| Show howe about our legal system captain and pastor sarah bernhardt 0 1933 do bell by ED HOWE U NOW know samuel insull instill WE was 9 a very bad man ilow how much of hla his bad conduct was recommended om mended to him as legal by his lawyers insull instill invent nil all or half ot of the schemes which lost seven hundred million dollars tor for investors what proportion of them were invented by his attorneys go back to the records in n In case and no doubt many astounding court decisions in ills his favor may be found one of the admissions we must finally anally ninke make Is that our legal system Is as bad as our political sya tern tein and as much in need of purging the constitution we have so ion long 9 been taught by lawyers to respect Is kicked about by lawyers and judges as idle boys kick a football and this Is not the raving of a countryman every reasonably honest and intelligent judge and lawyer says ao so the departure from morals which has resulted inso in so much trouble for the world Is not confined to picnics parked automobiles in dark places or to banks or to politics but has i cached every phase of our existence there was once a sea captain said to be a backslider and a pastor called to talk to him you have a compass with which to guide your ship said the good mau man yet you have not a single gulde guide to your moral conduct I 1 heard the story from the religious when a boy and have been hearing it ever since it has always seemed to me foolish I 1 do riot not like art of that kind A sen sea captain goes everywhere sees everything what moral guide can such a man lack that a modest and secluded pastor may possess it la Is nn an enormous statement tor for a small man to make but I 1 belleve believe moral teaching has been wrong from the beginning always we have raised mixed the gods with it although the gods have never had anything to do with the case there Is no sound recommendation for better behavior beyond the simple truth that honesty Is the best policy I 1 wonder sarah bernhardt Is not used instead of 11 I 1 T barnum ns as an extreme ear example of the successful publicity seeker when nothing else offered to attract attention to her she set fire to her own room and if we had honest criticism and honest public opinion lon I 1 do riot not believe she would be rated no as a moderately good actress one rough old writing rascal in hla his references to women frequently said remember the wh whip ifill probably he was an advocate of whipping good women ho he seems to have hava admired all such and history records he was often ridiculous in running after them what he probably meant was that had louls louis XVI whipped his queen tor for fanatical devotion to bad men and czar nicholas whipped the czar czarina lila for farrat fanatical teal devotion to bad religion the lives of millions of good women and children we would u id have been enormously bettered both these foolish women lost their lives because of mistaken enthusiasm thusia sm for bad causes the czar inas husband and children were in murdered with her note that the czarina czar lua whose specialty was gross morality was worse punished than the queen whose specialty was gross immorality I 1 sometimes regret one of the queens surviving sons was not executed with her because of his mothers neglect of her home he was we the worst boy of his age eight recorded in history I 1 have never known a husband not a little ashamed if he failed to properly control his household and the bible strongly hints every husband has such it a right and duty As soon as a tool fool proposes another plan for more human betterment than to Is possible the people should somehow have the power to say to him now now weve tried that and force him film back to work the certain C thing seems to be we cannot n ot afford to try all these plans as we have been doing some thousands of years to the violent disturbance of industry and pence peace an old widower married an old w widow and for a time I 1 thought them a little ridiculous in attempts to show happiness I 1 have just heard of their separation of the terrible tales they are now telling on each other I 1 nm a weak fellow I 1 in n most respects but sometimes hope I 1 have hae handled myself rather well as an old widower sometime took look over those actions tn in your life generally called deviltry find that not one of them ever paid you that every one brought some humiliation all anyone can truthfully say of good c con oil duct tg in that it Is |
