Show POSTED O ON IH DEMAGOGUES L Ju Judge e Parker er closed his speech be- be fou fm foie Q the tho Mississippi legislature with witha wih a warning against which he said s nil they ther must avoid old n like the time pestilence leSt leSt- lence lenc which vahl In darkness For the first time in our OUI history we see ee reflected upon the th screen of the tIme future the time shadow of this baleful bale ball ful UI sinister Creature This Is Ig pretty strong trong language langua e. e an and amid not entirely entre ac ac- ac- ac curate Recent happenings in In New NewYork NewYork ew York coupled with certain preliminary r cry ary features of oC the time 1904 have stirred the time judges judge's feelings If I Iel over el there were a people familiar with Wih the time dema demagogue ogue the time American people are entitled to a front rank lank Like the pOOl poor the demagogue huts has alwn always been with wih U us n He lie was wa In Iii the American army aimy amy wrenching the time heartstrings of oC Washington during tIme the gloomiest st period per per- iod lod of or the revolution re i He lie le has Imas been ben in er e every war var since i even en e in the little Ite W war var with wih Spain The Time earlier pre presidents we were beset by him an and some ome of or th them m did dIll not disdain dis dis- 18 dain on occasion to employ his at atIn arts In him thou thel own behalf Sonic Some of our OU greatest statesmen have at tim times s disfigured dis clis- figured their records In In that wa way The demagogue of th the cm earlier Her half of or orthe the time last century was a more mOIe benign creature than timan his huis successor He lie le was not so harm harmful CuI los possibly because e the time people were weme more primitive ond more easily deceived but there were plenty plen plea ty of them lucia and ant the they timey thu dear deal people and their Inalienable rights rights' for all al tIme the they were worth Novel and amid strange conditions arose In Inthe Inthe the time latter later half of the tIme nineteenth century cen cen- tur tury which provided plo a broader field feld for fOI the time demagogue anti and at th the snow same time made mantle him more moie dangerous It I is probably this aspect of the demagogue which occurred to Judge Parker when he saw w his baleful shadow reflected l on the time screen of the time future The d demagogue I Is more dangerous dangerous dan clan tO today Q he has moro mOn complicated conditions and uses more dangerous tools hut but there has ima been a change in th the people more than commensurate com coma l with wih the development of tIme the demagogue ul The people are better better bet bet- ter tel informed have hae clearer clealer Ideas of or their rights and duties and very ery eryman man many more of or them than formerly Cormery take the measure of the time demagogue ma ogue with great accuracy That is not sav saving say say- yIng y- y ing log wih that lint the time people can caum not mint be fool fool- ed They are always In danger of oC that that As 1 Mr Lincoln said 11 All of or orthe the people can h be fooled some sonic of time the time and some of the time people all al of the tune time hut but all al of the time people cant can't he be fooled lO all aJ of oC the time There Thre are arc spots where d demagogues hold hoJ sway prel pretty much all aJ of the time time though h heen even In such Instances there thele are en e periodical recoils anti and It I i Is possible o for a wild wid political craze craz to spread ov over r th time the land but hut the sober ohr second thou thought ht of nr the American can be he re relied relied 1 re- re Baltimore lied 11 upon ulon to American political sanity Faulty |