The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-10-06

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meaning given to it's words by ii
7 trainers. Yet, as Mr.. Low remarks
Immediately Mr.. Bryan says tha
; the chief justice has been waiting fo
fifteen years to throw his protectin
arm around the trusts and to tell ther
how to escape the lawi Thousand
reading what Mr. Bryan said will be
lieve that the trusts were able to bu
the supreme COURT"
How this constant dropping wear
the stone we have the sharpest kin,
of illustration in the Roosevelt PAM
prosperity, and we went to smash
mainly because of the constant yellin,
from the highest place in the nation
about how oppressed" and how "cor
rupt" we were and how we must "sus
pect" as ''malefactors" all our neigh
bors who had acquired any considera
Bile share of this worlds goods.
We mention this case merely be-
cause it illustrates in operation a rev
| olution produced by the methods tc
| which we are subjected and which
with their effects, are thus accurately
described by Mr.. Low:
Keep on telling a man who has less
of this worlds goods than his neigh
bors that this inequality is the result
of his neighbors' knavery; tell him
that, though his wages are higher
today than ever, he is paid less than
he is entitled to, and that while he
is growing poorer, his neighbors are
,fattening off him. say to him dozen
times a day that if he were to seek
justice it would be denied him, as
there is one kind of justice for him
and another for his more prosperous
neighbors; let him hear these things
day after day. In the course of time
he is in frame of mind to believe all
he has heard; he becomes sullen and
revengeful and longs for an oppor-
tunity to redress the wrongs I'M
der which he imagines he is suffering.
Out of such teaching revolution is
born and the torch and pistol do their
work"
That is the hard truth. But is
there any justification for these in
elements to revolution except in the
desire of the agitators for notoriety
and power? According to this British
writer-this foreign observer merely
stationed in our country to observe
and report-there is not. Here is his
Democratic institutions were not at
fault. Democracy has not proven itself
a failure. The American people have
not been eaten up by corruption or be-
come debauched by luxury.
We hear much of the wrongs" under
which the people are "groaning," but
only the finely attuned ear of the dem
The mass of the people are not in
want, they have not abandoned hope,
hey are engaged in no desperate |
struggle for existence, they are still |
n the enjoyment of their liberty"
Then why this hospitality to the
,vil? Why what Mr. Low we'll terms
the incomprehensible spectacle of a
lation so bountifully blessed as the
american sunk in the depths of welt
chmerz, filling the air with their lam
,ntations and bemoaning that the
lory of Israel has departed?'
We don't know. Nobody has come
onward with any rational explanation
yhy the American people, blessed as
hey are, should so revile each other
S they do. If other nations were to
ldge us by the accounts given of us
y those whom we lift to some of our
ighest places of trust and honor, their
ecessary and logical conclusion
rould be that America deserves the
ate of the Cities of the Plain.
Never in recorded human history
as any people gone into such frenzy
{ self-condemnation as the Ameri-
an people have been indulging. We
ont know why they should do SO. We
In understand why demagogues
lould seek profit by melting the
envy to greater heights. But we
mt know why apparently sane men
Id women should so besmirch them
Ives and so befoul their own ma
onal household. But we agree with
r. Low that:
at is time that the American people
It grip on themselves and realized
cir folly Life and health are in
EN-, but they must throw off their
,ral hypochondria if they would
cape from the ills their imagination
,tures"
is probably needed to
We the people to shake off the NOR
habit of public self-reproach to