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THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER CHICAGO # # "AND ND THIS," the dark Ironic Spirit mocked The triumph of thy science, art and all That skill thou'st learnt since forth the Norsemen fared In dodging back and forth 'twixt storm and sea, Thou'dst go in safety and in pride, and boast The awful laugh We stay." "The women and the children first. No cry, no whimpering; and there, May ↳ N RETRIBUTION OT SINCE THE CIVIL WAR has such a feeling of danger pervaded the minds of Americans who think. The menace this time is industrial. It has been felt recently in considering what might be the meaning of a strike of thirty thousand locomotive and electrical engineers on fifty railroads. It was felt in connection with the McNamara trial. It was felt even more in reflection upon the victory of the I. W. W. at Lawrence. Unskilled labor won that fight against money, police, and courts. It won, and on its lips was a threat that if it lost it would practice systematically the destruction of property, and if it won the victory would be but a step to further demands until capital should be glad to turn over control of industry to labor. These foreigners came over in response to the search of capital for cheap labor with which it could beat down the standard of living established by the unions. Now the weapon which it has imported becomes a mighty threat to the existence of capital itself. What is this but Retribution? Shall we be alarmed? Certainly not by a little violence in the streets. THOMAS JEFFERSON said of SHAY'S insurrection: If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. ... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two! No, it is not violence we need to ponder so much as prosperity. Remember how thin, in business, is the line between success and failure. The trained unions realize that a little increase in cost may mean the destruction of an enterprise altogether. The untrained often seem ignorant of this dangerous and narrow line between productiveness and disaster, and imagine that if the masses could control all business everybody would be comfortable. They cannot know that without a rather high degree of organizing and managing ability a factory may use up more than it produces. This is the only threat that need frighten anybody but a coward that the increasing power of sheer numbers, by upsetting organized skill, may take the fertility out of labor itself. How is this danger to be met? In one way. The mass of laborers are not to be beaten back. Industrial feudalism cannot last. Safety lies in the fact that responsibility brings caution and reflection. Give all your laborers a stake in the enterprise, and a share in decisions, and they will begin to figure profit and loss, to weigh and understand, even as you yourself now figure and understand. It is the only way. DISCIPLINE OT YET has mankind ceased to be dazed by the sinking of the greatest vessel. Still women and men start suddenly, as if confused between reality and dream. From out it all comes the glory of discipline-the beacon that may be thrown by self-control across the watches of our fate. It is the discipline of a tradition that makes the post of officer too noble a responsibility to allow comparison with so small a thing as life. It is self-discipline that made many an obscure. being go down in the Titanic, uncomplaining and unknown. Few of us can leave behind anything of higher worth than credit in the manner of our departure. As the trade of killing is diminished, we must use otherwise the same courage and readiness to die-on ships, in fires, in hospitals. Many thousands of children are born into the world each day, and for every birth some woman suffers and faces death. crowds applaud. Alone she looks into eternity, single-handed, darkly surrounded, without drums. It is her test, and she meets it as an officer meets his duty on a battlefield or in a wreck. NOBLESSE OBLIGE No NE QUESTION has been: What is the foundation of the rule that women at sea should be saved first? Amusing bits of pseudoscience have tried to trace the impulse back to earlier conditions, and to the idea of carrying on the race. Doubtless the difference in strength counts for much in the tradition, but there is something deeper. It is the principle that those who control should consider others before themselves. As long as ships are run by men, men should ever be the last to leave. The old rule of noblesse oblige meant that noble birth brought with it obligations of courage and high conduct. Responsibility brings that obligation now. What would be the morale of a nation which had men in control and yet figured out that men should be saved first? It would be like the fireman thinking of himself and his family rather than of those threatened by the flames and dependent upon his willingness to die; like the doctor or nurse who refused to risk contagion; or like the sheriff who reflected that his own life was more valuable than that of the miserable prisoner threatened by the mob. There are situations which tower above nice calculations of individual fate. Power and trust carry with them, in