The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-29
teTfsination Of the great body OF our


citizens.
1t may he, and often is, the highest
duty of a court legislature, or an
executive. To resist and defy a gust OF
popufar passions, and most certainly
no public servant, whatever may nc
the consequences TO himself, should
yield to what he thinks wrong. But
in a question which is emphatica,y
one of public policy the policy which
The public demands IS sure in the end
70 be ad pied; and a persistent refusal
to grant to Il large portion of our peo-
pie what is right is only too apt in the
end TO result in causing such irrita-
ton that when the right is obtained il
is obtained in the course of move
ment so i'll considered and violent as
to he accompanied by much that is
wrong.
The process of injunction in labor
disputes. as well as where state laws
are involved, should be used sparins-
ly, and only when there is the clear
est necessity for it; but it is one so
necessary to the efficient performance
of duty by the court on behalf of the
nation that it is in the highest degree
to he regretted that it should be liable
to reckless use; for this reckless Use
tends to make honest men desire so
to hamper Its execution as to destroy
its usefulness. Every farsighted pa.
triot should protest first of all against
the growth in this country of that evil
thing which is called class conscious
ness.'
The demagogue, the sinister or fool
ish socialist Visionary who strives to
arouse this feeling of class conscious
ness in our working people does a foul
and evil thing; for he is no true Amer
lean, he is no self-respecting citizen Of
this republic, he forfeits his right to
stand with manly self-reliance on a
footing Of entire equality With all 9TH
er citizens, who bows to envy and
greed, who erects the doctrine of class
hatred into a shibboleth, who sub
stitutes loyalty to men of particular
status, whether rich or poor, for loyal
| ty to those eternal and immutable
principles of righteousness which bid as
treat each man on his worth as man
without regard to his wealth or his
| poverty.
But evil though the influence of
these demagogues and Missionaries is it
is no worse in its consequences than
the influence exercised by the man Of
great wealth, or the man of power
and nncStiop An, %hn ~,
who by his lack of sym1,a by with and
lack of understanding of-still more
by any exhibition of uncompromising
hostility to-the millions of our work
Ing people, tends to unite them against
their fellow-Americans who are bet.
ter off in this worlds goods. 1t is a
bad thing to teach our working peo-
pie that men OF means, that men who
have the largest proportion of The sub
| stantial comforts Of life, are Iecessar.-
~ greedy, grasping, and cold-hear. ed,
and that they unjustly demand and
appropriate more than their share of
the substance of the many. Stern
condemnation should be visited upon
demagogue and visionary who teach
this untruth, and even sterner upon
those capitalists who are in truth
grasping and greedy and brutally dis
regardful OF the rights OF others, and
who by their actions teach the dread
full lesson far more effectively tina,
any mere preacher of unrest. A
"class grievance left too long with.
out remedy breeds "class conscious.
ness" and therefore class resentment