The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-22

day I said to George, who had thir-
teen, why do you raise so many kids :?
They simply keep you poor; you can
not properly feed and clothe so many,
and you will never be able to educate
even one of them ooh, no; you mis-
take he said. we raise children for
an asset-to work. In two years more
l will have four boys who will bring
me wages every week
"They are raising soldiers and sail
ors, too, but he did not mention them.
Now, with society rotting at the top
and being replenished in vast num-
bers by breeding from the unregen-
crate and unfit, it does not require a
philosopher or prophet to see what
is coming. The handwriting is on the
wall"
81 know it looks that way, Sam,
viewed from the surface, but you
know as well as l do that brains and
capital rule the world"
81 admit that point, Doc, and will
add that two per cent of our popula-
ton are furnishing the brains and
capital for the balance. That percen-
tage is so small, Doe, that it has
reached the danger point.
"Yes, Doc, brains and capital rule
while We are on the climb and pro-
crossing morally, mentally and ma
terially, but when society deteriorates
morally and mentally we take the to-
boggan slide, the mob rules and capt.
tai cannot hire the proletariat to shoot
at each other. Then we have anar-
chy, chaos and what General Sherman
called war, is especially directed at
the bourgeoise and the aristocracy of
wealth and learning.
"The security of life and property
and the stability of government I'M
der democracy rests on the average
intelligence of the mass. Ignorance
is what keeps us down. A knowledge
of the truth makes all men free. But
a little knowledge is a dangerous
thing and becomes the breeding place
for bolshevism and all other fallaci-
Gus isms. A lop-sided education often
makes bad citizen of one who would
have been good one had he been
educated in head and heart and hand.
Every man is in duty bound to his
brother man in some degree-as edu-
Gator, helpful friend, good Samaritan.
And until he becomes just and hu-
manitarian in all his dealings with
his brother man, his religious profess
sions are but pretense and sham.
So when society gets corrupt and goes
wrong, we place the responsibility on
the two per cent-on the leaders of
men-social, financial, industrial, edu-
cational and religious.
1--WE are a nation of materialists,
whose only god is Mammon. We pirate
much of spirituality, but in our think
ing, living and doing we are gross
materialists. In our relationship to
each other our thinking and doing is
all that counts. To make a good cit
izen one needs an education that has
rounded completeness. 1t is not
enough to educate men mentally and
manually how to gain money and the
comforts and pleasures it brings and
neglect their ethics and morals The
mind lives by what it feeds on, like
the body, and as a healthy body re.
quires balanced ration, so the mind
in order to put righteousness and JUS
ticee into the lives of men, needs all
three essentials-mental, moral and
manual.
'In the days of Plato, Socrates and
Jesus the masses were kept in igno-
rance by purpose and by filling them
with the fear of hell they were easily
ruled and kept in subsection But to-
day most everyone can read, though
they do not comprehend.
"Now to be able to read the bolshe-
wiki propaganda, which is spreading
over the earth like an invisible and
deadly gas, and not be able to sepa-
rate the little of wheat from much of