The broad ax., 1921-05-07

erippling them for life. Little boys
who ought to be in school maraud en-.
tire sections Of our largest cities, rob,
bling and numbering citizens indiserim.
inately. Lynching, harlotry, greed and
everything grotesque and low seems to
become the maddening echo Of Amer
lean retrogression. Our legislatures
pass laws, but laws to apply only to
the unfortunate who can't get a bond
signed. A million faneiful theories
have been spun to establish a truth
where only a lie could ft, and justice
is no more the argument Of jurists; the
the whole blamed legal show has be-
come as interesting as a horse race,
where women gather material for Cos
sip and men eulprits beg for pity but
only to frown the next hour at the
mercy doled out to thugs who ought to
be given life sentence. Bombing and
lynching could be stopped in twenty
four hours. We've got to elect men to
the bench who do not wear a wrist
watch and lace on their drawers leg.
The long haired red necktie dude is not
fit for anything except to parade with
a gang Of sissys.
We are suffering from the artificial
tiles, and the world is dying a slow
unprecedented death for the real things
in mans life.
The loud mouth word vender has got
us in his oratorical stupor. Egotism,
and newspaper imitation, bigotry and
snobbery triumphs over truth and right
trampling both man made laws and
Gods heaven sent DEGREES under their
unhallowed feet. Honor that once was
wrong from sacrifice and decent be-
havior has a market price, and can be
bought and paid for by the brigand,
who would traduee the holy place
called home and bring down the curse
of perfdy upon his ehildren's heads for
a thousand years.
Politics is rotten, seething in its own
scum, with a filth and muck that smells |
to heaven. Hell itself seems rampant,
and hypocrites are holder at their devil
try than professed saints are in their
good works. The rule Of authority has
been snatched from its high place and
torn to atoms by the bowling mob that
votes its displeasure. The last man
foisted upon the world a hundred
thieves, and bullies to every millionaire
it produced, until this very day we fear
to walk q block 80 thick is peridy,
torch, bomb and treaehery.
There seems to be a race between
would-be honest men and thieves TO
see who can steal the most. Hell itself
is eamouhaged behind the cunning and
duplicity Of the slick sharper who preys
on the helpless and the ignorant. The
more one steals the greater his reward
and the less he steals the greater is his
punishment. The civil and humble cit
izen who cannot help but get the worse
no matter how he acts is between the
devil and the deep blue sea
Is it any WONDER than some people
grow tired, give up the struggle and
end it al in q suicides grave. Dis
yruntled, disguised and ashamed that
they are in human form with hopes
bighted, objects in life obstrueted, and
dreams unrealized, blocked and barred
from proclaiming truth become Siek-
sRed with the anguish Of it al 20 to Il
sariy graves. !
The eagle rises to heights where he
an IN his lungS with the ozone Of life,
he profteer, thief and gangstef sinks
o the blAekmire Of filthy orgies Satiat-
ng its thirst in degeneraey.
The church bells ring, and people
'ather to sing the glOries and the Mes '
ian, and the minister, silver throated, i
Rooms The lullabies Of BfOEkeE8y love TO "a
gracious multitude Of &osshippsrs Of {