The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26
FOSSILIZED THINKING
ENEMY OF PROGRESS
Why America Is Twenty year, ''''
hind the British I" SoclaI
Economic Rcford'
CONSERVATIVE LIBERALS
r,rc NJ Men Who Might BE Called
Progressive Who stand Fat
Upon Their Progress,

,..r,.s IN the lnlitd 0lAl'H B.
S,r,I by the fosSilicd thinking OF
m. a,onscrynuyc-l liberal type 'l
r,I,l is the startling lnd''''l'u
4 r,ought against lhc N'N'' u ~
U m,u n, IienN Scidol CANDY In an
sri.Io with that utle IN tho '"',
,,,, Nr CANDY Va professor ul
n ,'".G ,o Yale university but untl'
,,,l,. was loCturinE In Eng'"hh
,1 France under government Aus
,, whence he returns To lhlt
II l,rrrr, with a lively appreciation OF
III ,c relative stodEiness OF our poub-
II ..i ,nInNng. as comparsd with th1i
IN Europe. .,,,...
""Ir England" he writos. "iherc
a,,eIoped long ago curious pouh'Al
sr.r,I called the adlcnl-ConscrFa
49, Tbs radical l-conEcryattNc agreed
v aim radical principles hut objected
. ,,bIrals because they never ne
II -, the best CLOUDS Thence arises
M. rgrinus circumstance, most mNs
t.rr 20 forc,Encsr, that g"ou
i ,harr of the really progressive I'kl7
I,unn IN Great britain of tho las'
II b,V.gcntury has been lead by young
Gentlemen from oxford ana 'aIh
bridge who have no more lnl"uIoI
II ~, Incoming part ~ the pTolctatlat
h., ~ leaving or their collars and
Il scr- without baths LORD Rohcrl
Ac.rI In our own day is convinced
IA ,yisiocrat who rs more sincerely eIr
t,,rye than many liberals IN various
w,,cmcuis which We are Hccus-
toned % call reform
IN American Product.
,,rhe couscrVative-lIhcral rs quite
different animal. His habitat is
America To define him ia diitcult
hut he may be said to be the man
-bo.a native liberal instincts have
bsen crysIl.iJcd and sometimes
per.ncd lie is the man who VIII
Il n,ht for the freedom proclaimed hN
me Declarations ~ independence
against any later manifestation OF
ihe revolutionary spirit In briet, ne
ia A revolutionary turned policeman
II progressive who stands pat upon
his progress. a consorNduNc-hhrr
NJ Taft ig Couscryatiyc-libera
lncarnate As for President wilson
he respects this American prejudice,
sspc,ialy at election time and In his
message to congress. where, which
y ever pary rules. the conservative
Il liberal has always a majority.
This peculiarly ot our political
thinking first became evident To me
on an ocean voyage In wa"-hmr.
There were score or so of Nmcrl-
Il cans ON board They could rcmo'd
Won a business In half an hours
conyersatlon. ,car down an orraniza-
ton and build u up again between
cgafs Their committee meetings
went or like machine guns, whereas
the English officers and trade dlplo-
mats snarlcd themselves In se'
Eteches and motions and took an
afternoon TO get anywhere Ihc
/ English seemed puzzled and q Nit'e
dared hy the ease with which the
4 Americans seized upOu ana put
through reorganization II any Kind.
Nothing. said an Indian colonel Is
sacred to them They would scrap
me empire and build a new onc-on
paper at go miles an hour
He was quite wrong They would
lsmo'ish lO-story building to erect
i one of 90 or scrap thousands VI ma
4 chimes In order 30 adopt "A Deter
process but when IL came To prin-
.ipes or institutions they were con
seryatiyc. The Americans, 1t was
clear were certain they were tho
mos, progressive people In the
world They made plans for league
n Of nations, they approved OF tenn
n porary autoCracy for the president.
n they put the labor question on "a
n business basis, they were afraid OF
nothing but failure 90 act and act
n quickly Nevertheless. as they talked
H and worked with tho English, II be
4 came Increasingly evident that their
road ended tua wall II was the end
wall ~ our liberal ideas. beyond
which prcGuWably lay socialism, an
Nthy chaos
Il The EnRlishman Is different lt
he IS a tory, he understands radical
Ism and fights IL because he prefers
II an equality that favors him to
more logical system that might be
personally disagrccablc. II he is a
radical ne understands toryism. But
N" American conservative liberal
acknowledges no opinion except his
own. lie insists that the American
system is tho hest In the world and
not Interested In any other. There
M' a thousand proofs that it Is not
II me best possible system even for
America and plenty Of them In print
n proofs advanced by capitalists as
vel as labor leaders. by Catholics
Vol ms socialists, hut they do not
trouble him because ne neither hears
II nor reads them II is easier 10 call
me writer crank or a holshcNik.
Purely an Ideal.
4 -. What has happened TO the pol
Noai and economic thinking NJ many
an American much resembles what
aAA happened to his religion He,
l'arns n"church number of ethical
principles which would make him
very uneasy II put into practice. lie
s1arh' the virtue OF poverty the
~ ~ EUtr-gauyiIico, the necessity
o. love Tor his fcllow-mau. Now,
a'huy poverty has not become an
re' IN America--ccrtainly not IN
We" York or Iowa or Atlantic city.
.oF is solt-sacritire common among
,lrporluons, or love familiar at
'oul" ~ the practice of law, Does
me American therefore eschew the
Nes OF Christianity on the con-
'IF Tho plain man keeps all his
t'l"'' Tor religion as am ideal. but
f'E1rds n precisely as an ideal
"mn'a beautiful I'M its perfection.
ol To- b" sulicd 10y too close an ap-
4 Ana that .is what tho conscrva-
liberal docs with tho vigorous
''r',Nm OF his forcfathcrs lie has
,bled II as the irrcvocahle word
Y D,hprah. 10 BE- his creed In q
kotd whore the process or
Representation has clearly led TO
AZ A'H high taxes for the wealthy.
Az, rs upon corporations. moB rule
N class onmity he feels that Amer
Il "ls done much 70 committing