The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-07

| tAtN 9NiiiSli anu liit cblI upt
 Dr. Josiah Strong is moved by con
 tempt for such pusillanimity to ejacu
 late;
 Some one has said wits as mucl
 truth as wit The mediaeval sovereign
 hired a fellow to be his fool, but thu
 popular sovereign often hires the fellov
 to be his master and is his own fool '
 And Bishop Henry c. Potter reminds
 us that that mechanism which we cal
 the state is contingent at every turr
 upon the voluntary consent, the more O
 less trained intelligence, and, above all
 the personal integrity of the indiyidu
 al,'
 I When we consider that, in the words
 of Andrew D. White Every great re
 public the world has yet seen has fail
 ed,' we are moved to inquire with E
 Benjamin Andrews:
 Will our beloved America continue tc | tread the exalted road which has wit.
 messed her career thus far, or is she one
 day to halt in her mighty march and
 then droop and perish like all the other republics before herr"
 These are no idle warnings. It is a
 mere superstition to fancy that "the
 Lord looks out for children, fools and the United States" If ours is to avoid the fate of republics no less confident | in the past, it must be by virtue Of an | intelligent, alert and militant citizen | ship.
 l THE RESPONSIBLE GLASSES IN
 DICTED. 1 There are three classes of citizens not mutually exclusive, who by virtue of | their advantages, position and profess | sion are especially responsible for the 1 malversation of the primaries and It's resultant evils These classes are the l educated, the business and the religious men of our country, who so generally, actuated by fastidiousness timidity, la ziness CT a despair which is practically atheism, leave the politicians to their own devices. President Barnard de- plores that the majority of cultured men hold themselves throughout all their lives entirely aloof from the polit- ical field and look upon the struggles of politicians with something of the same kind of interest with which they might regard a bull fight or gladia- torial conflict"
 Wendell Phillips also mourns the fini- cal aloofness of the educated class T urge on college-bred men that as class they fail in republican duty when they allow others to lead in the agitation of the great social questions which stir and educate our age. And our present min ister to England, Joseph Choate, thus assails not only the educated but also the business class T confidently be- lieve that the decay of our politics, which all must acknowledge, has arisen in no small measure from the neglect of their political rights and duties for the last twenty years, by the great body of educated men of the country, and the still greater body of the business men of the country, whereby the manage ment of party affairs has been left so largely to those who make it q trade and a profession, Alas, that it must be said that the vast majority of pro- fessed Christian men rest under sim liar indictment. Watch and pray is the injunction of their Master laid upon them. They may pray, but assuredy multitude ef them do not watch. Let them remember the language of Milton, who not only wrote Paradise Lost, but political pamphlets likewise. and mia gled in the political strife of his day: "f cannot praise fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed that never sallies out and sees her ad- versary but sinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat" There is growing feeling that the old Puritan was right in his conception of { ;,4t,. nr and hi tlxyc ,n is being taught" says Samuel B. Capen, lis that the religious light of to-day has | to do with the world that now is as | well as that which is to come" Good | Archbishop Ireland says, [ lis certainly great religious and moral ' duty"
 And ex-President Cleveland adds in his weighty fashion:
 ''All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christianity results in the purest patriotism in the most [ fidelity to public trust and in the best type of citizenship"
 And yet not one out of five of those who pray, "Thy kingdom come" attend he primary, one of the most fateful hu- nan agencies for forwarding or retard- ng the kingdom of righteousness.
 The abuses of the caucVs lie at the ioor of the three recreant' classes-the educated, the business and the religious. n the words of George William Curtis, The fault is in the honest and intelli- ,ent workshop and office, in the library md the parlor, in the church and the school"
 WHAT MUST WE DO?
 How long will the people consent to e robbed of their political heritagle and permit selfish politicians to enchain hem?
 Edmund Burke has said; Depend pon it, the lovers of freedom will be rec"
 But love is no languid passion. When hey are 'lovers' of their freedom and heir rights they will rally, tilt lances ,ith the adversary and break his ranks. It is on the minority of the people and n the individual effort of it that the sue depends" says Charles Eliot Nor