The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05

and for doing away with the abuses connected with wealth, into cam. ppaign of hysterical h exclfement ig g to ana ina flame to madness the brutal passloni
 of mankind, The sinister demagoguei and foolish visionaries who are alwaVk
 eager to undertake such campaign
 of destruction sometimes seek to as- sociate themselves with those work
 ing for a genuine reform in govern mental and social methods, and some
 times masquerade as such rerormers
 Tn reality they are the worst enemie'
 of the cause they profess to advocate, islander in newspaper or magazine are
 the worst enemies of all men who are engaged in an honest effort to better what is bad in our social and govern, of the rich man as such. to carry on campaign of islander and t.Ivec tivo against him. to seek to mislead and Tn
 flame to madness, honest men whose lives are harG and who have not tht
 kind of mental trainino which vii
 permit them to appreciate the dangCl
 to commit a crime against the body
 politics and to be false to every wor. thy principle. and tradition of Ameri- can national life. Moreover w'ile
 give livelihood and a certain noto-
 riety to some of those who take part
 in it, and may result in the temporary
 political success of others, in he lonG
 run every such movement will either
 fail or or else will provoke violent
 reaction. which will itself result not
 wrought by the demagogue and the
 agitator. but also in undoing the good
 that the honest reformer, the true np-
 holder of popular rights, has painful
 ton is never so rife as in cJmm1.n-
 ties where the damagogue and the agi-
 tator bear full sway. because in 1uch communities all moral bands become lOosened and hvsteria and sensational
 ism replace the spirit of sound judg
 ment and fair dealing as between man and man. In sheer revolt agalns'
 the saualid anarchy thus produced mer
 are sure in the end to turn toward any leader who can restore order. '01
 then their relief at being free from th@
 intolerabie burdens of class hatred
 violence. and demagogY is such that
 they can not for some time bc aroused
 to indtFnatton against misdeeds by
 men If wealth; so that they permit
 a new growth of the very abuses which
 were in part responsible for the origi~
 nal outbreak The one hope for sue cess for our people lies in a yesolTte
 and fearless. but sane and cool-head-
 ed, advance along the path marked out
 last year by this very Congress, TherC must be a stern refusal to he misled into following either that base crea- ture who appeals and panderS tu-the lowest instincts and Dass' .ns in order to arOuse one sCt of Americans against thair fellows, or that other creature equally base, but no baser who in spirit of greed. or to accdmulate or add to an already huge fortune. seeks to exploit his fellow Amoricans with
 callous disregard to their welfare Of soul and body. The man who dehauch-
 os others in order ,o olEaiu high of fee stands on an evil equality of cor runtion with the man who dehauchcs others for financial profit' and wher hatred is sown the cop which springs up can only he evil
 The plain people who think-the me- chanicS farmers. merchants, workers 1 with head or hard. the men to whom American traditions are dear. who | love their country and try to act de- gently by tkeir peighbors. owe it to
 themselves, to remember that the most uIar oovernment is to elect an un%
 worthy and sinister ,agiator on a plat form of violence and hypocrisy. When | ever such an issue Is raised in this country nothing can De gained by flinching from it, for in such case | democracy is itself on trial. popular self government under republican forms is itself on trial The triumph