Evening journal., 1917-01-29
Dreams That Are Dreams, and Dreams
That Come True
CEDITORIAL)

A RRAYING the poor man. against the who is
N rich or weu-to-do is the life business of the pro-
fessional demagogue.
He is a dangerous fly in the social ointment; en-
courager of and apologist for failure maligner
Of success; destroyer Of sefconfdence and seif-re
spect and a posoner Of ambition
That is true of his work here in Delaware as it
is of his work in other fields
The pity Of all is that he wins following among
the very and the very women, who in vital self
interest. should be the first to repudiate him
and hs pernicous and persistent preachments, which
have their genesis in astigmatism which gives a
false outlook upon the world its people and its af-
fairs
One broad-minded progressive and purposeful rich
man is worth more to the city of Wilmington any
other community than are one thousand professional
demagogues That is equally OF genius who has
constructive ideas or Of working who has con
structve efficiency and who willing to give to his
work the best there is in him.
Genius wealth and labor constitute the trinity Of
forces that has moved and moulded the world Those
forces nter-dependent Genius conceves great
undertakings wealth finances them and labor executes
them under the direction and stimulation Of its two
associate forces.
The professional demagogue has no legitimate place
in the scheme OF world progress We challenge any
one to point out here in Wilmington or in the State
Of Delaware for that matter. any city town. village
railroad trolley, steamboat line. telegraph line tele-
academy
trust company hospital charitable institution reform
aory, manufacturing establishment commercial house
art gallery, historical museum, theatre club hotel
park, playground athletic field water system sewer
system. big building operation beneficial movement
that owes either its origin existence to the pro-
fessional demagogue
All those things the products Of genius backed
by wealth which recruited and paid for labor They are
world blessings and world conveniences that have
come not because Of but spite OF the professional
and the non-professional demagogue swhose filmna-
tons are most injurious to those in whose behalf they
are professedly uttered
1t is due to the fact that genius wealth and labor have
been able to walk hand in hand in the work Of making
dreams come true despite the ralings and the dis
couragements OF the demogogue that Wilmington civil
izaton Delaware civilization and world civilization
are what they today
The history Of human advancement shows conclu-
siyey that capital matter whether it he actuated
by selfish unsehsh motive always has been the
patron Of genius and labor Without that patronage
many dreams OF genius never would have come true
ana la6og would not have shared in benefits which
flowed from converting them into practical realities
When genius desires to make a dream reality he
does not go to the demagogue for announcement and
! support He goes to the man who has money or ~
the corporation that is composed Of men who have
money lays his idea on the table and asks that his
dream be financed. II the dream as outlined give
reasonable promise OF profit the money is forthco-
world los ran
share in the benefit
II Columbus, dscoverer Of America; Fulton. inventor
or the steamboat Whitney inventor of the cotton gin
Morse inventor of the telegraph Bell inventor of the
telephone; Marconi, inventor Of the wireless Hol-
land inventor Of the submarine; Edison inventor Of
the incandescent light the talking machine and the mo-
tion picture machine Stephenson inventor Of tbe
LOCOMOTIVES Watt inventor Of the steam engine: Howe
inventor OF the sewing machine; Mergenthaler and
Lanston, inventors Of the typesetting machine the
Wrghts inventors of the heaver-than-air aving ma
chine; Zeppelin, inventor of the dirgible airsbin.
Sholes, inventor Of the typewriter Cowles inventor o
electric furnace reduction Westinghouse inventor Of
the ar-brake; Hardy. inventor OF the disk nlov.
Brush, inventor Of the electric lamp; Appebv
inventor OF the automatic modifying harvester
machine; Lowe, inventor Of watergas; Gldden in
ventor of the machine for making barbed wire. Tannev
inventor OF the automatic car-couper; Robinson inven
tor Of block signals railroads; Van Depoele AMI
sprague inventors OF the trolley SYSTEM Otto invento
Of the engine Nobel inventor Of dynamite: vielle
inventor Of smokeless powder; Diesel inventor of Tn
Diesel oil motor; Hadfeld inventor Of manganese steel
Wesbach, inventor OF the mantle burner or anv of IN
other geniuses OF the world had carried their dreams
the professional demagogue instead Of to men of ean
when they wished to convert them into epoch-matin
realities. most OF those dreams would have RENAME
dreams and many Of the worlds greatest agents 70
the promotion OF human happiness. comfort and weat
y would not be doing their benefcent work today
g When man who has genius wishes TO make a drear
p a reality he does not around nquirng "yvhere ca
e find professional demagogue to help me mt INF
e thing over?" but. Where I find rich man yb
viii put up his money against my dream and become m
n partner?"
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