The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-20
THE ROOT OF EVIL

The vicious white slave traffic can not be suppressed bs the 5ailing of the trafflckers and the founding oi homes for the Victims. The evil my friends is not q question of mor. als, but an intense and vital problem of economics. The white slave traffic will be suppressed when the working girls will cease being oppressed Give them living wage and you give the traffic a dying blow
 So, the abolition of child labor will be ushered in when the necessity therefor will be nshered out
 The Inauguration or d system of free libraries is highly -commendable but to afford the masses equal opportuni- ties 10 acquire the rudiments of an education is condition precedent to the perusal and comprehension Of books.
 The establishment or a rounaauon for medical research merits the lolti- est praise. but reduction in the price Of commodities monopolized by the pIutocratie founder Of that institution would be most potential in preventing the disease which it seeks to cure.
 4 revenue tariff would reduce the tariff, but is that indispensable to living within ones Income? The high cost of living is due to high living. 1t requires more to live aow than in years gone by because We crave for more. The sluttony for luxury pre- dominates the lives of the people As Emerson puts it-"It is for cake that we run in debt
 For the purpose of this discourse the people of a community will be di- yided into three classes.
 First, there is lAe great army of contenters. A contenter is a self-sat- isfied individual wno views fife thro' a magnified optimistic telescope, lie diseerns only the good in people and things and is satisfied with every thiag and everybody Nothing alarms him No situation appeals to' him. He is utterly obliyious of the existence ol wrongs and when apprised of them folds his arms and calmly declares; "Oh well, everything will come out all right in the wash This type of nonentity is as noxious to a commu- nity as the alarmist who dispairinsly throws up bis hands and exclaims that the country is going to ruin.
 Thea, we have the hosts of con. summated pessimists A consummated pessimist is a perennial microscopic faultfinder. He observes life through a horrorscope. He can discover no good in anything or anybody To him life is a ceaseless terrific storm which drags him across the rocky paths oG conflict and dasnes him against the cliffs of diversity. No 5iiffTery clouds 0yerhang his head to him all days are dark and dreary. II" Jholds the future as even darker than the past and when urged to cheer up" grouohiagly signs An, we'll what's te use? You canI do anything
 Lastly we approach the ameliorists -4ff ameIiorist is one who o'knows that conditions are neither ideal nor be- yond redemption He is .coenizant Of the good and aware of the bad fe is ever ready To commend the former and condemn the latter He seeks to remedy the bad and better the good. Ha is neither contenteG nor dissatis- fled he Is uusaisfied He believes that reforms are expedient The har- acter however which these reforms are 10 assume has eicited varied and diversified opinions in the camp of the amehorists
 The Progressives optue that our
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