The Greeley tribune., 1910-11-10
|uF GREAT UNREST
re causes and Effects

Gratis who exercise the same powers |
of government and to the same ends
as do the autocrats of the old world. |
Government though republican in |
form Is not always republican in fact |
because bosses nominate the can II |
mates all the candidates and the peo-
dates and often the same boss nomi- |
ple may take their choice and be
losers whomsoever they choose.
The great unrest is caused by. and
results from the realization of these
things. and Is the expression CT mans
discomfort with such evils around
him. This discomfort may in certain
instances be unfOunded; II may be
out Of all proportion to such wrongs,
but this unrest is In the main well
founded and It exists today because
men are at last aware of these things.
Il has not existed before because
men were In state OF ignorance:
they have in part escaped from the
they are discOntented, and In the
main rightfully and honestly dis
cOntented.
When once this is understood the
unrest becomes reasonable and in
stead OF condemnation only sympathy
should exist. Thoughtless people
| think that this unrest Is unreason-
| able, baseless and childish. and that
Il will pass away in n few years and
| ,i1e and unoritical as in times past.
that they will cease their fault find
ing and attend only to their work.
that they will cease their interest in
the affairs or government Favored
persons desire that the people
should cease their interest in gov
ernment-indeed but feI days ago
great American journal publicly
advised that the people generally
cease their interest in government.
cease their expression of unsatisfac-
ton, and that hereafter they attend
strictly to their work; and this jour
nal admonished that the people
should devote little time to the af
fairs of government. leaving such
| functions to the elect.
But this unrest will not pass. Every
man who has been student of his
tory and sociology knows that it will
not pass. On the contrary IT will rap
idly increase and grow and extend
until It permeates all people and
every country and 1t will continue
until Its cause is removed. until
great vested inequalities in govern.
ments Of men he swept away. until
women are given their proper place,
until children are given the right to
be happy children until they are
grown, until governments are gov
ernments for the protection of all.
and until special privileges held by
Gar, or Spanish duke, or American
boss, are at last rclinquished.
Every student knows that these
processes are going to be the process
ses OF evolution and that they are to
be slow. slower that most men think.
Still the advance OF our hopes In
twenty years has been great indeed.
The wonderful rise OF Roosevelt is
due to the fact that he appreciates
this unrest. understands 1t, antici-
pates 1t. uses 1t, and seeks to avoid
tHc evil eHeCIS WHICH WOuiu IcsuIt
from its repression. He seeks to re-
move 1t by removing its cause. by re-
moving the protection of the law
from special privileges and by en-
forcing the law against the strong as
we'll as the weak In doing this
Roosevelt has shown himself to be
gifted with the gift OF prophecy and
to be one OF the worlds great states
men-probably one of the greatest
statesmen America has produced.
And with all his faults, back OF
him there Is the confidence and the
esteem and the affection OF the great
majority OF the American people: and
back OF him an dthose OF his stamp
the American people will continue to
stand until men are brought to the
heights for which they we're created
and which they are destined to sure
ly reach In the long time to come.
JOHN T. JACOBS.
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