The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-06-24
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Dante, sublimely self satisfied that
he had produced the incompatible in
the Inferno. sitting at his desk and
Numbering In ecstatic frenzy over the
frightfulness ne had conjured with his
superheated Imagination. would have
leaned back IN disgust and dumped the
whole business in the waste basket had
he had even suspicion Of what has
happened at Herrin.
Men tied together n lunches. and
shot down at three to four PAGES. sur
passes even the horrible butchery OF
gthe Sepoy rebellion.
II Is we'll for the American people
that they are the most sane and wen
balanced OF the peoples Of the earth,
for the naniaeal outbreak IS but one
OF the indications of a condition Of
affairs that has been discussed long
enough in an academic way from the
easy chairs of club room and office.
There is a resentment against car
tain conditions which has long been
smoldering. and the strip mine massa-
ere Is but one OF the volcanic out
bursts that are TO be expected again
unless the blind. dumb and insensate
raanipuia-~rs OF predatory interests
wake out Of the catalepsis brought on
by their long continued gorge, come
out OF the dreamy hypnosis into which
they have been cast by crumb- eating
law lodging corporation law harpies
ard show a disposition to become clean
handed men OF business. and deal with
their fellow men four square, satisfied
with fair bonus for superior ability
and opportunity.
LaFollette is a man OF tremendous
abilities possibilities and potentiali-
ties. As a spell binder before the hoi
pCilol there is none in the country to
excel him. In the pursuit Of his per-
sonal ambitions he is as blind. insen-
safe and irresponsible as the men he
assails He has run for president be-
fore and the desire to sit in the seat
OF the executive OF the mlghtiest ma
tioa OF the present and all time is an
obsssslon that 10 achieve would move
him 10 lead shrieking anarchy through
the country
To attain his end no is without con-
science. Men who know him relate that
he betrayed and rose to power over
the political corpses OF friend after
friend, casting them aside as cold and
brutaIly as Brutus plunging the dag
ger into Caesar The man Is a dema :
gogue OF demagogues, an opportunist
/ OF opportunists. and is without heart
or gratitude when In conflict with his
personal interests.
This 10 the man, the man with an
tuordinate ambition to become presi-
dent, who has seized the physiological
moment 70 cast himself into the spot
light and draw the eyes OF all the mall
contents IN the country, by appear
Ing in the forum OF the great Fedora
ton OF Labor at Cincinnati, advocating
a proposal that Is calculated to make
q tremendous appeal to the ignorant
eonglomerate OF the country, despite
tie danger and viciousness, and there
! BY cast among them the germ Of an
idea that win keep on spawning until
Il finds fruitiop IN his nomination as
the leader, their tribune and political
Moses
The idea Of a congressional veto OF
the supreme court is incarnatc devil
try, as LaFoliette well knows. II would
nullify and destroy at once both the
constitution and the court.
II il an impossible proposal, as he
10 too much OF a lawyer not 70 know
Following 1t would come the flood
destruction and chaos.
To suggest the idea classes him az
an iconoclastic egotistical demoniac
who would cast Heaven itself into ar
abyss II he could but rule over the
pandemonium that would remain.
1t IS not la Toilette, however thai
IL the concern Of the moment.
Re is dealt with only to indicate
the real seriousness Of the situation
because OF the fact that the disturbed
( elements in the country have at theil
Z command a leader Of such power tc
serve their purposes II they serve his
is the Herrin affair an indication Of
what may follow in other places II the
big railroad strike is carried into Of.
feet
There can be little doubt but that
the possibility win be constant, de.
spite the fact that, II may DO justly
admitted. the higher leaders OF both
the labor organizations undoubtedly