Show WEVE GOT RELIGION when everything runs along smoothly and we get our three squares a day with a show or a movie thrown in now and then we are prone to let things slide and keep our noses out of the other fellows business we may know that the other fellow is a crook not by any direct dealings that we may have had bad with him but by such circumstantial evidence as is bound to reach us by the grapevine route yet we are entirely indifferent to his knavery so long as he does not pick our pockets or burgle our homes before our eyes but when hard times come and the roads grow rutty so that trav elling over them is painful the world changes its form and the people in it see things from a different angle we are religious and what had been condoned with equanimity before we now condemn with a vengeance verily weve got religion today profound changes are constantly occurring m the world at least on this side of the ocean the old economic system of lawful extortion in high finance of graft in higher up politics of special privileges of debt repudiations is on trial the gilded idols whom we enshrined on the throne of what we call success are now seen to be the tarnished images such as might have been expected from an ignoble alloy that has been subjected to exposure to the chi chisellers sellers the wel the grafters drafters gr and others of their ilk the present wideawake wide awake attitude of most taxpayers is about as welcome as a west wind on a wicked winter day but whether lasting good will follow now that our eyes are open and we no long er worship these gilded idols is hard to say for even though moses laid down the law to his benighted people when he found them worshiping the golden calf there were many among them who held mental reservations and chis belled on their allegiance to his hig 0 code democrat goshen inq ind |