Show howe about no flow of blood the devil cracks down really good men by ED H OWE HOWE I 1 TN X LISTENING to conversations about the depression I 1 note cote that nearly everyone expresses esp the hope blood will not flow before the trouble ends most of these gents I 1 believe really have a secret hope that there will be a flow of blood that those who have wronged them may be properly punished I 1 wonder it does not occur to these gloomy prophets that in case the reign of terror predicted comes about there will bo be no selected list of victims I 1 will not be permitted to point out my special enemies and order the execl to dispose of them others will not have this privilege in the reign of terror in france tor for every king aristocrat or financier be headed dozens of milliners workingmen small home owners agitators politicians lost their lives or otherwise suffered the wrongs incident to rioting the ruffians finally turned on themselves and so many of them were disposed of that it became possible tor for reasonable men to restore order at the present blood atonement men should further remember that we are all about equally responsible for our present troubles great guilt attaches to men like samuel insull instill woodrow wilson but Is also justly due their heedless and dishonest followers in following bad measures and bad men we ara all guilty the only remedy Is for all to acquire better sense and morals there will be no flow of 0 blood the present universal suffering Is sufficient tor for expiation of our sins the present reign of terror enough to sober us its A man called to see me lately and complained bitterly because he was only making a living during the hard times rather good I 1 said and might have added considering how shiftless you are and always have been thousands of us should be more grateful than we are that we are ablo able to make a living in spite of 0 the ruin our shiftless carelessness has brought about let no one forget that a part of this blame we are now trying to place belongs to him all americans have long been raising the devil and the devil has finally been forced to crack down on us I 1 think even the devil Is sorry our distress Is so great but we have acted badly so long he avoid it the real wonder Is that americans have been able to continue as long as they have in their mad revel 0 A long time ago during perilous times somewhat like the alie present an old fellow wrote there be not three good men in england and one of them is fat and grows old everyone has the notion that only a few really good men are left and he is not entirely certain aboud about the other three or four or five or halt dozen usually he will admit they mean well but somewhat doubts their honesty find and courage that so much conceit exists Is marvelous but it is about the only marvel that has been proven all appreciate themselves too much we are like the irish it Is said there never was fin an irish brass band because agreement as to a leader could not be reached I 1 lately saw a picture of a thousand picked men and their wives assembled at a banquet not one of them good looking yet all these people were well behaved above the average were above the average in general citizenship how we all try to be good looking and how ugly we arel the first thing we remark about tho the people Is their ugliness A country town man living in a western state noted doted for hypocrisy Is 13 in jail lie get drunk it was his boast he had never tasted intoxicating liquor in his life irom from a boy up he had attended sunday school and church lie ile married a good girl and was profoundly shocked tit at the bold manner in wych traveling men display carelessness of home ties hut but parents neighbors and teachers had never warned him against the stock market when the explosion came a neighbor sald paid 11 1 1 I 1 have been noticing kr for sometime he be has been doing more tor for the poor and the public good than I 1 can afford ile he had been accomplishing good by doing harm to himself 0 a 0 an old newsman who spent years in fit russia Is now in washington and says the marching of negroes and old soldiers there remind him of st SL petersburg we are becoming like the russians in many other ways in some respects we are worse worm I 1 have not heard of judges being dragged from the bench in russia as was lately done by farmers in iowa our richest state nor have I 1 heard of school teachers rioting in russia tor for their pay as a as done lately in chicago our richest city labor union bombings and bank holdups are practically un known in russia but almost as corn com mon in the united as the ring ing of church bells the fact for serious consideration in america Is that the people ure are without eXec effective tive ov or moral restraint C 1932 boll bell Sll cr service |