Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — HAYS DEFINES PARTY SITUATION [ARTICLE]

HAYS DEFINES PARTY SITUATION

SETS pUT CLEARLY THE POSITION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. t Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, in a rally of the first district republicans at Evansville declared in unequivocal terms that the Republican party will ever stand firm against “undue federalization' of industries and activities.” He said in part: “There is in this country a religious faith which believes in the divinity of the constitution of the United States. We do not adopt this tenet, but I approve of the direction of the thought, and I recommend the appreciation. There is a time not far distant when our heel must be in the ground. Law and order shall reign in this country. With a vision of the country's mission, and with "the highest sense of justice for all men, republicans will keep their eyes always ahead, but will keep their feet always on solid ground. We will not forget that while we fight to make certain the rights of fret- government in the world, we have a republic to preserve in this country; that we are a representative government, not a bolshevik syncopation; that while there is nothing in this country that we would not take and use for necessary war purposes, such taking must be for war purposes only, and in such action we do not propose to permit any eventual ulterior object. “The Republican party from its inception has stood against undue federalization of industries and activities. There must be strong federal regulation, but not federal ownership. We have always endeavored and still shall endeavor to find the middle ground so well defined as between ‘the anaschy of unregulated individualism and the deadening formalism of inefficient and widespread state ownership.’ We are against paternalism in government, and we arc against that form of pedagogic paternalism that has developed recently in this country. We are against autocracy as vigorously and unalterably as we are against anarchy. Bolshevism and kaiserism are equally dangerous in industry as in government. We are against both. We are the freest government on the face of the earth, and our strength rests in our patriotism. Anarchy flees before patriotism. Peace and order and. security and liberty are safe so long as enough love of country burns in the hearts of the people, but it must not be forgotten that liberty does not mean license. Liberty to make our laws does not give us a license to break them. Liberty is responsibility, and responsibility is duty an dthat duty ip to preserve the exceptional liberty which we enjoy within the law, without any temporizing or compromise whatever.”