Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-25
Psychological Side of the |. w. w.
as Seen by Reporter Who Knows Them

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I'LL In my mind at least II was a
firmly established law. Whenever
you meet man who Will take to his
bosom and carry into practice the
doctrine that he Is serving humanity
by s!aughtering sleeping women and
children and plunging the nations
cefenders down an embankment, try
this sex test. Sc II you don't find
some woman has Tilted him. or he has
failed to acquire the means of satisfy
Ing an abnormal sex impulse, or he
is pathologically pervert. Now don't
put this last as the usual concomitant.
But the percentage Is high. Come 20
think OF It, Upton Sinclair sat in the
lobby of q New York hotel with
Harry Kemp. the tramp poetiZer who
copped his wife, and that wife her
self, before a crowd of reporters, and
they all anatomized their sensations
over the switch and prated over the
details In manner nauseating to n
normal man. Jack London took the
money of working stenographer TO
help him thru college, married her
and after fame and wealth were his,
threw her aside like pair Of old
shoes. She couldn't satisfy his soul
ycarnlngs." Genius as he was, Toll
stofs attitude toward his wife and
family. IL carried into universal prac-
tice. would make this world q mael-
strom of bitterness, disrupt the home
life of civilization. Ever notice that
the leaders OF the extremely radical
element in the Socialist party, and
those birds. who before the war used
to spout on the street corners are all
free lovers? In theory. because the
other party<to that seraphic state. tho
females, never seem to cotton to their
brand
California regretted treating the 7.
w. W.'s as they did. They scattered
pamphlets. breeding sedition. instill-
iEg hatred. Their work bore fruit
among that class which Is "agin' tn:
government" which mistakes a con-
stitutional bellyache for II divine dis
content" and to n far greater degree
among tho detectives. the half-nuts,
the astonishingly large number Of
men which our criminally negligent
social system permits to roam here
when It's safe. pilfering when 1t
seems cinch. There is very fair
share Of brains among the leaders,
the prosecutors. Their dupes. the fell
lows who paysfees and buy paphmlets
ana 'come across" when the holy
cause needs funds. are the credulous.
gullible class and the man. with con-
normal, the abnormal and the per-
vert. Citizens there came to see that
the proper course would have been II
long period in work institution, n
removal on the part Of the dupes
from contact with the poisoning in
fluence of the jaw-smiths. 1t was
not great while until they had
grown to alarming numbers. Forest
fires. wrecks. labor troubles. became
epidemic. The war seems to have
eliminated the .timorous. and the
modicum which retained n spark of
loyalty to such ideals as most men
held: and to have steeled the leaders
to more frequent and fiendish out
breaks. German money? Without a.
doubt. The Hun is his twin brother
same practices. arguments, ideals
Prophets of disaster are unwelcome. l
am not bloodthirsty. But the wise
course the other night would have
been to have inflicted the penalty
mankind has from time immemorial
inflicted upon these who In time of
war gave aid to the enemy, or who
seek to murder the helpless row
of bandaged eyes and a firing squad.
Seventeen firebrands at large-but
there will he another twist to the next
midnight party.