Theodore Roosevelt on Race, Riots, Reds, Crime
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Chapter 2 p.33
Chapter 3 p.41
Chapter 4 p.48
Chapter 5 p.64
Chapter 6 p.73
Chapter 7 p.80
Chapter 8 p.93
Chapter 9 p.104
Chapter 10 p.109
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Ae THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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1858
-
1919
Member , New York State Legislature
( 1882
–
1884 ) .
Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of New York City ( 1886 ) Member , U.S. Civil Service Commission ( 1889 President ( 1895
,
–
1895 )
New York City Board of Police Commissioners
–
1897 )
Led Rough Riders in Spanish
- American
War in Cuba
( 1898 )
Governor of New York State
( 1899
Vice - President of United States President of United States Led Expedition in Africa
–
1900 )
( 1901 )
-
( 1901 ( 1909
–
Led Expedition in South America
1909 ) 1910 )
( 1914 )
Led campaign in sympathy with allied powers ( 1917
Throughout
–
1918 )
this book refers to the Memorial Edition of Prepared under the auspices of The Roosevelt Memorial Association between years 1923-26 . This edition of 24 volumes was limited to 1050 sets . the Works
,
of Theodore Roosevelt .
We wish to thank the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Asso ciation for furnishing the photograph on the cover and for the use of their library facilities .
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FOREWORD
0898025-29
by Archibald B. Roosevelt Our most vociferous intellectuals and liberal politicians , have in these times , been shrilly persistent that little or nothing can be learned from the past . According to them the technological growth , and the vast improvement in morals , manners and intel
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of modern man - ( particularly of youthful modern man ) render such studies , laughable and obsolete , except where some thing can be taken out of context or falsified ; even Karl Marx , from whom they got most of their ideas , is considered laughably outdated . ligence
Abraham Lincoln , was long used as a symbol for favorable comment , because , so said our liberals, he believed in complete integration of races . Constant repetition of this , however , forced some independent research into actions , writings and sayings of Mr. Lincoln , and when the true facts were finally known , the liberals quietly dropped Mr. Lincoln into the oubliette . Mark Twain has been said to remark that when he was years old , he was horrified at his father's ignorance , but that when he reached his twenty - first birthday ,>he was astonished to see how much the old man had learned in so short a time . eighteen
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have had a somewhat reverse English on this profound observation . When I got to be twenty - two , I began to think a little for myself , and I found to my immense surprise that nearly everything I thought was , according to my friends , and many of
my family , contrary Roosevelt .
to the thoughts of my father , Theodore
I have never been in politics in the sense of running for of , fice but I have been interested in the philosophy of politics , and have even collaborated in writing some books and articles on the subject and taking some action , most of which my friends, and most of my family , have pointed out would meet the disapproval of Theodore Roosevelt . iii
I finally realized that these people must be in direct com munication with my father from the other world or else they were talking through their collective hats . So not being myself able to talk to my father I thought I would find out if in the past , he had voiced any of the opinions my friends and family claim he had .
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the published works and Theodore Roosevelt the twenty four volumes 12,851 pages containing well over four million words the Memorial Edition was astounded what my father had learned January 6th 1919 Oyster Bay and since his death felt given due recognition his ideas should vital problems that today At least until such time are with we get uncontrovert proof spirit messages ible that some the are authentic sayings
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His ideas show that our fathers and grandfathers were confronted by very much the same problems that we have face today and by reading little history and by little less Johnny know attitude we might make real headway solving these problems and learn from our forebears successes and failures
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have contact with the ghostly revenant Theodore Roosevelt any political figure today did try Of this we can certain implement the policies propounded my father would spend
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CONTENTS Chapter
I
ON NEGROES - RIOTS -CRIME SOCIAL DECAY & PROGRESS Crime of Slave - Traders Is Bringing Negroes Here Presence Of Negroes Is The Real Problem . Negroes Must Be Punished For . Violence Just Like Whites Only Southern Whites Can Deal With Southern Negroes .. Men Cannot Be Forced To Accept The Negro . Other Races Should Not Be Sentimentally Favored Granting Rights Does Not Mean Social Intermingling Condemns Negro Soldiers For Murdering Whites Denounces White Northern Demagogues And Bleeding Hearts - Decries Negro Practice Of Sheltering Black Lawbreakers Negro Must Show - Perseverance , Thrift , And Self -Control Some Northerners Hypocritical Towards South Legislation Cannot Make Negro An Equal Worst
1
-
1
1
2
2
-
3
-
Only White Leadership Can Guide Negro To Rights .. Negroes Must Oppose Negro Criminals . Northerners Must Realize The Southern Complexity Prime Task – Negro Moral And Industrial Uplifting Backward Race Must Be Trained For Civilization .
V
3 5
6 6 7 7 7 8 8
Chapter 1 ( cont )
Benefits Made By Abolitionists Absurdly Exaggerated Merit And Not Race Is Guide To Public Jobs Negroes Must Support Lawmen Crime is Racial Enemy Half Of Early New York City Population Was Negro Murdering Groups Of Whites They Were Finally Massacred . A Stupid Race is Kept Low By Lack Of Intellectual Growth Technical And Industrial Skills Most Needed By Negroes Treat Each Black And White Strictly On Merits Negro Who Protects Criminals Is Enemy Of His People Reward Good Citizenship
9 9 9
-
Regardless
Of
Race
.
