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Show education and Morals. j FMucation has not done everything which wua hoH-d of It, even in America, although il has done much, and we are still faithfully hoping f r more. It ia I unwise alwavs to aaaiime a superiority j if vlrMit in tlie so-called "upper classes'' of any country. Such revelation, as arc , I now la-lug made in the Post lltliee Department De-partment open our eyes to the ease with which men uf edmation, in comfortable circumstances, lie and ateal. Thecitl-sens Thecitl-sens whom Mr. Folk Is eeiiding to State arison in Missouri, for flagrant disregard of all moral obligation, have none of them Ihe excuse of ignorance. An Interesting In-teresting life of Judge Jerome of New York, which has jtm Iteen published, bring into sharp relief the fact that the piospcrnU! and cultivated classes are often, perhaps usually, the ones least open lo moral append. They have ao many thlnga, Insy are ao deemlenl upon up-on things, that priuclplea loee their reality. re-ality. They give new life to Wood ' worth's tlitelrlne loot bi-fh living gtea I .wit!, '(.it t'l'ttVl-g rtf. the . il.. t modern fnoirtrrncn "ItrtPltnited ' flat It I calls "the g rossnees" of American mur- I all to the emphasis which our education puts upon the liberty and happliie.e of Ihe Individual, Imlead ol upon the tin- 1 provementof the si-ecies. Kenan w aa a holt lie critic of democracy when he wrote those linn. Later, In a series of philosophic plays, he made Caliban, or Iba democracy, a lie Her ruler in the end than his beloved and arielocratic Proa -ero. We share Itenan's later, nut his earlier, Itellef, and are full uf fal h in Ihe people ami in the assumption lhat our progress makes for rghteouBiict-s. As long, however, aa stealing and deception are dircotered in such gross forms, in national, state and city politics; as long as men of high standing in the business world prefer to buy votes rather than lo struggle for julU e;aa long us our educated edu-cated and proaterous claraea are supine in the face of public wrung in their uwn communities, and prefer to talk alton; some distant community's evil deeds solong will education have lulled tj give all of that mural reality Mi h ia j one of the iitiprnvemeiita w liich we hope from It. Collier"! Weekly. |