emergencies, the privilege to be self-forgetful and to die. COL RACING OLONEL ROOSEVELT likes work. It would be a pity to make him run against a combination of CLARK and HEARST. That would be too much like a race between our old family horse Ned and Lou Dillon, present trotting champion of the world. The Speaker has a pleasant personality. He is a good mixer. He is liked by the people and very much liked by the politicians. Intellectually, however, and in his standards, he is a lightweight, and could never stand a campaign against the Colonel. It was a clever move for the Plunderbund to hit upon a man on whom Mr. BRYAN had put his approval, who was thick with HEARST, who has the get-up of the plain people, and yet who will certainly stand without hitching. It was a smooth trick, but the election is not until November. If WILSON were nominated in June, his strength would increase up to the election, because he has principles, intellect, and knowledge. He would take a large part of the reflecting independent vote; and what chance have the Democrats, against ROOSEVELT or HUGHES, without the independent vote? DANGEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS HE SENATOR FROM WASHINGTON, Mr. JONES, discussing Colonel ROOSEVELT'S attack on Senator LORIMER of Illinois, observed: If former President ROOSEVELT had been standing on one side when PILATE delivered JESUS to the Jews, after having examined into the charges and found no fault in Him, but, at the demand of the people, turned Him over to them for crucifixion, he would have clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Most righteous, most honorable, most just judge!" At this point Senator POINDEXTER, the Standpat orator's Progressive colleague, interrupted: I do not know that I am exactly clear as to the illustration which the Senator is now making. Does the Senator mean to parallel JESUS CHRIST with the Senator from Illinois? Why is it that when the reactionaries take refuge in history they so inevitably land in difficulty? Perhaps it is because, being unaccustomed to real thought about anything, they do not subject their similes to analysis before letting them escape; they hunt them up merely as high lights of unreflecting speech. June's twice June since she breathed it with me. It is, of course, true that BROWNING's verse is often unmelodious and curdled, and for this reason we heartily recommend Professor LOUNSBURY'S remarkably just and thorough study of the poet in his volume called "The Early Career of Robert Browning." Although, with sufficient reason, Browning clubs have almost passed, a high position is established for the author of "Pippa Passes," who perhaps in the future will stand about with JOHN DONNE. His strong attitude to life appeals. To pour out all one's soul in sincere effort that is his doctrine. What counts is what is attempted. Knowledge means Ever renewed assurance by defeat That victory is somehow still to reach. It is a philosophy of wide, general sympathy-that sincerity and unflagging endeavor are victory, even though disguised as defeat. He speaks for: One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, BROWNING is the prophet of the heart that is not dismayed. A HAPPY ADVENTURE WHEN LIFE seems most uninviting, some happiness may overtake you-whoever you are. A lonely negro woman, fresh from the South, at work in a private family in a city in the North, without a single acquaintance except her employers, went out for a walk in the evening. Suddenly a strange negro woman on the other side of the street beckoned excitedly to her and approached. "Oh, lady," she said, "come on and go with me to this here show. My missus gave me these two tickets, and my sister, who I was going to ask, ain't home, and it's half-past eight now. Please, won't you come. We'll have to hurry." So the two took a car, and after a short ride found themselves in front of a great building ablaze with lights and alive with people. From seats in the balcony, the two saw such sights as the negro woman, particularly, never dreamed were for mortal eyes to behold. It was an incredible piece of fortune --something to remember for weeks, and the beginning of a needed friendship. ALL SORTS EVERYBODY is put on the stage nowadays. All kinds of life and environment are drawn upon. No sooner does "The Country Boy" leave one theatre than his place is immediately taken by "The Girl from Montmartre." WHA IRVING ON PARTY LABELS HAT GEORGE WASHINGTON thought of putting loyalty to party before one's own intelligent power of thought has been made sufficiently clear in COLLIER'S. We now wish to call the attention of our readers to WASHINGTON IRVING'S opinion on the same subject. He states that he wishes to note "the great benefit of party distinctions in saving the people at large the trouble of thinking." After observing that HESIOD divides mankind into three classes-those who think for themselves, those who think as others think, and those who do not think at all—IRVING proceeds to say that the second kind comprises the great mass. A party in his opinion "means a large body of people, some few of whom think and all the rest talk." The few lead and discipline the