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Why do these men de- No viai-
BILE poison has besa sdsa,nssAssU1
They left the witness stand alter ~
quest,on,ng with head. stsli had
hlSh. There have been no lndssA-
ments and no arrests Nothing hes
happened except that the p~t'isc
opinion of the nation sadclea-
" focused upon them has tssn
almost unanimous m condemnation
The newspapers. great aud small
have unanimously y reflected this cpsn-
ION. But can tbi- killy
4 Scientists tell us that tie millson
molecules Of the air are constantly
in motion. moving with incredible
swiftuess and velocity back and
forth In their orbits which iuterlace
in az many million directions These
molecules constantly impiuge upon
each other and M the intricate
motion which eDsues, their energy
Is exactly counterbalanced, SO that
we move amongst then. without the
slightest idea Of their power These
scientists tell us that ii by some
means the energy could all he ex-
erted IN one direction for a moment.
nothing in the universe could stand
against it, 1t would tear the rooted
mountains from their eternal beds
SO with public opinion. Our sew
enty million individual opinions ~
rule move in seventy million
directions. They impinge upon
each other and tie CRATER. the
boodler, the dishonest assurance
president moves among us with nc
dream Of their force. But some
time there comes a peculiar comb
nation OF circumstances that directs
tiny fragment of this tremendous
force unanimously in one direction
lie willis under the blow as a frozen
poppy turns black under the morn
mc sun. This would be true IL
most cases, even should the individ
ual be right and public opinion
wrong Few men have been made
SO strong that they could stand for
many DAYS the unanimous oondem
nation of their fellows.
Have you ever felt this force Of
public opinion. Have you ever, in
times OF political excitement, been
suddenly struck with the tremend-
Gus fact that the tide had changed in
a night That public opinion had
changed as the wind veers. la
times like these the weak man.
whose mental fabric is of tissue.
will change with the crowd, why. he
cannot tell.
We have just been holding in be
loved memory the birthday of our
matyred president, Abraham Lin
coin. 1t is said that when he died.
the little children wept in the streets.
They could not tell the reason. They
we're too young to have the nation ;
loss explained to them, vet so fear
full was the pail OF gloom and sor-
row that hung over the land that
unconsciously their childish minds
were affected.
No man liveth to himself alone
The power Of public opinion is the
most tremendous force in national
life. Woe to the man who dehes il
continuously. Sooner or later it viii
crush him as the plowman crushes
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