The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-02-08
MR.. ,sCHwAB SEES A VISION

must have been ike Doll from the
blue to the reactionary Johnstown
Tribune, no less powerful and COM
manding a figure in the industrial
world than Charles M. Schwab has
declared that the Bolsheviki senti-
ment must be taken into considera-
ton. Having imputed Interior mo-
tives to The Democrat for not unre-
servedly condemning the group of
Russians whom President Wilson has
termed sincere and earnest men, the
endorsement of them and their SIN
cerity by the steel magnate cannot
but add to the chagrin and dismay of
the local organ of the Tories. The
Tribune, with it's characteristic craft
mess, has studiously avoided consid-
Grafton of the fact that the British
prime minister holds the same sym
pathetic interest for the Bolsheviki
as that manifested by President Will
son. The Tribune wisely ignores pub
LEGATION of the views of the Manches-
ter (Eng.) Guardian, beside whose
worldwide influence that of the Tri-
bune is puerile and insignificant.
With the arts of Iago The Tribune
seeks to create prejudice and infame
passion by harping on its strings OF
hate and malevolence that Miss En-
ma Goldman and Alexander Berkman,
the revolutionists, are champions of
the Bolshevigi.
However, with the declaration of
the president of the Bethlehem Steel
corporation the Tribune for obvious
reasons will need to adjust another
mask to conceal its diabolism and per-
form one of those word juggling acts
for which it is famous.
The utterance Of Mr.. Schwab has
peculiar and deeply significant inter-
est. There is revealed a very large
grasp Of fundamental democracy. The
keen, alert commander Of a great ar
my of industrial workers confesses the
primary postulates of the doctrine
which is finding larger articulation
among all mankind. For it millions
are giving their lives. On this altar
they are daily immolating themselves
in the one supreme sacrifice which
measures their devotion. Mr.. Schwab
discloses that fact that as he accumu-
lated material possessions he has kept
his heart open to humanity's cry for
justice. As he has builded monuments
testifying to his power in the bust
ness world, he also has been storing
thoughts far more golden and lasting
than any temporal possession. He
sees the dawn of democracy's day.
To this man whose life has been spent
in the heat and battle of the work-a-
day world; who has felt the CRIME
and sweat of the mill; who has min
gled in generous comraderie with his
kind, there has come the light from
which autocracy and every oppressive
power fees in fear; he has sensed
the hopes and aspirations of the toll
ing millions.
In the voicing of his belief in the
Bolsheviki movement, Mr.. Schwab has
enunciated a sentiment which the
masses of men will applaud, while the
forces of privilege and their cohorts
will snarl in impotent range, for in
the following language the steel mag
nate makes declaration of the vision
which has come to him:
We are at the Threshold of a new
social era. This new order of things
may work great hardship for many of
US. 1t is going to come upon us soon
err than we expect. 1t is social rena-
issance of the whole world. Some
people call it Socialism, others call it
Bolshevikism. 1t means but one
thing, and that is that the man who
labors with his hands, yet does not
possess property, is the one who is
going to dominate the affairs of this
world, not merely Russia, Germany
and the United States, but the whole
world. The aristocracy of the future
is not to be the aristocracy of wealth;
it is going to be the aristocracy of
men who have done something for
their country and for the world at
large. When that time comes, wealth
will not be the standard, nor will lin
cage of birth, but the standard will
be the man Of honorable and straight
forward demcanor. Whatever the
Creator has resigned will come, and
it will be good Changes in social
conditions do not come by men alone,
but because God DEGREES them. /
stand ready to devote every dollar
and every talent that | possess to the
benefit of mankind and this great and
glorious country"
For a quarter of century the
Democrat has commended for the truth
which Mr.. Schwab in the fullness of
his powers now accepts and for which
he so clearly and unequivocally de-
clares. What has for years been de-
nounced as Impractical theories,
visionary IDEAS" schemes of dream
ers" and "socialstic sophistries" and
in every term of opprobrium, is slow
ly becoming the common belief Of all
peoples. In this great coming there
is seen the power of truth. There is
the light of it's triumphant march
through all the barriers erected by
entrenched privilege and the flood Of
venom from the polluted fountains of
predatory wealth. To those who have
sought in season and out to discredit
The Democrat in the past and to those
whose envenomed shafts are still d.
rected against it there must come with
the declaration of Charles M. Schwab
the feelings of red-tongued wolves
thwarted in obeying their instinct to
destroy.
The Democrat has never for mo-
ment been swerved from the purpose