The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-12-04

New York. Dec. Sat the Imperial
Hotel the other night Judge Ben. l.:
Lindsey. Of the Children's Court OF
Denver. rhapsoiised on the moral at.
tributes Of vomankind and passed
out pointed epigrams on the political
turpitude Of the times. The little
1urist who has been hailed In the
East % IN evangel Of the new gospel
Of political righteousness. has long
been . favorite In New York and his
demonstrations % TO the best way
% eliminate the public servant who
prostitutes hts once for self fell on
responsive ears. Asked how he ex-
planned the widespread political cor
ruptien. he smiled. ~,
ITS merely matter OF tempta'
don.", he SAID. quietly. ITS simply
the supveme discovery Of the TWEEN
tieth. century. that temptation Is the
Germ Of an ;ctime, and political crime
iesincluded In the list. Suppose you're
the child Of rwell-to-do parents and
yous see bundle Of fagots beside
railroad. track. You, don't steal II
bscadse yov have no temptation. But
q poor. boy comes along and he knows
there, isn't any wood at home and he
! '.In. gpelitics the brides ami per.
petual {fsachises and general graft
are - 6ontinua1 temptation to men
Mo tSinK they need them. That's
Why there are political criminals.
And I can tell you one thing the
people Who, stay away from politics
omit sfIDrd to- condemn those who
gre soilsd with the dirt. The first
ones haven't been tempted-how can
they know that they'd be any better
than anybody else?
An ounce Of prevention IS worth
about q million pounds of cure. 1t
ID infinitely better to arrange our
scheme Of government SO that men
cannot debauch IT, than II Is to put
them TO Jail for participating in poll
deal orgies"
but dent you believe in the re.
sponsibflity Of the individual?" he
was asked.
ITO .. degree. yes. But It is pos
individual, particularly In the young
individual. It's the boys we want to
get after. And II isn't enough Just to
teach. them to obey the law, because
Il they don't they'll get punished.
Suoh teaching II the cause Of our
hypocrisy. Nobody was ever made
any better By fear alone.
Pear n no ethical safeguard at all
by itself. OF course suppose our
civilisation has not yet reached the
point where Il can do entirely with
out the system Of punishments. But
the, great thing 10 to teach the boy
20 Do right because Il n right. and
that's all there 10 to IT," Asked II he
thought women. II elected to ONCE
would be any less susceptible to the
temptati0n OF bribery. he said, dryly:
IF. some women would take brides,
there. wouldn't, be more than one of
them To- perhaps fifty. bribetakers
among the men. Women are at least
that much better than men. OF course.
some Of them will lie and cheat and
steal and commit every crime. But.
taking them as q whole, I believe
there are very many more with high
ideals and q keen sense of Justice
than the great majority of men. A
man has q sense of justice. but he's
apt to let his sense Of comfort push
Il out Of sight"
IN the organization OF the Equality
League, Gotham foresees the evolu.
tlon Of unique movement to force
husbands to divide half of what they
earn with their wives each week.
Ways and means of carrying out the
project are being devised by a special
committee which seeks to place its
married women on the basis of EN-.
ployes of their husbands and as such
entitled to compensation for their
work in keeping the home together
and providing for their dorre-''o
comfort. Judging from the land
once business being done these ia :
by the Domestic Relations Court
which acts as arbiter between inhar
monious. couples and compels insur
gent bubbles to provide adequate sup
port for their wives, the league has
assumed big task. The plan is
an adaptations of . suggestion made
recently by. the wife Of Victor Berger
the Milwaukee Socialist leader elect
ed to Congress on November 8, that
there should be economic as well as
social and political equality between
husband and wife. To the apostles
OF the new movement the intimatior
that they are parasites and Deepen
dent upon their husbands for support
Is rather Jarring. It is time, they
SuAnhs sASS uuoO0uuS SuOuIu IAhc tuls
view Of IL and recognize that theil
wives perform service as important
as they do and are entitled to as
much consideration. When the mem
berS get down to cases and under
take to put into practice what the,
preach 1t will be Interesting to note
how the fur flies.
Some Of those who are In the habi
81 emphasizing their fancied superb
ority over their neighbors by adver
Using to. their blue blood and aristo
cratic lineage sat up and took motto,
This week Of . broadside directed a
them BY DR.. Woods Hutchinson, ;
we'll known physician and biologist.
There Is no such thing" he sait
at . lecture before the League fo
PHYSICAL Educstion, "as blue blood
There arc no best families and Their,
Is NO aristocracy based on anythin,
but the possession of money. Arts
tocracy does not pay eithe, the ind;
vidual who claims it or the natio,
which subsidies II. The samut O
human achievement Is run in on
generation. Many forms Of greatness
are accompanied by q lack of balance