Show the greatest crime in tho the united states la is the wholesale manufacture of criminals says henry 13 llyde in the chicago tribune writing of the great number of 0 useless and city councils each year and to c his indictment mr hydo mar chals an array of facts which fiction can not match commenting editorially on mr glydes charges tho the tribune says obviously what mr hyde alyde calls the wholesale manufacture of criminals As is one of the unexpected results of our uncritical reliance upon legisla lation as a cure all when the A merican sees anything ho he deisn like 1110 his first impulse Is to pass a law against it it if there are no statutes sta tutee iteE against gravitation enacted at chevo ci ferous behest of americans americana who have slipped up on a winter day ll it Is an oversight which will bo be corrected in duo due time this Is an american falling failing which Is often commented on less often dowe do we ponder the moral of the american habit of passing habit of passing laws undoubtedly we have been pass ing through a period of acute coda self bolt many of the shingi which were ignored by our we understand or think wo we under stand the evil ot of and in attempt attempting inE to express our new sense of cespon ability and correct the newly discovered faults by our favorite of law making we have not only fa more difficult task of administration but we have developed a taste to correcting what seem to bo be our net nei ghiors errors which bids fair in turi tun to in turn to include every from his choice of neckties to his re lillous creed this taste tor for the censorship it not discriminating what seenia to theto the great mass of a gimei community as at worst harmless 0 inconsiderable seems to some nora inora specialists heinous and deeply do de moralizing moral izing in no country of th world today we bellve belive are there s many good people who happen to bt bi passionately energized over s omi particular tact fact of fallible hu man mail nature the united states 1 one hugo huge example of herbert berbert spencers simile on reform it Is a titanic sheet of metal on which the daiges are being furiously beaten down with inevitable result that with almost every blow afien anew dinge Is made as the old ono one in this period of an awakened 0 social conc lenco we show ively a tendency to neurasthenia in ill reform and individually a super it a good many of our ettres at bettering the word over night could bo be treated with a dose of hu dunmor and sense to proportion a deal 0 fun necessary suffering could avoided and somo some very serious social reactions escaped but moro more la is needed cy even an that thai the perfecting of law enforcement difficult to atala we need a died upon our growing tendency to fore our neighbors into compliance witt our own special standards it w are ot accept a sterner and more to de tailed social dic plino let us at leas se be that it Is shaped by the commil conc lenco and based on the diroa and settled convictions ot the corn com let us no longer tho the individual to the tha oui of inumerable minorities too much of 0 our penal law Is mad under the cover ot of public indifferent by that species of man mail or woma who ho would havo have us ua all run into th mold of his or hor own conviction THE L EDITOR when a dearly loved subscribe writes to us in irate vein stop the th stop tho the paper never send it tha vile sheet to my homo home again W wt just puff our sweet old corncob anc we stroke the cluce cat editon dont have no feel I 1 neve mind were used to that when a typographical error some times creeps in by mi mistake and out oui friends rush up and tell vs vil what first arst rate ass wed make wo we jus overlook THEIR errors never give ing tit for tat editors are ara cached drmic and oh all well were used tc that when oui our advertisers cancel tell trig ing us the pheeta no good when subscribers choose to pay us in torn tom anes or cord wood well wo we gimpl arin and bear it though it leaves af w ather flat editors can exist some low wo we get used to that when your daughters ir r her wedding day comes round ou on expect the kind of write apt hat in adjectives abound do yov you ver iver stop to thank us though jit alt one with great wha diters are thero there tor for andoh and oh wet well were vere used to that CLEANING POLITICS IOLI TICa politics can call only bo be cleansed rom the inside ot of tho the political larty says rev joseph 11 odell J JD D in the ladles ladies home journal men alen who exert any influence in elections must play the game three hundred and sixty live alvo days in the year A hundred circumstances make it impossible tor for tho the minister to ile bo A direct tact fact in the results but this ices does not render him a political non anulty ile ho can call understand enough ot of the working methods to apply the great determinative principals lie he can inspire the sluggish citizens ot of his congregation tra to a performance of their civic duties lie ho can fire the men ot of his church with such a passion tor for righteousness in public life that they will serve on their party committees and become bacomo candidates tor for office he can luster registering and voting with a sacre sacramental mental significance ance what ho he cannot do him olf by direct action ho he can call causo a hundred or five hundred ot of hta his par Ish shlono loners rs to do as an integral part ot of athir christian lives there aro are certain spheres ot of influence tit in which a minister la Is at a discount because ot of his professional standing but lie he la is not thereby shut out front from a part in the tha development ot of modern io clety jesus did not legislate by acts regulations and bylaws by laws I 1 but by the proclamation ol of deter apals are as R applicably today as they were sixty generations ago it Is privilege to the those principals to mod orn arn life to bring them to bear upon pr problems as local option factory reg mallon illation child compensation pensa tion ion capital and lailor labor trade penology and a hundred kindred themes it if lie ho can lay the civino such principles upon tho the men who tall fall within hta his pastoral domain lie ho will have become i social civic and political power of ho aie first order without jeopardizing ho he first order without jeopardizing its ils fluence Iti by plunging into a amo ame for which lie he has had no train ug ng and to which lie ho can give ado ade duato time without sacrificing his ian unique responsibilities and arl vi leges THE OLD FOLKS FOLICH iain at the old folks party which was held in the relief hall on oil T urada it this week judge greenwood war asked to say a few words worda to the old people gathered there among othar r things the judge said no snow falls lighter than the mows of ago age hut but none Is heavier for it never mlis m lis the writers ut af holy writ represent ago age by the almond tree which bears blossoms of the purest white the almond tree shall flourish and the head shall bo be hoary dickens speaking ot of gray dalre aay it looks as it if time had tightly lightly splashed its snows snowa upon it t tr it pasing th the e snows ot of the inverted yeni winter conic come and whiten the livasy ina mountain tops but when spring omes it passes away not so with he snow of old age there Is no pring that can lacase it 11 away it conics comes to stay the world bows down to the gras Is the sign of 0 the approach A ripe ago age with wisdom and exper once enco in it wo we have learned by buff biting the surges and billows of lifes ocean voyage hardship holcli la Is the native soil ot of manhood has born be n endured for ag 33 39 like the acorn lite beginning of tho the mighty have gone the long summers and winters of 0 t 1 id said are gods errands they each us the lessons ot of ufa why look upon or speak of gra haIr sand old ago age in mournful strain it t Is most beautiful honorable and lot let the gray hairs bo be the beautiful aal desired of all colors rs let the old exult and be happ it any must weep let it bothe bethe be the tor for they have a long a and a perilous journey before thum them welcome the uia 1113 otil alu ais a is sattl dij asni lems of peace and rest it la s but ji a temporal crown which shall tall fall it the gates of paradise to be replaced by a brighter and better one we so gathered hero the scars of time and honest toll gray haired ares and matrons matrona mat rons you are the honored guests you arri aro entitled to the best you are arc the tha most welcomed ol 01 ill of your youthful companions few are left many have like tin the trees of the forest ben bell up doted b by the raging tempest while you like the mighty oak have weathered the storms of life and are still here no doubt some ot of you aro are already waiting and watching to bo be gathered ered to your fathers gathered to a peaceful rest eyon even that peace and rest you have so well earned you havo have fought the tha batlo ot of life nobly and successfully and your sons rons and daughtery daugh lore tere stand ready to give you praise and do you honor stand eland over ever ready to sing aloud the praises of your liveson toll and as your sun sinks lower and lower in fit the after noonon your earthly journey may its rays bo be to vou most and cheerfull |