Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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Uhr lirrsihrnfn illllrsnugr Nye, the people of the l'nited States, in order to forin :1 more perfect union . . There are approximately lifty words in the preanihle to the consti- tution of the United States, hut they may hc epitomized in a single deathless phrase - universal tolerance. Tolerance is the foundation upon which America was huilt. XYithont it th,-rc would he no justice no domestic tranquility. no provision for the common defense or the general welfare. Vyithout tolerance the hlessings of lihertyu would he nothing hut a sham. Read down the record since the Revolution. Xyhy has the immigrant, in such overwhelming mimhers, sought the refuge of these shores? XYhy have we prospered heyond the dreams of our ancestors? XX'hy have we stood invincihle against the forces which would destroy ns? llecanse the principles upon which tlns nation was founded are solid and steadfast and true. Because here there are, and there have heen through the years, intolerance of oppression. hatred of injustice. contempt for treachery against heneticent government, and the courage to fight for the ohjectives of democratic sovereignty in the face of the most formidahle opposition, and regardless of race or color or creed. As long as those helicfs are held hy the vast majority of our citizens, the greatness of America will endure. As long as we give to our people the ahsolute right to worship their Creator according to their own convictions and to seek legitimate happiness according to their own desires, no power on earth can prevail against us. lfconomic tronhles may hesct us from time to time. Depres- sions and recessions may come and go. Poverty and unemployment may recur at intervals and hecome widespread. Hut these are prohlems which can and will he solved hy intelligent study and application and patience. The prohlems which defy solution are those which will arise if we lose sight of the principles of American freedom and give ourselves over to the mad tyranny and hrutal intolerance of other lands. Free people are happy people. History is evidence of that fact. It is only when freedom is permitted to degenerate into license that nations hegin toidecay. Races and religions may he persecuted for a time with impunity hut in the end, revolt is inevitahle and tyranny is overthrown. Freedom is the natural state of man. It should he limited only hy the restrictions of duly constituted authority and duly enacted legislation. Tolerance is a hy-product of freedom. and a natural inheritance of every American since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the ratification of the Constitution under which we work and live. There can he no justification, in reason or in law, for the persecutions which have heen visited hy Hitler and Hirohito upon those whom they hope to destroy. The sympathy of every thinking American goes out to the harassed victims of these iniquitous purges. No government so constituted can perma- nently endure. Either the policy of intolerance must he repudiated and removed. or the nations which profess it will he ultimately overthrown. Nations prosper in proportion to the, liberties which their peoples enjoy. Again, history is evi- dence of that fact. No dictator, however powerful, can mock the experiences of history or spurn the rights of man. QWJM QM.

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