The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-24
THE GREATEST PROBLEM

Tie GRMAIEbT pkU8LNk,
The problems Of the purse are eve,
expressing whether in las life ola mar
or the ify OF u people At times they
appear to preclude all the other issues.
To the hungry man the problem of Oh
tanning fooG OF The money with which
to get food is The one overw neimine
and over stsIwiaa prcheu b ,
Let the hunger be appeased ana Tor the
time being at least the money question
ceases to be the paramount issue. The
KIT time the problem may be present
ed in SO different phase that old
alignments are forgotten, old ideas dis,
carded and old alliances dissolved.
we believe it would be difficult to
make CoSey the manufacturer, hold the
same views on the labor problem that
were held by Coxey the one time gen
era. of the army of discomfort and en-
forced idleness.
Running through the wolf OF history
either OF the man or of the nation, are
the eternal problems of right and
wrong. We nave seen this in che his
tory OF our own Countrywide National
Bank Charter, State Bank Currency,
The Resumption of Specie Payment,
Greenbacks, free silver-all were bread
and butter problems which have been
relegated by changed conditions and
by experience.
The problems involving right and
wrong are OF different nature. Com
promises may be devised, conscience
may be dulled, measures of expediency
may be passed, but ever with constant
recurrence under varying forms but
everlastingly the same, the problem of
right and wrong forces itself to the
fore.
The great, the stupendous, the Gull
minatipg wrong of all the centuries
has been in human slavery. 1t has
been the most cunning device of Satan
for the misery and shame of the slave
and the disgrace and degradation of
the master 1t is twice cursed. 1t
curses the owner and the owned. The
master is no les3 enslaved than he up-
on whose back the lash has fallen. The
sin OF slavery is world old and it's forms
have been many and insiduous 1t was
the primal curse of tilis country, and
every effort to compromise or to delay
has brought additional punishment.
Now again statesmen have been
,led into the error of temporizing or
even pampering to this great wrong,
and every time the country has been
made to suffer.
Slavery means not alone the posses
sion of the body of the slave. The in
dividual no more than the nation can
exist half slave, hall free. No person
is absolutely free. All must submit to
the will OF others. But as we approach
freedom and the ability to exercise Ill
with discretion, we approach the mill
lenium.
Slavery in the United States exists
in two forms-industrial slavery
caused by the dependence of abor up
on capital, a slavery from which the
trades union is rapidly not only eman-
cipatiDg its followers bu5in many cases
reversing the position: and the slavery
of the soath-the substance of the
slavery of before the war, a slavery
that is actually growing worse and
more pronounced from day 20 day
Every day that the present southern
situation is tolerated forges another
link in the chains that are binding the
whole people. Every day of grace is
one added day OF disgrace.
The law of retribution is as newt
able as fate itself. The National sin
must be wiped out in National suffer-
ing. The greater and the more pro-
longed the sin, the greater shall be
the sorrowing, the more poignant
shall be the grief We have heard
many apologists for the subversion OF
the constitution and the political bond
age of the south. We have never heard
any one so bold as to say that it was
right. No man ever sank so low but
TRAIT the apologist was reaGv to relieve