The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-20

even las many Of us believe sornetimes)
the cause of the disease. Not he: OF
all the cures in sight he will take, not
the one with g. sound record In. the
past but the one promising the most
Now, the quack always promises more
than the regular physician, and the
swindler never haggles over the rate
of interest, like the honest borrower
But the sympathetic, illogical lover OF
mankind can neyertgresist the ffattery
or the future. He iSe never willing tc
believe that the human tree cannot be
made to grow by machinery 1t Is not
human nature or lean harvests that
make hard tinfeSS 1t zis always legis-
lation. And as legislation is the root
of all evil. so also is it the cure. "
The sentimentahst believes in laws.
not in law. And 1t is a further pecu-
liarity of the sentimental mind that II
is as reckless as it is blind. But. in
deed. its blindness, which is the dream
haunted blindness Of irr' ORANGE and
not the dense blackness OF stupidity
is the cause of it's recklessness. 1t is
ike a child on a runaway car, plung-
ing down hill, exhilarated with the
motion, knowing nothing of the crash
and the black water in waiting.
Women sentin1entalists are more
reckless, if anything. than men. But
women,i in general, are restrained from
political mischief by other elements in
their nature besides sympathy. They
take their opinions from those nearest
and dearest to them in large meas
ure. This may be very reprehensible
and weak. but the present writer. who
tries to see facts as they are. is obliged
to place the proportion as high as SO
in 100. Women also are naturally con-
sentative and naturally conscientious
All these forces make against women
radicals and women socialists. But the
same forces have worked the other
way in certain sections of the far West
and South. There are certain parts OF
the far West-not the middle West
where there are wonderful harvests
when there is rain; but rain does not
always come. Unhappily, these parts
of the country have been settled by
| poor men. Unhappily, also, capital, as
foolish in it's daring as it's timidity
has flowed over these arid wastes In
vestment companies have sprung up
Almost any farmer has been able to
borrow money on almost any farm
The consequence is that in many cases
the original borrowers have sold their
farms with the mortgages on them
and the secondary owners have found
themselves face to face with a dispro-
portionate burden on the land, a poor
year and failing prices. At one end OF
VINO
has invested her scanty dependence in
the safest loans, a mortgage on farm
lands and at the other a desperate
earth-tiller who works fourteen hours
q day and sees the gap between his
| expenses and his income widening all
the time Very likely the latter has
bought his overrated land with glowing
hopes Of paying for it in two or three
years (as often has been done), and
the contrast between his hopes and his
disappointment makes him all the bit
terer.
Such men are too desperate to rea-
son. And to such men come the politi-
clans, viewing certain defeat unless
they can make new promises and shout
new war cry; come with offers to
| double the farmers prices and ha1ve
his debts and overturn the classes fol
the benefit Of the masses, and do any
other little thing that he wants. The
inevitable result is discomfort An6
therefore, the women are only voicine
the opinion of their husbands and
and fathers and brothers. They have
simply lost their heads over the
misery that they have seen. And they
have not wide enough vision to see
how narrow is the field that they sur