Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-12

This nation has gone money mad.
For ten years this land has enjoyed
material wealth and prosperity such
as the world has never before seen.
and during that time this madness
has come upon us in full force. We
have forgotten the commandment
Thou shalt not steal and we are
taking the position that it does not
matter how money is obtained so long
as it is got We. cannot continue in
this road Indefinitely and secure the
continuance of free institutions. The
dangers of peace will destroy this
country at the present rate, just as
certainly as might disastrous war"
Such was the keynote of a speech
on "The Patriotism of Peace" deliv-
cred by Governor J. Frank Hanly of
Indiana, last Sunday afternoon at the
y. M. G. A. auditorium, in Chicago,
in which the Hoosier chief executive
sounded vehement note of warning
10 America against allowing continu-
ance of graft, official corruption and
disregard for law in the scramble for
plunder
Paints Dark Picture.
Governor Hanly painted dark
picture of conditions in thu United
States and insisted that the very life
of the nation was dependent upon a
speedy return to saner ideas and more
honest methods. The speaker was
received with enthusiasm when he
was introduced by Judge Orrin N.
Carter, the chairman
Il am not a pessimist, but | am
not so much of an optimist that | do
not wish to hear and tell the truth
squarely and fairly" said Governor
Hanly. Il believe there is more good
in the world today than there ever
has been before, yet l certainly be-
lieve there are conditions in the Unit
ed States that must cause every man
who is a believer in free institutions
to tremble.
THE patriotism of war has been
shown by our forefathers on many a
battlefield Yet there is another
kind of patriotism which is no less
noble and which will prove to be no
less effective if thoroughly aroused
that is the patriotism of peace. The
Union OF the United States was made
possible by the patriotism of peace,
for it was that which gave us our con-
stitution in which liberty lives and
moves and has her being-liberty but
t,essed by law.
Money Before Honesty.
No consideration of law or honor
Or honesty have stood between money
and the getting OF it. 1t is truer than
ever that if a dollar were hung up on
the other side of hades many Ameri-
cans would take the jump. 1t seems
to me that conditions are pretty bad
and that the patriotism of peace must
he at low ebb when official conscience
becomes nonexistent: when civic
rights are hut words: when leeislat-
ors sell the law and traffic in the law
making power; when captains Of in
Gust1y ar utterly careless as to how
ends are achieved as long as they
are reached: when common honesty
is common no longer: when money is
some ething and honor nothing.
''Fhere is q treason of war. There
should be treason of peace. Such
treason should be punishable by the
greatest penalties. The treason of
peace is worse than the treason of
war. II is very real treason. 1t cor
rupts a people: it debauches citizen
shin: ii pollntes power given by the
ciIizens; it makes ofticialdom of state
or nation rojten: it tarries on famil-
lar terms in the walls of congress:
ii is found IN the courts of Justice.
both in the jury box and wearing the
judicial ermine.
Selfish Interests First
This treason always appeals to
selfish interests II cries. More mon
eN--better position Greed,and avar-
ice and The thsi Of gain are its child
rc, and these lie at tho bottom of
IS ner cent of the wrongs in state and
MAJ jon. Thrse are what have taken
possession of carsain captains of in
Guetry who care fnr nothing but them
selves: these are responsible for the
shameful story Of the New York life
insurance companies: these are what
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