The Glenwood post., 1911-04-22
THREE FACTIONS
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ever, the substitution prevailed and the
bill will go through.
Representative Hollenbeck of Chaffee
county today answered the attack
which Representative Ebbert recently
made on the house of representatives.
The Chaffee gentleman said.
at was a little disappointing in some
respects to weigh the words of Mr.. Eb-
bert of Otero county, in speaking
by virtue of privilege, upon matters
pertaining to this house; but as he was
disappointed in some of the conduct of
the house, the viewpoint is matter of
| opinion. But in speaking generally of
improper influences, and of corruption,
he impugns. by innuendo only, the char
actre and integrity of every member of
this house.
''To make such derogatory state
ments, instead of specifics, may imply
a lack of nerve, or of knowledge, or
else it is matter of judgment. 1t IS
embarrassing to charge him of a short
age of any of these; but it is the duty
! of any member that knows anything
| that materially affects the integrity
and standing of this body to produce
maintain his silence; and he owes this
not only to this body, out to the sacred
honor.
''He would Judge committee for
making an intelligent seport biased
upon voluminous testimony, and this
body for having approved that report,
and a jurist in violence of the testi-
mony which the gentleman has never
read and to him that action of the
house is a farce and tragedy, to all
of which a reply is not necessary.
A Pessimist
"He declaims with some reason
against the aggressions of organized
wealth, but sees only the smaller neg
atives as opposed to the larger posi-
tives; and although he indscriminately
mixed truth and error the latter was
largely in the preponderance. The
mark of the pessimist was upon his
branding iron, and he proceeded 10
register it upon the quivering flesh of
the whole country, apparently believing
that the acceptance of his viewpoint
would restore the country to economic
equilibrium
"He seemed to ignore the relative
standing of the positive or good, with
the negative or evil. Good was a
faded quality; excellency lost ac.
complishment; and virtue vanishing
idealism that were totally eclipsed by
the blackness of despair coming be.
tween these great virtues of life and
his mental vision. And while soma
of the recitals may have been his
torically right the logic was wrong;
for had he cast his telescope glance
down along the line of history, the
shortcomings of society would have
multiplied to vast proportions as it
reached the inquisition and the dark
ages.
.'Let the gentleman know that the
world is growing better. The positive
or good is the dominant force, or law;
| while the negative or evil is the no
tice of the imperfection of the dom
inant force. He pictured the imper-
fections greater than the object to
| which they attacked. These troubles,
instead of signifying disaster, indicate
growth. No evil comes until some
great truth or principle first appears
and no law is made until an evil tells
yon that great principle antedates
it. You couldn't have a railroad law.
until after you had railroads: nor a
telegraph law, until after you had tele-
| graphs; nor an antitrust law. until
after you had trusts; nor moral law,
until you had morals. You can not
regulate anything until you first have
something to regulate.
"The human mind Is producing great
events, and when we get hurt by them
we call it evil; we remedy that only
to get caught by another wave of
mental events, and thus like the waves
of the sea the mental processes are
ever coming on, all of which are in
cidentals of growth and should be vel
comed and not deprecated, as part of
| tho unap5ipcr ,rorroe, &c oro1,,+,on