The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-11

to voluntary perform duties of the
law. cannot compel. and in my mind,
to be a christian and to be Il gentle.
man are a synonymous thing. In
d~ividualism is of course based upon
s%elffishness. but we need a higher
dividual conscience SO trained. that
one will himself be hurt by iniuring
another. We need an individual self
respect--that from motives of selfish
ness will refrain from that which is
dishonorable, because that which
is dishonorable will give the doer
pain and annoyance. What we real
~ need in this latter day of demo-
cracy are not more laws. or more
political machinery, but a social con-
science . Its lack alone makes the in
spector. the policeman, and the stat
ute necessary. We need to reform
the lawyer more than we need to re-
form the law. We need to resolve re-
forms and politics into terms of hui
mar life. and we need to learn TO
care for and be willing to live. as we'll
as to die for. those human lives; we
need patriotism, which sees some-
thing higher ven than the flag.
which is not merely a geographical
sense. There is something better
than the geographical love of tho
rocks and the rills. There is some
thing holier than the love Of the flaE.
and that something Is love of and u
willingness to die and to live for those
who live amidst the rocks and be-
meath the flag.
Rothschild Scheme.
You remember the story of the rise
Of the family of the Rothschild. The
battle of Waterloo was in progress.
London and England were in a frenzy
of horror of anxiety and of grief.
The baron knew n sought to profit
by this. He knew that defeat would
mean ruin to many and the annihila-
ton of h British army and would
bring sorrow to thousands Of homes.
He furnished himself with a relay
when he learned it's results he started
for London. There were no tele-
graph lines or railroads in those days. .
He Travelled night and day. but said
never a word On arriving in Lon
don he spent days in buying stocks
and bonds. and other securities which
he knew must rise In value when the
he kept silent. The news came and
the bonds and securities increased in
value. until he became fabulously
rich. but at the expense of human
suffering and agony. He might have
shouted the news from the house
tOpS. ne might nave rough JOY to
millions. but he chose to make mill
ions. He had simply a selfshness
which was unenlightened and un-
train. No man of honor and Of hu-
,nanity would have done what he did.
for it would have panied him. Roths-
child had no honor and no humanity
and it did not pain him. He did that
which was legal but that which was
unsocial. OF all the crimes of mod
ern years the greatest has been the
crime of those who suppressed tho
details of the Titanic disaster. in or
der that they might sell the story to
the newspapers for a few hundred
dollars. The man who refuses to"
a " a drowning comrade. the phar-
isee. who passes on the other side Of
the highway. are the real criminals.
but these the law can never reach.
We cannot compel action in these
matters. e 1t is in the conscience
that would make these things impos.
sible. that the salvation Of democracy
is to be found We need a social con.
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