. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 14 (April 23 and 30, 1920)] . ustice on alarge scale, you are preparing theground for those who come aroundand bank on injustice in order tofurther their own ideas. If an anar-chist or revolutionist orator tries tostir a crowd to do unlawful things,his chances of success are prettygood if most of the people in thecrowd have grievances, real or imag-inary. 4 W^E often hear that it is mostlyV V foreigners who are causingthe unrest which is such a seriouselement in the country today. Unrestis a queer sort of thing. Right hereI would have the distinction
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 14 (April 23 and 30, 1920)] . ustice on alarge scale, you are preparing theground for those who come aroundand bank on injustice in order tofurther their own ideas. If an anar-chist or revolutionist orator tries tostir a crowd to do unlawful things,his chances of success are prettygood if most of the people in thecrowd have grievances, real or imag-inary. 4 W^E often hear that it is mostlyV V foreigners who are causingthe unrest which is such a seriouselement in the country today. Unrestis a queer sort of thing. Right hereI would have the distinction made be-tween agitators and evil agitators,because agitators are thoroughlywholesome things, and unrest is athoroughly wholesome state of we dont agitate for better things,if there isnt a wholesome discontent,we shall not make progress. Discon-tent is only another name for ambi-tion, and if we dont have ambitionwe dont get far. What we meanwhen we talk about unrest todayis that form of unrest which seeksto attain its ends by revolutionary(Continued on page 26). PAGE 8 The stuff Americans are made of —immigrants arriving at Ellis Island THE AMERICAN LEGICjN WEEKLY
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