Evening journal., 1917-01-29

OF tre but false assertion that capital is shy, he
has the 'front.' he has taken his chance. he has
backed genius, he has employed labor, he has
refused to be by many staggering and
he has by his financial forttude and faith in genius
converted dreams into realities which have trans
formed the civilized world and its social, economic
and political conditions What he has done in the past
he doing today, in bigger and broader way than
ever before
The rich man is who has dreamed dreams him
self and subsequently converted them into substantial
realities who has capitalized the dreams OF Others
not by any process of legerdeman but by harnessng
God-given gray matter to God-gven opportunity and
proceeding with them to the goal OF success
The professional demagogue is dreamer Of dreams
which true because they weighted down
with mal-vision, hatred and lack of initiative and amD-
ton Being unable. unwilling, to convert his own
dreams into realities he seeks to extend to the dreams
of all others about him those weights which keep his
own dreams in mpotent prosratOn and to rail against
all who rise in life in spite his repressive efforts
All men are dreamers They dream by night and they
dream by day Dreaming Is human function that Is
common to all races, to all natonalities and to all
classes It is nalenable right that is as cheap as
it is universal
The smart man is he who makes his dreams realities.
He holds to the theory the dream merely the in
spraon which, properly utilized leads to the accom-
plishment Of the big things in life.
The stupid man is he who fails to realize that God
gave men brains for use in the performance Of work
more serious than thinking that dreaming Is the be-
ginning and the ending Of It ALL and that dreaming is to
be followed by non-action and by still more dreaming
and hon-acon until the brain becomes atrophied and
the nerves and the muscles lose their strength and for
get their functions
WiImngton's progress Delaware's progress Americas
progress and the worlds progress have been founded
upon dreams which smart men, backed by their OWL
wealth and the wealth Of Others have converted intC
practical realities
We doubt that there is anything big earth thai
owes its origin that has not had dream lyine
back of it to give it impulse because in the norma
human dreams stir the emotion. stimulate the imagi
nation arouse the ambition. direct the energy and A.
! the goal Much would have been accomplished
and our city. State, nation and the world wou
have much farther advanced on the path of pro
gress and civilization had it not been for the soporih
work OF professional and professional demagogues
who have preached and practiced the harmful gospe
that men should be hatebesotted dreamers Of idl
dreams rather than dream-inspred doers OF wholesom
deeds.
IT, in the beginning and during the time that has in
tervened the control and the development Of IN
social financial, commercial, Industrial agriculture
and political affairs Of the world had been in the hand
of professional and non-professonal demagogues an
their followers, would find ourselves living today i
state OF hate-besotted barbarsm subsersive OF ever
human interest.
There is no monument to demagogy to which dema
gogue or his followers may point with pride
That is because demagogy has been an obstructiy
and destructive force that for centuries upon centure
has encountered the path Of progress and endeavore
to create and maintain unbridgable chasm betwee
capital and abor-between the rich and the POI
Dream-nspired doers Of deeds have been forced
surmount those distractions and to the gantlet
envy and hatred to make our world what II is toda
They still are doing it and will continue to do it
long and women pay serious and sympathet
heed to apostles of demagogy and their gospel Of ha
Of those who by carving out their fortunes in r
sponse to Hfe-dreams have become wealthy wei
to-do.
Capital and labor, working side by side and wi
the former compensating the latter have made t
world what it is today while demagogues and dreame
of dreams which inspired hatred instead Of emulatc
have lined both sides of the path OF progress soon
at the world workers and done everything in tn
power to hinder and discourage them in the perfor
ance Of their constructive tasks.
Our world contains millions of pulsating and pr
poseful monuments to dream-inspired doers. and tn
financial patrons, but as we have said before, the
are no such memorials to hate-besotted dream
who have fallen and remained beneath the bal
ful spell of the demagogue and become dbses'
with bhe thought that the highest duty of m
is to envy and hate and malign the or the won
who has achieved success
So long as genius. wealth and labor work in partn
ship, world will progress. In the absence Of 81
partnership progress must give way to that runC
stagnaton upon which the creed OF the demogogue
founded--a creed that is damnabe in its purpo
that it should find acceptance in quarter but he
with universal reputation