Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-10


man who speaks the language of reproof
has something to reprove. But remember.
Eliphaz was the first muckraker Job had
encountered. and he was not yet familiar
with the devices of the tribe.
He got to know them better when he had
been exposed" by others. by Bildad and
by zophar 1t was Zophar, by the way,
who wrung the observation out OF Job:
Man that is born of woman Is Of few days.
and fun Of trouble;" and later, when the
muckrakers had struck their gait, the per-
feet man was goaded to exclaim: "Miser-
able comforters are We all!'
He proceeds to consider undertaking IN
language which seems to me TO have
present day application. shall vain words
have an endT" he asks; and finding that
there is to be no end ne continues, hoping
to shut up his comforters. at least while he
himself has the floor 'T could speak as We
do; If your soul were in my souls stead I
could heap up words against you, and
shake mine head at you He hath made
me- weary; and thou hast filed me with
wrinkles. God hath delivered me TO the
ungodly, and turned me into the hands
OF the wicked. How long will We vex my
soul, and break me in pieces with words ?
These ten times we have reproached me;
| 10 ohS hOt tuaI We make your
selves strange TO me-f. indeed, We will
magnify yourselvesP'
Right there Job was getting on to their
job; they were all out to magnify them
selves.
How oft is the candle Of the wicked out
out7" he asks at last. granting, for the sake
Of argument, that he is wicked, and that
the muekrakers are trying 10 put out his
candle. As 10 that, neither Zophar nor Bill
! dad nor Eliphaz gave answer
They couldn't. 1t wasn't in their contract
! TO answer. They were not trying to put
out anybody's candle. but merely trimming
It, that II might give light enough to war
rant their calling Il a horrible confiagration
$50 these three men ceased to answer
job" says our authoT. and adds, ''Ther
was kindled the wrath Of Elihu. the Buzite
because they had found no answer, and ye
had condemned Job"
l refer you to the early verses of the
thirty-second chapter OF job for this in
teresting evidence that even in the days o.
the ancient Hebrew poets, an Elihu,
Buzite, was put forward TO give answer
when the muck rakers could not justif,
their rakings. There is nothing new undel
the present administration. Elihus wer,
always on hand to speak when a Buzit,
was needed TO say few words to mucl
raking comforters.
We may discover by searching othe
books of the same unimpeachable authorit,
as that already quoted by what symptom
we can safely diagnose the disease Of mucl
raking. II is vanity. There can be n,
doubt about that.
An abnormally vain man Is a potentia
= muck raker and should at once be isolate,
and severely fumigated. Notoriety is a
the breath OF their nostrils; more so, even
than cents a word; though. doubtless
the vanity OF the muck ralser Is fertilize,
by the price he receives for exploiting hi
disease.
The Psalmist says; Surely. men of lov
degree are vanity" and In Zechariah W
read For the idols have spoken vanit
and the OWNERS have seen a lie, and hav
told false dreams; they comfort In vain
Indeed, we could weary ourselves multiply
ing assertions found In the Bible that tn
muck raker is a vain persons-if It wer
possible to weary OF searching that book.
few more verses win show the curiOu
fact that vanity is at once the cause an
symptom OF the disease OF those we IN
described In Psalms as 1.-THE wicked VIII
so astray as soon they are born. speak
Ing Hes" We md the whole tribe OF muc
rakers described In Isaiah thus: Non
eaileth for justice. nor any pleadeth 70
truth; they trust In vanity ana speak Lies