anaheim-gazette 1919-11-20

Anaheim Gazette ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS $1.00 THREE MONTHS $.50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. CONSTITUTION IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR BOLSHEVISM We hear a great deal nowadays about the need for Americanization. There are bolshevik, Polish, British, French, Chinese, Japanese, Armenian and perhaps German propagandists in the United States turning out copy by the yard and literally flooding the newspaper offices with it, but up to this time there has been little American propaganda. The present industrial unrest with the grave disturbances which have come in certain parts of the country are arousing the people to the necessity of doing something. Americans are beginning to realize that something must be done to counteract un-American influences which are at work on every hand, principally internationalistic or socialistic influences. All sorts of suggestions have been made, most of them along the line of educating the foreigners in the country to appreciate the fundamentals of the American system of government. It is pointed out that these people come to America from lands ruled by autocratic governments of one kind or another. They have been led to believe that might makes right, and that America is a land of plenty and of privilege. Their ideas of getting the plenty and the privilege are somewhat remote. Therefore they fall under the sway of bolshevik agitators who lead them to believe that liberty means the license to do as one pleases, that they may become the real rulers of the land through direct action, or in other words by means of arson and murder. But let it be said that all of our socialistic menaces are not ignorant foreigners. Some of them are American born of American parents, and some of them even have gained positions of trust. A autocratic governments of one kind or another. They have been led to believe that might makes right, and that America is a land of plenty and of privilege. Their ideas of getting the plenty and the privilege are somewhat remote. Therefore they fall under the sway of bolshevik agitators who lead them to believe that liberty means the license to do as one pleases, that they may become the real rulers of the land through direct action, or in other words by means of arson and murder. But let it be said that all of our socialistic menaces are not ignorant foreigners. Some of them are American born of American parents, and some of them even have gained positions of trust. A college professor who deals in theoretical socialism may not be so immediately dangerous as a Russian with a torch, but his capacity for ultimate harm is infinitely greater, in that he is looked upon as a teacher and a leader in his particular sphere and is able to instill his doctrine into the minds of young men and women at a time when these minds are particularly susceptible to influences of the kind. It is therefore necessary, with all these evil influences at work, that a specific for bolshevik evils in America be found, and fortunately there is one close at hand, applicable both to native and foreign born. This specific is the Constitution of the United States. Let us therefore have less spinning of new theories—and by the way, most of them will be found to be bubbles bursted and discarded in ages almost forgotten, now to be renewed in different garbs—let us then have less spinning of new and renovated theories and more conscientious and painstaking study of our own system of government. Ask the next ten men you meet about the history and theory of the American Constitution and you will be surprised to find how little they can tell you. Of course they remember something about the making of the Constitution, learned back in the grammar school days but like Latin and the Sir Roger DeCoverly Papers, even this has grown dim in their memory. And so far as the bulk of our foreign population is concerned, of course its knowledge of the subject can be placed at zero. Yet the knowledge of the making of the Constitution, and of the fundamentals which it prescribes, form the best antidote to socialism, to internationalism that can possibly be found. The trouble has been that too many of our public men, especially those thwarted by the Constitution, in executing their selfish purposes, have acquired the habit of sneering at the Constitution as an ancient, threadbare document. As a matter of fact our Constitution was never a more vital, living thing than at present, and the more the American people study and understand it the less chance there will be for bolshevism in America. Let us understand that the Constitution was not a theoretical document, designed by academic professors, but a practical document, made by practical men and made not for ornament or display but for service. And let us understand too that the most brilliant men of the eighteenth century, men who were respected in Europe as well as in America, had a hand in its making. Let us understand that it created a feeling of nationality by cementing thirteen discordant colonies into a single government, paving the way for that virile Americanism which is the hope, not only of this nation but of the world, today. In this time when the danger of class animosity and class domination was never more acute, let us remember that the Constitu- Let us understand that it created a feeling of nationality by cementing thirteen discordant colonies into a single government, paving the way for that virile Americanism which is the hope, not only of this nation but of the world, today. In this time when the danger of class animosity and class domination was never more acute, let us remember that the Constitution throws every possible safeguard around the government, against this danger, by providing that representatives to Congress shall be elected by the people in their respective districts, and the United States senators by the people in the respective states: These representatives and senators are to be elected by all the people of voting age, and not by the moneyed class, the working class, the professional class, the artisans or any other class. Let us remember that the Constitution in providing for a system of REPRESENTATIVE republican government, for the first time in all history, struck the golden medium between autocracy and mobocracy, creating an efficient, workable form of free government, and guaranteeing to the people the right of self rule, or organized freedom, of the right to work out their own destinies according to their merits, their capabilities and their industry. And let us remember that further than this no constitution and no government can go, because no document, no ruler, autocratic or democratic, no government of any human kind, can make people intelligent, happy, industrious, cultured and prosperous, unless the people themselves strive for these qualities. The government can but give the opportunity, can but so far as is humanly possible provide justice for all, a square deal to each individual. And this the American government under the Constitution of the United States has provided. Our government is not perfect. No human agency is perfect. But as we glance through the pages of our history we see that as we have closely followed the mandates and provisions of our Constitution we have prospered, and as we have strayed away we have