Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-26
SENATOR HARDING'S MENTAL ATTITUDE.

The thing intelligent men know the least about is
the psychological processes of th"ir fellows We
know few things from our own experiences ard
those few things lead into terrible errors and IN
justices.
We know, for instance that men act from some
motive when they do anything. Working Ter wages,
a fee or profit is the motive which moves most
often because the need of food ard shelter is forever
pressing in and producing the longing Tor
enough money to push this ever-present necessity
farther away from
So continuous and urgent is this motive :hat we
come in time to regard it as a universal motive,
moving all men at all times, unless another motive
be in plain view.
Therefore it is a common human failing to inva
riaby charge the judge the executoner or the lcss
lator with being owned by Capalism-specd with
a capital c. or panderng to- Iabor-spellcd with a
capital Z.
Such is rarely the case, we believe. When Judge
or legislator takes his oath to do Justly he rarely
consciously, breaks it.
But most judges and legislators worked for some
one with money enough to hire them, before they
held office. They were faithful employees and
thought in terms of their employers interests That
view first became habitual; the mind became
grooved, to think a certain way.
These men go into office in the best of faith but
continue to reach their honest conclusions by the old
habitual, mental processes.
of the social order and feels its economic grind upon
himself and his fellows, allows too often, the mental
protest to become habtual and too all inclusive He
becomes chronically conlscatory in his state of
mind.
We all become thus in mental ways. 1t is
very difficult to avoid it. Then our pride does it's
deadly work by convincing each of that he is
right and that the other fellow is wrong
Therefore, to a conservative man, the progressive
lie ia thp n
is a reactionary. And each charges the other, rot
only with bad judgment, but also with corrupt pur-
poses.
Watch then, the viewpoint of the editors they
discuss Senator Harding,
The ultra conservative says that the country has
been filled with the "clamor of radCalism' and
has been swept off its feet by false propaganda"
He calls progrcssives "quacks" "demogagues, "shal
low thinkers and "half baked cranks." And then
he thanks God that Senator Harding does not belong
to this class who want to rob honest men of their
hard earned dollars.
The progressive says that have only partially
relieved the country of the domination of money
sharks" "pluocrats," "bood suckers "profiteers
and wall Street hogs" And then he too, thanks
God that Senator Harding does not belong to those
who robe the poor by legal means.
All of which is rather complimentary to man
who is to be president of all the people instead Of
particular class of the people
Senator Harding will grow in popular favor as he
is better known. He has never worked for "capital
ism" so as to make that viewpoint chronic with him.
He has fair-siZed newspaper without financial
reverses to embter him toward the successful As
editor he is accustomed to look to the welfare of
all the people. His chronic mental grooves there
fore, rather down the middle of the road.
We predict that he will develop into ideal can
ddate upon whom all people of all shades of belief
meet Sane, sensible, embarrassed, disposed to
counsel and to weigh his facts, will all come very
to feel of security with him at the
head of the rehablitated counsel table in the re-
opened cabinet of the White House. surrounded
there by wisest and best men, checking each
other by friendly but unhampered discussion
against the errors of judgment which all men are
heir to when they refuse advice. No man ever
was big enough to run the United States without
advice.