Evening journal., 1907-05-29


In your issue of May Is, I read an
article entitled Extreme wealth. and
extreme poverty-conduciv to crime"
He who shall read that article. If he
possesses the faculty Of reasoning, e
he believes in God ana loves his coun-
try. viii be compelled to ponder SER
iously. As one citizen of Wilmington
/ congratulate the community on the
fact that we possess a newspaper THAI
evidently considers Il possible that the
city possesses some inhabitants who
are Interested in subjects of more inn
portance than pugilism, moral cess
pools. or the petty squabbles Of petty
politicians. Such a newspaper is the
Evening Journal" and every citizen,
regardless of his political opinions
should support and help extend the
influence Of such newspaper.
If there ever was a period in the
history Of our country that demanded
thought and action OF men who can
think; who believe in Cod and the
moral law; who love this Republic
it is today Never did greater dan
gers confront popular government;
never was there greater Obligation OF
conscience uDon citizens TO think and
70 boldly speak their thoughts than to-
day The greatest danger to the Re-
public today springs from the two ex-
tremes. j. e., the miserable poor" and
the miserable rich" The paryeuue.
Gle rich with their rapid, vulgar
animal existence: with their trampline
on all law. human and divine; with
their corrupting Of government their
mi. a.. he
shame Of America produced its newt
able conoommitant, an ignorant, hope
'oss. sDiritless class, utterly unfit to
cast an American ballot. All our cities
and even our country towns are In
fectel with such human cattle. They
have fallen down to the bread and cir
! ,us" level. And fhey in turn are herd
cd. bought and sold By petty heolers
ward bosses, venal lob hunters. who
IRE just as low in the scale of citizen
ship, but who possess a foxy shrewd-
ness They sell themselves and their
associates for mess Of pottaee, so mis-
erably small. that is an inspector Of
smoke, a job as a laclley, a business
1rsler. Those are the rwin evils. "the
miserable rich and the miserable poor"
Unless stamped out they will destroy
! this Republic. Such twin evils have de-
stroyed popular governments in the
oast. But more TO blame than either
the ignorant rich or the poverty rotted
gnorant poor is that great middle class
which seems TO grow every year.
! particularly refer 20 those men who
/ profess belief in God and the moral
'aw. care not what their creed, Pro-
]
course there be in all those temples
some who arc hypocrites-worldiy
wise 90 then who ever.
Crook the pregnant hinges Of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawninr."
/ waste no time on such creatures
They are hoDelessly dead IN a moral
sense. But ] speak OF honest church,
men and ] believe the great mass Of
'hurchmen mean we'll. but they are
so timil. If they believe what they
profess why should they be timid?
Why fearful of those money-mad
'reatures cil1 their political spanieis?
If the men Of conscience in the city,
county. state and nation would do
Their duty. If they were true 20 the
/ teachings Of the Divine Master. who
scourged the money-mad of the HOLY
city from the temple, they would
1rcSse themselves. nut on the armor
II God and country, and go after the
corruptionists and law breakers m
high places as wen as in the low; 60
after scoundrcis in hroadcloth and
mansions as woll as tho wretches IN
rags IN allcys: go after the educated
! {? political boss as well as his ignorant
]
ON these moral ulcers
III our fathers Of colonial davs. n
the men OF antl-Beilum days were $50
timid. so cowardly. We would stin be
an English colony and chattel slavery
would stin exist
Democracy. real. genuine Democracy
viii bring about q chahac. it win re-
verse the order. but it IS not the
! spurious Democracy {? Of Cleveland,
Hill. Baer and McClci,cn; nor of the
| hybred Palmer -Buckner combine; not
the nonenitv known as the leaders 90
Of Democracy IN Delaware: radical
| Democracy is the solitude. At that
word radical" an the nervous wrecks
! proceed 10 tremble. And yet, he that
Is truly intelligcntly radical is really
n conservative. He must reason from
a moral basis, That which is morally
right is always politically expedient.
| Genuine Democracv stands FOR equal
I rights 10 ali men-and special privi-
| ieges to none" The Democrat who is
not a corporation lawyer. a job hunter.
la machine lackey, or n chump. and who
believes IN the moral law and who has
the capacity 20 think-and does think.
and enters upon the study OF econom-
les viii logically proceed from revenue
reform TO tariff reform, TO tariff for
revenue only. TO free trade and to the
single tax.
Yours.
John NJ. Dornoy.
] Wilmington. May 20.
A Return 20 Popular Government
Editor Tho Evening Journal
] have read with Great interest thoso
letters from "A Business Man that