Show howe ab about 0 it no flow of blood the devil cracks down really good men by ED HOWE TN N LISTENING to conversations I 1 about the depression I 1 note that nearly everyone expresses the hope blood will not flow before tile 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 pi prophets opheus that in case the reign of terror predicted comes about there will 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 liae have tills this privilege in tile the reign of terror in france 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 llie ruf ruffians flans finally turned on thenis elves and so ninny many of them were disposed of that it became possible for reasonable men to restore order at tile the present blood atonement men should further remember member ip that we are all about equally responsible for our present troubles piedt guilt attaches to 0 men like samuel insull woodrow wilson but Is also justly due their heedless and dishonest followers in following had bad measures and halt had men we e ara ar all guilty the only remedy Is for rill nil to acquire better sense and morals there will be no how flow of blood thu the present universal suffering Is sufficient for expiation of our sins the present relga of terror enough to sober us A man called to see me lately and complained bitterly because lie he was only making a living during the hard times rather good I 1 said and might have added considering how shiftless you vou are and always have been thousands of us should be more grateful thou than we are that we tire are able to make a living in spite of the ruin our shiftless carelessness lins has ought hought h about let no one forget that a part of this blame ame we are now trying to place belongs ion 9 s to him all americans americana have 0 long o n b been een raising the devil and the d devil ih has in brilly been forced to crack down on n us I 1 think even the devil la sorry our distress Is so great but we have andly so long he avoid it the real wonder la Is that americans have been able to continue as long as they have in their mad re el A long time ngo ago during perilous times somewhat like the present pie sent an old fellow wrote there be not three good men in england gland and one of them Is fat and grows old everyone has the notion that only a few really good men are left and he ll Is not entirely certain about the other three or four or five or half dozen usually he will admit they mean well but somewhat doubts their honesty and courage that so much conceit exists Is marvelous but it la is about the only marvel that has been proven all appreciate thein themselves selves too much we are like the irish it Is said there never never was an 1 irish r IS h brass band because agreement as to a leader could not bp be reached I 1 lately saw a picture of a thousand picked men and theli 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 the people Is their ugliness A country town man living in a western state noted for hypocrisy Is in jail he get drunk it was his boast he had never tasted intoxicating liquor in ills his life F from rom a boy up he had attended sunday school and church ile he married man led a good girl giri and was profoundly shocked Iced at the bold manner in emch traveling men display carelessness of home ties but parents neighbors and teachers had never warned him against the stock market when the explosion came a neighbor said 1 I have been noticing for sometime he has been doing more for or the poor and the public good than I 1 can afford ile he had been accomplishing good by doing harm to himself an old newsman who spent years in russia Is now in washington and says the marching of negroes and old soldiers there remind him of st petersburg 8 we are becoming like the russians in many other ways in some respects we are worse I 1 havo havn not heard of judges being dragged from the bench to in russia as was ivas lately done by farmers in iowa iova our richest state nor isor have I 1 heard of school teachers rioting in russia for their pay as was v as done lately in chicago our richest city labor union bombings and bank holdups are practically un known in russia but almost ns as corn com mon men in the united states as tile the ring ing of church bells the fact for se ilous dous consideration in america Is that the people are without effective government or moral restraint a 1831 1931 B 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