The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Norman Hapgood on Russia, New Germany
and Relipion
and Religion.
/ Select Those who read
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H. - these words arc
|te NeU scattered from Cali.
fornia TO Maine, from Dakota to
Louisiana. All can have one test
in common. II you live in Wis
Consin you bave in La Toilette
burning issue. There are
plenty of matters on which La
Toilette and the writer OF these
lines do not agree. But La
Toilette thinks and dares. HIS
unclaimed mind broods over the
railroads, over imperialism, over
the products by which we are
warmed and fed. He is one Of
the handful who give reality 10
a Senate mainly composed of
stuffed shirts under the leader
ship OF Lodge.
Let us repeat one safe princi.
pie about Senatorships: Make
each candidate pledge himself
on Newberry. Lorimer kept mis-
seat on one vote and lost It on
the next. There is no better
way of testing a man on the
fundamentals; II he will not
pledge himself against New
berry don't let him into what
should be sacred, the walls OF
that chamber where our rights
are supposed to be protected.
A Senator can honestly vote
TO seat Newberry. but he cannot
vote to seat Newberry and have
the kind OF mind that is suitable
for leadership at a time when
one OF our subtlest needs 10 to
purify public life and release II
from the power OF gold.
The Bottom Not always
of 1t u" VIZ T' 81 I.
Farm Bloc. but II has that
health about which we have
been talking: II deals with
realities. We must look at the
coal mines, the railroads, water.
power. taxation, inheritance,
control of credit, as freely as
II we were landed afresh from
Mars. The insane Lear spoke
the truth:
Plate sin with gold
And the strong lance Of justice
hurtless breaks.
/ And in his frenzy the old
king went on:
Get the glass eyes:
! And, like q scurvy politician. seem
! To see the things thou dost not
The campaign on which we
are about to start will have
little to do with realities. It 10
not likely to give much time
to methods for keeping the coal
mines open all the year. That
might be done by a mere regu-
lation about freight cars put
into force by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. But
how many candidates dare TO
spend their voices on things
so fundamental?
Get AjS;er Lodge is the
This One o,o,ar ~ ts. rnon.r Isao.s
forces in the Senate. He
is the official mainstay Of
the old, rotting system. There.
fore, next to Wisconsin, the
election in Massachusetts 10,
this coming November, the
most important. II Lodge is
sent back II means approval OF
the passing and decayed. II he
Is defeated, II means hope and
at least the attempt TO grope
our way to the promising and
! the new.
Are Wo The world ID
EJ,,,,t,Jo struggling Tor
EduCdIed! religion. All
kinds Of freak sects are spring
ing up or increasing. The people
who plan to see the elect go to
Heaven In their pajamas or
overalls, while the goats remain
here. are rapidly Increasing.
| State legislatures, energetically
backed by Mr.. Bryan. after fin
fshtng Charles Darwin, are no
doubt sharpening their teeth for
Euclid, Newton and Copernicus
A gardener we knew spoke thus
II say the sun goes round the
earth. Against It you have some
reasoning you call science. For
II ! have the evidence of my own
eyes and the word Of Almighty
God" A negro preacher was
answering Ingersoll's lecture OF
the Mistakes of Moses u
cast no aspersions," he said, "or
the Veracity OF Mr.. lngersoll.
make no remarks about which
character is more likely to tel
the truth. just point out hit
enc facti Mr.. Ingersoll WASH
there and Moses was"
After all. a civilization ts more
amazing II 1t contains the State
legislatures and Mr.. Brysn
Perhaps not more intelligent