerous foes of the republic
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a tightwad in their younger days."
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what Tim meant but think it over.
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and secure in the faith that they are
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