The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-10
PICKS FLAWS IN
OUR SOCIAL LIFE
CONGRESSMAN CUSHMAN SAYS
roo MANY LIVE ON The
lNSTALLMENT PLAN.
VULGAR OSTEN7ATION"
OF People Who Had Rather Ride N
Mortgased Auto With Borrowed
Gasoline, Than Walk in
Path OF Obscurlty.

! CnlcaEO, Apfli o. APpoHattof.
| Day" was Gel brated here tonight py
the Hamilton Club with a banquet al
the Auditorium Hotel. The program
| incdluded addresses nv Congressman
| Cushman, of Wash ngton; Congress,
man, Stanley, of Kentucky and Form
! er United States Senator Mason OF
Chicago Jubilation over the electioa
of Republican mayor of Chicago for
the first time in ten years was made
| a feature Of the banquet, although
Mayor Blsse was unable 10 attend on
account Of sickness.
cushman Scross Mad FolIiss,
Cushman, who responded to toast
"Appomattox Day, spoke as follows:
Il regret to say that there are some
signs, social, eca nomic and political,
appearing upon our national horizon
today that might indicate that the
only thing on earth that will ever
approach the suddenness Of our rise
may be the swiftness of our down
fall.'
Permit me Q suggest that tn tro.
mendous haste of our national deyel
opment has left some weak pots and
sore rough places in the structural
concern we have builded.
Progress should b. marked by
sense, and freedom should be restrain
ed By responsibility.
IA great many of or citizens just
now seem to be posses. ed by fever
ish desire to live on the installmen
plan-so to speak They want to be-
come Immediately possessed of every
thing they desire in the fullness there
of-and to pay for it at any old time
| in th future. Too many people live
swiftly and not enough people live
properly
There are too many people whose
sole desire is TO cut dash-who
would rather ride in a mortgaged au-
tomobile on borrowed gasoline than
walk in the paths of honorable OBJ
security in yirtuous unc stentation."
IF the one half of the people in
his nation who are operated on for
appendicitis would instead have their
vanity and their lfishness cut ont,
they would be so vastly improved
thereby that they wouldn't have any
trouble the eafter living in com.
pany with an innocent and respect
able yer rf2rm appendix"
Hate Vulgar ostentation.
4 4 - A st.aos4
people come back to sane and simple
methods of life unmarked by business
chicanery and unmarried by vulgar
ostentation.
This plain ard frugal living would
have a wholesome and heroic effect,
not alone upon the few who practice
it but upon the millions who wit
ness it,"
There seems to be crazy notion
abroad in this republic today that all
tn ills that this nation is hear 10 can
be cured by law.
THAT is an idiotc heresy that ought
to be laid away in the political grave
yard along with the pet theories of
ne nat money IuHdtlc.
1T ought not to require antitrust
laws TO prevent combinations Of cap
ital from plundering the people.
1T ought not to require a federal
Injunction 20 restrain labor leaders
from murder and Violence"
The cause and the cuer for these
evils can be found In the hearts Of
men. and not on the pages Of the stat
ute book"
And yet every time the corrupted
morals or the innate private cussed-
ness of some individual or combina-
tion of individuals comes to light
up goes a perfect howl from the multi
tude for some new law to cover this
particular case Of cussedness"
let me say TO you that the law
making machinery of his government
cannot by any human ingenuity be
enlarged or accelerated 80 that it can
mcye as qriekly or in as many direc-
tons as unrestrained individual crook
edness."
Two Kinds Of Slavery.
There are two kinds of slavery in
this world. One kind which fore an
honest man 10 labor without pay
against his will And the other var
icy which denies to an honest man
the opp tunity TO labor when he
will" Thee two are equally odious
and abom nable.
IF it ever bfcomes necessary in (
this land of ours to demonstrate once
more the absolute freedom Of man to
labor when and where he viii at any
honest eupioymerf. the existence efi
that immortal right viii be as forci-
bly, and completely demonstrated as
was the oheT-s ven though our be-
loved land is again oaked with b5o3i
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