The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-05

Weighing. When a 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 a bitter race feeling
and to cause the people of the opposite
race to lose sight Of the abominable |
act of the criminal himself and in ad-
dltlon, by the prominence they give to
the hideous deed they undoubtedly tend
ITO excite in other brutal and depraved
natures thoughts of committing it.
Swift, relentless and orderly punish
ment under the law is the only way by
which criminality of this type can per-
manently be supprest.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and capi-
tai, with the questions affecting both
corporations and trades unions, there is
one matter more important to remem-
Der than aught else, and that is the in
finite 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 con-
nected with wealth, into campaign of
hysterical excitement and falsehood in
which the aim is to infame to madness
the brutal passions of mankind. The
sinister demagog and foolish vsiona-
ries who are always eager ITO under
+oL on of
sometimes seek to associate themselves
with those working for a genuine re-
form in governmental and social meth
DDS, and sometimes masquerade as
such reformers. In reality they are the
worst enemies of the cause they pro-
fess 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 ef-
fort to better what is bad in our social
and governmental conditions To
preach hatred of the rich man as such,
to carry on a campaign Of SANDER and
invective against him, to seek to mis-
4, lead and indame to madness honest
men whose lives are hard and who
have not the kind of mental training
= which will permit them to appreciate
y the danger in the doctrines preached
2 all this is to commit crime against
! the body polite and to be false to eve
: ry worthy principle and tradition Of
e American national life. Moreover,
: While such preaching and such aglta-
Il tion may give a livelihood and a GER
: tain notoriety to some of those who
: take part in it, and may result in the
y temporary political success Of others,
! in the long run every such movement
2 will either fail or else will provoke a
y violent reaction, which will itself result
= not merely in undoing the mischief
wrought by the denagog and the agi-
!; tator, but also in undoing the good thai
d the honest reformer, the true upholdel
a of popular rights, has painfully and la
boriously achieved Corruption is new
a err so rife as in communities where the
If demogog and the agitator bear full
h sway, because in such communities al
II moral bands become loosened, and hys-
r terra and sensationallsm replace the
n spirit Of sound Judgment and fair
" dealing as between man and man. In
ir sheer revolt against the squalld anar-
l. chy thus produced men are sure in tht
h end to turn toward any leader who car
n restore order, and then their relief al
e being free from the intolerable bur,
d dens of class hatred, violence and dem
e agogy is such that they can not fol
: some time be aroused to indignation
10 against misdeeds by men of wealth; *
a that they permit new growth Of tbs
lie very abuses which were in part respon
J. sible for the original outbreak, The
st one hope for success for our people lie'
Is in a resolute and fearless, but sane an(
If cool-headed, advance along the patti
o. marked out last year by this very con
is gress There must be q stern refusa
~ to be mislead into following either tina
g. base creature who appeals and pandert
tie to the lowest instincts and passions II
W order to arouse one set Of American!
l. againt their fellows, or that other crea
L. ture. equally base bat no baser, who il
III O spirit of greed, or to accumulate O.
Is add to an already huge fortune, seek
lg to exploit his fellow-Americans witt
h, callous disregard to their welfare o
s, soul and body The man who debauch
lie es others in order to obtain high of
ty flee stands on an evil equality of cor
IN ruption with the man who debauche
st others for financial profit; and whel
Y; hatred is sown the crop which spring
of up can only be evil,
c. The plain people who think-the me
We chanics, farmers, merchants, worker
le with head or hand, the men whom
"a American traditions are dear, who Low
d. their country and try to act decentl
Re by their neighbors, owe it to them
lie selves to remember that THE most dam
Id aging blow that can be given popula
" government is to elect an unworth
'ol and sinister agitator on platform o
Sc violence and hypocrisy. Wheneve
a. such an issue is raised in this countr
m nothing can be gained by fl inchin
lie from it, for in such case democracy /
ne itself on trial. popular self-governmen
n under republican forms is itself on tri
Of al. The triumph of the mob is just a
of evil thing as the triumph of the plu
D. tocracy, and to have escaped one dan
Id ger avails nothing whatever if we sue
Id cumb to the other. In the end tn
or honest man, whether rich or poor, VIII
lie earns his own living and tries to dea
10 justly by his fellows, has as much I
4 fear from the insincere and unworth
Up demagog, promising much and per
10 forming nothing, or else performin
TT nothing but evil. who would set on tn
e. mob to plumber the rich, as from tn
Mt crafty corruptionistf who for his ow