The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1915-08-20
lL|FF PROTESTS AGAINST TRADES
OF BRADFORD ON BUSINESS men
Rebukes Incendiary Remarks
of Chautauqua Lecturer
Intended to Arouse Feeling
Against Law and Order.

Statements made by Chancellor
Bradford at the Chautauqua meeting
have evoked the following structure
from the pen of Edgar Iliff:
Editor OF Palladium:
Every good citizen who loves law
and order ana believes that all true
liberty rests upon the sovereignty of
the law, must be shocked at the utter.
ances OF Chancellor Bradford in his
Chautauqua lecture. as reported In
your paper. The speaker Is reported
to have said:
Leo Frank was hanged yesterday
Do the big millionaires and captains
of industry sec the handwriting on the
wall? They had better. because the
mob will get them as 1t got Frank If
they continue their way"
II such an utterance had come from
some poor itinerant Socialist street.
corner orator. the cry would have
been Anarchist! Cruelty him!" But
the literature and speeches OF Social
ism do not contain any such red rev.
olutionary talk. The doctrine Of BAL.
lots not Bullets" Is preached every
where by Socialist propogandists.
Asks His Motive.
But why should DR.. Bradford use
that sad and lamentable Leo Frank af.
fair as an illustration, and point 1t out
as the handwriting on the wall to warn
the business men of the country OF
what they may expect from mobs and
riots? He could have just as legiti-
mately put his illustrations this way:
"A Niger was burnt at the stake
yesterday. DO the big millionaires
and captains Of industry see the
handwriting on the wall? They had
better, because the mob will get them
just as 1t got the niger II they con.
tinue their way"
DR.. Bradford is reported to have
said further:
There should be more honor
among business men. Business can't
put the stamp of approval on acts OF
thievery and cheating by commercial
men and merchants. Those business
men who follow that kind Of prac-
tices should be subjected to the same
punishment as the outlaw and the
hold-up man"
The punishment usually meted out
to the outlaw and hold-up man Is
shooting on the spot" One can here
imagine the frey Chautauquan going
into a store and purchasing a pound
OF coffee. Going home he weighs it
and it falls short two ounces. He at
once grabs his musket and races back
to the store and shoots the grocery
man dead for an outlaw and hold.
up! DR.. Bradford uses the phrase "if
had my way" repeatedly. and tells
us what he would do Now the OBJ
ject Of law and order is to prevent
fanatics from having their own par
ticular way. If DR.. Bradford had his
way he would treat every man whom
he suspicioned of dishonesty as an
outlaw and hold-up.
This Is all sans-culotte talk and de-
serves the severest public condemna-
ton. Such incendiary trades do
more to bring law. order and true
liberty into disrepute than the evils
these sensational orators pretend to
hght Such talk would not be tolerat-
ed as coming from anarchist meet
ings.
1t seems unthinkable that a man
occupying the place Of chancellor OF
a university should give utterance to
such violent sentiments before a
Chautauqua assemblage; unbelievable
that a man who advocates one teacher
for every fifteen boys should talk SO;
incredible that an educator who con-
demns nearly every form Of innocent
social amusement should invoke the
mob spirit to kill captains OF In.
dustry"; and absolutely beyond cred
ence that q reformer who advocates q
rigid restriction Of suffrage should
call up the bloody ghosts Of red revo-
luton and anarchy.
EDGAR lLIFF.