Blue-grass blade., 1906-02-11

aud adopt the standard of honor OF
the socaIled higher classes, make 1t
vitality important that every good man
and every good woman unite and com
bine their efforts to depose and de-
throne all vile and vicious leaders, in
the social, business, political and reli-
gious world, and replace them with
men whose moral sense is their guild
png star in life.
II The writer of this article is firmly
pf the opinion that there are enough
tooo men and good women in this re-
tublic, If they were aroused, organic
AZ and unified, to fill every public
station In life with men of probity and
h1nor, and until this is done the de-
pfaved morality of the Morgans and
BPlmonts, the Baers and Rockefellers
Will furnish the standard of morals
fot the masses, and constantly
swelling stream OF criminals will find
their 3gay into the penitentiaries of
the country.
There is a small but powerful min
ority Of higher individualized and in
dependent men and women now at
work to create higher ideals for the
masses, and the outlook is hopeful,
they y$ill finally succeed with the
whips and throngs of righteous indig-
nation, in driving bad men from every
exalted station in life, and replace
them Efth men who will be an inspir-
alton to the rank and file of our coun-
try.
The moral man is the highest pro-
duct of icosmic energy, and it is a
high honor to any man to assist the
natural process of evolution, until the
moral sense is SO highly developed,
that the conduct of every man and
every woman will promote the happi-
ness of the entire race.
Our achievements in the physical,
he4licai, technical and biological
sciences, and our material greatness
and grandeur, infinitely surpass any
other period in the worlds history,
but our morality is but little, IL any,
in advance Of the standard that pre-
vailed during the long, dark night Of
the middle ages; infanticide, suicide,
homicide, prostitution and many other
crimes, are as prevalent now as in
any former period of the worlds his
tory, and the pirates who control our
commercial seas are far more dan
gerous than the robber chieftians who
plundered Europe for centuries dur
ing the black night Of the dark ages.
To make pillage, plumber, robbery
and brigandange odious, and to make
morality respectable and fashionable,
should be the chief aim and purpose
Of every good man and every good wo-
man, until the twentieth century shall
be made as famous for its virtues as
the nineteenth Tor It's material great
ness and gFandepf- !.
~ the sta.ls6 l,azo i i act
strange thSSsfie masses o. men fol.
low the fashions and adopt the stan
dards of honor of the classes, because
in the beginning of society among
primitive men t was vitality essential
that the many should be ruled by the
few; this was the beginning of gov
eminent, but thanks to the great nat
ural law Of evolution all men and wo-
men in civilized countries are now
powerful and wise enough to create
their rulers, and to demand of them a
high order OF greatness and goodness.
In view of this fact, in view of this
power which resides in the people,
how strange it is that they will de-
base and degrade themselves by ele-
waiting to leadership such vile charac-
tiers as David B. Hill, Tom Plat, Tom
Taggart, Morgan and Belmont, the
Hydes and Baers and many others,
who embody all that is evil In the
world.
1t is wholly unnecessary to drag in
to the light the leaders in many other
departments of our social life, to
prove that deep revival of morality
is now urgently and imperatively de-
manded.
There is an infinite distance be-
tween the great and the gentle Chan
ming and the blatant imposter Dowie;
there is an infinite distance between
Jefferson and Lincoln and Tom Plat
and David B. Hill, and it is a sacred
duty that each of us owe to posterity
to smash all vicious idols that people
are now worshipping, and build affairs
in every hamlet and village for the
worship of the beautiful, the good and
the true.
T. ]. BOWLES, M. D.
Muncie, Ind. Jan. 16, 1906.
milwaukee Daily News, Jan. 16, 'O6.)
GlRARD AND ROCKEFELLER.