The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-04
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The Preaching OF Glass DistInctiOn IL
Severely Condemned.


The Preaching OF Class Distinction IL
Severely Condemned.
In dealing with both labor and capt.
tai, with the questions Affecting both
corporations and trade unions there
Is one matter more important to re-
member than aught else, and that Is
the infinite harm done by preachers OF
mere discomfort. These are the men
who seek to excite a violent class
hatred against all men OF wealth.
They seek to turn wise and proper
movements for the better control OF
corporations and for doing away with
the abuses connected with wealth. into
campaign OF hysterical excitement
and falsehood In which the aim is to
inhame 70 madness the brutal passions
of mankind. The sinister demagogs
and foolish Missionaries who are always
eager TO undertake such a campaign of
destruction sometimes seek to associ-
ate themselves with those working for
a genuine reform In governmental and
social methods, and sometimes mas
querade as such ref1rmers In reality
! they are the worst enemies OF the
cause they profess to advocate, just as
the purveyors of sensational slander
worst enemies OF all men who are en-
gagged IN an honest effort 70 better
what Is bad in our social and govern
mental conditions. To preach hatred
OF the rich nan as such, to carry on
campaign of slander and inVective
against him. to seek to mislead and
intiame to madness honest men whose
lives are hard and who nave not the
kind of mental training which will
permit them to appreciate the danger
in the doctrines preached-all this Is
to commit crime against the body
polite and To be false to every worthy
principle and tradition Of American
national life Moreover, while such
preaching and such agitation may give
a livelihood and a certain notoriety to
some Of those who take part in It, and
may result in temporary political
success OF others in the long run every
such movement viii either fail or else
will provoke a violent reaction. which
will itself result not merely in undoing
the mischief wrought by the demagoB
and the agitator, but also in undoing
the good that the honest reformeri
the true upholder OF popular rights,
has painfully and laboriously achieved.
Corruption is never so rife as in COM
munities where the demagog and the
agitator bear full sway because in
such communities all moral bands be-
come loosened, and hysteria and SEN
sationalism replace the spirit Of sound
judgment and fair dealing as between
man and man. In sheer revolt against
the squalid anarchy thus produced
men are sure In the end to turn to-
ward any leader who can restore order,
and then their relief at being free
from the intolerahle burdens OF class
hatred. violence and demagogy is such
that they cannot for some time be
aroused to indignation against mis-
deeds by men OF wealth; so that they
permit a new growth Of the very
abuses which We're In part responsible
for the. original outbreak The one
hope for success for our people lies in
a resolute and fearless, but sane and
cool-headed advance along the path
marked out last year by this very con-
gress. There must be stern refusal
to be misled into following either that
base creature who appeals and panders
to the lowest Instincts and passions in
order TO arouse one set of Americans
against their fellows, or that other
creature, equally base but no baser,
who in a spirit OF greed. or to aceu-
fortune seeks to exploit his fellow
Americans with callous disregard to
their welfare of soul and body The
man who debauches others in order 20
obtain a high Office stands on an evil
equality of corruption with the man
who debauches others for financial
profit; and when hatred Is sown the
crop which springs up can only be
Duty of the People.
The plain people who think--the
mechanics, farmers, merchants, work.
ers with head or hard, the men to
who love their country and try 10 act
decently by their neighbors, owe II TO
themselves to remember that the most
uIar government is TO elect an un-
worthy and sinister agltator on
platform OF violence and hypocrisy.
whenever tnCn an Issue IL IAlhtQ IN
this country nothing can be gained by
htpching from II. for In such case dem
ocracy Is itself on trial popular self
government under. republican forms Is
mob is just as evil thing as the tri-
umph OF the plutocracy, and TO have
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever If we sucuumb to the other.
In the end the honest man. whether rich
or poor, who earns his own living and
tries 70. deal justly by hig fellows. has
as much 70 fear from the inslncere
and unworthy demagog. promising
mueh and performing nothing, or else
performing nothing but evil, who
would set on the mob 10 plunder the
who, for his own ends. would permit
the common people to be exploited by
the very wealthy If we ever let this
government fall into the hands OF men
show ourselves false to Americas past
Moreover. the demagog and corrup-
ZIONIST often work hand in hand There
are at this moment wealthy reaction
aries OF such obtuse morality that they
regard the public servant who prose-
cutes them when they violate the law,
or who seeks to make them bear their
proper share Of the public burdens. as
being even more Objectionable than
the violent agitator who hounds on
the mob to plunder the rich. There is
nothing to choose between such a re-
dictionary and such an agitator; funda-
mentally they are alike In their selfish
disregard of the rights or others. ana
1T Is natural that they should JOIN in
opposition to any movement OF which
the ain, is fearlessly to do exact and
even justice to all.
Railroad Employees Hours.
call your attention TO the need OF
passing the bill limiting the number
OF hours Of employment of railroad
employees The measure Is very
moderate one and can conceive of no
serious objection to Il. Indeed. so far
as it is in our power. II should be our
aim steadily to reduce the number OF
hours OF labor, with as goal the
general introduction OF an eight-hour
day. There are industries IN which
II is not possible that the hours OF
abor should be reduced; just as there
are communities not far enough ad-
vanced for such a movement to be for
their good. or. II in the tropics. so sit
uated that here is no analogy between
their needs and ours IN this matter.
On the isthmus OF Panama. for in
stance. the conditions are. in every way
so different from what they are here
that an eiRht~hour day would be alb
surd; just as IL is absurd so far as the
sfhuus is concerned, where white la
bor cannot be employed to bother as
10 whether the necessary work is done
By alien black men or by allen yellow
men. But the wageworkers OF the
United Sf-Aas are OF 50 high a grade
that alike from the merely Industrial
standpoint and from the civic stand
uhorld our Ohfnrf