The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-17

80 Fi4pIl -
"lah" H''il,iai - PoLi1iedI pfOit out
~ the - character car
my i'@u - phblic calamity.
'it''1 49, 'his>S ssauI OF
eiafdctef whether on the stump
1f IN newspaper, magazine or
pDli' create q morbid. and
VICIOUS PubIlc sentiment. and It the
same t'fhe aet as q profound deterrent
- "p+t it'h ~ normal seiisftiFeHess
i'' tS'N - pitFNiii iHsm arom enter
liis me pubiic service at any price.
- an instance ~ point, / may men
non ihat one serious difficulty ncann
''TtH IN getting he right type Of
men 7" zig the Panama Canal is tine
teIta4hty that they silt be exposed.
pom "4tflohts ana, ! am sorry TO say.
sometimes, WITHIN. Congress - ut
Jerry feckIeSS assaults on their char
dctrt ana capacity.
At the RISK Of repetition let me-
say again that my plea is. not rol
immunity 70 but for the most IN
Sbafllg exposure Of the politician who
betfays his trust. Of the big business
men who makes OF spends his for
Inile IN lIlegitimate On corrupt ways.
mere should be 4 reSOlutc effort To
hGHt every such man out IF tile po-
SilIon ne has d~ts8raced. Expose the
CRIME. ana huut down the criminal:
but rem lrber that even In the ease Of
crime, If il IS attacked in sensational.
lurid ana ~untruthfut fashion, the at
tack may do more damage to the
public mind than the crime itself. 1t
Is because | feel that there should
be no rest in the endless war against
tn" forces OF evil that | ask hat the
war be conducted with sanity as well
a. with resolution. The men with
the muck-rake are often indispen-
sable TO the W~"ll-being Of society; but
only if they know when To stop raktng
the muck, and TO look upward to the
celeStlai crown above them, to the
crown Oh worthy e~ldeaVof. ihefe are
beautiful things above and round
about them; and if they gradually
grow to feel that the whole world II
nothing but muck, their power of
usefulness is gone. If the whole pic
ture is painted black there remains
no hue Whereby to single out the ra~~
Gals for distinction from their fell
lows Such painting finally induces
people affected by it come to the con
cluSion that no man is really black,
ana no man really white, but they are
all gray. In other words, they
neither believe i'll the truth of the at
tack, nor in the honesty of the man
who is attacked; they grow as sus-
plclous of the accusation as of the
o1lenSe; 1T becomes We'll nigh nope
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