Negroes Must - Fight Crime Build Family Win Respect . Widely Different Races Should Not Be In Intimate Contact . Purity For Racial And The Right To Social Segregation Racial Violence Must Be Crushed . With Ruthless Resolution
-
Chapter
10 12 12 13 14 14 14 15 15 16
II CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT FOR RIOT PLOTTERS AMERICAN TRADITION TO OWN ARMS FOR SELF DEFENSE TYRANNY OF MINORITIES CREATES
ANARCHY
17
Violent Fanatics And Rioters Should Be Killed . Disarming Citizens Gives Criminals A Field Day . No Justice Unless Government Suppresses Violent Mobs . Tyranny And Anarchy Have Always Stalked Liberty vi
17 17 18 19
Chapter
II
( cont . )
There Should Be Ten Times The Number of Rifles In The U.S. . Courts Should Punish Mob Violence In Summary Manner . Riots Must Be Stopped Forcibly Minority Opinion Must Be Checked By Law And Public Opinion Anarachy Due To Disorder And Lawlessness Injures All Firm Law Enforcement Needed Against Mobs Government Must Relentlessly Put Down Violence . Mob Violence Must
III
20 21 21
22 22
23
Of Minorities
23
The Real Danger . Only A People Capable Of Freedom Deserve It . . Chapter
20
22
Be Suppressed . Resist Tyranny Of Political Privilege And Of Minorities
Tyranny
19
NO WELFARE FUNDS FOR THE LAZY , THE CHISELERS THE DEGENERATES AND THE IMMORAL
23 ,
Permanent Relief As Bad As . Vice Or Oppression Warned Against Policies Which Breed The “ Beatniks ” Charity For The Shiftless An Evil Care Of Family Comes Before Crusading .. Not A Life Of Ease But Strenuous Endeavor Builds A Great Nation Envious Idlers Whine While Living Off Others Through Relief Against Big Families For The Shiftless Foresaw The Crisis Of The Cities Work Is A Blessing And The Idler Should Be Scorned . . vii
25 25 25 26 26 27 27 27 28 28
Chapter
III
( cont . )
Learn To Carry Your Own Weight Before Saving The World Owning Indians Were Nomads
-
.
No Land . Let Both Whites And Indians Who Won't Work Perish Cast Off The Shiftless - Temper Mercy With Justice . False Leaders Preach Ease And . Pleasure Instead Of Effort
Chapter
.
29
29 30 31
IV REDS INCITE ASSASSINATION
OF PRESIDENTS EFFEMINATE LEFTIST INTEL LECTUALS DEBAUCH THE
YOUTH
PUNISH REDS BEFORE AND NOT AFTER THEY ACT Terrorists Should be Stamped Out Before And Not After They Commit Atrocities Advocates Of Political Murder Are Criminals Killer Of President Incited By C Red Propaganda Apologists For The Reds Are Morally Accessories Of Murder Before The Fact Marxian Socialism Is Based On Dangerous Fallacy Parlor Bolshevik Intellectuals And Pink Tea Sissies Can Lead The People To Ruin Academic Revolutionary Fools Harm True Social Reform Morbid Vanity Of Extremists Who Thirst For Notoriety Demagogue And Corruptionist Are Natural Allies Denounces Riot , Revolution , Cheap Money and Crime
..
viii
32
32 32 33
33 34
36 37 38 39 40
IV
( cont . )
Shooting Of T.R. Inspired By Agitators And Excused By Do - Gooders . Parlor Reformers Reflect Cowardice And Hypocricy Vigilantes And Lynch - Law Necessary During Social Anarchy Civilization Is Based On Law And Anarchy Breeds Tyranny Order With Peaceable Redress There Is No Justification Of Rebellion . . Populations Without Self - Control Invite Tyranny Fantastic Extremists Are “ Mock Reformers ” The Corrupt , The Agitator , The Dreamer Are A Menace Distrust Reformers Who Find . Wickedness Only In The Rich Attractive Demands Of Revolu tionary Demagogues Is A Snare Anarchy Breeds Despotism
-
Legal Sedition As Immoral As Illegality .
Chapter V
COURTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION VOTERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECALL JUDGES ' DECISIONS PROMISCUOUS PARDON . POWER ABUSED American Right To Criticize Judges Judges Have No Right To Make Laws By Interpretation American People , Not Judges , Are Ultimate Authority Leniency Through Pardons Does Harm To Cause Of Justice People Should Have Right For Judicial Recall .
ix
B 42 & 43 B .
