The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-23

the East poss.silities OF then profess
sion. should bear testimony aSainst
those who deeply discredit It OF
lenses against taste and morals. which
are bad enough in private citizen.
are Infinitely worse II made into In
struments for debauching the COM
munity through newspaper.
Mendacity. Islander. sensationAlism.
inanity. vapid triviality. all are po-
tent factors for the debauchery OF the
public mind and conscience. Tho ex-
cuse advanced for vicious writing. that
the public demands 1t and that the de
mand must be supplied. can no more
be admitted than IL 1t were advanced
by the purveyors Of food who sell pol
sonous authorizations.
Virtues of the Housshold.
The homely virtues OF the household.
the ordinary workaday virtues which
make the woman good housewife
and house mother. which make the
man hard worker. good husband
and father. q good soldier at need.
stand at the bottom Of character. But
Of course many others must be added
| thereto II state Is to be not only free.
but great.
Good citizenship is not good citizen
ship II exhibited only In the home.
There remain the duties OF the indi-
yidual In relation to the state. and
these duties are none too easy under
| the conditions which exist where the
effort is made to carry on free govern
ment In a complex industrial civiliza-
/ ton.
Perhaps the most important thing
the ordinary citizen. and. above all
the leader of ordinary citizens. has to
/ remember in political life Is that be
must not be sheer doctrinaire.
Woe to the empty phrase maker. tt
the empty idealist. who. instead Of
making ready the ground for the mar
Of action. turns against him when h
appears and hampers him as he doe.
the work.
Moreover, the preacher Of ideal'
must remember how sorry and con
temptible Is the figure which he vii
cut. how great the damage that b.
| will do, tf he does not himself In BIZ
own ire strive measurnDly 70 reaii1
the ideals that he breaches Tor others
Let him remember also that tn
worth OF the ideal must be largely d.
termined By the success with which
Gun in practice be realized. We shout
abhor the 80 called practical me
whose practically assumes the shap
Of that peculiar baseness which find
its expression In disbelief IN moralit
and decency. in disregard Of hig
standards OF living and conduct Sue
q creature 10 the worst enemy OF Ia
body polite. But only less desirabl
as q citizen is his nominal opponeI
and real ally. the man Of fantasti
vision who makes the impossible be
ter forever the enemy OF the possib
good.
The Slave OF Names.
Much OF the discussion about socia
ism and individualism 10 entirely poin
less because OF failure to agree Q
Technology. It Is not good to b q
slave Of names. am q strong ind
vidualist By personal habit. inheri
ance and conviction. but 1t - 4 me,
matter OF common sense 70 reco9ni,
that the state. the community, Il
citizens acting together. can do Z muir
Der OF things better than u they wei
left to individual action.
The individualism which finds I
expression In the abuse Of physic
force IL checked very early In Il
growth Of civilization. and we Of tod
should in our turn strive 20 shackle
destroy that individualism which I,
umphs by greed and cunning. whis
exploits the weak by craft instead
. | ruling them by brutality.
. We ought to co 18th aoz man