The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-19
fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop

fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop
Hooker, wrote:
"He that goeth about to persuade a
multitude that they are not so we'll
governed as they ought to be, shall
never want attentive and favorable
hearers; because they know the man
ifold defects were unto every kind of
regimen is subject, but the secret
lets and difficulties. which in public
proceedings are innumerable and in
evitable, they have not ordinarily the
judgment to consider.
Danger In Social Tendencies.
"The truth should be kept constant
ly in mind by every free people desir-
ing to preserve the sanity and polse
indispensable to the permanent success
of self-government. Yet, on the
other hand, it is..vital not to permit this
spirit of sanity and self-command to
degenerate into mere mental stagna-
ton. Bad though state of hysteri-
though the results are which come
from the violent oscillations such ex-
citement invariably produces, yet a
sodden acquiescence in evil is even
worse. At this moment we are pass
ing through period of great unrest
social, political and industrial unrest.
1t is of the utmost importance for our
future that this should prove to be
not the unrest of mere RIGHTEOUSNESS
against life, of mere dissatisfaction
with the inevitable inequality of con-
ditions, but the unrest of resolute
and eager ambition to secure the bet
terment of the individual and the ma
tion. So far as this movement of
agitation throughout the country takes
the form Of fierce discomfort with
evil, of a determination to punish
the authors of evil, whether in indus
try or politics, the feeling is to be
heartily welcomed as sign of healthy
life.
If, on the other hand, it turns
into mere crusade of appetite
against appetite, of contest between
the brutal greed of the ''haves,'' then
it has no significance for good, but
only for evil. If it seeks to establish
line of cleavage, not along the line
which divides good men from bad. but
along that other line, running at right
angles thereto, which divides those
who are less we'll off, then it will be
. fraught with immeasurable harm to
i the body polite
Wealthy and Poor Alike.
eve can no more and no less af-
ford to condone evil in the man of
capital than evil in the man of no
capital. The wealthy man who ex-
ults because there is failure of just
. ice in the effort to bring some trust
\ magnate to an account for his misdeeds
is as bad as, and no worse than, the
so-called labor leader who DANGEROUSLY
e strives to eNcitea a foul class feeling
e on behalf OF some other labor leader
a who is implicated in murder. On,
attitude is as bad as the other, and n,
n worse; in each case the accused i:
e entitled to exact justice; and il
neither case is there need of action b,
others which can be construed int,
n an expression of sympathy for crime.
e cit is prime necessity that if the
4 present unrest is to result in perman
4 ent good the emotion shall be trans
$ lated into action, and that the action
shall be marked by honesty, sanity
e and self-restraint. There is might,
; little good in mere spasm of reform
r The reform that counts is that which
comes through steady, continuou!
/ growth; violent emotionalism leads te
q exhaustion.
n Continued in next issue).