B 44 B 44
ţ 44 45
for 45 46 46 47 47 47
48 48 48 &&&&
Chapter
48 49
50
Chapter
V
( cont . )
Chapter
The People , Not The Courts , Should Set Social Policy Oppose The Courts Or Mobs Who Pervert The Constitution Courts Power To Interpret Is Power To Establish . People Should Be Able To Recall Unfit Judges The People Must Have Power To Fashion True Justice . . Public Should Decide On Constitutional Interpretation Crime Committed In The Name Of A Cause Is No Excuse Well Intentioned Reformers Often Frame The Worst Laws . Swift And Severe Legal Punish ment Will Prevent Lynching
51 •
51
52 52 53 .
53
54 54 54
VI FOR FIRM POLICE ENFORCEMENT EXPOSE THE MAWKISH JUDGES AND MUSHY SENTIMENTALISTS VICTIMS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN CRIMINALS RAMPANT CRIME WILL BREED VIGILANTES Weakening
57
The Police Power
Increases Dishonesty And Crime Sympathy Belongs To The
57
Victims Not The Criminals . Violent Crime Must Be Punished With Police Severity Too Lenient Judges Nullify Police Law Protection Police Must Be Armed Well And Required To Be Just The More Atrocious Crimes Attract Most Maudlin Sympathy Firmness Against Criminals Will Deter Mob Violence Change Laws That Coddle The Criminal
57
X
58 58 59 .
59 60 60
Chapter
VI
( cont . )
Chapter
VII
Death Penalty For Murder And Rape
Police Cannot Be Guided By Mushy Sentimentality Laws Cannot Change A Man's Will Or Character Outdated Laws Favor The Criminal Against The Public Sentimentality And Technicality Cripple Criminal Laws
PACIFISM AS AN ENEMY WEAPON TO UNDERMINE AMERICA OUR FOES MOBILIZE THE EFFEMINATE , THE COWARDLY , THE DUPES AND THE BARBAROUS Ancient Civilizations Destroyed By Pacifism . Pacifists Do More Harm Than Thieves And Grafters Non - Patriot A Foe Of Mankind College Bred Pacifists Are The Most Pernicious Empty Resolutions And Phony Treaties A National Menace Pacifism In Civil Life Aids Crime National Pacifism Aids Tyranny . The Bestial And The Effeminate Hide Under Pacifist Colors Songs Of Protest ? Political “ Peace ” Panderers Exploit Fear And Softness International Wrong Doers Like Criminals Only Respect Effective Force Pacifists Are Tools Of Alien Militarism Pacifist Doves Cripple The Forces Of Right Flabby Pacifists Represent Unmanly Emasculation Pacifism By Nature Is Also Against Law Enforcement
xi
61 61 61
62 62
64 64 64 65 65
66 66 68 68 68 69 70 70 71 71
Chapter
VII
( cont . )
Easier To Stop All Crime Than To Get World Peace
72
Weaklings Who Cannot Take Their
Own Part Encourage Evil Pacifists Harbor Many Who Lack “Virile Manliness ” Neither Local Crime Nor Inter national Perfidy Can Be Arbitrated Advocates Of Non - Resistance Against Enemy Worse Than Criminals Condemning Righteous War Is Like Damning Police War On Crime Pacifism Can Destroy America When Tyranny Rules The Debate Over " Rights ” Is Ended For Good
Chapter
VIII
73 73 74 .
74 75 75 76
AFRICAN SAVAGES 50 TO 100 THOUSAND YEARS BEHIND WHITES IN DEVELOPMENT NEGRO POPULATION GREW ONLY UNDER WHITE RULE Some Africans Are Ape - Like Negro And Eskimo Savages 50 100 Thousand Years Behind African Negroes Are Child - Like And Despise Any Weakness
...
To
African Population Flourishes Under White Dominion Negroes Did Not Domesticate Tamable African Animals Australian Aborigines A Low Racial Type . Negroes , Australoids A Backward Vestige Of Early Man . African Negro Religions Bestial With No Ethical Basis . . U.S. Negroes Enjoy Advantages Compared To African . Indiscriminate Cannibalism In Congo Free State White Rule Leads African Blacks Out Of Savagery
xii
77 77 77 79
80 81 81
82 82 83
84 84
Chapter
VIII
( cont . )
Chapter
Revolution Impelled Haitian Negroes Into Savagery
85
Blacks And Half - Caste Are Negroid In Body And Mind . Self -Government Impossible For . Tribal Savages ..
IX
New World A Heritage For White Civilization Negro Freedom Gained Through Shedding Of Whites Blood . Sometimes Slavery Is Better Than Savage Anarchy . Mass Oriental Immigration Would Be A Calamity Widely Different Peoples Should Not Be Mixed . Conquest By Inferior Barbarian Races Brings Sheer Evil Masterful White Texans Supplanted A Weaker Race Need To Practice Elemental Law Of Racial Well - Being Major Racial Differences Out Weigh Other National Factors .
X
86
WHITES MOST SUITABLE TO BUILD CIVILIZATION IN NEW WORLD TEMPERATE ZONES NEGRO FREEDOM GAINED BY SHEDDING OF WHITE BLOOD WIDELY DISSIMILAR RACES SHOULD NOT MIX RACIAL DIFFERENCES THE
MAJOR FACTOR
Chapter
86
88
88 89 89 89 90 90 91 91 .
