The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-10
POLITICS AND INSTINCTS FOR
YOUNG SOLDIERS.

AOONN 0O1lOxGAeOs
If the newspapers am sending
this consider it political, they may
send me bill for it, but it contains
something beyond its mere political
features which will add little to
the sum Of human interest.
issued an appeal to the young
soldiers a few weeks ago to help an
old slider. 1t apparently fell upon
deaf ears, now I am going to issue a
warning to them.
You have probably noticed that
the glamour of the hero which was
impressed upon you a short time ago
is fast fading, if it is not already
gone; the cenotaph or monolith or
whatever it was which was to be
erected to your immortal fame in
Elkton is about as dead as Caesars
Ghost; the daily papers have already
ceased their fulsome adulation of
you; ere long they will turn on you
and bem0an the expense that you are
causing; the increased taxation made
necessary to meet the governments
obligations to you; your patriotism
will be attacked as soldiers for
revenue only and their insidious and
sinister propaganda will strip you of
all the lustre, the honor and the
glory you now have, in the public
mind.
The few old soldiers now living,
who in their life's young day saved
this Republic, have gone through it
all. 1t is still ahead of you.
Now why is this? 1t is long
story. ! will try and outline it'll
within the scope of this article. You
will Lave to supply the details.
This country and the public press
are ruled and owned by a small
group of men. 1t has been stated
that they number just thirty three
They own or control some three
fourths of its wealth and practically
all its industries. They are as grasp
ing and avaricious as the proverDial
miser and as lustful of wealth,
power and dominion as was the
Kaiser. The less money paid TO sou
the more will be their share. They
are the Autocrats of the financial
and business world. They are alto
gether and entirly responsible for
existing high prices, and there is no
possibility of their lowering them
until the one power that they fear
compels them, that is the revolution
airy power of an oppressed people,
either armed or expressed at the
polls. All political machines of both
or all parties belong to and are sub
sidized by them, and these ramifiica-
lions extend even to county machines
such as we have right here.
Just now you will see by reading
their newspapers, they are engaged
in reducing to submission, their
working class, which during the war
got beyond their control to a great
extent, not only in this but in other
countries. How does all this come
about? I will try, very briefly, to
explain it to you.
If you should be set down in a |
country inhabited only by birds and
beasts that had never seen a human
being, they would not fear you until
you commenced to injure or destroy
them; then that fear would be trans
mitted to their offspring and after
two or three generations, would be
inherited by them and become in
stinctive.
Whatever men submit to or &C.
quire from generation to generation
likewise becomes hereditary. All
peoples have ruling class and a |
ruled or subject class, and this |
hereditary instinct prevails with men
who either rule or submit to much
misrule, injustice, wrong and OPP
preston. Arguments and appeals
are lost upon most of them. You
may show the man that his religious
sentiments or his political opinions
are false or wrong, it will not in
most cases have any effect. He will
still go to the same church or vote
the same ticket, because he has in
herited instincts that are stronger
than your arguments, but ALI the
same, continued oppression creates
In the masses of men an instinct that
the ruling class is sinister, and as
this grows it becomes powerful and
dangerous. The more it is suppress.
sed the more dangerous it grows,
and the time comes when it asserts
itself against the sinister ruling
class. We have seen what it did to
the sinister ruling, robbing class In
Russia and other lands, and we are ,
about to see what this instructive
intuition is going to bring to this
Instincts inherited from other
generations are responsible for the ,
merciless ayarice. ambition and in
humanity of rulers and they are in ,
spring the same instructive resent.
manf In fha auh{oot oIoce 49, 49,