Show A Campaign of Education Can theW the People Be Made to Think v E doubt whether the tho colonel will be successful success success- W V ful tul In hIs his evident expectation that the public VV will absorb his socialistic sophisms throughout through through- out tho the campaign without examination His evident belief bellef that the people are easily led lcd Is not without foundation of 3 8 sort too many desire to follow tallow personalities personalities per per- rather than Ideas The former they feel themselves able to gauge by tho expression of ot a countenance and tho the sound Bound of a a. voice But the tho latter latter lat lat- ter must be studied and many Americans arc are too thoroughly Impregnated with their Individual concerns concerns con oon- cerns to apply logic and common sense Bense to high high- sounding phrases which when analyzed mean nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing because they cannot mean menn anything At no time since he took to the stump to push his fortunes has the chief chiet of the Bull Con movement discussed a concrete proposition He Ite has advocated social and industrial freedom without indicating wherein it does not now exist or by what methods it IB Ja to be achieved he maintains his intention to put the man above the tho dollar doUar only a a. clever play upon w words in the mouth of one whoso whose record does I not warrant confidence but pregnant with meaning when uttered by their original author Abraham Lincoln Lin- Lin coln coIn he prattles glibly of human betterment as a keynote but what the application is to be 00 he ho leaves leaven hl his hearers L lu u doubt so that each may apply it to his Ills individual case caso whatever it may be A roll ron call caU of the list la is unnecessary because the people people peo peo- plo know w. w and nono Dono lo ie of more Importance than an an- other Tho colonels colonel's chimerical ideas cannot stand the acid test They are not practicable a n. truth of which the Bull Con himself must be well aware for if it they were a description of how they are to be accomplished would accompany his discussion of them When the voters begin to think the tho colonel will wUl be heard with nothing more than amusement The Tho campaign of or education which is already underway under underway I not accomplish more than to induce tho the wa way may I public to reflect for itself If it does that the year I that saw the birth of the Bull Con group of or self self- witness Its Us dissolution s seekers e ekers will also Credulity seems the only essential to membership membership membership member member- ship in the Bull Con on part party The colonel tells them that he ho was bamboozled at Chicago and a wave ave of indignation sweeps over his sympathetic audience although that charge was as exploded long ago Of He HeiA Het it iA u. t that Vi f he 1 qt stands at rt Armageddon and bat- bat re era LC es esties k uw u tics ties for the Lor Lord and that those who support his Ius third term ambition are standinG with him and not nota a n gaping hearer remembers those other othor political and business purists who arc of that sacred company I Boss Flinn Geol George e W. W Perkins Dan Hanna Frank Munsey Medill McCormick and all tho the others The Tho colonel promises the Millennium the elevation elevation elevation eleva eleva- tion of the wage earner industrial democracy conservation conservation con con- of or human resources putting the Ule man above the dollar ollar and not ono one of his fatuously and applauding admirers seems to remember that the I leading Bull Con was President for seV seven n years years years- a seven years ears that saw ten thousand trusts organized organized organized organ organ- saw the rich constantly getting richer and the poor poorer without out a a. single solitary effort from the White House to mend matters Platitudes fall tall ceaselessly from his hla lips Ups pledges which he would notI not I I keep heap if he could and could not if It he would are scattered with prodigal profusion and credulity reigns It forces one to agree with Puck F r tho the Schenectady minister Minister I IF who resigned ned his pastorate to work in the streets had Quits to toBe been accomplishing the work Be Street that Providence placed before fj him the maggoty delusions CI Cleaner Leaner Cleaner that addled 31 his hia brain would never have arisen His plaint that he wanted anted to get out into the tho world of real people to discuss things that really matter with those whoso ideas were refreshing and who would talk back sounds puerile from one who on once co felt called caned to do the work of the Master The churches may be deserted as he complains and In Infected Infected In- In with the malady of stagnation But Instead of bending his ener energies es to improve matters he surrenders surrenders surrenders sur sur- renders his commission to the divine Commander Who gave it and skulks to the rear We do not agree agree- with tho theorists that this Schenectady pastors pastor's stricken panic-stricken flight from responsibility responsibility re- re augurs the disintegration of the tho Christian church The incident actually docs does little more ore than prove the existence of or one another believer in signs I. I and visions who saw G P. P C. C written on the clouds and interpreted It to mean Go Preach Christ in instead instead instead in- in stead of ot Go Plow Corn Cora the latter being the most plausible reading of it The clergyman who finds I his hla Sunday audiences growing beautifully less leB and the shepherd of ot the flock lock who sees his charges dwindling can blame none but himself The work which the church must do is as important and necessary necessary necessary essary as it was nineteen hundred years ago the clergyman who recognizes that he Is not doing it either cither lacks ability to accomplish or to understand what should be donor done The church Isto is isto to be congratulated it should actually begin bee to grow crow OW ct NB NE might believe some Colonels Colonel's 0 O of the glittering gUttering prom promises prom lees lacs the colonel is mak- mak Companions if it were not for the company Do Not Fit he keeps heaps the company he hasA has always kept and his record A Jd Armageddon on A moderate amount o of Intelligence Intel Intelli L gence will not permit belief inthe in the tho altruism of George W. W Perkins who is financing and managing the Bull Con Can campaign for the tho trusts In the political purity of ot Bill BUl Flinn who Is one of the of-the the colonels colonel's trusted advisers adviSers advisers ad ad- in the degree of Industrial democracy that might be expected from Dan R. R Hanna in the sort of at help for tor the poor that would emanate from Harold Harold Harold Har Har- old F. F McCormick law in of John D. D Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller fellor and J. J Medill McCormick son-in-law son of the tho late lato Mark MarIe Hanna Hann each of them a heavy stockholder in Standard Oil the steel trust and tho harvester trust We cannot digest the Idea that the tho colonel will keep his alluring pledges in view of those who stand with him at Armageddon If It the colonel was sincere these soldiers of the common good would not be there I I There Is no desk room for two forty new Congressmen ConI Congressmen Con Con- gres gressmen in the House of Representatives But they I at least wont won't have to sneak away when they want to go to a ball game I A man bearing tho the name of at Fountain Wetmore Rainwater lives at Waterloo in 4 Kentucky But probably that comprises all aU the water there Is in I the tho place e 1 I A South South American explorer has hag brought back a pound fifty rate This is another argument in favor of digging dJ the tho Panama canal both wide and deep |