MISCELLANY SNEERING INTELLECTUALS ARE WEAKLINGS TRUE FREEDOM MUST BE EARNED CHEAP JOURNALISM SPREADS CORRUPTION ONE MAN , ONE VOTE - A DECEPTIVE
VALUE
xiii
92
Chapter X
AFFLUENCE MINUS SPIRITUAL VALUES IS CORROSIVE . .
93
Real Conservatives Are Progressive Radicals Are Wreckers .
93
Sneering Intellectuals Are Unhealthy Beings .
93
No Freedom Without Responsibility And Self -Control . . The Term “ Science ” is Kidnapped By Materialists Lofty Principles Prematurely Applied Can Bring Ruin Freedom Is Only For Those Who Deserve It White -Wash Or Mud - Slinging Both Equally Evil In Politics Sensational Newspaper Exaggeration Promotes Corruption And Vice . Patronage Corrupts Political Parties -Creates Bossism The Vote Is Useless For Those Who Are Not Fit For Self -Government Achievement Is More Important Than Political Titles High Sounding Phrases A Cover For The Slothful Weakling Virtue Plus Efficiency Is Necessary For Good Government Slanted Journalism Degrades Public Life . The Idle Poor And The Idle Rich Are Unfit Citizens
94 94 95 95
96 96 97 97 98 98 99 99 :
100
Weak Public Servants Cloak Base . Actions With Fancy Talk Vapory Long Range Aims Harm Needed Immediate Cures Material Prosperity Is No Substitute For Spiritual Values
xiv
101 101 101
1
ON NEGROES - RIOTS - CRIME - SOCIAL DECAY AND PROGRESS
Of Slave Traders Is Bringing Negroes Here Of Negroes Is The Real Problem
Worst Crime
;
-
.
be
to
is
it
condemned without stint
right minded men and this ground alone From all
is ethically abhorrent to
Slavery
in it on
Presence
is
,
of
be
to
be ,
In
.
;
of is
of
.
of
,
it
is
of
the standpoint the master caste condemned even invariably more strongly because the end threatens the very existence that master caste From this point view the pres problem negro slavery merely ence the the real the worst possible method solving the problem their earlier stages the .
,
;
to
1889
)
261
(
260
,
XI ,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
in
of
,
, in
,
of
.
on
of
-
,
it
;
as
as
to to
,
its
of
in
America were one There may dif how solve the problem but there can be none whatever the evil wrought by those who brought about that problem and was only the slaveholders and the slave traders who were guilty this last count The worst foes only humanity especially not and civilization but the white race America were those white men who brought slaves from slavery Africa and who fostered the spread the States and Territories of the American Republic problem and solution opinion ferences
Negroes Must Be Punished
For Violence Just Like
Whites
ago certain
negro
a
years
its
of
;
all ,
.
to
,
of
A
troops shot up Texas companies town and the other members their shielded them from punishment The government proceeded the limit power against them and dismissed them from the army not few
to
1
rich
poor whether they ,
are
or
whether they
-
be
-
it
as
as
without regard
to
,
of
be
;
,
a
because they were black men who had committed crime against white men but because they had acted criminally and justice should invoked against wrong doers without regard the color their skins just should invoked against wrong doers
are
capitalists and heads of corporations who commit the crimes
of cunning and arrogance and greed , or wage workers and mem bers of labor organizations who commit crimes of violence and envy and greed
XXI,
Mem . Ed .,
.
178 ( 1917 ) .
Only Southern
Whites
Southern Negroes
Can Deal With
The white man in other countries can do very little to help the colored man in this country ; and so , within our own limits , the white man in one section can do but little for the colored man in another section compared to what can be done by that colored man's own white neighbor , if this white neighbor will only himself undertake
the
task .
party has proceeded
For nearly half
a
century the Republican
on the theory that the colored man in the
South , in order to secure him his political rights , should be encouraged to antagonize the white man in the South ; for nearly half a century the Democratic party has encouraged the white man
of
the South to trample on the colored nian
Mem . Ed
., XIX ,
.
415 ( 1912 ).
Men Cannot Be Forced To Accept The Negro
In the South we propose to proceed just as we are proceed ing in the North , by appealing to what is best in the best men in the country
,
the most upright and honest and far - sighted citizens . The
average American objects to being driven , but he is susceptible to any appeal made frankly to his sense of honor and justice . We no
to try , or pretend to try , to dragoon the people of or Louisiana than the people of New York or Illinois . We feel that when the movement is allowed to come from within , the men of the right type from the South Atlantic and Gulf States more propose Georgia
will act who is a another . Mem . Ed
their brethren elsewhere act ; and then the colored man good citizen will have the same chance in one place as in
as
., XIX ,
417 ( 1912 ).
