Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-10

tTdue is lot BONerueu DE price, Dut ny
sentiment, 1t is difficult to see how
our trade prospects have been advanc-
ed by policy which, according to the
report of our commanding general, has
produced for us hatred which Is wide
spread"
Awhile ago especially privileged peo-
pie said they saw panic coming and
to avoid this panic, which would cause
great misery to the masses, the secre-
tary of our treasury deposited large
sums in large banks. Afterward he
did not collect interest on these depos-
Its, official courtesy seeming to require
that interest be paid to the especially
privileged assimilators and dissimu-
lators, but never required by them. But
after the panic had by such financial
wisdom been averted the secretary
made still larger deposits and made
them permanent; this probably In the
interest of the permanent averting of
panics.
With similar assurance, when the
farseeing wisdom of these assimilat-
ing monopolists who control our ad-
ministrative affairs has involved us In
a war without American precedent,
which includes in Its effects no end Of
shame and suffering and loss to liberty
and national honesty, those who have
inflicted the injury do not offer any
reparation whatever. Even little chill
dren know that it Is dishonorable not
to apologize or pay for what one
breaks, that fault denied is twice
committed, but the assimilators lob
bied during the whole session Of con-
gress for the removal of the smallest
Inconvenience to themselves, even In
the collecting from their patrons of
war stamp taxes, and at the same time
they lobbied for the continuing of the
in1iction Of the injury and making the
injury permanent, with n standing
army three or four times the former
size.
The un-Christian missionary impulse
SO quickly developed reminds one a lit
tie Of the crusades, only those were
against the unspeakable Turk, who
had done harm, while this is against
fellow Christians with cruel MOham-
medan aids, under some impression
that their foreign Christianity needs
Americanization, which only an Amer
lean army can accomplish. In those
old crusading times thrifty landlords
who staid at home quietly proited by
the rise Of farm products and the tenn
porary fall of the price Of land, ena-
bling them to get possession of much
land. When the enriched landlords
heard that infidel blood made deep riv-
ers in the holy city, he was able to
say, 1T is the Lords will" Now the
one among our rulers whose pen could
have brought every crusading soldier
home points at destiny.
The American flag during n tempo
rary national alteration tloated few
days over Mexico. Buchanan favored
a declaration that eve must fulfill that
destiny which Providence has in store
for both countries Common sense
prevailed over destiny at that time.
Destiny" says Professor Sumner of
Yale, has nothing rational in 1t. To
invoke it in public affairs is n refusal
to think or to be governed by reason,
= the empty and silly talk Of the
last two years about destiny"
A study OF "the law of the crowd" is
in The New England Magazine for Feb
ruary in the account of the destruction
of the Charlestown convent by Bos-
ton mob in 1884. "This law" it says,
causes men in masses to act either
much better or much worse than they
would as individuals. Over and over
again history has shown that when Il
number of persons are gathered to-
gether, whether in an ordinary mob a
convention, a legislative assembly or
an audience of any kind, or when
other otherwise unrelated persons are
held together by religious, political or
social beliefs, forming them into par
ties, sects or castles, the action Of men
so formed into crowd is in many
cases entirely different from what
ones experience of them as individuals
would lead him to expect"
When a hypnotic operator goes too
far in his demands, he wakes up GER
tain sensitives, and gradually opposing
cries change the current of thought.
The revolving character of this war on
liberty Is awakening a new class of
people to the character of their leaders
the monopolists. Many draw the line
at actual murder. Lawyers know the
danger of precedents established in
evading the constitution. Literary
people, acquainted with history, see
striking condolences between many
recent acts and acts occurring when
republics were changing to empires.
Professor Sumner says:
Mckinley will not wear a crown
and congress will not introduce uni
yersal military service next winter.
Derision of such fears, is cheap since
nobody entertains them. 1t is the lit
tie beginnings which tell"
1t is said that ex-Speaker Reed being
invited to speak in the interests of the
imperialstic and military beginnings
replied, mo, my conscience has been
scared enough" 1t was advertised,
without his knowledge, it is said, that