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PEACE
PROSPERITY
THE PROBLEM
émerica is in the throes of industrial
and social revolution.“ ifl‘thé‘wbfliséf a
great“Pre_sident, “It is a condition which
confronts us, not a theory.” This nation,
created to guarantee to all its citizens
equality of justice and opportunity, and
developed through the years as a govern-
ment “of the people, by the people, for the
people, ” isles. £15 defensive-
In the progress of nations, majorities
have usually been the guiding force, but
minorities have controlled, and may
again. The attempted revolution n in
America today is by a minority, which is
largely foreign. It is such a minority which
will control here, unless the majority
organizes for its protection.
The right of every man to freedom of
thought and action—within the law; the
right of every man to the possession of the
fruits of his individual efiort and attain-
ment, is challenged by the pauperizing
theory of communism, by the collective
ownership and control of property, and by
the covetousness of indolence under a cloak
of altruism, which would choke all channels
of competition and turn the survival of
the fittest into the aggrandizement of the
slacker and the unfit, stifle ambition and
stunt the progress of the human race.
This is the ultimatvehissue of the battle
in which the great American majority
must fight for its life. The struggle has
been approaching for a long time. It has
been hastened by the war. Theflénierican
people have brought it upon _themselves.
They have been easy-going—to the point
of criminality. They have vaguely rea-
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soned that if each child in his early school
days was compelled to sing “America”
and the “Star Spangled Banner,” and a
little later taught a sadly twisted version
of American history, it would turn him
out a good citizen. It has not done so.
The.-Constinlfiiqsvgt. the villlnlzi‘tep-l. . States
means, nothingitq this new. citizen- He
finds that the forces of goodugovernment
are without organization, or in the hands
of professional politicians, who promptly
disgust him. If he is very earnest, he will
struggle for a few years, then give up and
disappear in the party ranks, or sit back
with the feeling, "WHAT’S THE USE?”
America ’s handling of her foreign-born
citizens has been even more lax than her
treatment of the native product. For years
she has welcomed to her shores with open
arms all who saw fit to come, omitting any
real test of their sympathy with the Ameri-
can form of government, and allowing them
to become citizens when they know noth-
ing of the language nor of the ideals
of America. The bad have been accepted
on an equal basis with the good, with no
adequate attempt to instruct them in
citizenship.
The failure, or the inaction, of the
American political conscience is responsible
for the present condition. This, in con-
junction with bad government, has per-
mitted the abuse of the power of
money until there is a clamor for the
complete overthrow of our social system.
Labor always has been entitled to a just
return, but has not always received it.
Now certain groups propose to take what
they want.
The vicious element in the unassimilated
alien hordes confuses the abuses of our
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social system with the system itself.
A small minority of radical agitators now
threatens the foundations of our
industrial life. This condition exists in
spite of the large element of loyal Ameri-
can labor, which believes in the funda-
mental principle of individual effort and
opportunity and knows that stability of
prosperity and employment cannot exist
unless the laws of the country are upheld.
THE SOLUTION
The solution of the problem is in
organization, immediate and efiicient,
and in education.
Patriotic men can save the indus-
trial life of America, and the entire
social structure, which is based upon it,
only by promptly joining together in the
promotion of a vigorous program for meet-
ing this menace. This program must have
two distinct objects in view, the, immediate
and the ultimate; the first in combatting
the communistic revolution now in
progress, and the second in creating a
better American citizenship, which will
prevent this monstrous thing vfrom ever
again raising its head, and lead America
to the fulfillment of her proper destiny, in
the final realization of the ideal of equality
of justice and opportunity for all.
In furtherance of these objects, it is
necessary:
1.—-To create a better national soli-
darity, through the awakening and main-
tenance of a proper active interest by all
citizens in the country ’s political affairs
and problems.
2.——To promote a country-wide move-
ment to prevail upon persons of demon-
strated capacity, character, efficiency and
judgment, to serve their country in
national and local public oflice.
3.—To create and assert a public deter-
mination that the ideals, principles and
opinions of the assimilated American citi-
zens of the United States shall have the
predominating influence in directing
thought and action in public affairs.
4.——-To actively assist the efforts of
the various departments of the F ed-
eral Government in the persistent en-
forcement of existing laws, and the enact-
ment of new laws, to curb the enemies
of America.
