Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-27
POPULAR FRENZY
By DR.. Frank Crane


There is a notion that fingers in the back
of many minds, like snow in shaded places
in May, that progress comes through lead
ers," that the world is lifted up by it's super
men.
AS a matter of fact, it is pushed up by it's
common men.
Trust the people, believe in the people,
give the people chance to get what they
waRt-this is the only highway to the mill
lennium.
The idea that the people don't know what
is good for them, that they need to be ruled,
protected managed, whether by Solomon
or Trotzky, landed gentry or proletarlat,
leads to the ditch Of monarchy, caste ana
eventual ruin.
The fundamental principle of democracy
is that the people are to be trusted, just as
the basic idea of Jesus religion was that
humanity is to be trusted.
The great law of growth is that men are
developed by responsibility and by showing
them that you have confidence in them.
no think that God believes in me does
more to make a man of me than to think
believe in God.
The only way to make a people worthy Of
self-government is to give them self-govern-
ment
The only way to teach boy to swim is
to throw him in where it is deep Learning
to swim, and not going near the water, is a
crazy notion.
From the beginning "wise statesmen" have
vapored about "safeguards' against the peo-
pie.
In England the house of lords was a great
check upon the 'folly'' of the people, until
the commons had to arise and hew the 'old
humbug in order to get anything done.
Ever since the foundation of this republic
certain class of alleged statesmen have
been fearful of popular frenzy and busy
erecting bulwarks against it.
ho1r nrin nj nf h.
lie is that if you let the people alone, give
them a chance, establish freedom and let
them work out their will in their own way,
you will get the surest equity.
Popular frenzy?" When did this people
in a nationwide enthusiasm ever do an I'M
righteous thing?
1t was popular frenzy" that instigated
the Revolution and made this country ma
ton in defiance of precedent; that crushed
secession and liberated the slaves; freed the
coming generation from the saloon incubus;
elevated women to citizenship. What re-
form, what forward step in civilization, ever
originated in a. senate or a kings council!
When did the Magnificent Ones ever free a
slave or right wrong until they were kicked
to it?
The one utterly incorruptible body is the
whole people.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
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If anybody complains of this SINFUL sea-
son, processing desire for cooler days, he
ought to be consigned to some such frozen
inferno as Dante saw on his inspection Of
tickle and ungrateful souls. Give warm
weather, and more of it!
are handicapped and operations Of vital i'm
portance to the public are sadly curtaied
Nowhere is labor shortage felt more dis
tressfully than in the South, whose agricul-
ture is really suffering for want of tillers
hn1DarS n
this region have watched with ever increas-
ing anxiety the approach Of seed and harvest
times, and have borne the burden of sum-
mer cultivation with more and more diff
Guilty. Today the problem is critical; but
unless there is somehow an increase in the
number of available hands it is hard to see
how relief will come. Other regions and 9TH
er vocations face similar perpexities. 1t is
of the utmost Importance, therefore, that
foreign workers of a dependable character be
admitted in large a number and for as
long a period the cOuntry's economic
needs and political interests will warrant.