Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-04
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Danger In Their Relations Are DEM
agogues and Foolish Missionaries.

Danger In Their Relations Are DEM
agogues and Foolish Missionaries.
In dealing with both labor and capi-
tai, 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 n violent class
hatred against all men OF wealth,
They geek 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 hystercal excitement
and falsehood In which the aim II 20
iniame TO madness the brutal pas
sions Of mankind. rhe sinister dema-
kOgs and foolish Missionaries who are
always eager to undertake such
campaign OF destruction sometimes
seek to associate themselves with
those working for a genuine reform
In governmental and social methods,
and sometimes masquerade as such
reformers. In reality they are the
worst enemies of the cause they pro-
fess to advocate, Just as the puryey-
ors Of sensational SANDER in news
paper or magazine are the worst enc
mics of all mon who are engaged IN
an honest effort to better what ls bad
in our social and governmental con-
ditions. 70 preach hatred OF tho rich
man as such, To carry on a campaign
of SANDER and lnyectye against him,
to seek to mislead and inflame to
madness honest men whose lives are
hard and who have not the kind of
mental training which viii permit
them TO appreciate the danger In the
doctrines preached---all this Is to COM
NIT crime against the body polite
and to be false TO every worthy prin-
ciple and tradition OF American ma
tional life. Moreover, while such
preaching and such agitation may
give a livelihood and certain no.
torloty to some OF those who take
part i'm it, ana may result IN the
temporary political success of others,
In the long run every such move
ment vii either fell or else will
provoke a violent reaction, which will
itself result not merely in undoing the
mischief 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 sensa-
tionalism 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
kat .f ne katR 81 f,,,A
cradle burdens of class hatred, vio-
lence and demagogy is such that they
can not for some time be aroused to
indignation against misdeeds by men
of wealth 20 that they permit new
growth Of the very abuses which were
In part responsible for the original out
break. Tile one hope for success for
our people lies In a resoiute and fear
less, but sane and cool-headed. adj
vance along the path marked out last
year by this very Congress. There
must be stern refusal to be misled
Into following either that base creature
who appeals and panders TO the lowest
instincts and .assions In order to
arouse one set Of Americans against
their fellows, or that other creature,
equally base but no baser. who In q
spirit of greed or to accumulate or add
to an already huge fortune. seeks 10 ex-
plot his fellow Americans with call
lous disregard to their welfare Of soul
and body The man who debauches
others In order TO obtain a high Office
stands on an evil equality OF corrup-
ton with the man who debauches 9TH
ers for financial profit and when hat
red is sown the crop which springs up
can only be evil
The plain people who thnk--the me-
chanics, farmers, merchants, workers
with head or hand. the men to whom
American traditions are dear who love
their country and try to act decently
by their neighbors, owe II to themselves
to remember that the most damaging
blow that can be given popular gov
eminent Is to elect an unworthy ana
sinister agitato on a platform of vio-
lence and hypocrisy. Whenever such
an issue Is raised IN this country moth
ing can be gained by flinching from II.
for IN such case democracy Is Itself on
trial popular elf-government under
republican forms is itself on trial. The
triumph of the mob II just as evil
thing as the triumph of the plutocracy
and 20 have escaped one danger avails
nothing whatever II we succumb 10
the other In the end the honest
man, whether rich or poor, who
tdli1 Hi0 OMh iiNiilN li'N AiA'N ~ h''i
justly by his fellows has as much 10
fear from the inslncere and unworthy
demagogue, promising much and per-
forming nothing, or else performing
nothing but evil. who would set on the
mob to plumber the rich as from the
crafty oorruptionist. who, for his own
ends, would permit the common people
to be exploited by the very wealthy. II
we ever let this government fall into
the hands OF men Of either of these
two classes. we shall show ourselves
false to Americas past Moreover. the
domagogue and the corruptionist often
work hand in hand, There are at this
moment wealthy reactionarics OF such
obtuse morality that they regard the
public servant who prosecutes them
when they violate the law, or who seeks
to make them bear their proper share
OF the public burdens, as being e'en
more objectionable tnsn the violent
agitator who hounds on the mob to
plunder the rich. There is nothing
TO choose between such reactionary
and such an agltator fundamentally
they are alike in their selfish disregard
of the rights OF others; and 1t is natural
that they should join IN opposition to
any movement OF which the aim IL
fearlessly to do exact and even justice
to all
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