many, "prescribing what they must say, what they must approve, what they must hoot at, whom they must support, but, above all, whom they must hate; for no one can be a right good partisan who is not a thoroughgoing hater." All this applies more to parties which stand for no fundamental point of view, like the Republican and Democratic parties to-day. It will have much less application if, as seems probable, the parties before long shall be forced to divide into a Bourbon, Tory, Reactionary, or Standpat organization, on the one hand, and a Progressive or Popular Rights party on the other. COND ΑΝ ISSUE OMMENTING ON THE VICTORY of LA FOLLETTE in Wisconsin, Louis D. PRANEEIS said: He recognized how greatly private monopoly of industry and credit imperil the prosperity and welfare of our people, and that the policy of accepting private monopoly as a permanent condition and having the Government fix prices (particularly on the basis of inflated capitalization) would amount to nothing less than the betrayal of the Republic into the hands of the money masters. Before the summer ends, the two ideas of industry hinted at in this observation will, if the Democrats make a sensible nomination, be brought into sharp conflict, with the advantage of position not improbably held by the Democratic nominee. W A DEMOCRATIC LEADER E LEARN from Mr. HEARST's paper, the "New York American," that "Miss PATRICIA BOURKE, the daughter of JOHN S. BOURKE of Los Angeles, has outdone in delicate courtesy even the DE BOURBONS, who belong to the oldest royal house in Europe." The story goes along at length giving the glories of social glamour which so abound in the Hearst papers, but we think the finest touch in the whole romance is that Miss BOURKE "speaks Spanish with the royal accent." Nothing is quite so satisfactory to Hearst journalism as a "royal accent." COMPETITION AND MANNERS N THE DAYS when the store at the crossroads was the only one eighteen miles, the storekeeper with his feet on the counter might continue his target practice at the sawdust box until he had finished telling the loafers how he caught six coons up one tree, while the impatient customer waited for him to reach the period where he would turn and aggrievedly demand, "Something?" When there was a store on each side of him, and one across the street, he learned to put on a clean shirt, sweep the floor, smile, and say, Good morning! How's crops?" When Mrs. HEIGHT's husband has three competitors crowding him close, she does not snub the wives of his patrons. Where a man is undisputed boss of his territory, either in business or politics, he is too strongly inclined to acquire the manners of a despot. Given plenty of competition, he soon learns to rub off sharp corners, bottle up hasty temper, restrain glaringly selfish inclinations, and treat his fellow men with consideration. Good manners are infectious. When the merchant, and the railroad, and the politician, and the professional man become polite to all the people, the people rapidly acquire good manners also. There are some who are instinctively courteous and well-mannered regardless of any material consideration, but most men's manners are shaped, like their lives, by forces that make their daily bread. Note the difference in graciousness between the candidate who gets his nomination from a political boss, and one who must go before a primary. Observe the improvement in manners of a street railway with an expiring franchise. There may be waste in competition, but it is usually of the sort that graciously fills the people's baskets with the fragments. AN THOUGHTS N OXFORD DON, THOMAS HILL GREEN, in a philosophical essay, fearsomely entitled "An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times," once made some sage remarks. It is difficult, he says, for the novelist to be true to life, since "a great part of life's discipline arises simply from its slowness." It is not easy for one who is a professional entertainer as well as an artist to render the full values of "patient waiting and silent labor, the struggle with listlessness and pain, the loss of time by illness, the hope deferred, the doubt that lays hold on delay." A not conflicting reflection is made by the tragic poet PARODI. This modern Greek, who used French as his medium, wrote in his journal: It is not the dazzling clarity of day, it is the darkness of night, to which we owe our discovery of the universe. Without it man would know only the sun. We do not know how it is with our readers, but to us these two observations have caused a considerable amount of reflection. SENTIMENT IT IS THE DREAM, which goes along with the deed, that leaves its imprint on the man and makes most of his personal significance. Sentiment in a practical man is like a border of flowers around a vegetable garden. It makes the garden pleasant for the worker and attractive to the passer. There is sham sentiment, as there is oratory that is only verbiage; but a touch of feeling for what is outside the bread bin, a sympathy with the happy or the sad, an abiding faith, a taste for that which is fair-these are much of a man's worth. 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