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Show BETWEEN PROPOSAL AND PERFORMANCE. This would be a grand world to live in if theory and practice could only be got to jibe. From time to time someone comes forward with a bold claim that he can take lead or copper and turn it into gold. The public always puts faith in these claims, for the idea is attractive but the fact remains that these gold-makers invariably dio poor. Dr. F. W. Lange of Scranton is the latest man to assert his discovery dis-covery of the philosopher's stone but his property has recently been seized by his creditors, his brother, who loaned him large sums of embezzled funds, has absconded, and in spite of the recipe for making gold the family is bankrupt. When you see a problem that has defied the ability of the ages to solve, you might as well be modest about proclaiming a solution of it. All problems will be solved in timebut only in their ' logical course. We can't jump from simple addition to calculus; we must work our way up to the higher science through a long chain of related processes. Many big problems of our social and political life have such a simple look that we jump to the conclusion that they are easy. They are not easy, else they would have been solved long before this. There are difficulties involved in them which we cannot see until we get wound up in them. It looks simple to prohibit the liquor traffic in a state, yet in practice it is a most difficult matter so difficult that actual prohibition prohibi-tion is unknown. We must educate public sentiment up to a higher plane of moral understanding before it can be a thorough success. The Socialists after getting control of the government of Milwaukee Milwau-kee are impatient with Mayor Seidel because many of the reforms which they thought would come at once must for one roason or another an-other be delayed or given up. |