The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-17

takes generations of breeding ant
Centuries of training to make a self
governing cftize 'nof republic. So
even If our natives are ready fol
wings, are not these to be taken
UNTO account, when ,wel start houseI
cleaning when we dismiss our
judges as so much dead weight, to
determine whether the; Sherman
law shall be revised, repealed or
amended; whether IT would be wise
to submit to international arbitra7
hibn the grievance of Columbia,
from whom Roosevelt so shameless
~ swiped. a fifty-mile strip of land
across the Isthmus of Panama;
whether we shall have an unclassi-
fed system of property tax which
may drive the intangible wealth
from the State and leave visible
property to hold the bag; how to
bust a bad trust without hurting
the good; what is doubtful prac-
tice" and doubtful values; where
liberty should end and authority
begin, and thousands of other prob
lens that centuries of time, billions
upon billions of money, rivers of
blood and the combined and loft
lest intellects of the ages have
been unable to solve? ...t ....-
1t is a most grotesque and spec
tacular crusade. The Gordian knot
that has puzzled the ages is to be
cut by a swashbuckler, not united.
A single bribed or bull-headed ju-
ror can hang jury and thus de-
feat justice, yet who but reckless
experimentalist would not look
with gravest concern upon pro-
posal to abolish a fundamental sys-
TEN hallowed by the sacred tradi-
tons of a thousand years and the
very greatest single contribution to
human government? But these cru
saders are not so sentimental. They
will abolish gravity itself if it
should venture in their path. Not
20 mention the untold injury unwise
legislation would visit upon ali,
there are 100000 innocent stock
holders upon the dividends of
which many doubtless entirely de-
pend, in the 100 trusts of the coun-
try, yet is an excited and innamed
majority to recall our courts and
wreck these trusts, right or wrong?
All! Never was there time
when we had greater need of wise,
brave, cool and conservative men at
the helm. 1t is a time when the
cobbler has deserted his last, the
Sancho Panzas are looking for their
islands, the demagogue is in flow
ar, when wrens are making prey
where eagles dare not perch, and
fools are stalking in where, II the
devil himself were to venture, he
would apologize. 1t is all ? mock
ing mirage, treacherous compass
hat leads the old ship. straight on
to the rocks of Scylla. where the
'ong of the syrens. lures their VIC
Tins to destruction, So, like 1Ulys-
sis, ye patriots, stuff wax in. your
ears and tie yourselves to the mast.
We may know that Wall Street
must relax its strangling hold upon
every important industry in the
land; that taxes must be. reduced
20 the actual needs of the Govern
ment, that class privileges are out
RACES, that there is downright rob-
1ery when the IL. g. Treasury IgetsI
only 81 out overy SO that lis wrung
from the scant earnings of the peo-
Die by thieving tariff, sand that
the remaining s. goes into the cof-
fers of the protected, or in other
words, that the average family is
faxed SS7 every year ostensibly to
"un the Government, but, as a mat
ter of fact, $73 of it goes to collos7
sal combines, who in turn, brow
eat, deceive, bride and subsidise
voters, judges, lawmakers, news
papers and magazines; but we also
now that it. takes the highest or
Ter of statesmen and the purest and
brightest intellects to grapple' with
.hose tremendous problems. We
lnow, too, that these men must be
'iyen free hand; no standing
around with clubs and recalls to
blunt their sagacity, impair their
anei Eies, benumb their sense of re-
sponsibility, humiliate their man
hood and destroy their usefulness.
It is ours to know what work we
want done and exactly whom to Sc
lect to do il. Napoleon owed his
ranscendent greatness to his won
lerful insight in selecting his gen.
erals--a Murat for the brilliant, re-
sistless charge; a Ney for stubborn
resistance. Our Argus-eyed cleo
torate, if it only will, can use the
same insight and judgment. H
Let him of the laity who is tired