Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-20
THE OPPOSITION TO REAL PROG
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AT the Vine Street church. Cincin.
natl, Herbert 8 Bigelow took III q
text Kipling's lines They If their
own front door is shut, they'll swear
the whole worlds warm" Mr.. Bige-
low said in part:
What you want In q machine 10 the
maximum amount of power with the
least possible waste. It lie not enough
that the engine is able to pull the
load. How much coal does It consumer
How much friction Is theref
Human society is machine that
must submit to the same test. Az to
the many triumphs of 'our civilization.
We may agree. But what is the per-
centage of lossr What Is the cost !.
Nay, IL 1t not obvious that there is 4
serious flaw in the work.
TIE past week q man was arraigned
in the local police court for stealing
coal. He had no work and his wife
and q sickly daughter were suffering
with the cold. Therefore, he helped
himself to coal from q railroad train.
But he was sent to the WORK house.
The judge said: Il don't know
what l would do If I were placed In
a similar position.
It would seem that there IL some
thing out of order when the Deca-
logue will not work. Why do We ap-
prove of the humanity Of this judgef
1s 1t not because We have vague
consciousness that the misery which
drove this wretch to steal is itself
the consequence of other and more
respectable forms Of stealing.
We cannot condemn the judge fir
suspending the moral law when We
read in .the report of the Industrial
Commission of Congress this official
statement:
1T cannot be long before the an
thracite coal business of the United
States in all it's enormous extent and
commercial value will be entirely
monopolized by few powerful fnan.
cial interests.
Last Monday man walked into
the police station, stated that he had
stolen clothes wringer and asked to
be arrested. The police were iIcredu-
lous and made investigation. They
found the wringer where the man said
he had hidden it and the man got q
coveted three.months sentence In the
workhouse
This same day another man came In
and requested that he be arrested. The
police sent him away. Later, he ap-
peared drunk. Then the prison doors
were more hospitable. The next morn
ing, In police court. when he was
sentenced to term in the work house,
he turned to an officer by his side and
said with evident satisfaction: Il
knew Id get it,
In the Hammond Street Station,
they have room. where, on these win
ter nights, you may always find men
lying down on the bare floor more
thickly than they will lie in their
pauper graves Now and then a man
applies for shelter who has uncom-
monty good clothes or gives others
signs that he is just down temporarily
and may get up again. The officer in
charge told me that it was their Gus.
tom to accord such persons the ''pri-
vilege of sleeping in one of the cells
with the prisoners.
That was sublime DIRE am of Jeffer.
son's-a republic which should pro.
tect everyone in his rights of life,
Liberty and the pursuit Of happiness.
Yet here are our fellow citizens in
this great republic committing
crimes that they may earn privilege of
wearing felon's stripes and make
sure Of a prisoner fare.
Are We those of whom KiplinQ
speaks2 Or have we been committing
the crime of which that great French
statesman spoke when he said: Il,
is not error which opposes the prog.
ress Of truth: 1t is Incidence, OBJ.
etinacy, the spirit f routine, every.
thing that favors inaction.