The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-16

derlay the NEST solemn seeming var
fare. Once when ne sat overlooking
the great gathering of strikers outside
4 bsg factory, the gates swung open
and out OF them lum bered a big truck,
boarded over TO lock like clumsy ark.
There were peep hoies-rifle holes. he
knew--aIl along IT. The driver sat
with porteutous solemnity, and beside
him sat guard with rifle across his
knees.
Inside this portentous chariot Of
wrath were the sgrikebreakers pro-
tected IN this way from violence. but
not from ridicule, The hooting and
laughter Of the crowd followed the
progress of this car Of the jaeger l3ut
until the guard lost his menacing
gravity and smiled in spite of him
self. with some dawning recognition
Of the absurdity OF the whole at
fair"
And so Mr.. Whitlock is not So
elaiist- lie argues that most socialists
would impose an Oppressive authority
OH other men similarly as they be-
lleve other men have imposed ON them.
He thinks that even harder and faster
methods OF mere regulation would OBJ
tain under socialist regime than OBJ
tain now, ana even more injustice.
II would seem as II Mr.. Whitlock
earnestly advocates the Golden Rule is
the one Law of action that the world
needs. He comments with pleasant
irony on the resentment of even the
best people OF Toledo when the
mayor began 70 tell them that the
Golden Rule was tho only law they
needed, MIR Whitlock has seen that
furnishing men for wrong-deing does
not make them good. lie thinks that
fear Of punishment does not even re-
strain people from doing wrong.
Men Who Lived to Give.
In telling OF Mayor Tom Johnson s
fight TO secure justice for tho people
Mr Whltlock says that he was a man
IF wealth. a Kentucky aristoerat. i'm
deed: who had never turned his a-ten-
ton TO social problems till one day. in
a train he CHANGED on Henry George 8
Social Problems" Idly turning the
pages he began to read. AS he read
the conviction dawned on him that
with all the progress humanity had
made, poverty had kept even strides
with it. In spite of all labor -savin s
devices. the great Inventions. and all,
no such improvement had come % go
ciety as would he expected from these
amelorations Of primitive haraships
and of practical need.
He at once turned right about face.
He no longer lived to acquire, He
i lived TO give. to give IN the wisest way.
to give himself lie went at once &c
see Henry George. and the two be-
came fast friends. AT Georges advice
Mr. Johnson went into politics and
made his pIucky fight for the people
! Governor Altgeid. of Illinois, is an
other whom Mr.. Whitlock knew. and
who indeed first turned the poetic,
dreamy boy into a lover Of his kind.
we have the picture OF the governor
walking with bent head through the
State capitol at Springfield. bordering
those dreams Of social betterment
which came to him SO much earlier
than to most Of his contemporaries.
The story of how the supposed anar-
chists, Imprisoned for life, were pard-
oned by Governor Altgeid, and how the
people cried out upon him for letting
them loose is almost forgotten now.
Then any attempt to assail entrencned
privilege and question the rights OF
property was held so great crime
that the public had thirsted for segal