Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-02-03

no lot except to bear its burdens.
The publications called magazines
have, for the most part, gravitated in
the same direction, and are made up of
flattering pictures and fusome biog-
raphies of Captains Of Industry
often in cases where chevaliers of in
dustry would more accurately describe
them,-or are instant in defense of
economic systems which are thrifty
through means which Burke once
called ''iniquitously legal" Those Of
us-and we are not so very old-who
remember the Harper's "Basy Chair"
when George William Curtis sat in 1t,
and when from its occupant came
trumpet-tongued notes for freedoms
cause in every relation of life, find 1t
hard now to realize the fact that this
same Easy Chair" had a mortgage
on 1t foreclosed by Mr.. j. Pierpont
Morgan, who,-or whose some alter ego
or another, Is now the mortgage in
possession"
Our higher institutions of learning,
in an elder day the nurseries of gen
erous impulses and hopeful missions
to humanity and which then were not
only open on an equal footing to rich
and poor, but whose harvest of useful
5 ness was white alone to the reaping Of
! self-respecting and self-respectful eff
| fort, such as is generally the only pat
rimony Of honorable poverty,-these
Q seats of culture are engaged In eager
Y competition for the largesse Of the
4 rich, and proud to own the latter for
S patrons, ,--auctioning off their degrees
y till the republic of letters has became
G the aristocracy Of mammon.
h The enormous vacuum which time
d and events for the last few years have
l. busily created, Mr.. Bryan and tht
l. Commoner have gone n long way to
Is wards filing. Their subscription lis
e, shows this, beyond all question. W.
n hail the fact as one full Of hope. Th
Is fruits Of mir. Bryan's busy life of tn
ii recent past, which has eliminated II
e. personal hold upon the masses, TIL
is magnitude of which may be measures
II. by the malignity with which privileg
H. has pursued him and the dread i
III which he--without place or power
so is still held by its beneficiares ar
ch worth outstanding and keeping togetl
nd er in the interest Of the common we
n fare. We suppose that he has no othe
IT. ambition than that they should b.
no Those who know him do not nee
- telling that with him the person'
ne equation has passed the point whel
of it can be of Importance.
I'D His years work on the Common,
lie has been marked by his usual goo
to sense and his unvarying good natur
er- both of which have in the past BET
his salvation when the scribes al
ere pharisees have been lying In wait
ers trap him in his words. The sin mo
di- often imputed to him now Is that
re. ''arrayng class against class v
em do not purpose discussing here wheth
Ich there are, or ought to be- such thin
lar as Glasses" in our midst, or, IL the
use are, who Is to blame for It, What '
sed do wish to point out and emphasi
Of Is that the real accusation consists
,,-- this that the Commoner does Il
the acqulesce In the proposition that '
my should be content to let what t
of friends OF privilege are pleased to C
to well enough, alone Such doctrl
wn makes good Turks, but not good Am
the leans.
the "Tell me-" says Walter Sava
hey Landor whether mud is not said to
the settled Wnen IL Sinks 10 the DOttO
for and whether those who are about
clal sink State do not, In like mann
late talk about settling IT." CourageC
but healthful agitation, ,-agitat
ach which attacks abuse, however secur
i in fortified behind the ramparts of pr
the ilege and Is not dismayed by the
Ders cusation OF demagogy. or the hi
boots Of IA venal press, serves to aer
al the public atmosphere, which, breatl
that with fun heart by the people, '
) In give strength and vigor to the co
w. try, so that 1t shall indeed have
thin sound mind in IL sound body"
but There is all the greater need of Il
5 of now that even the ancient landma
IN of duty are being torn down, in or
hetl. that selfishness without hindranc
fest greed restrained by no law, human
Divine, may enter and seize upon
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