The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-02-11
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The Wise r1en.

WHen the pioneers OF thought divine
an economic truth, and attempt to lay it
before the great crude mass of humanity,
the wise men Immediately commence to
construct arguments against it. They do
not attempt to master and fully under
stand the subject but as soon as they
discern few rays of the truth breaking
through the darkness that has shut it out
the work of constructing arguments
against it begins. They think they see
innumerable obstacles that are impossible
to surmount. The wise men are in the
condition of one wakened out of a sound
sleep at the peep of day. He beholds the
streaks of gray dawn throwing irregular
CLEANS Of light over the landscape which
appears to be covered with dark, forbid
ding objects. But if he waits little
while till the sun appears above the
horizon, he will discover that these dark,
formidable looking objects were only
shadows that flee before full blaze of
light.
So it is with the wise men. At the first
CLEANS of light of the-to them-new
truth, they see the intervening space COW
cred with formidable objections, and they
commence building arguments against
the new theory or principle before inves-
tigating it further and acquiring a thor
ough knowledge of the subject. The
arguments of an ignorant wise man are
the materials out of which he hastily
builds wall of prejudice which excludes
from his mind the light. Thus shut out
or i'll from a knowledge of the truth he
continues battling against the formidable
shadows that appear in the early dawn.
The multitude do not argue against
anything. They stand still and have no
barrier of prejudice between them and
the slowly frightening truth. Finally
they cease to see as through glass
darkly but stand in the broad glare of
light. They move forward to embrace
and crown the new truth, and in their
march break down the barriers of preiu.
dice which the wise men are ensconsed
behind trampling them and their soph-
istries in the dust. Then the wise men
pull themselves together, shake off the
dust of their shattered wisdom and sub
NIT 10 the established fact.
Every reformer and every reform that
have sought to drag men from their
slavery to error and superstition have had
these wise men to contend with. Every
explorer of natures secrets has met the
wise men, and many have been put to
death and all have suffered persecution
and abuse from them. They proved con-
clusively to Columbus that he was mis-
taken about finding a new world The
great astronomers found the wise men
able to refute their theories Of the stars
At later period the wise men demon
strated the inlpossibility of an ocean
cable. But the pioneers of thought
have disregarded the wise mems wisdom
and kept on their explorations.
These wise men though ever defeated
continue to surround themselves by
wall of prejudice and keep up the battle.
They deny eve, ything that to them seems
new. Today they are busy in the field of
economics. They never meet the seers
and prophets with arguments and reason
but from their narrow house of prejudice
and ignorance, hurl abuse, hard names,
sophistries and misconceptions.
"a little learning is dangerous thing"
These wise men in their narrow walls of
prejudice are wonderfully ignorant and
mostly dishonest. They are among the
most formidable obstacles that prevent
the nations and peoples deliverance from
the hand of the gold oligarchy