The National Security League pre-
sents the best available medium for this
service. \Vith an unbroken record of four
years of successful patriotic effort, it stands
today the most powerful unofficial volun-
tary organization in the country. It has
the respect of both public and press. It
is already engaged in this work to the
limit of its resources. With proper
support, its existing facilities can easily be
extended to compass this Work.
The League has today a membership list
of nearly 100,000 earnest Americans,
distributed all over the country. To per-
‘fect a new organization of its size and
influence, and build up equal facility of
approach to all classes of public opinion,
would necessitate the needless expenditure
of many thousands of dollars, the duplica-
tion of much effort, and the loss of time.
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' THE METHOD
The National Security League has, from
its inception, regularly employed all efiec-
tive methods of activity, with the exception
of the motion picture screen, which has
been only occasionally used. With this
exception, the League’s machine has
been built and is operating. It consists
of:
lst—Branches throughout the country,
and individual memberships.
2nd—Organized distribution of patriotic
literature.
3rd—A Speakers Bureau.
4th—Publicity agencies.
The magnitude of these activities is
limited only by the available funds.
The League in four years has distributed
free millions of pieces of literature
relating to preparedness, ‘Win-the - War
spirit, Americanism, patriotism, exposition
of the Constitution and good citizenship,
reaching the citizens of every part of the
country, native and foreign-born, and
hundreds of thousands of public
school teachers. Even among the ne-
groes of the South, a definite campaign
of thrift and education was prosecuted
with great success. The League has com-
manded the talent of the most able and
expert writers in the preparation of its
literature.
The League ’s Speakers Bureau has a
division called the “Flying Squadrons,”
which consisted during the war of about
five hundred volunteer speakers who talked
in every conceivable place, including many
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night stands on the streets of the East Side
of New York City. These “Squadrons”
have recently been extended to other
cities.
The League has on its regular mailing
list about 1000 newspapers, all of which‘
print its publicity matter from time to
time, and most of them regularly. The
Leagae’s standing in the estimation of
editors generally is of the highest,
and has been attained because it has had
no “axe to grind” and no personalities to
exploit. The 1000 newspapers on the
League ’s list are chiefly in the larger cities
and towns. The papers in the smaller
towns and in the rural districts are best
reached by “boiler-plate ’ ’ or ready-to-print
matter, a method involving expense. The
League has not been able to use paid adver-
tising, except for announcements of meet-
ings, etc., but this form of propaganda is
of great value.
FURTHER PROGRAM DETAIL
The Branch Work of the League is to be
extended indefinitely, so as to cover every _
part of the country, particularly the indus-
trial centers, and to increase the mem-
bership to at least 1,000,000.
Some of the things which the League
advocates, and the Branches will promote,
are:
1.—A square deal for the public, for
labor, and for employers.
2.—The enforcement of laws to pan-
ish, and in the case of aliens to de-
port, all who seek by word or deed
the overthrow of the American gov»-
ernment. To take the vote away from
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non-citizens in the States where they now
have it.
3.—The passage of laws to control -
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immigration so as to permit the admission
only of the right kind of raw material for
American citizenship, and for American
industrial maintenance and progress; and
also to supplement the naturalization
laws with provisions to vitalize the
benefits and obligations of American
citizenship.
4.—-The promotion of “100% Ameri-
can” shops and factories by the en-
couragement of naturalization through
employees meetings to explain American
ideals and expose radical fallacies.
5.—The assurance that foreign lang- _
uage newspapers, and all other similar
forms of publication, shall be foreign
in language only, and that they shall at
all times faithfully and actively support
the Constitution, laws and authority of the
United States Government, and the unity
and solidarity of American citizenship;
failing which their publication shall
be prohibited by law.
6.—Provision for national defense
by Universal Military Training, as a
means of promoting the health, morale and
vocational training of the youth of the
nation, and as an expression of duty re-
quired by fundamental law, which will
bring to every citizen a realizing
sense of his responsibility to the Na-
tional Government.
7.--The furtherance of good citi-
zenship teaching in the schools, by
instruction in the meaning of the Con-
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stitution and the American ideals of man-
hgodhand profiéiijr‘ihhd. I‘ M >-
8.—-The prohibition of' the use in all
public and private schools of any
language other than English as the
basic medium of instruction.

