Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-17
PSYCHOLOGICAL HYSTERIA.

President Wilson still contends
that there can be no such thing as
hard times that hard times is a
myth, sort OF hypochondrial
hysteria. Against tho pedantlc dog
matism OF the president are arrayed
all tho facts OF experience and all
the truths Of history If the presl-
dcnts position be correct there is no
suffering In Belgium, The people
! just believe they are hungry when as
a matter Of fact they are well fed
and do not deserve the generous con-
| tributions Of food and clothing which
have been sent them from this
country If the presidents position
be correct you cannot be hungry or
poorly clad Such things are but
| the Pigments Of a diseased imaglna-
| ton. If the presidents position be
correct the pictures which see OF the
oyer-cXtending bread line are but the
work Of the evil minds OF the artists.
There is no bread line there is no
starvation, there Is no cry for bread,
there Is no lack Of fuel and clothing
anywhere within the confines Of this
great country because such things
have no actual existence and If we
will just educate our minds to the
heights Of intellectual comprehension
which have been attained by the
president we will realize the sound
ness and the sanity OF his assertions.
The president of the United States
all of his life has never known the
pangs Of want He lives and has
lived in a serene atmosphere of COM
fort and plenty where the gaunt
specter OF hunger never knocked at
the door He has been living in an
optimistic climate all of his life and
has never knowa the hectic desper-
alton which comes to those treading
the lonely reaches Of the Valley of
Distress and Sorrow The president
does not know what It is to stand in
line for hours waiting for the modi-
cum of nourishment which keeps
body and soul together The pres-
dent does not know what it is to
walk the streets all night to keep
from freezing TO death on some
friendly stoop. The president does
not know what 1t is to have a child
frozen at your breast for want of
ten-cent bucket of coal The presi-
dent does not know what it is to bo
without funds to secure the doctor
when the young ones are dying. The
president was educated in a different
school from that. His life has fallen
in pleasanter lines and all that no
knows he reads in the papers 1t is
easy enough for the man with his
feet toasting before a warm fire and
his body nourshed by wholesome
and pleasant food TO talk psychology,
but the men, women and children
tramping the streets and sleeping in
the open when the temperature is
around the zero mark want to be fed
on somo more substantial diet than
psychological phenomena What they
want Is bread and meat, coal and
wood. And given chance to earn 1t
they would all be at It within twenty
four hours. because the American
people are not a race of paupers nor
are they race of beggars.
1t Is the result OF the application
OF the Wilson policies that we have
starving millions in this country |
Such "A condition can be ascribed to !
nothing else under the sun Tariff I.
and currency tinkerng has T.
always brought distress and ruin but /
the theorists and the doctrinaires will /.
not realize this, or If they do realize /.
it they calmly ignore its inevitable |
and dlstressful effects on all of the I.
people. When tariff tinkering and I.
currency tinkering are accompanied /
by further and special attacks on the /.
business interests of the country the /.
result Is trebly lamentable II can
not. be anything else and the people |
when they get a chance are going /.
to demand some other relief than |
the cynical statement they are suf- |
fering from psychological dementia.
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