2
Other Races Should Not Be Sentimentally Favored Granting Rights Does Not Mean Social Intermingling In the next place , as regard every race , everywhere , at home or abroad , we cannot afford to deviate from the great rule of righteousness
which bids us treat each man on his worth as a man . He must not be sentimentally favored because he belongs to a given race ; he must not be given immunity in wrong - doing or per mitted to cumber the ground , or given other privileges which would be denied to the vicious and unfit among ourselves . On the other hand , where he acts in a way which would entitle him to respect and reward if he was one of our own stock , he is just as entitled to that respect and reward if he comes of another stock , even though that other stock produces a much smaller proportion of men of his type than does our own . This has nothing to do with social intermingling Mem . Ed ., XIV ,
,
with what is called social equality .
104 ( 1910 )
Condemns Negro Soldiers For Murdering Whites - Denounces White Northern Demagogues And Bleeding Hearts - Decries Negro Practice Of Sheltering Black Lawbreakers have been amazed and indignant at the attitude of the of short - sighted white sentimentalists as to my action .
“ I
negroes and
It
has been shown
conclusively that some of these troops made
a
midnight murderous and entirely unprovoked assault upon the citi zens of Brownsville - for the fact that some of their number had been slighted by some of the citizens of Brownsville , though war ranting criticism upon Brownsville moment as provocation for such
not to be considered
, is
a
murderous assault
.
All
for
a
the
including their veteran non instantly , commissioned officers banded together to shield the criminals . In other words , they took action which cannot be concerned
and which ,
not merely
that
the
or white ,
if
,
black or white , in any policeman , black taken generally
usefulness
in the army would mean army
was
an
tolerated in any soldiers
,
at
companies
the
the
of
of
3
men
end but
submit
by .
things There has been great pressure not only
weigh
at
.
,
and where possible
,
.
to
keep the negro vote
in
I
always
the sentamentalists
well any action which may cost votes before
I
I
As
but the Northern politicians who wish you know practical politics believe
Under no condition of
once
such
a
to
would
circumstances
entirety by
in I
conceivable
its
that it had better be disbanded
is
of
,
of
a
one
in
take
merely
it ;
to
but case like this where the issue not right and wrong but one vital concern the whole country will not for one moment consider the political effect consent
that part
my mes
,
the grave and
I
,
of
.
this also
In
another side
speak about lynching which you have read fact that the negroes too often band together
to of
vil
sage
to
“
There
is
.
I
,
to
naked
shelter their in
I
it ,
words
to
.
I
should
-
,
Vice Chancellor Sewanee Tenn
it .
University
the
of
.
,
,
South
of
Lawton Wiggins
,
Doctor
B.
To
of
as
I
if
recreant failed deeds well emphasize with the utmost severity my disapproval
as
my duty
by
to
I
to
I
among the negro troops
this identical attitude displayed be
.
is
it
I
,
.
to
,
-
to
,
an
helping own criminals which action had undoubted effect precipitate the hideous Atlanta race riots condemn such atti strongly fraught tude for feel that with the gravest danger both races Here where have power deal with find
by
did not
I
those vital matters where
is
an
,
in to
,
I
important
-s
Northern
of
in
politics and things actually ,
As in
.
not feel that
a
.
political considerations
4
this world
unwise
our
being thoroughly practical
do to
are
,
all
proper heed
paying in
in
believe
of
I
, .
stand me
had
say
political ex consider questions personal expediency Do not misunder
right
and still less
I
.
feel that pediency
was just one any
demagogues
where the negro vote
those
of
But
regret
to
factor
it
especially
,
States
taken
self eeking
and in
sentimentalists
be
to
the attitude certain
I
of
it
of
I
I
took the stand
I
“
did on these negro troops politically because course realized that trouble would come When
man can accomplish much
good in public life unless he does so . But I believe still more
for
of
a
.
is
my action
have been said about
It
,
If
.
In
all .
strongly that when we come to root questions affecting the welfare of the entire nation , it is out of the question for an honorable man , whether in public or private life , to consider political expediency at this instance the question was really one those root questions the troops had been white troops nothing would curious thing that these
same politicians and sentimentalists
I
to
,
of
in
the past
in
of to
,
,
thrift
its
of
of
;
its
.
to
its
by
.
It
at
,
in
is
.
is
It of
.
is
to
.
use
get
prove
be
must
lines
order
the race own hands worked out patiently and persistently along these Remember also that the white man who can be most the colored man that colored man's neighbor the
-
of
and
chiefly
.
of
-
an
is
most needed
that this progress may continue The race cannot expect everything once must learn wait and bide time showing possession perseverance itself worthy self control The destiny
what
to
what
,
is
Moral and industrial education
indication
the future under wise leadership is
you have done accomplish able
,
in
35 (
).
,
Thrift And Self Control
Perseverance
in
be
you will
1906
to
What
34 ,
33 ,
Negro Must Show
-
XXIV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
."
in
I
to
do
who denounce me because refuse favor the colored troops have always opposed me when have endeavored secure recognition for by appointments giving decent colored men them their own northern communities injustice
of
Southern people themselves who must and can solve the difficulties of
to
in
for the colored man
to
up
.
of 5
of
of
in
to
-
,
,
in
of
now and
advancement
his steady
in
and
The hope
the
improve his moral common sense effort harmony with the white material condition and work upbuilding the Commonwealth The future the South upon living depends the people both races the spirit letter the laws their several States and working out the
South lies man
of
given
.
fully
be
of
;
in
that exist the South course what help the people the rest gladly and cheer the Union can give them must and will
races , not as races , but as law - abiding
of both
destinies
American
citizens . , 475 ( 1905 ) .
