St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-08
1T is THE TRUTH THAT HURTS.


1t is the truth that hurts worst. A
lie, If it be well dressed, respectable
appearing one, with plausible air,
appearing stranger among strangers,
telling itself about "a stranger, may
hurt for while,1 too. For illustration,
when it wears a a5stove-pipe hat and
frock dress suit and carries a gold
headed cane, and tells a lot Of peo-
pie who are strangers to the truth,
either through ignorance or prejudice,
that the Democrats caused the panic
and hard times, such lie will hurt
like blaZes and do lots of mischief
for a time. But the truth gets along
after while and melts prejudice and
dissolves ignorance, and the hurt re-
acts on the lie. But the truth always
hurts where the truth treads on folly
or fraud or false pride or foolish no.
tions. And always the precise measure
of the pain is given in the rage, the
vituperation, that lit excites.
Now there was our ambassador to
the court of ST.. James. Mr.. Bayard is
a very able, very sincere and a very
candid man. He was invited, as all
our ambassadors are who can stand
on their legs and talk well, to address
some society. Minister Lowell had de-
livered an address on Democracy once
on a time to a British audience that was
very we'll received as a scholarly pro-
Mr. 20 o1~d fol-
the steps of LowelIs theme. But he
did not do as Lowell did, who, as he
says in one Of his letters, left much
''to be read between the lines. I could
this latitude or that. 1 see our blots
only too plainly and have not fore
borne my commentary on them in time
past" So, talking of and for Democ-
racy and against state socialism, our
ambassador spoke some plain and
wholesome truths. He called protec-
ton state socialism; he said it "had
done more to foster class legislation
and promote inequality of fortune, to
corrupt public life, to Danish men of
independent mind and character from
the public councils, to lower the tone
of national representation, blunt public
conscience, create false standards in
the popular mind. to familiarize it
with reliance upon state aid and guard
ianship in private affairs, divorce ethics
from politics and place politics upon
the low plane of a mercenary scram-
bic, than any other single cause" And
the howls of rage that went up at once
all along the proteetionist line fur
nished the measure of the pain these
blunt truths causeds,.'
Then the Others dayI the president of
these United States 9had occasion to
address national assembly of repre-
sentatives of the church of which he
is a member on the subject of it's mis-
sions. He took Occasion to say that
there was as much need of mission
work at home as abroad. He particu-
larized by saying that 'in these days
the vanguard of occupation in a
new settlement is never without it's
vicious and criminal element Gam
bling houses and dram shops are fire.
Quently among the first establishments
in new community. 1t must also
be confessed that removal from old
homes and associations to a new and
more primitive home has a tendency
among honest and respectable settlers
to smother scruples and breed indiffer-
ence to Christianizing and elevating
agencies"
Now that is only what every one
knows to be the incontestable fact. Our
frontiers ''in these days. are the min
ing camps and the cattle ranges What
| life is there is common knowledge
Beyond Bismarck there is no Bible.
and beyond Helena no God" was the
wild Western way of stating the con-
ditions. But. like am truths, it hurt;
and one fellow. ~ his speech proving
himself the productsof such conditions,
made a speech in congress which re-
vealed how badly tie truth hurt
Charles Dickens madf this country a.
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