Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

zS,snSSs in dirty. grimy,
work, that made
ES- you look like
the devil. Sup
pose the standard of living had been
increased-through no apparent fault
of yours-so that the best you could
get out of days work was little
house in an unpleasant part of town,
and that your children were not SO
warmly clad as you would like, and
your wife had to go without girl at
those times when it tore your heart to
see her bending over the wash tub.
Suppose that when she was sick she
had. to work right along, and that
death came to her and took her away
from you, when few dollars at the
right time would have saved her.
Suppose then, that when you were at
work some man whom you know
comes to work at 8 o'clock goes away
at half past three, looks at your grimy
work with that horrible lear of patron
iZing pity that heartless, spotless men
give to their fellows in the mire, sup
pose that you knew that his wife and
children were alive and happy by
reason of their money; suppose you
should overhear a remark which that
spotiess chap made which indicated
that he didn't think of you as human
being but merely human animal
In your anguish at death, in your
place from below, wouldn't you curse
God and man, law and society and
the scheme of things?
Think of this Mr.. Double. chinned,
water-eyed, crescent-vested plute; con-
slider that if your legs ached and your
home was cheerless and your children
Stunned at school by their snippy
little companions, what would you do?
Think of the man in the muck as your
brother; be decent and square; give
no charity, but give him justice. 1t
IS all right to be smart; to be keen in
business; to be forehanded. But with
your surplus of brains don't grind the
man under you. Pick. on one your
size. You, Mr.. Richman, by your
selhshness beget selhshness; you by
your Contemptuous offers of charity.
from purse running over with gains
got by law and not by justice, you
make anarchists, and by all that is
good, if you were below, with your
gross ingnorance of true manhood
and gentility, you would be bomb
throwing anarchist. The same kind
of heart that organizes a greedy
trust, incites men to deeds of violence.
The devil of greed and the devil of
rapine both come from wicked hearts
in different grades of society.
This country needs more ChriStiani
ty; more kindness of heart; more
the need is from the top more than
from the bottom. Labor agitators,
who break their word, are bad; they
are hurting all honest unions, but the
trust maker who laughs when his
dupes call for justice, the smooth"
parties in business are patterns for
dishonest labor agltators. We need
more business morality, more political
morality, more humanity in our deal
ings with each other. We are all in
the same boat, and the man in one
end of the boat doesn't pull his
weight, is as bad as the lazy agi-
tator in the other end. Sam Parks
went to the penitentiary as he should
have done. He was a scoundrel.
But the big jug-shaped rascals down
in Wall street, who hire high-priCed
attorneys to let them rob and plunder
inside the iaw-they should follow
Parks.
There is anarchy in high places as
| we'll as in low places. Neither justi-
fes the other, but the rich man has
less reason for his lawlessness than
the poor man. Each is selfish, each
is wrong; each will make the world
unhappier for his living. There is no
peace no contentment nor good ex-
cept in unselhsh kindness one to
the other. The slaves of poverty
who are bound to misery by poverty,
are no better than the slaves of
wealth who are bound to misery by
wealth. All wickedness is slavery; it
binds with iron chains. Goodness,
kindness, gentility, whether In low
estate or high estate, is truth, and the
s'truth shall make We free."-Wih
White.
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