South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-29
LIE MORON MAJORITY.

] IL MORON UAJORII1.
new phrase has been coined TO EXPRESS
ancient WEAKNESS. an added ALTERATION produced
10 reflect the establishment OF time.
william Allen White once contributed TO the
anti OF a nation election by writing a single edi-
torial on What's the Matter with Kansas'-an
editorial inspired during gears OF drought follow
ing the long hght popullsm gain foothold
upon the prairies
Fopulisun died. but White lived TO espouse under
the banner OF the Bull Moose nearly every plank in
the platform which he denounced.
u Is White again who is asking what's the
matter with America and he hnds the trouble
q majority" He laments that education
and the public school have not bred distaste for
graft corruption. or privileged control of govern
He asserts that there IS something wrong with
The majority when they do listen the
peals OF leaders for reform and ACCEPT the Hylans
and the Thornpsons in large cities
he traces the cause 10 the coming Of immigrants
from other than Saxon countries and tries find
the OF all in a blindness racial he
serts. TO the ethical in politics
Morons those without morals, without dis
tinguishing of right and without dis
tlnction between good and evil.
This Is his for the majority which elect our
public officials. a harsh TO say the least.
His answer takes for granted that something is
wrong fundamental
That is the serious part of his article for his
explanation brings with obvious
that the explanation is not hard to hnd-in White
himself
II is true that there is crime in the nation today
turmoil trouble, and restessness.
IS true that people have shown a pronounced
WEAKNESS of the shift from party party the
hope OF obtaining of the things which they
desire
II is true that many voices have been raised in
the wilderness with few answering echoes.
And yet-more than million Americans to-
day ride automobiles. The home of the humbles
worker is better fitted than Buckingham Palace in
the time Of King George ". more comfortable than
the dwelling of Caesar. The common school gradu-
has education than the savants of the last
century.
Today American woman stands at the highest
pinnacle OF freedom. equality usefulness and re-
spect in all history-and that position to
the very forces which work in these moron
hearts.
The crimes. the political lethargy. the com
placence with inemciency, mean nothing when
reflects he spirit of 1915 which showed itself in a
united >-'.husiasn the spiritual liberty.
A nation which springs TO arms in defense of its
fundamental ideal is not decadent. nation which
yields itself a common sacrifice for its own pre-
servation. is hardly ready for examination by
blienists.
The trouble with America is old ancient. 1t
Is "Amencanism' which has developed that spirit
Of individualsm whose fruits are the high point
OF civilization.
America, careless at times FORCES ahead. Its sub
conscious mind brushes away trfes. It is not con
rerned with petty annoyances but in a crisis its
heart IS sound.
White. ablest or citizens. has perhaps felt too
5eepN about things.
Attacks upon the majority and the belief in ma
Jority rule has from either the tired
fighter the disiliusioned egotst-and White was
never egotist
So while he laments. these "morons" Will so
ahead. growing bumper crops creating new indus
tries listening in the radio, laughing at the
movies. riding in their automobnes-and then fight
like the devil II any dares to as much as touch
the flag which Is the symbol OF their devotion 10
Of