The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-28

regards all law order ana government
with hatred and IS pleased TO see their
representatives. dscrodlt themselves amt
bring daily distress and alarm 10 those
who would fam believe In an advancing
evolution of the human race and a niilun-
mum even In the distant Future"
There needs TO DO but little doubt that
attempts are being made to remedy the
| social and economic ills under which the
nation Is struggling. AS proof Of which we
have the income tax bill. antitrust bills
hy various States. anti emigration bill
anu lastly Inheritance tax bills. All and
every one OF these measures where passed
with the idea of lcssenlng the burdens or
increasing the privileges and opportunities
to labor among that class where the strug-
gle for cXistcncc Is becoming so intense
that We have daily proof that death is
| preferable to living. The ever increasing
suicide roll Of the country Is evidence that
thousands have solved, negatively, thid
social question us life worth living2"
What an empty, meaningless piece OF
vcrbiagc that document must seem TO he
to these people, that all men are en-
dowed by their creator with certain in
alienable rights among which are life
liberty and tho pursuit OF happiness"
1t must seem that whatever means are
thought out, having for their ohjcc, the
amcioratiou OF the working class have
nothing TO expect but to b. remorselessly
crushed out 10y means o! that system OF
trckory aud juggling with words. in alb
solute disregard of facts. and with the dis
position 10 build upon incqulable tochni-
calitics in defiance OF the manifest prn-
| cipos of right and wrong. Tho vctolng
power IN Official circles is being used in
| the most persistent and answering hdcl-
! ity In behalf of vested interests Governor
/ Blacks excuse or Justification for vctoing
/ the Inheritance tax bill Of New York does
not amount to anything more than the
| paltry plea that the tax might possibly
/ work hardship on one ihmily in thous-
and Shades of Washington and jefferson,
/ Whore are the educated classes OF the
country? Are they all gone 10 the jubilee?
! HAVE the advocates OF education not been
DINING In our ears the claims for over
generation that the education of the
/ masses was the safest and surcst means
/ for the porpetuntlon OF free institutions?
| And have We not been educating Tor years
/ past and spending millions in colleges and
universities? And yet the public mind to-
/ day seems to be more willing TO accent
aud dcqulescc I'm sophistry and llimsy pre-
! texts for hulstering mp vested interests that
would not be tolerated In other countries.
| In rho Posts editorial above referred to-.
the claim is maize that AN awful respon-
liability rests ON these who have created
I these hard surroundings" But according
/ TO the present standard OF cthlrs I'm public
morals. there Is nothing particularly wrong
until some punishment can be melted out
4 to the wrong door. 1t Is wrong to steal so
! cents and the thief can be- punished for
/ even such Il triling offence. But steal
/ thousands or millions in public way, by
1 corrupt practices, and Watering of stocks.
aud Quixotic Thought it may seem. such
/ high banded ihiuving is actually looked
upon as clever work Shut up and starve
a man to death and II is murder, because
| thcra arc laws 10 deal with such eases
| hut maintain laws that are responsible for
I the voluntary deaths and seui starvation
Of thousands and even kill of every meas
! TIRE calculated Tor the benefit OF these poor
wretch,s but trcnching on vested In
tcrcsis and then becomes a debaable
| question as to who is responsible. Whore,
| for charity's cake. is that good old maxim
gone to. which claims that public policy
should be directed TO securing the great
/ est good OF the greatest number" This
! maxim has given comfort TO thousands in
! US time but II seems latterly TO have been
allowed to drop from the public mind.
John Wanamaker said in his recent fhil-
adclphia address. after bcmopning the
| tardy nature Of that Mckinley wave OF
| prosperity: "Idlenoss and want breed hit
, ter discomfort which will never be over
! come until there is moro employment Tho
foes which America has 10 fear are our
/ own patient, heart-tircd people, who be-
trnyed. and disheartened. no longer have
! faith in their party. aud will turn To any
| leadership that offers promise OF better
times, believing TINT worse times can never
| come than those already existing. II Is a
! terrible thing TO observe public sentiment
! drifting and unexplained" The
young men are growing up indifferent to
republican PRINCIPLES with no respect for
parties OF broken promises aud platforms.
who use National and state patronage in
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