Evening journal., 1907-05-16

against the manhood ofevery one Of it's
members. Society IS a ioint-stock COM
pany in which the members agree Tor
the better securing Of bread TO sur
render personal liberty. If YOU
would he a man speak what you thinl.
to-day in words-as hard as cannon
balls. Deal with cause and ef-
feet the chancellors of God Nothing
can bring you peace but yourself
nothing can buy you peace but the
triumph OF principles
So said Emerson.
But Emerson was not a Delaware
politician. nor q spasmodic reformer
nor a professional labor leader.
Looking hack some 20 years in this
town, ] remember number of such
men. They were wise 90 they were
shrewd, they won honors, jobs, mada
money. and they died.
They are lying around town in some
Of the cemeteries. I wonder if they
really did win? Tho towards and
trimmers and wise men are numerous.
Everybody knows the political condi-
tions existing in this city. There are
some 5000 voters In the city, there
are some 5000 men who profess to be
rcfcrmers, they are lined uD on paper
in the bodies known as Re-
form Leagues. The city IS
so closely balanced between the
contending bosses that 500 independent
citizens could be of inestimable value
in the cause of good government.
rhnro xraa n aaU ,,,a1a ,.o.,. ti.., f.,,....
tion of an anti-monopoly league. its
purpose, ITO endorse such candidates
on either party as should prove to be
free men, and TO nominate men against
corporation manilSins in either party"
There were just 66 mon from 5000
reformers that responded, less some
half-do2cn Of the small operators of
the INmocratic machine. who while
refusing to sign the platform and not
paying for the hail, desired to run
the meeting. But they didn't
Conspicuous by their absence wore
men who rant at reform meetings ana
who ride prancing steels and new gor-
geous sashes on, Labor Day
Conspicuous also by an apparent
numbness Of the vocal chords con-
irasting violently with their usual vol.
utility, were some more Labor Lead
ers and reformers. who are very con-
spicuous on Labor Day and on other
occasions Gin the interest Of labor)
Out of the &C men present. labor lead
ers, reformers. etc, there were just
26 who signed the platform, after q
prolonged debate Those who refused
to- sign tho platform, who were not
a. a..
hall kindly co consented to Withdraw
and permit the % men who did en-
dorse the platform and who did pay
for the han 10 proceed. Those 26 mon
endorsed the platform and had slgncl
a petition for a place on the ballot.
But of course. after the orations had
been delivered by the Democratic ma
chine operators there was a tendency
to a fan i'm spirits. they had been
warned bv the politicians of the dam
ger to reform. BE cautious. you
lose your vote. you can't win, etc. and
so a vote was taken on the question of
work two years honce-and no ticket
in the coming city election" One
newspaper stated TIE vote TO refuse
TO enter the city election was unani-
nous. That is an error The chair
man. secretary and four others voted
10 ento- tie city election.
Tennyson sings of tho 900 who re-
fused TO surrender" I was one Of the
g." who refused 10 surrender and
am proud of il. I do not censure the
other 90 mon who voted as they did,
it was Of course as the wise CD men
say a very foolish proposition for
26 men TO lead a forlorn hope. a hope
less charge. i'm contest of perhnps
5000 voters VINO want TO win" But
after an & has heen foolish men who
have advanced the world. Ayel it
was foolish men who acting as fools
IN the judgment of tho wise CD men
that made 80 at all possible for a meet
ing of that kind to be held. If it were
not for the fools Of tho past the men
In that hall the other evening would
still be as We're their ancestors, serfs,
with no more rights or privileges than
an OK. Cardinal Langton. Emmett,
John Bright, Kossuth. OConnell, JET
ferson. Lincoln. Garrison, Phillips.
Henry Geor-c these men We're all
fools in tie judgment Of the classes.
Aycl and sickenine the thought in the
/ Judgment. If they hal any, Of the
masses, for whom they toiled and bore
the sreers Of the wise CD. And so q
committee was appointed, and IL viii,
unless a miracle ensues. sink into q
profound slumber And i's just as well
often think Of that striking picture
1 drawn ty Henry GEORGE of the bull
/ tied to a t-ce. The bull has wound
the rome so tightly about the tree that
/ he can not reach the rich grass Just
| beyond him. He bellows I'm impoteni
/ rage George continues; 1T is per-
feet picture of the peoplo-they. too
/ have tied thomselves--Nay they arc
worse off than the bun. I can 81
out and drive the bun around the tree
and thus free him. but who shall driv
l mcn2"
"Let us cat. drink, and be merry, foi
tomorrow we die" is the motto, APP
/ parcntly of tho mass Of mon. But
there is danger that way. even here.
They who think simply with thot
stomachs, are dangerous, brutal, mobs
when the stomach Dinches.
After all IL is a moral question. How
many Of these labor leaders and re-
formers sneer at the moral law? Hence
It Is that a SOD in the way Of jol
or promise Of job or the fear of tn,