The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-18

ed politics in the country. and by
courage or condone Abe efforts OF
tbe S Spponcnts to steal from tho people
Some of these men have in the past
assumed to be teachers of their fell
lowmen In political matters. Never
nigh ideal of honesty and deoency IN
political life. or OF the duty TO OPPOSE
p i%na corruption and business
pose them to the derision of all who
abhor hypocrisy and who condemn tno
! words that are not translated into
Influence OF Glass.
Apparently these men IRE Influenced
by class consciousness which L had
n9t b. eS1, s q any
| stances for which they are not re-
sponstble have removed their lives
from the fears and anxieties of the
ordinary men who toll. When a move
| ment is undertaken to make life a
little easier. u little better. for the
ordinary man. to give him better
chance, these men OF soft life seem
/ Is not rightly theirs may be taken
| from them.
In unmanly fear they stand against
| all change, no matter how urgent such
! change may be. They not only come
| FAR short OF their duty when they thus
| act. but they show Il lamentable
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, In this country Of
ours no man can permanently leave to
| his descendants the right to live soft
~. and IL he could leave such u right
II would in the end prove to be II
right not worth having. Tho inheri-
lance really worth while which we
can transmit to our children and to
our chiidren's children is the ability
OF avoiding work-the ability for etn-
cient effort. not the opportunity for
! the slothful avoidance of all effort.
| The leaders In the fight for Industrial
and social justice to-day should be the
! men to whom much has been given
| and from whom we have n right to
| expect in return much OF honesty and
of courage. much OF disinterested and
valorous effort for the common good.
The multi millionaire who opposes us
is the worst foe OF his own children
though he knows 1t. we are their ben
efactors when we strive to make this
country one In which justice shall pre-
, vail; for It is they themselves who
this country, when we permitted the
average man gradually TO grow TO
feel that fair play was denied him
and privilege accorded to the few.
rOr the Plain People.
We who in this contest are lighting
who are lighting for the right of the
people to rule themselves, need orci
| no better proof of the fact that we
are hghting, for all citizens. no mat
which is afforded by the action Of that
portion OF the press which is con-
| ,rolled by privilege, by the great spe-
| cial interests in business. Newspapers
OF this type are found in every part
! OF the country. in San francisco. in
Cincinnati, in Chicago and st. Louis.
are strongest in New York. Some or
these newspapers are nomfnally Dem
ocratic some nominnlly Republican,.
some nom!nally independent. But in
F, or fancicd interests or the great capt
| talist class by certain of whose MEM
| beers they are controlled.
| irt class are Identical with those OF the
country as whole. and in that case these
wealth. Sometimes the interests OF the
capitalist class are against the interests o.,
The people as whole. and in that case
| the Commonwealth. But neither their act
! ing favorably to nor their acting adversely
| anything more than an incident to their
support OF the interests to which they are
I bound. The great and far-reaching evil of
| thtir action Is that they choke and foul
/ the only channels o. information open to
! SO many honest and well-Ineaning citizens:
| ihe most prominent representatives OF
! these papers in New York and Massachu-
! setts supported Mr. Parker against me in
| 1891. Mr.: Parker was Democrat. but he
| was entirely satisfactory 10 these masters
! and for the time being they ardently did
I all they could 10 overthrow tho Republican
/ party and to elect Democratic President.
! Bat when ] began 10 he seriously talked
about for the Republican nomination this
! year these papers, one and all. turned Rc-
/ publican To the extent Of becoming my
| furious opponents and the furious cham
pons OF Mr.. Taft. There Is an element OF
! pure comedy In reading In these papers
continual lamentat iona about the likelihood
| can party. They themselves did all they
could 20 heat the Republican party when they
thought they could eject Mr.. Parker. Now
these papers would eagerly champion tho
) Republican party II they could keep MIR.
i rnft as It's nominee for President. In the
! past they have not concealed their con-
( tempt Tor Mr.. Taft. and none OF them re-
gard him in any way as a leader.
en dx snponenps Is m Us ,d ana our pres
! history. In every great crisis OF the kind
! We face to-day, We find nrrnyed on one sid Q
! the men who with feryor and broad SYM
/ raihy and lofty idealism stand for the for
/ ward movement. Tie men who stand for
f., the uplift and oettormcnt OF mankind and
+ who have faith In the people; and over
against them the men OF restricted vision
not stirred by the wrongs of others side
by side with the latter appear the other
meq who lack ali Intensity OF conviction.
and also those other men who distrust the
people. who Il dishonest wish to keep the
| people helpless "a to exploit them. and
who II honest 80 disbc!ieve In tho power
OF the people TO bring about wholesome
reform that every appeal TO popular con-
science and popular intelligence Nils them
with an angry terror. According TO their
own lights, these often very re-
| spectacle, very worthy. But they live on
plane OF low ideals. In tho atmospher-
/ they createimpostors flourish. and leader
ship comes to be thought OF only sue
cess in making money, and the vision Of
heaven becomes sordid vision. and all
that is purest in human nature Is laughed
| at, and honesty is bought and sold IN the
| marketplace.
Opposed undyinSly 10 those men the
| men OF faith and vision. the men in whom
q A
] FIRE. who spurn livss OF SORT ana selfish
NJ sin f.tl a nd YI .yhn