The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-07-31
GOLDEN RULE JONES.

IT WO in the Middle West achieved the unusual
in the office of Mayor. One of these Mr.. Pin
gree of Detroit. He had many ideas closely bord-
erng on Socialism His first distinction reached
during the last panic when he promoted the devotion of
vacant lots in the city to the raising of potatoes and
other vegetables by the INDECENT The experiment was
greater in the press than practice but
and its novelty gained fame for Mr. Pingree. who
twice elected Governor of Michigan the strength
Of it.
He personally honest man, but officially became
the dupe of designing politicians and many corruptons
occurred which expated in the pententiary Gov
Pingree credulous and confding that he
attempted executive interference with the courts pre-
vent the punishment of the who had abused his
fdence and despoied the State The net conclusion
upon his public that he admirably adapted
for public responsibility in community composed
tirey of men like himself, but in our composite and COM
pick society he failure
The other candidate for fame Golden Rule Jones'
Mayor of Toledo Ohio He proposed to make the
golden rule the guide of all conduct, which it should
be- and to the credit of mankind mostly recognized
the guide of conduct, followed sometimes at dis
tance. 1t is not only among Christians. Confucus
stated in form and Buddha in another but in both
to exactly the same meaning and purpose as in our
Scriptures Mr. Jones had ambitions i'll politics and
quite pronounced Socialist. He for Governor in
Ohio his own nomination and poed very large
VOTE but beaten.
He was rich man. made so by an invention which
occurred to him for the Improvement of oil pumps while
working as a laborer in the oil fields at Titusvle Pa
He often expressed the opinion that could hon
estly acquire million dollars, though he doubted
that his large fortune the measure and maxi
of what could acquire without violating
the golden rule That very human When the
French Revolution began aristocrat the OF
landed estates Before it was a arstocrat was
who trousers. SO doubtless there
few rounds lower the ladder of fortune who believe
that win hon w md h,
observance of the golden rule
He the author of great many epigrams, and de-
lighted in their coinage He took strangely distorted
eew of things, which found expression in epigram He
said: Police courts charnel houses for the desruc-
ton of human souls You cannot coerce people into
righteousness. This ignored the duty of the courts to
protect society against such prey upon it. Extend
ing the idea, he said As long the capital
of capital punishment exists, there will be murder
very shallow generalization in which the death penalty
for murder is put forward the only cause of crime
that has its motive wide range of passions If he
meant that there should be criminal defining
murder the killing of human being, the depth of his
observation increased because the conscience of
is ststute of murder recognizing it crime
nahum in in the absence of human law max
ing it crime Capital punishment is the highest form
of punishment, whether it be Imprisonment for life or
the death penalty. Mr. Jones did not seem to be
of this and doubtless 5mpeach the death pen
atty the OF murder instead of capital punish
ment, which may the death penalty not.
His singular blindness to the business operations of
a people appeared in his saying: Borrowers of money
fes real derects." The enterprise of country IS
kept going by energetic who hitch their judgment
to borrowed capital. According to Mr.. Jones man
who borrows money social derelict that s-to saw
a and danger to society. No logic Justify
such conclusion. One of the strongest inducements to
keep their credit good its capital IN
their enterprises. If it be social offense to borrow
money the world must be content stopping of the
wheels of enterprise The ability to lend money through
such the savings banks is of the leading
inducements thrift among the wage workers. who own
the hundreds of millions of money deposit with such
trustees The of enterprise who pay the wages Of
labor borrow this capital which belongs the very people
they hire and invest in enterprises which use more
labor and pay wages enabling the earners put
more money in the savings banks to be borrowed for
investments that furnish employment for more
labor and pay wages.
Personally Mr.. Jones socabe and kindly
who tried to live to his conception of the golden
rule but the faith hope and charity in his philosophy
were distorted in refraction by an unframed mind
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