Some Northerners Hypocritical
ighted
and generous
men the this problem
conditions for help her honest wish to
feel
,
is
which she
not alone responsible
an
in
North appreciate the difficulty and perplexity sympathize with the South the embarrassment
,
-s
clear
in
all
Most certainly
Towards South
of of
Ed ., XVIII
Mem .
practicable and have the heartiest respect for those brave and earnest men the South who the face fearful difficulties are doing that men can for the betterment alike of white and of black The attitude of the North toward the negro should be and there
is
is
far from what
it
of
in
.
,
all
do
,
of
,
is
where help
need that the
North also
to
,
no
,
.
of
of
stances
as a
on
of
no
,
is
in
of
good faith upon the principle giving should act each man justly treating what due him him his worth man granting him special favors but denying him proper oppor tunity for labor and the reward labor But the peculiar circum the South render the problem there far greater and more
1905
.)
,
463
(
XVIII
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
acute
Legislation Cannot Make Negro An Equal
by
of
an
is
by
The difference between what can and what cannot be done law well exemplified our experience with the negro prob
social
1895
6
).
377
(
XVI
,
Ed
.,
.
.
effort has failed completely Mem
a
on in
at
we could
.
,
intellectual
,
,
their friends believed that once put them and business equality with the whites The
additional legislation
,
an
,
some way
many
of
This having been done by
.
law
.
by
,
by be
.
,
.
in
experience which Mr. Watson must have ample practical knowledge The negroes were formerly held slavery This was wrong which legislation could remedy and which could not Accordingly they were set free legislation remedied except
lem
Only White Leadership Can Guide Negro To Rights Our hope is that under the lead of practical , competent , high -minded white men
-
, we shall in the end everywhere see and nowhere save under such lead will we ever see the right of free
-
political expression secured to the negro who shows that he possesses the intelligence , integrity , and self -respect which justify such right of political expression in his white neighbor . Mem .
Ed ., XIX ,
417 , 418 ( 1912 ) .
Negroes Must Oppose Negro Criminals
Governor , you spoke of a hideous crime that .” The worst enemy of the negro race
is often hid is the negro
but
of
,
against the victim
has committed
he
;
hideous crime against
his own color and every reputable
colored man every ,
;
the people
of
negro criminal that type for has unspeakably dreadful and infamous crime
> the
a
criminal , and , above committed not only
an all ,
“
avenged
he
eously
as
it
,
to
to
.
1905
).
,
507
(
Ed XXIII ,
Mem
.
all
to
to
of
colored man who wishes see the uplifting his race owes duty his first himself and that race hunt down that crimi nal with his soul and strength
Northerners Must Realize The Southern Complexity
All
good Americans who dwell
all
:
its
,
.
1905
7
To per
.
to a
as
to
of
another color
educate him
perform which will render him
).
462
were
necessary
most acute the problem
secure him the rights
to
,
of
to
it
to a
failure
all around him (
XVIII
,
Ed .,
Mem
.
to
form the duties himself and
is ,
one would grudge him solve this problem course
that
he
one color
if
dealing with the man
of
is in
it
the South that we find problems the gravest before our people
no
so
of
phase one
of
the greater because
in a
in
,
,
in
the North must because they are good Americans feel the most earnest friendship for friendship their fellow countrymen who dwell the South
curse
Prime Task
–
Negro Moral And Industrial Uplifting
In the first place it is true of the colored man , as it is true of the white man , that in the long run his fate must depend far more upon his own effort than upon the efforts of any outside friend . Every vicious , venal
or ignorant colored man is an even to the community as a whole .
,
greater foe to his own race than
The colored man's self -respect entitles him to do that share in the political work of the country which is warranted by his individ ual ability and integrity and the position he has won for himself .
to
white men put together
.
of
,
of
oppression
1905
.)
all 465
acts
(
of XVIII
,
.,
.
Ed
, and above vice and potent the for harm more are evils
every kind
black race than Mem
and industrial up
the race is moral
and shiftlessness , these
Laziness
criminality
of
requisite
all ,
But the prime lifting .
Backward Race Must Be Trained For Civilization
is
it
the forward race
while
preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought out
by
freedom
so
be
true
,
of
;
to
into the possession enabled
be
of
to
so
of
is
adjust the relations between two races The problem abridged nor different ethnic type that the rights neither jeoparded that the backward race may enter trained that
ca
,
,
or
to
to
of
in
of
is
;
it
.
be its
forefathers The working out this problem must necessarily possible slow not offhand fashion obtain confer the priceless boons freedom industrial efficiency political to
it
is
-
,
to
as
.
the utmost
the
leaders
the
of
,
charity
of
,
;
of
,
of
,
1905
).
464
our national life
8
a
is
XVIII
the best thought
effort the broadest the philanthropist
earnest
the student every department
, (
Ed
.,
.