Every Citizen ‘of the United States
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,. PUTTING DOWN THE REDS.
d President BUTLER of Columbia is right v
o in saying that the instant and most vital t}
d thing for Americans to do now, the thing '3
i‘ on-'.which all Americans should unite
1’ without regard to politics, is the smash-
1' ing of the Bolsheviki and the I. W. W.
111 ‘ All over the country we catch sight every:
Te day of the unrelenting activities of these 9;}-
Se enemies of the United States and of m..-
at- every free, orderly Government. The at
Y: number of these destructionists in our of
is own city is great. The number of their fu
m organs in English and in foreign tongues th.
1' is ‘great. Rich, “ superior ” men and we.- Ce;
1? men of New York, persons who suppose in;
=8 themselves to be “ intellectuals ” 'because ‘m;
‘9 they have lost the prime and common
6, feeling of American patriotism, endow:
andsupport Bolshevist periodicals with a
ir circulation of 3,000,000. th
*5 “ Do you realize,” asks President BUT- an‘
1‘ LER, “ that within a mile or‘ two of this m
' ‘‘ room, there could be counted fifty tr
l‘; “ meetings, each attended by from a bu
1~ “ score to a hundred men and women, th
‘e “ where everything for which this coun- z.- ,
3° “try stands. is being attacked?” The ha
13‘ enemy is here and everywhere. 'In Presi-
c" dent BUTLER'S words, “ we must repeat 18
is “the great demonstration of 1917 and up
7!" ""summon all the resources of America dr
11'' “ not for war overseas, but for a wanat ed -“ home.” We must repress, deport, make th‘
1'3’ impotent the irreconcilable radicals. T0 of
at them no mercy should be shown. The to
1d country is full of violent aliens who 19,
ff‘ should be made to leave it for its, good. as
ll‘ Mean-while the great mass, not yet hope- an
1"~ less, of aliens in the United States must w;
' be taught to know what the Americanj'in- d,
m stitutions are which ‘so many blatant hE
1t a‘gitators,__alien and native, are seeking be
‘P to subvert. And this immense'lfgreign to
9' population, neither speaking nor thinking W3
Jt American, must be, taught to wspetik and th
think American. of
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OFFICERS OF THE
NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE
Honorary President
Honorary Vice-President
President . . .
. . . ELIHU ROOT
. . ALTON B. PARKER
. CHARLES E. LYDECKER
Vice-Presidents :
MYRON T. HERRICK,
Cleveland
S. STANWOOD MENKEN, New York
GEORGE WHARTON
PEPPER, Philadelphia
WILLET M. SPOONER, Milwaukee
LUKE E. WRIGHT, Memphis
Treasurer . . . . .
Secretary . . . . .
Acting Executive Secretary .
ALEXANDER J. HEMPHILL
CHARLES D. ORTH
E. L. HARVEY
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Directors
MAJ. HERBERT BARRY
CHAS. A. BILL
COL. FRANKLIN Q. BROWN
LLOYD
Executive
Prof. Ephraim D. Adams, Calif.
John G. Agar, N. Y.
Col. H. M. Byllesby, Ill.
H. H. Chamberlin, Mass.
Frederic R. Coudert, N. Y.
Col. G. Creighton Webb, N. Y.
Hon. John Davis, Texas
William 5. Ellis, Pa.
Prof. F. H. Giddings, N. Y.
D. J. Haff, Mo.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Mass.
Edward Harding, N. Y.
Prof. W. H. Hobbs, Mich.
William B. Joyce, N. Y.
THOMAS W. CHURCHILL
FRANK PRESBREY
CHAS. F. RAND
TAYLOR
Committee
Prof. M. F. Libby, Colo.
Guy Murchie, Mass.
Tompkins Mcllvaine, N. Y.
Herblert Myrick, Mass.
Maj. Gen. J. F. O’Ryan, N. Y.
Hon. John M. Parker, La.
Mark L. Requa, N. Y.
W. E. Remington, N. J.
Lewis B. Stillwell, N. Y.
Gen. F. S. Streeter, N. H.
Gen. L. W. Stotesbury, N. Y.
Miss Maude Wetmore, N. Y.
Maj. William H. Wiley, N. J.
Lt. Col. Eric Fisher Wood, Pa.
Hon. Lafayette Young, Iowa
Dec. 1, 1919.