Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-03
OTHERS VIEWS
DEPLORES MASS IGNORANCE

WOTheT, ILLS question COIIlSo W AAJ
mind invariably; Why do they not
organize? Then this answer wells up
in my mind; They do not want to.
Why: Because they are ignorant. Why
ignorant? Because they are ignorant,
so ignorant they do not try to be in
formed. They have eyes to see and
see not, ears to hear and hear not.
That is aweful affiction to those
whose organs function properly. So
it is not our immediate concern to
get these people to join some organi~
cation, but rather to get them inform
ed so they will see the great need Of
standing with their fellow workers
for self preservation.
Now that Is so much for the very
ignorant. Now for the class above
them; The well to do so to speak
among our farmers and workers.
Those excellent citizens, that are the
very foundation upon which rests our
Government. That elias, who in this
tobacco growing section runs a two
or three bprse farm, and that worker
who by the skin of his teeth has saved
enough to have a comfortable home.
If this great class of our people, that
are the main stay of the country, had
to be examined as to the political at
fairs of our government before they
could vote, fear not moro than one
in ten would be allowed to so to the
polls, even if the questions they were
required to answer were the most
rudimentary. If my estimate is cor
rect and l think it Is, it is shame
and should make every one of us
hang ou1 heads when we think OF the
opportunities God has given us and
how little we have used them.
For some time l have been unable
TO think, write or talk without the
twelfth verse of the seventh chapter
of Matthew coming into my mind. l
hope every one who can read VIII read
it. Then think how you would like
TO be cropping in the dark while others
no more kin to Jesus than you are
enjoyed the light of noon day sun.
Why in Gods holy name do some seem
to want all the blessings of life and
seek to deny them to their fellows is
a mystery to me.
Some years ago I read letter writ
ten by Theodore Roosevelt to Sena-
tory Henry Cabot Lodge, in which he
said he cared for no one but his own
family and those Of the Senator's.
That sounds aWeful to me and yet l
see it in my daily life often. After
reading the above one would think
that thought that knew something.
and set my self up as teacher Of my
fellow beings. For those who do not
know me, I will say / have learned
III, rof11il1cr Tho
first is that we all can be better NOR
ally than we are. The second is that
we all can learn more than we know,
and can help our less fortunate fell
LEWIS to see the light of the goth CEN
fury.
The wise man IN the Bible said in all
our getting get wisdom. 1 dare say
if the plain people of our country
would follow that injunction we would
soon see change for the better in
our government. We need nothing in
| this country today as much as we do
an intelligent we'll informed electo-
rate. All admit our country has not
been run in the interest Of all the
people as it should have been. And
the only reason for our present con-
dition is that the vast majority OF
those who vote know but little how
10 vote. From the very foundation of
this democracy, which is supposed to
be a government of the people, by the
people, and for the people, the ignor-
ant votes have allowed the greedy and
INSCRIPTIONS to control their politi-
cal affairs. TO the end that few get
all the benefits of Government Every
one knows who. ever gave the mat
ter thought, that a majority Of the
voters in our midst, have a ring i'll
their nose, at election time they arc
led around, as a fine lady does her
poodle dog. and voted, not for their
interest but for the welfare of the
dirty politician and the rich man
who hires him. 1t is strange, pass
ing strange that we have as good d
government as we have. Why it has
not gone to pieces ere this is a
wonder to every thinking person. All
that has kept it together is that it
paid few and the others did not
have sense enough to know what was
going on
/ wish every voter could read the
Congressional Record Of last week. 1t
has been a long time since so much
happened in Washington as did last
week. Some year or SO ago tho SEN
ate appointed u Committee, which is
known as the Senate Munitions Com
mttee. This committee was to find
out how We happened to get in the
last war, and by so doing enable the
Congress to pass a law that would
keep us out of the next one. That
stalwart champion of the plain people
of this country, Senator Gerald P.
Nye was made the chairman of the
committee. He brought old j. p. Nor
gan and his fellow robbers and many
Of the same stripe before the COM
mittce and began to draw out facts.
These facts showed some mighty bad
| things that had been done by the
money power, which runs our gov
eminent, and the committee seemed
to be headed right straight for some
even worse, SO Senator Carter Glass
of Virginia and one Tom Connally a
senator from Texas made a move to
kill this committee. They saw very
clearly that if they did not stop Sen
! ator Nye and the other Senators on
that committee from finding facts,
they and some Of their rich hackers
| wore ,roinp m suffer AmOnp ITS find