The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-07
HYPNOTIZED AMERICA.

There Is something wrong will
| America.
On Thanksgiving day this year tn,
president of the United States was de
nouncod with insulting language by
negroes ut mass meetings In New Yorl
City.
On Saturday two tobacco stemmeries
down In Kentucky were set atire ant
totally destroyed, at n loss of $4,000
by mob of 800 men because the stem
mories were alleged to belong to tn,
tobacco trust.
Public sentiment has been allowed
to run away with the public ant
America has lost It's head Constant
agitation by great many newspapers
number of magazines and their muck
rake writer's. and by officials In mighty
seats, has created an era of disturb
anco In this prosperous land that Is
not only unwholesome but, as was
demonstrated In the two incidents men
toned above. utterly anarchistic anC
completely dangerous.
That mob OF 500 men down In Ken
tucky who marched to the two loca
stommories and set them atire, are no.
guilty of their deed The law of the
land could not morally hold them re
sponsible for that crime. They never
would have done what they did hu
for the everlasting vicious agitation
that has Historically swept this coun
try for the past two years. Upon the
persons, therefore, who ahve created
the unrest and the anaWhistic seusa
ionaliSm. rests the guilt
The 500 men in Kentucky only die
with matches what men In more re
sponsiblo positions have been doins
for many moons with tongues and type
writers, The destruction with flame
was only one OF the minor results o
the destruction with suggestion tina
has been going on, The one was this
concrete act. resultant from the alb
| >IA2Sl dSINaIlNus
America has allowed Itself 70 bt
hypUotized and il is time for the hyp
nottSr to snap his fingers and brius
this country 70 its senses. Suggestion
works quickly upon the human mind
very quickly upon the American mind
We are impreSSioniStic as q people
and il takes but a word 70 iufiams our
emotions, Upon the man, therefore
who is entrusted with the ear Of tbs
public, rests a most grave responsible
ity, That man is he in official position
TO whom the public looks for guidance
In thought and law; he who grtnds on
copy for the newspaper and the mag
azine. Uncle Sam has given too much
liberty 70 the hypnotiStS and it is high
time that the performance were
stopped and the audiences money re
/ euaded.
To tell the truth were ever an I'd
mirable trait and q desired end IL
msn, To tell one incident as fndica
tive Of the whole truth is often mis-
leading and, where misleading, grossly
wrong This country has had held III
70 it's gaze within the past two year,
Incidents Of corruption until the pub
lie Is black IN the face These Incl
dents have been given Is Indicative o.
the whole condition Of political ana
commercial affairs in the United
States, The people Of this republic
have gone mad Us q result, and The
| frenzy has made iconoclasts of the
whole nation, more or less. And the
icoRcclasG was ever a dangerous mem
Der OF society
II The general public does noe discrin
mate between the iIe points that SONS
officials would scar on their minds
| The hypnotic suggestion does noe al
ways transfer iust clearly to the sub
iective brain. And there is trouble tc
pay,
THE honest rich and the dishonest
RICH in Gther words. while it may
mean a great deal to its author, is an
expression which CARRIES only con,
fused ideas that all rich are dishonest
SO far as the masses ara concerned
AS one result, 800 men marched down
10 two tobacco stemmeries and applied