Evening journal., 1916-12-21

against the successes in life; array class against
class poverty against wealth against capital
He ignores fundamental and plays upon the
heart-srings of the unfortunate with harmful ruth
lessness that should be frowned upon and condemned
by all men. He is a destructionist who ignores the
past dstorts the present and destroys faith in the u-
By his acts and his utterances he becomes the
dangerous enemy only the well-todo but also Of
the very for the welfare Of which he processes
TO entertain such ardent solictude
the United States there three prime rea-
sons why the professional and the unprofessional
Injurious social discomfort should be frown
ed upon by all members OF society, matter what
their stations m life may and particularly by those
persons poor alike who hold to the generally
accepted theory that motive power OF human pro-
gress is human discontent which has for its fuel not
the destructive acid OF unreasoning hatred and envy
but constructive spirit Of admiration and emula-
ton
One Of those three prime is that there no
circles OF society in this country which not pene
raDle by who aspire 10 enter them and who mani
fest an earnest and unselhsh desire to obtain social
recognition as a reward for true social merit.
Another reason that the economic history Of the
United States conclusively that the rich man OF
today is the poor OF tomorrow, and that the
man OF today is the rich man OF tomorrow. Wealth
flows from hand to hand with remorseless and bene-
hcial persstency. Here and there finds ooagula-
tions which persist for time but which ultimately
are absorbed or dissolved and swept away become
part parcel OF the great golden stream that flows
never-ceasngly through broad land OF opportunity
that equal Nature and individual effort or lack
OF effort will permit II TO be.
And yet another OF those three prime is that
with this constant passing of wealth from hand to hand
and with the constant creation OF new wealth, the
buyer OF today becomes the seller Of labor OF
tomorrow and the seller OF labor today becomes the
buyer of labor OF tomorrow.
In other words the object OF the solcitude OF the
demagogue today may become the object OF his dema-
gogc attack tomorrow because OF the incessant
shift of social and economic conditions in this repub-
lie in which all men may equal but in which
they do remain equal and in which inequality, while
Il continues TO exist unstable mercury in its
application 70 human units.
Most demagogues arc failures in life Their failure
is usually result OF faults OF their Instead OF
pulling themselves together and endeavoring TO re-
deem themselves by intelligent and proper effort they
remain in the slough of failure rail against every
thing except themselves and those similarly situated
and place the responsibility for human failure in a
places except those in which It properly belongs
The shining mark at which they usually send their
shafts OF envy hatred is the rich With those
same shafts they seek 70 inoculate with envy and
hatred OF the rich man units Of society who have
been unfortunate in the OF life Many OF those
units accept the mental poisoning without stopping
to think that propery-constituted rich man is
worth more to a community than are one thousand
blatant demagogues who do little in life except rail
against existing conditions which tisy should seek to
improve by self-improvement
The rich man Is a producer and spender The
demagogue is a non-producer and parasite. The rich
man is as rule person OF broad vision who has faith
in what he sees The demagogue is rule man
OF narrow vision. who little except the misery
that has been created by the ineciency OF himself