The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-12-27
Hvsteria Hurts Reactionaries

WI noo 70 "Raactioparies who think to weaken the
advocacy of progressive measures by declaring that they are .e
products of "hysteria," we're roundly denounced here tonight by
Secretary Daniels of the Navy, in an address at the Inner 0 'he
North Carolina Society Of New York.
"a few days ago" MI. Daniels said, ga distinguished educator
from a Southern State, in a speech in New York. declared u a sucn
new and progressive measures as the initiative and eferendum ere
revolutionary Another distinguished authority, a statesman and
an educator. referred to certain modern American political doctrlhes
as wild theories which common sense and wise experience demand
to be rejected 'as the result of hysterla.
.Tbe real trouble is that this so-called 'hysteria' hurts. 1t
keeps party pledges; it does not take from labor the bread 1t earns;
it makes protecion-buit wealth pay the income tax. 1t elects Sen
ators direct from the people. They call it hysteria because 1t
means we can have no more Senators from the New York Central
railroad. NJ more Senators from the Southern Express Company,
no more Senators from the New York, New Haven d New Hartford
railroad, n more Senators from the Standard Oil trust.
"They call it hysteria because it prevents the classes from ex-
plotting the masses and brings the Government back to the people.
After all the real victims of hysteria are not the people who stand
upon housetops and cry for reform, but the people who are guarding
special privileges and are seeing the castles oullt Dy privilege ."
bled down about their heads.
"No. gentlemen" continued the Secretary, "the victims of hys-
terra are not the forwardlooking, promise-keeping reformers who
quietly convince the people that this new way, this gospel of pro-
gressive craftsmanship is best for the country, but your hystericai
man is that incarnate, self-apponted claimant OF patriotism VINO
madlv ave the stars and stripes with one hand and grips his re-
bate provided, northumberland wealth with the other, and be-
walls a n alleged tendency to put an end to class Legislation, VINO
wildly proclaims that we are turning away from these fundamental
principles through which we have come to our present high estate.
Legislatures in the recent past have been the favorites of great
corporations. They have felt the compelling power from higher
ups The impersonal elements in the situation made it hard to cure,
but at last the axe has been laid at the root of the tree; and people
nave demanded that all this be changed. How? BY legalized
primaries even for President; by pure food laws; by an income tax;
by a lower tariff; by laws to protect seamen; by regulation of trusts;
bv the abolition of interlocking directorates and rebates, etc
Take the tariff. The men who revised it were not hysterical
They used figures and facts. They were painstaking, scien-
lfc. and what was the answer? The benefciaries OF
protection, the infant Industries, gray and hoary with age
and obese from their long pull at the pap bottle, cried
out: You r. going to impoverish our country Four months
under the new tariff have passed, and according to the report oil
Secretary of Commerce Redfeld, the flooding of our markets with
the cheap wares of Europe has not happened, as predicted, ard
Americas foreign trade is still evidencing a healthy growth"