St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
Salt From the
Realms of Reason
Bv A. Porter.

present day evils, solve their
complications and suggest reme-
dies, having reviewed these arti-
cles, one point of paramount inn
portance is wonderfully avoided.
In no instance does the sole mo-
tive of the writer appear to be to
suggest clear, safe path for the
feet of all, but rather each writ
err seems to be the filial slave of
tyranny, in as much as the ze-
NTH of the writer's seems to be
to devise some automatic strain
err that will filter out just enough
justice to have a pacifying effect
on the restlessly oppressed.
Just how much justice will be
needed and how TO most safely
guard against an atom in excess
of that amount escaping to the
needy seems 10 be the sole OBJ
iect to be attained. It is not a
consideration of rendering an
equivalent or of allowing free
dom of industry. Such course
would be comparatively simple
and void of complications, as
right always is. How to pacify
the oppressed without yielding
any of the old tyrannical points
of vantage so tenaciously clung
at and excessively protected by
the over-indulged profit extorter
is the national perplexity.
The boundaries by which sla-
very should be confined. and just
what privileges and liberty sla-
very should be allowed TO claim
as its rights, was a perpleXing
problem TO our forefathers until
much application of thought re-
vealed so much disaster that
would result in the future from
a continuance of so great an evil. |
Until that unyielding, unwa-
vering principle, RIGHT, so per-
sistcntly focused itself on the |
mind of humanity that great
greed stood a bleached skeleton. |
visible TO all. As soon as il was
recognized for what il was the
voice of right cast il out and sla-
very followed i'm its wake.
IL was no longer a question of
what shall be the boundary line
for the monster, but annihilation
of il. Compromise was no lon
ger considered. Monopoly has
become visible as a grewsome
skeleton stalking in our midst.
Like "A pail It's control is suspen-
ded above our heads. We are
terrified by its ponderous mag
nitude and the completeness of
its density, obscuring from our
eyes all light of opportunity. |
Enveloped i'm the blackness of It's
without light or guide.
we have become frantic for the
destruction before we
are h0pelessly smothered,.
Suggestions of compromise
'nly add to our terror. Such I
uggestions, coming from the n
lilies of the monster, only warn q
Is of the subtle viciousness of I
Is relentless, consuming nature. /
great masses of our I
lumber have been plundered of .
heir substance, tortured 10 in =
anity prosecuted without cause n
nd denied mercy. crushed from h
irtue, paralyzed from the power /,
4 self protection, ruthlessly east n
mt from all that life holds dear
trewn in the wake of ever ag- T.,
ressiye greed II is idle folly nj
, suggest boundaries for a mon q,
ter that should have been crush m
d in the shell. The results of "A
s existence are convincing Il,
roof of the Nervousness of the IA,
'ime 10 admit such a conspiracy ol
be perpetrated on an unsus- a.,
'cting, defenseless people. On g,
by concerted effort, deeply for n,
fled and we'll aimed, can we sa
ope 20 prevail against the mon th
er or avoid our impending ms
lom, Progress is facilitated | An
past experience, ID,
Since the advent of monopolisticl IN
ethods, with their relentless wI
ries of Quakes shattering the m,
undatlons of justice, conscience
at is ever revealing the truth. lis
sgested between the mislead- al,
= lines, has been faithfully IN
hlspering i'm the ear of one ",
AN of courage, identifying the ST,
ght that, should, be where te,
rong is enthroned, da
Monopolistic quakes orViolence tr:
IS spent its force. Ii has done We
work well. Devastation and m,
brls blend with the horizon. Oh
lthiHg stands before us worthy TO
preservation. Let us not WI
pair tle walls, but let us build me
e new Jerusalem. TN,
Human tongue may paint inlml
astlc colorS the history and is
rrors of monopoly, but the eX,
lilty of the tongue will lapse Sl(
% silence before the glories to sal
revealed by the advent of dr,
rfect justice. We attempt i'm ize
PRACTICAL way TO apprise hu- pel
nifty of its approaching. We pei
" give expression of our init sol
impressions of it i'm such sto
rds as 1T is gift to the ma allC