New-York tribune., 1907-12-09
IONG RANGE SINNER. /"
DR.. 4dIer Holds Him Responsible
for Financial Ills.

pr Folk Adler analyzed The moral causes OF
the recent financial stress" yesterday morning be-
fore the Ethical Society OF New York at Carnegie
Hall. He discussed in detail The Long Range Sin
rer" Speaking OF DR.. Rosss recent book the
latest economic questions he said: 1T is a work
written at white heat, with great earnestness
There are no stale SMILES in it.
Let US take the case OF Wall Street board OF
directors who refuse TO install a system OF auto
matte signals with the result that accident oc-
ours in which hundreds lose their lives, said Dr
Adler .These men are killers at long range. and
may be compared with the highwayman who uses
a atiIetto "A bludgeon There is no personal mai
ice but these must have money.
Robbers at long range franchise stealers. di-
rcctors who loan money TO one another at one
third less than the market rate. poisoners at long
rauge-thcsc last are gentlemen OF good preceding
who wear clean linen, who move in the best soci-
ETY. yet they are posoners, since they adultcrate
the food We eat or worse still the drugs used by
The sick. And the ugly list swells
Long range sinners also men CT short range
virtues a captain OF predatory wealth you con
slider monster since he is the head of a railroad
which according statistics, kills every year one
in txenty-six it's employees; but he Is not a mon
ster; ne is kind father and husband ne mas eA-
uuisite taste, is lover OF flowers. an art con-
r7isseur When you learn this you say he is not
a monster he is not black as he Is painted
| Then you extenuate the terrible guilt of the men
The foolish public thinks q man must be All Diack
or all white. but that is not so.
Il agree with the writer that the people must oe
trained not to extenuate crime against the public
because of private virtues 1t is advantageous TO
the CAPITALISTS stop their crimes Some men OF
overwhcl Inning individuality expand and expand
and they must be driven back, whipped back;
.,arled wire fences be built mp between their
territory and that of their neghbors-
Force is one method Of teaching justice Men
learn TO respect the rights they find they cannot
trarnrle on with impunity-
II do not believe in the efficacy of public opin-
ion which is a trifle overworked and is in danger
of becoming lunatic opinion. Consider the NUMBER
of reforms and national questions the public opinion
generates into public sentiment, a mere wave of
feeling rising and subsding. Is puoHc OPINION tue
universal cure? I don't believe II.
I'VE must get to the root of the public unriGht-
sousness which is in you and me. What is the
root? Greed not OF miser. but the desire for
Injuries for good living, palatial homes ostehta-
ton the obeisances of fOotmen- passed one
miserable hour with ore who Is behind the sc5heS
g., ,oIi,icaI life | was aghast at the story he
told I,eayiug him. / up Fifth avenue ana
saw the pomp that swept 10y me- rms IS the
cause OF the political dolngs that disgusted me- LOT
this glitter and brilance, TO gam q pidce III liS
Vanity Fair, laws made mefchahoise anu me-
sre slaughtered on railroads and poisoned foods
are sold .
.1,be task of public reformation is long ana
- a,1d tho outlook will often dark and
a,h,ors b,t there IS one bright thought in "hich
~. can ALWAYS take consolation, there is one re-
action which will always hearten u.s. lheie lS oi0
irt at which we can bring about the reformation
~ tho world and that, too at once +ihe 'i''
IL of the Lord which can light In our
seIyas shedding its light into the surfo"iuihs
oa-kness no one can tell how far.