The Washington herald., 1915-05-26
Two SANDER. Exposed.

1t is too bad to spoil the sensations that pro-
vide entertainment for the morbid and living for
the professional reformers whose speciality is dis
covering that most of the people with whom they
do not associate are bad, and that only public
fund to be dispensed by them can bring re-
demption. The shop girls are not all immoral and
the college students are not all drunkards. 1t will
be difficult for many people who never saw shop
girl or visited college campus. but who get their
cocksure information from yellow magazines and
Chautauquas, to believe either of these contradic-
tons, but they have been made by reliable people
after pretty thorough investigation. The faculty
of Yale University vouches for the sobriety of the
students of that institution, and show that the
slandcrer of the college students is discharged
professor.
The Consumers League of Philadelphia, after
investigation find that the shop girls of that city
are decent and that low wages have not driven
them to immortality. 1t would not be necessary to
dignity such ISLANDERS with denial, if people would
first inquire to the sources of knowledge dis
played by slanderers for a consideration. But
they do not. These pedders OF scandal and pro-
motors of prejudice find ready audiences in one
part of the country who will believe anything evil
Of the people in another section of which they
know nothing. Fifty years ago there were whole
Damned Yankee" was in the dictionaries and
that the name represented peculiar like the
Vandals and the Huns destroying civilization.
There were in the North thousands of people who
believed that every Southern man, whatever his
calling, was professional slave driver with a
big whip whose lash was Redeemed with the blood
of slaves. 1t took big to remove these i'm
pressions north and south and get back to the
honorable titles of Puritans and Cavalier-to dis
cover that they all belonged to the same Anglo
Saxon race.
We have had many preachers of discomfort
in the last decade that it became almost neces-
sary to put fumigation wagons their trail. One
prominent member OF President Roosevelts Cabi-
net took to the Chautauqua circuit in the West
season. just TO soak the grass that it would
not catch fire from the perfervid oratory of the
men who travelled the circuit to abuse somebody
or something, and call themselves reformers
Having out the subject of political corrup-
ton the revealers of vice had to turn to other
people and they finally got down to the college
boys and the shop girls with the startling dis
covery that education and inebraton meant the
same thing and that low wages and vice were
twins 1t about pcayune a reform for
cash as that of the fellow who pocketed the coins
from the eyes OF the corpse, but when a revealer
of other peoples shortcomings gets hard up he
is like the with the muck-rake and has no
sense of discrimination. The cities all Sodoms
and Gomorrahs the Chautauqua circuits, and
when our country cousins come to town to sec
the sights they disappointed not to find white
slaves sold in cages the street corners, and
college boys sitting beer kegs with a stein in
one hand and a book in the other.
The silly season comes in the dog days, after
the harvesting is done, and the Chautauqua cir
cult is more sensational if less entertaining than
the circus. 1t. will soon be running again and no
one can tell who will be made to furnish new
thrills. They have handled about all humanity
in the cities except the preachers 1t wouldn't be
surprising to have campaign made against the
city preachers agents of the devil, just to con-
vince country cousins that there is not
a Lot or his wife to save the cities from the
Divine wrath because of their wickedncss The
Chautauqua pessimists will not take the chance of
the modern Lots wife turning to bag of salt by
looking back after she had escaped They won't
let her get out of town.