Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06

toned whether the benefit has not
been at least as great to the white
people among whom these colored pu-
pills live after they graduate.
Be it remembered, Furthermore, that
the individuals who, whether from fol-
ly, from evil temper, from greed for
office or in spirit of mere base dema-
gogy, indulge in the infammatory and
incendiary speeches and writings which
tend to arouse mobs and to bring about
lynching not only thus excite the mob,
but also tend by what criminologists
call suggestion" greatly to increase
the likelihood of a repetition of the
very crime against which they are in
Weighing When the mob is composed
of the people of one race and the man
lynched is of another race, the men
who in their speeches and writings
either excite or justify the action tend,
of course, to excite bitter race feel
ing and to cause the people of the op-
posite race to lose sight of the abom-
Unable act of the criminal himself, and,
in addition, by the prominence they
give to the hideous deed they undoubt-
edly tend to excite in other brutal and
depraved natures thoughts of commit
ting it. Swift, relentless and orderly
punishment under the law is the only
way by which criminality of this type
can permanently be suppressed.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and cap
ital, with the questions affecting both
corporations and trades 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 violent class
hatred against all men of wealth. They
seek to turn wise and proper move
ments for the better control of cor
porations and for doing away with the
abuses connected with wealth into a
campaign of hysterical excitement and
falsehood in which the aim is to in
fame to madness the brutal passions
of mankind. The sinister demagogues
and foolish Missionaries who are always
eager to undertake such campaign
of destruction sometimes seek to as
sociate themselves with those working
for genuine reform in governmental
and social methods and sometimes
masquerade as such reformers. In
reality they are the worst enemies of
the cause they profess to advocate.
just as the purveyors of sensational
SANDER in newspaper or magazine are
the worst enemies of all men who are
engaged in an honest effort to better
what is bad in our social and govern.
mental conditions.
To preach hatred of the rich man as
such, to carry on a campaign of SIAN
der and invectiye against him, to seek
to mislead and inflame to madness
honest men whose lives are hard and
who have not the kind Of mental train
ing which will permit them to appre-
ciate 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 tradi-
ton of American national life. More
over, while such preaching and such
agitation may give livelihood and a
certain notoriety to some of those who
take part in it and may result in the
temporary political success of others,
in the long run every such movement
will either fail or else will provoke a
violent reaction, which will itself re-
suit not merely in undoing the mis-
chief wrought by the demagogue and
the agitator, but also in undoing the
good that the honest reformer, the
true upholder of popular rights, has
painfully and laboriously achieved.
Corruption is never so rife as in COM
munities where the demagogue 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 toward
any leader who can restore order, and
then their relief at being free from
the intolerable burdens of class hatred,
violence and demagogy is such that
they cannot for some time be aroused
to indignation against misdeeds by
men of wealth, so that they permit a
new growth of the very abuses which
were in part responsible for the orig.
inal outbreak. The one hope for sue.
cess for our people lies in resolute
and fearless but sane and cool headed
advance along the path marked out
last year by this very congress. There
must be a stern refusal to be misled
into following either that base creature
who appeals and panders to the low.
est instincts and passions in order tc
arouse one set of Americans against
their fellows or that other creature
equally base but no baSer, who in 6
spirit Of greed or to accumulate OF
add to an already huge fortune seeks
| to exploit his fellow Americans will
,, callous disregard to their welfare OF
soul and body. The man who de
bauches others in order to obtain 6
| high office stands on an evil equality
of corruption with the man who de
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