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Show JUDGE GOODWIN'S OPINIONS. Tho Crisis, tho local Socialist organ, had the following regarding tho Telegram's Tele-gram's acquisition of Judgo Goodwin: "There aro but few men in any community com-munity whoso opinions have a cash valuo. Most of us havo difficulty oven In giving opinions away. It does not follow, however, that tho opinions which command a monetary return aro of most value. Tho contrary Is moro likely to bo tho case. Of tho two modes of thought, scientific and conventional, tho latter Is undoubtedly undoubted-ly tho most popular. Tho public is wedded to tho mouldy lies of tho past and shrinks from tho progressive idca3 which compels It to think along new lines. When, to conventionality, a writer joins a pleasing stylo, he has somo of tho elements which mako3 his views marketable. Tho scientific thinker must labor for lovo of truth. Not only must he furnish opinions gratis, but he must address an unwilling un-willing audience and wage a thankless war until his views are accepted and become conventional. Tho conventional conven-tional thinkers who come after him, reap tho reward. f, "Judgo C. C. Goodwin, who has just mounted the editorial tripod of the Evening Telegram, belongs to the con- y ventlonnl school. Because of his natural nat-ural ability ho was able to voice the Gentile prejudice against tho Mormons and the theories of tho free sllvorltes his ability to express what tho ma- S jority thought his opinions attained a popularity that can never be hoped for by tho writer who cries In the wilderness: 'Make straight tho path of Progress.' "With all respect for tho judge-he judge-he is one of tho most generous and kindly men who over trod tho earth ho does not think. Ho Is an echo that repeats in melodious sentences tho , siren song of tho ruling class. Now and then he stumbles on a truth, but i before you have time to congratulato , him ho proves that the stumble was accidental by giving currency to somo moss-crown Ho. "Judtro Goodwin's economic misfits aro duo chioflly to his ignorance of tho law of social evolution. Ho does not realize that tho world moves. What was good In ono age, he Imagines, is good for all time. Beginning life in tho mining camp3 of the west where existence was a gamble and all men got an even start he has never outgrown out-grown tho idea that the ethics of tho gambler were the ethics of civilization. civiliza-tion. "His mental twists came out conspicuously con-spicuously during his first day on tho Telegram in an editorial on the 'Common 'Com-mon People.' Taking a saying of Tom Watson that 'tho day of tho common people is at hand, for the masses are being educated as never before,' as his text, ho declares that every American can get an education If he wants it. "By 'education' Watson means one thing and Goodwin another. Watson moans that tho peoplo aro learning economic truths. Goodwin means that they can learn readln', wrltin', and 'rlthmetlc. The difficulties In tho way of economic education are not In tho lack of books and school houses, but In the economic falsehoods propagated propa-gated by tho beneficiaries of the status quo through such instruments as tho judgo himself. "Then the judge proceeds to reclto cheap platitudes about 'high and honest exertion' and 'by tho sweat of his brow man must earn his bread,' Is it not a pity that this latter quotation quo-tation should bo prostituted to do-fend do-fend a system whoso essenco is tho creation of nn Idle and useless class which neither sweats nor earns its bread? "Go to, Judge Goodwin! Learn that tho moro industrious Is tho common person tho greater is his contribution ' to this idle class! You say that , wages aro higher now than over beforo be-foro and therefore tho common person per-son should bo content. But who over heard of a rich man who was content because his fortune was larger than it had over been beforo? You should know that while wages are " higher than over before the men who produce tho wealth get a smaller proportion pro-portion than over beforo, "If social relations were fixed and Immutable It might be wrong to arouso tho discontent of tho common person. But there is a remedy. Tho useless class buys brains as It buys labor and by this Investment It secures a huge part of the wealth produced. We common persons can hire the same brains and the same labor and, ai common persons, enjoy the wealth that now goes to the parasitic class. m If wo have education enough we will be able to grasp such a simple proposition propo-sition as this. "QUIEN SABE." |