Evening journal., 1916-12-21
(EDITO RIAL)

& MEXICAN society as a whole has worse enemy
than is he who in this great Republic Of equal op
portunity seeks to array class against class poverty
against wealth and labor against capital.
No nation has existed in which society has not
been divided into classes less clearly defined
No nation has existed in which the rich and the
poor have wrought side by side for self-nteres
and the worlds advancement
No nation has existed in which labor has not
sold itself capital IN return for stipulated
and to the mutual advantage OF both capital and
labor.
Equality in social standing, equality IN the crea-
ton and the possession of wealth. and equality IN the
buying and the selling Of labor dreams OF the
oial ldeast which been realized and per-
haps will be realized until Nature has endowed
all human units With equality in mental and physical
vigor; equality IN acquisitiveness equality in
briefly and thrift equality in honesty and orderness-
and equality in due regard for those fundamental so
cia conventions which rule the civilized world.
No system Of government has been put into
practice in which the ideast outset might have
based his hopes with greater degree OF confidence
than Is the system under which Americans live.
It was predcated upon the solemn proclamation that
all men are created equal The dealist expanded that
proclamation that TO him It meant that they not only
we're created equal that they should and would re-
main equal under the American system. He failed to
take into the manifold variations in the human
element which, no matter to what extent equality may
have existed at immediate time OF creation, made
Il impossible for to exist In after life. He also
failed 10 realize that the inequality bitterly com
planned of in many quarters is the work OF nature and
not the work of man. impossible for humanity to
remove il and produce absolute even approximate
equality in all places Under special conditions It may
be approximated in certain environments Never how
ever is II realized fully Measured BY general stan
dards it does not exist ALL That is because OF the
inability OF failure Of human elements to live their
lives according to fixed standards which make for
equality IN social mental, physical moral and financial
attributes.
So long as society Is made up Of the mentally srons
and the mentally weak; OF the physically strong and
the physcaiiy weak; Of those who strive for educa-
ton and of those who shun education; of those who
have ambition and OF those who devoid OF ambiton
Of those who are industrious and OF those who are
slohfu; Of those who opportunities and Of those
who permit opportunities 70 pass them BY; OF those
ho mako money and spend invest II wisely and OF
those Who make money and spend or invest II fool
isbiv; of those who respect human society and aspire
20 m respected By H. and Of those who do not respect
society and who place value upon societys respect
for them there can be and will be equality as It Ia
measured by the ideaist who spends his life endeavor
inc tn hiring about social millennium that cannot come
because of the inherent inequality OF the fundamental
human elements which underlie society as whole.
This government Of ours, based upon the principle