Mem
in
statesman
thought
problem demanding
the most
,
,
patience
,
.
sibility
It
a
is
;
it
.
,
pacity and domestic morality Nor only necessary train the quite necessary colored man train the white man for on his shoulders rests well nigh unparalleled sociological respon
Benefits Made By Abolitionists Absurdly Exaggerated The cause of the Abolitionists has had such a halo shed round it by the after course of events , which they themselves in reality did very little to shape , that it has been usual to speak of them with absurdly exaggerated praise . Their courage , and for far
the most part their sincerity , cannot be too highly spoken of , but
.
)
1887
permanent
incumbent little will
I
or
.
or
so
birthplace
.
to
a
bar
1903
Crime
is
Negroes Must Support Lawmen
-
.)
196
(
XXIII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
it
as
-
a
is
in
I
,
holding office any more than could treat creed always provided that respects other the applicant worthy and well behaved American citizen Just conferring right treat hold office
as
I
certainly cannot treat mere color
to
Guide To Public Jobs as a
Merit And Not Race
Is
,
118
(
VIII
Ed
.> ,
.
Mem
,
-
all
to
its
,
or
;
their share in abolishing slavery was less than has commonly any single non abolitionist politician like Lin been represented coln Seward did more than the professional Abolitionists bring about combined really destruction
Racial Enemy an
if
“
of
to
,
all
and above 9
the negro criminal
,
his race
is
Every colored man should realize that the worst enemy
of
it .
,
of
,
,
to
his life his liberty and the pursuit his happi qualities his own heart head and hand enable him
as
achieve
of to
of
;
”
,
man the right
no
is
.
“
or
”
,
of
,
question and bad alike There social negro domination only the question involved relentlessly punishing bad men and securing the good
good race equality
ness
of
of
.
in
to
as
or
punish the individual on his merits Reward indi vidual Evil will surely come the end both races we substi treating all the members tute for this just rule the habit the
the negro criminal
who commits the dreadful crime of rape ; and it should be felt as in the highest degree an offense against the whole country , and against the colored race in particular , for a colored man to fail
to
,
.
to
be
of
,
the case with murder assault with intent ;
is
as
,
death
in
all
possible the officers of the law in hunting down with every earnestness and zeal such infamous offender Moreover my judgment the crime rape should always punished with help
commit
be
;
be
,
.
414
1906
).
XVII
Ed
the details
(
given
.,
Mem
.
shall
to
be
,
so
be
;
least
in
at
crime
and provision should made may follow immediately upon the heels the court
of by
capital
,
made
a
be
the discretion of which the punishment while the the offense wantonly trial should conducted that the victim need not publicity testimony giving possible shamed while and that the least
rape should
Half Of Early New York City Population Was Negro Murdering Groups Of Whites They Were Finally Massacred
to
a
at
,
in
to
;
it
]
(
a
– of
very large portion The negro slaves formed the town's New York City population nearly times half for over century after was founded then they gradually began dwindle numbers compared the whites for although they were re in
as
of
.
of
,
it
,
as
household servants was found that they were not agricultural fitted for manual and labor the Southern col onies During the first half the eighteenth century they were tained
,
a
to
,
at
,
,
a
at it
,
of of
to
of
an .
;
of
in
In
,
.
in
all
night
,
;
of
,
African birth still very numerous and were for the most part being fresh from the holds the Guinea slavers they were brutal ignorant savages ser constant dread and the whites were justified partially vile insurrection 1712 this fear was least destroy for that year the slaves formed wild foolish plot put the whites and some forty them attempted into they every weapon execution Armed with kind met mid
this way they
In
.
,
a
to
,
,
killed nine men and wounded some others before was given and the soldiers from the fort approaching
,
the alarm
to
up
in
orchard on the outskirts the town set fire shed quell the flames and assaulted those who came running
10
put them to flight . They fled to the forests in the northern part of the island ; but the militia , roused to furious anger , put sentries at the fords, and then hunted down the renegade negroes like wild beasts . Six , in their despair , slew themselves ; and twenty -one of those who were captured were shot , hung , or burned at the stake . This attempted
revolt greatly increased the uneasiness of the
white inhabitants , and was largely responsible for the ferocious panic of fear , rage , and suspicion into which they were thrown by the discovery of another plot among the negroes in 1741. During this panic the citizens went almost mad with cruel terror , and did deeds which make a dark stain on the pages of New York's his tory deeds which almost parallel those done in the evil days of the Salem witchcraft persecutions , save that in the New York case there really was some ground for the anger and resentment of the persecutors . Exactly how much ground there was , however , it is impossible to say . There is no doubt that many of the slaves , especially
among
those
hoping for, and perhaps masters
,
and that
actually indulge
of African birth , were always vaguely planning for, the destruction of their of the bolder and more brutal spirits did
some in furtive incendiarism , outrage
,
and attempted
murder ; but there is no reason to suppose that the great mass of the blacks were ever engaged in the plot , or that there was ever any real danger of a general outbreak . Slave -owners , however , live always under the hair -hung sword ; they know that they can take no risks , and that their very existence depends on the merciless suppression of every symptom of hostile discontent . During March , 1741 ,> there broke out in New York so many fires in quick succession , that it seemed certain they were of in cendiary origin ; and the conduct of a few of the slaves greatly excited the suspicions of the citizens . At the same time the in dented servant - girl of a low tavern - keeper had been arrested , together with her master and mistress and two negroes , for com plicity in a robbery . Proclamations offering rewards to whomever would give information concerning the supposed plot were read
11
,
of
a
,
,
a
.