suffered. The Constitution has worked, too, from the very moment that it formed a stable government out of thirteen tottering colonies. It has enabled the country to weather every storm, and it will enable us to weather the present storm too. Under its protection we have progressed farther in a century and a quarter than any other government has ever progressed in ten times the time. HUNTING HORSES Novel and Exciting Sport in Skull Valley, Utah. Americans who like adventure and excitement in a hunt are advised to try their hand at hunting wild horses. That they will find this sport quite as thrilling as concerning a tiger, is the opinion of a sportsman who has just returned from a month's hunt in Skull Valley, near the Utah-Nevada line. There are thousands of wild horses in this valley, and ranch owners in that district have begun a war of extermination. The wild steeds are becoming very troublesome, leading away domesticated property in general. Before the plan of shooting these horses was adopted, the ranchers tried corralling and shipping them to eastern markets. The expense of catching and shipping the animals was far above possible profits, however, and the danger connected with attempts at capture also were disproportionate. The horses are decidedly vicious, and several cases are cited where they literally dashed their brains out against a tree, or post, rather than submit to capture. The expedition here referred to included several members, and during the month of wild-horse stalking the party shot 102 animals. The largest day's shooting was ten head. This number was made possible only by the fact that the leaders of two bands of wild horses met at a water hole and immediately began a battle for supremacy. A fight of this kind is always to alien race, but to put these alien races in important government offices seems to be most un-American. Do you suppose that in Japan such a thing would be allowed? Not for a moment." LITTLE BROWN BROTHER ACROSS THE SEA Jap Outrages Related by Honolulu War Correspondent. Our little brown brothers across the sea, who were so tenderly handled by the peace conference, are meek and lowly when subordinate to other people, but can speedily throw aside their sheepskin camouflage and expose their real natures when in authority. Their inhuman treatment of Koreans, Chinese and other conquered peoples show this. Murdock Henry brought with him from Honolulu a number of newspapers and clippings. One of the clippings, written by a woman war correspondent who was on the spot, reads as follows: "Fifteen Russian girls, dressed in their confirmation clothes, were dragged from a church one Sunday morning in Spasskoe, Siberia, by Japanese soldiers and criminally assaulted. Their frantic mothers ran screaming to the American garrison across the street and begged that their daughters be saved. The Russian colonel, N. Ivanoff, home on leave, followed on their heels and pleaded with the officer in command to prevent the outrage. "All I could do was call on the Japanese commandant, and ask him..." The expedition here referred to included several members, and during the month of wild-horse stalking the party shot 102 animals. The largest day's sffooting was ten head. This number was made possible only by the fact that the leaders of two bands of wild horses met at a water hole and immediately began a battle for supremacy. A fight of this kind is always to the death, and the most exciting period of the hunt was spent in watching the two wild beasts biting, tearing, and kicking, while members of the two bands intermingled and looked on, taking care to keep away from the flying hoofs. Ranchers in Skunt Valley invite shooting parties to go after the wild horses and furnish guides and other necessary supplies. Estimates of the number of wild horses in the valley run as high as fifteen thousand. In another clipping an American writing to the newspaper enters a protest against the U.S. government employing Japs in postoffices. He says: "The person who conducts the Kakaako Correspondence touched upon a subject which has been a sore one with many people for a long time. I refer to the employment of Japanese clerks in government positions. Is it really the case that there are not enough haole men to go round? Or it is a fact that the United States government is too poor to pay haole men a living wage in such important positions as post offices, for example. Honolulu is not the only postoffice to offend in this regard. There are others on the other islands where young Japanese boys are employed and also Japanese women. I know of one Japanese woman in a certain postoffice who was not able even to read the addresses on the envelopes but had to ask other people to tell her what they were. It is certainly our duty to be kind and courteous to any anese soldiers and criminally assaulted. Their frantic mothers ran screaming to the American garrison across the street and begged that their daughters be saved. The Russian colonel, N. Ivanoff, home on leave, followed on their heels and pleaded with the officer in command to prevent the outrage. "All I could do was call on the Japanese commandant, and ask him to control his men," explained the American officer. "Of course I was too late but I could not turn my troops out because I had been instructed to remember, on all occasions, that the Japanese were our allies. "The Russian community was so roused over the crime that the Japanese regiment was removed from Spasskoe after the facts had been laid before the Japanese commanding general in Vladivostok. "This, however, is one of a long list of similar outrages. The Japanese have treated the Russians as a conquered people and have exercised Prussian methods in all their dealings. "An American officer who was stationed for several months near a Japanese contingent had several kirmishes with Oriental soldiers, to prevent them from attacking women. One Sunday afternoon, he saw six Japanese privates run up to two Russian girls who were walking along the road with two Russian men. Four soldiers attacked the men while the other two tried to drag the shrieking girls into an empty building. "The American officer and his orderly, their revolvers drawn, charged the Japanese who, recognizing them as Americans, scattered without resistance. "There were many reports of instances where Japanese entered private homes and attacked women who were alone. Unless escorted by Americans it wasn't safe for women to be on the street at night." Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR EVERY FORD OWNER SHOULD KNOW Just what Ford service is, why it is different from ordinary garage service. The Ford Dealer is a part of the Big Ford family. He carries a large stock of genuine Ford parts for repairs and replacements, and he uses only genuine parts because he knows the imitation parts aren't dependable. He has a thoroughly-equipped up-to-the-minute garage with tools that enable his Ford mechanics to efficiently and properly make any repair—from a minor adjustment to a complete overhaul. Now, we are Authorized Ford Dealers—a part of the great Ford Service organization which was formed chiefly to put within each community a dealer who would have more than a passing interest in Ford repairs and adjustments. Drive in or phone and we'll come for your car. GEORGE DUNTON Los Angeles and Cypress Sts. 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