798 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

white and black — Americans must condemn those extremists whether
white or black who prey upon racism.

The media — America's press, television and radio — bear a great
burden of guilt for overexposure of the self-proclaimed leader. Re-
cently the Urban League's Whitney Young dismissed Stokely Car-
michael's popularity as a following of 50 Negroes and 50, 000 reporters.

Several months ago a new leader arrived in Baltimore to assume
command of a nationally recognized civil rights organization. Accord-
ing to the press he was an ordained minister, and his comments on
urban problems were given as much credence, deference and publicity
as the thoughts of the Mayor; that is, until last week when he was
exposed as a nineteen-year-old Marine who had gone AWOll This
is the kind of situation which brings to mind Lincoln's words, "If I
couldn't laugh, I'd weep. "

Without principle, we have lost all sense of perspective and value.
Free democracy is built upon a single great premise — civil rights
must be balanced by civil responsibilities. Rapidly, this principle has
been corroded. Civil disobedience has inevitably led to civil disorder.
Passive resistance has given way to erosive force. Responsible leader-
ship has been obscured by the demagogue's harangue. Our valued
democratic process has all but disappeared.

If peace and progress are to replace tension and turbulence in Amer-
ica's cities, law and order must first be restored. The Republican
Party shall make a firm commitment to the American people to work
through law to achieve a new and more perfect order — and we shall
work not out of fear of reprisal but out of certain faith that it is
right.

The Republican Party offers an answer to the despair of the ghetto.
We propose to build initiative, not to perpetuate despair and de-
pendence. Our solution is not black power, but green power — the
power of the purse — Negro enterprise and industry. Our way is not
to separate America into two societies — black and white — but to see
that all of society shares the benefits our nation has to offer.

We must have peace at home and peace abroad. Permanent peace
can come only through strength. Too often our nation has lost the war
at the conference table, not on the battlefield. The Republican Party
cannot claim a monopoly as the peace party. Yet its twentieth cen-
tury Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower are
famous for getting America out of and not into wars, and keeping the