The Valve world Volume 17-18

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... is only one application of it, but the socialism of the Golden Rule. We do not need to overturn our existing social, political and industrial orders, but merely to govern and control and adjust them according to a practical and universal observance of the Golden Rule. And as a part of this remedy and as an assurance of the successful application of the Golden Rule generally in all our activities, we must put into full, intelligent and untiring play all the obligations that are imposed upon us as citizens of this republic. We must be actually, as well as nominally, a self-governing people, not a democracy in name governed by a political autocracy in fact. Let every citizen do his full duty at all times as a citizen, attend personally to his own part of the public business, and earnestly believe and actually practise the Golden Rule, and we shall soon hear little or nothing about socialism, as we have used the term here, generally for the whole range of "isms" alien by birth, alien in purpose, and utterly repugnant to free men in a free country who hold in their own hands today all the power necessary to bring to them fully their constitutional rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We are not trying to make an appeal to the visionary, to the chronically discontented, or to the mentally and morally twisted alien agitator, who for some strange reason or another we allow to go up and down in the land creating disturbance and disorder. Our appeal is directly to the hard-headed common sense of the thinking American citizen, the man who has been a citizen long enough to realize his rights and privileges and to acknowledge his obligations under our present form of government. We are appealing to the sense of Anglo-Saxon fanplay...