Show MORAL COWARDICE I With Wih With th the majority of people nota- nota lily the plain people using the thC term in the sense in which Abraham Abrham Lincoln was wont to use uie it it-I it i-I i I found the question ques tion ton is this morally right J to have hae ultimately more weight ei ht than tho the question question ques ques- tion ton will wi this thi be profitable We Wo have have indeed sometimes witnessed ed called so-called cT crazes zes' zes in favor or of financial policies polices that were essentially immoral such as the inflation craze and the the silver si r craze craze gaining an apparently almost ir irresistible irresistible J- J ir- ir resistible momentum among the people But this was was was' not owin oin owing r to a real ral and wide widespread pad demoralization of the popular popular lar bar conscience hut hint rather to an artful presentation of the question which covered coy cov ered cree up tip and dis disguised the moral immoral morl doment element ele do- ment in it i. i and abd ald no so o deceived tho the unsophisticated understanding understanding an and also aIM to th the cowardice of politicians o of hi high h as 39 aswell aswell well wen as low rank I have o seen men of great ent and hica standing in in the official world orl do the thc most astonishing things thins when they eo might as us for far as their voice could coul be he heard have h easily raily arrested arrested ar ar- ar rested the vicious heresies by In a n bold utterance of their true truo opinions nC The moral cowardice of th the politicians is isone ma maone one of tho the most dan dangerous rous ailments of ot democracies Carl Carl Schurz in Me- Me c. c Clue lure s 5 |