The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

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trouble If they would keep still everything would
take care of beautifully Thus speaks he.
Hindu expatiatng vegetarianisn and
sin of destroying living creatures for food
when missionary laid n-agnifyng glass across his
The wrgglers crawling about therein amaz
ed Hindu He broke the magnifying glass. When a
pointed Great that the basin of
the Neva fit place for city. and even traced
high marks of flood the king, born
the lowands of Holland, and determined to have a
city the flats, Numbered Cut down that tree!
To destroy the evidences and symptoms is ever the
quickest and easiest way of difficulty and the
popular; hence, when the reformer is reforming
prophet prophecyng the agitator agating,
the good folks out, Away with these fellows; they
making all the trouble
But they aren't they do not the unrest they
expression. To fuel already prepared they but
bring the flame. And it is shortsighted to blame
trouble the prophets it for Peter to
hold the responsible for the flood At the root of
every social there is social and
cial is going, later to get itself
pressed, and the who does the vocalizing is So
cial prophet. The prophet is a social certainty
This notion that the reformer agitator is nuisance
and demagogue is the falacy harbored by those sleek
who profit by social there is kindred,
opposed faacy entertained by opposite class,
these who suffer from social wrongs These say the
prophet is because the people do their
rebelling if they They a theory that
has been trodden hard enough he will
If history has anything to teach it is that this
theory is groundless One of the most fatal results
slavery oppression that destroys initiative
and in man and makes him contend with his
serfdom. Let Pharaoh pile and more hardships,
let him force them to make their bricks without
let him Children Israel many cattle,
they will to his feet and fawn him and even
from the highway liberty cry for his onions and his
few but cutting with mo Compromise" for his
slogan with the fire all consuming purpose burn
ing Within lash and sting the slaves action
will they act.
read the account of the experiences of party
lost days the Antarctic. When fire died
numb with cold seek for beds in the snow then it
was that strong wiled fellow possessed of the courage
and dauntlessness of lion, fashioned himself whip of
frozen hides and reused the members of the
their feet and drove them about with his lash per-
hitting them for moment to stop. He saved the day;
their activity kept them alive until relief arrived
What alegory is that of humanity! Men may be
spit and driven like beasts and turned to sticks
those 'arcuate implements" about which Cicero elo-
cuted still submit Robert Hunter in his instructive
book Poverty makes sharp distinction between the
and the the former, he keeping
their souls alive and maintaining the struggle but the
pauper content lie where he is. He has lost his
pride There is the of the whole matter. When
oppressed that point it is useless to
pect them to themselves.
Then, too the harder pressed nearer
they the bottom of the dinner basket They have
everything that in short The loss
weeks will find them penness and starving Lit
tie wonder them that the oppressed the slaves the
class in society. The slightest dis
them the loss of all. So they avoid
the disturbance
One thing only then can save them, the arrival of a
prophet, leader, who point the way out of the
labyrinth, fill them full of enthusiasm and 9TH
heathul fire Stung into action aroused, dashed into
motion. there is hope for them.
is why society will not be able to keep house without
him for many day to come
today need prophets The gigantic evils which lie
upon like incubus unmoved because of the
sluggishness indifference the file
said Josiah Strong, from the bad citizenship
good men"
But is after all not much call to the agitator
as to leader equipped for thinking a continental
scale When apply much intelligence to social
problems machinery invention, business
Edisons in sociology a way out will surely
found The calls for who is able to gather
whole into his brain and then reveal clearly
the underlying issue of it all.