The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-08-30
With Which to Jar the Grand Old
Party Out of Its RutS
The Public Conscience Must Be Awakened
to Bring About Results
And Young Republican Thinks Nothing Can Do This Like
EVerIastingIy Dropping Pith sails of Truth

Among the many interesting exper
iments given by the late scientist
John Tyndall is one demonstrating
what pith ball can do. He observed
during the process that II he could
secure any regularity OF the action oi
this ball, the power lying dormant in
that insignificant ball OF plth, was be-
yond human calculation. In one OF
his illustrations he used the ball 70
produce a total destruction OF huge
rail OF iron. BY dropping number
OF pith balls upon the iron rail. lying
across two supports at either end, at
regular intervals, he soon caused the
huge bar to vibrate and finally the VI
bration became 30 great and strong
that the cohesive attraction gave way
and the big bar was destroyed by the
vibration, and by the pith ball, alone.
This illustration is common and an
old one, nevertheless II is a very good
one for practical application. II shows
what pith ball can be made to do in
the hands OF demonstrator Proper.
ly handled II can be made to break
huge bars Of iron. OF course, we un.
derstand that the ball itself does not
break the iron, but the great force II
creates upon the bar by a proper
method OF attack This method is
proper when Il is regular. An irregu-
lar attack amounts 10 nothing. A
steady, measured, precise, and regu-
lar attack does the work. Thus a
seeming impossibillty becomes a very
reasonable probability.
have made use OF the above crude
illustration 10 explain to any who are
wondering, why this series OF articles7
When the end7 Like the pith ball. the
single article will not vibrate the huge
bar" to the extent OF any material
results. But let number of these
"pith balls" be dropped on the public,
and, true TO that reslstless law OF me.
chanics. tho "publlc.bar" will begin 10
vibrate. VIII begin TO fermont The
supports will begin to feel the tremor
OF the huge body II is supporting, and
then look Wise and ask why all this
commotion7 The public will answer,
we know not why, only we know we
have been set In motion by some un.
seen power and we cannot now stop
until that power ceases upon us. That
unseen power was n little bunch OF
"plth balls" dropped with regularity
that brought into action that irreslst.
able force and was at the time un.
noticed. until the vibrations swelled
into the whole public bar until It's
effect became seemingly greater than
the cause. We then see the effect OF
a cause that might be said TO be so
small and so Insignificant that II Is
unseen. The mission OF these articles
Ia the same as tho object one has In
dropping a number OF plth balls upon
bar OF iron. II In intended II will
set tho public thought In motion. WIN
ubrato II TO its very foundations,
Tho supports mentioned as supporting
the bar may be nicely used as the
great political party upon which the
nation rests. We have tried 10 reach
tho bar through the supports. We And
this IL not practical for tho immense
weight OF the Iron bar" no tensions
the supporting party that no vibration
is possible. Al last we turn whore
we can secure a vibration. We turn
our attention 20 the people. We attack
them In various ways. We scold them,
We warn them. We blame thom. We
rldlcule them We plead with them,
We tax them. But an to NO avail
We have not proceeded In the right
direction. We have not struck the
key note. What We lacked was the
sense OF a John ryndall, with II the
experiment could be made successful.
We are now asaaulting the public In a
radically different manner than meth
ods In vogue, or those OF the past
We are now striking the public bar"
with a regularity that h bound In time
10 set the people In a state OF yibra.
Iion. which will awaken them 10 their
senses. We will drop our plth balls
upon thia public bar until Il will be