The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-12-02
To the Rich Criminals
Flayed by Judge
Ben Lindsay
Denounces Those Who
Apologize for Corrup-
ton--Raps Education
alPharasites who De-
bauch Youth.

Judge Ben Lindsey, who fought again
st corruption in high places and knows
what he is talking about, declared that
among the greatest debauchers of the
morals of the young of this nation are
the college presidents who became apollo.
gists for rich. criminals Judge Lind.
sey said in part:
The apologies of pious plutogogues
whose bounties they have shared are
DONG more in this country to inname
the passions of the envious, the ignorant
and the debased and to raise up anarchy
than all the rawlings of all the dema cogues
and Emma Goldmans. If the vile mon
ster of anarchy flames and misses it is
largely because of the injustice and evil
that men do.
Just as some of the courageous col
lege professore and university presidents
are strengthening the morals of the youth
of the nation in fearlessly pointing out
evil in high places regardless of con-
sequences, so among the greatest de-
bauchers of the morals of the youth O f
this nation are those colleges presidents
who became apologists for rich criminal
This is very seldom direct and open
though it has been amazingly so in a
few instances. 1t is often yelled in ad-
dresses Astounding in high platitudes
warming us against the radical and the
anarchist, and insisting that we should
be let alone, should be safe and sane
or smile and push . constantly pointing
ont the dangers of being envious of the
rich, as though the American people were
generally given for that monstrous crime.
1t is one of the most effectual schemes
of intellectual sssies who are afraid to
attack evil lest it involve them in row
with the leader of the bad gang, which
they are forced to follow. Rebellion
might bring smash to the face with the
Withdrawal of financial support
From ten years experience in seeing
the government of a city and state cor
rupted and democracy murdered, and
knowing that the conditions in one state
are not different from those in other
states where the same temptations exist
to steal public property and trample upon
justice to men and women, l am pro-
foundly convinced that many college
presidents and college professors know
little about the real government of their
country.
L know some of the street bows and
any number of saloonkeepers and sanb-
lers who could tell them more truth about
it than they know
L think one of the greatest things
that could be done for some universities
IN this country would be to get some
ward boss to deliver few truthful lect-
ures to the presidents upon how their
country is governed
They could tell who are the real
criminals; they could tell them who are
responsible for the debaucherv of the
home and the ruin of the child that comes
through political corruption, involving al
ways partnership with vice. and through
the corruption of courts and legislatures
the withholding of that economic Justice
that is the chief weakening of the Ameri-
can home, and from which the child
suffers most, both physically and morally.
know positively from actual ex-
perlence and personal knowledge that
some of the men directly or BY inuendo
thus held up as models to the youth of
the nation are the men who debauch
city councils or legislatures in order 10