The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-05
TOLERATION.

his duties as he saw them ill the Senate. men threatened and abused him, shows that there is very little tolerance even here when man s views run counter to what an Amer icau writer has termed the damned compact majority.
 Lafollette, because he acts as he thinks best. and as his constituents would have him act, has to face the clamorous denunciation of those opposed to his views and this IS eH- ceedingly significant
 We may best judge the progress which a nation has made by the tolerance it insists shall be extended those who are ill the minority by those who are iu the majority, anu the reverence and respect which will ae extended those men who act anG speak as the truth they con ceive directs them when it differs from the majority.
  with the crowd and to mask one 5 real views that they may dlsplease none of those who are shouting. IL takes a real man to dare the powers which advocate policy and which has secured for it's advocacy the sup port of a political majority. It is not every man will do this. The spirit indeed is often willing but the body is weak But the few who have done it. shall they not rightly be honored of men? What else is worth having and what else is worth supporting if not the truth as men see it?
 Yet. it is quite clear, that objec- tionable as Lafollotte a hypocrite supporting a declaration of war might be. in acting against his own iuGgment. it is not nearly so ob- leeticnable as insisting upon doing his duty as he sees it.
 Such a fact is more bitter criti- ,ism of those wlo oppose Laiollette than anything else. It places them outside the pale of men who are governed by their intelligence and not by their emotions and submits a strong argument in favor Of the very stand which the Wisconsin senator has taken and for which he has been abused.
 If Wisconsin or any oth-r state sent to Congress q man who would he a more puppet Of the executive and insist upon supporting him right or wrong, then would sueA a thing as representative government have been a failure. But the con stitution reserved the right Of de claring war to Congress for the very simple reason in theory at any rate. of making the representative and not the administrative depart ment of government have control of this critical matter, and II was the right as well as the duty ot Lafollette to express his views rear lessly. as ii was manifestly the duty of those of his colleagues who were opposed to him to have received that opposition with decorous res pect nor allowed themselves nor the idlers in the galleries to mock the rC I; vfn
 Nothing could be a more disgrace ful comment than this upon the ei- fort made to deny the opposition anS right to act as it should act if il believes that declaration of war IS wrong.
 And this certainly would be the case were the positions reversed,
 If anyone conscientiously be- 1ieved that a war with any country was righteous, necessary and to be upheld, they would be certainly as much entitled to face a majority op- posing this idea and to have their views tolerantly received.
 It is an unfortunate feature that in times like these men become in tolerant They give way to their emotions and sentiment over-rules reason They refuse to deliberate upon the serious consequences of aheir steps and they do not as the great wise man of old so strcnuousis urged walk circumspectly" Their intelligence is dethroned and their sentiment and emotions take it's