its
to her , and she suddenly professed herself aware of existence She asserted that her master and mistress and number of the poor semicriminal whites together with blacks multitude
and many
;
engaged therein
of
all
were
the ignorant slaves when
.
of
of
,
of at
of
,
as
as
,
to
,
,
a
of
;
on
of
in in
to
,
a
.
,
,
-
;
.
to
on
,
a
of
all
in
strove
to
their terror save their own necks by cor roborating and embellishing the wild statements she made The people whole New York went into mad panic and scores imprisoned put strength were and death the these flimsy accusations Fourteen negroes were burned the stake twenty hanged and seventy one transported while the twenty whites who were imprisoned four were executed Among the latter was Catholic priest named Ury who was condemned both for com plicity the negro plot burn the town and for having com administering the rites mitted the heinous crime his re ligion and appears without the double count although far damaging evidence being produced against him the un shred fortunate man was actually hung protesting his innocence the arrested
Stupid Race
317
1895
)
316
(
,
315
,
IX ,
.,
Ed
Is
A
Mem
.
.
last
Kept Low By Lack
Of Intellectual Growth of ;
by
a
to
,
of to to
its
is
;
by
of
a
.
of
1895
)
128
(
127
,
XIV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
to
up
,
go of
,
to
.
of in
of
as
,
,
as a
A
to
perfectly stupid race can never rise very high plane kept for instance has been down much lack anything else but the prime factor intellectual development power high degree the preservation race attain fight well and breed social efficiency Love order ability the the individual subordinate the interests well capacity interests the community these and similar rather humdrum qualities make the sum social efficiency the negro
Technical And Industrial Skills Most Needed By Negroes
;
;
12
as
in
or
,
of
,
The lowest and most brutal criminals those for instance rape are who commit the crime the great majority men who very little just they are almost have had either no education invariably men who own no property for the man who puts money
by out of his earnings , like the man who acquires education , is usually lifted above mere brutal criminality . Of course the best type of education for the colored man , taken as a whole , is such education as is conferred in schools like Hampton and Tuskegee ; where the boys and girls , the young men and young women , are trained industrially as well as in the ordinary public -school branches. The graduates of these schools turn out well in the great majority of cases , and hardly any of them become criminals , while what little criminality there is never takes the form of that brutal violence which invites lynch -law . Every graduate of these schools woman
- and for the - who leads
a
of that every other colored man or life so useful and honorable as to win the
matter
good -will and respect of those whites whose neighbor he or she is , thereby helps the whole colored race as it can be helped in no
other way ; for next to the negro himself , the man who can do most to help the negro is his white neighbor who lives near him ; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations between though the two . Great the benefit of these schools has been to their colored pupils and to the colored people , it may well be questioned whether the benefit has not been at least as great to the
white people
they graduate Mem . Ed .,
XVII
among
whom these colored pupils live after
.
, 416 ( 1906 ) .
Treat Each Black And White Strictly On Merits I have not been able to think out any solution of the problem terrible offered by the presence of the negro on this con tinent , but of one thing I am sure , and that is that inasmuch as he “
is here and can neither be killed nor driven away , the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as
a
man , giving him no more
and no less than he shows himself worthy to have . Mem . Ed .,
XXIII
, 192 ( 1901 ).
13
Of His People
Negro Who Protects Criminals Is Enemy
The colored man who fails to condemn
crime in another in
of
-
.
be
,
warfare
If
in
,
their race foremost relentless lawbreaking black men the
against
.
unceasing
all is
to
of
for the sake
,
men should and
an
as
,
as
to
all
bring colored man , who fails to co - operate in lawful ways ing colored criminals justice the worst enemy his own people enemy well the people Law abiding black
466
, (
465
,
,
XVIII
to
wel
.
of
to
is
the
1905
).
,
it
as
.
Ed
.,
Mem
.
fare
is
of
The stability and purity the home vital every the black race the welfare race
secure
of
is
,
its
of
be
private morality and industrial efficiency can standards raised high enough among the black race then future on this continent
in
he
if
a
in
to
-.
of
not
the white man
chiefly
Win Respect
the obligations existing on
have spoken
-
Build Family
of
-
).
(
all
of
then he himself will
Now remember
the other hand
you yourselves de help can permanently avail you save capacity for self elp You young colored men and women .
by
-h
as
no
on
that velop
stand
marked
1901
Fight Crime
Hitherto the part
shows
the qualities which
reward
similar reward
.
Negroes Must
195
hope
I
,
XXIII
-
.,
.
be
off from
Ed
a
good citizenship
white man we feel are entitled
Mem
good thing from every
the colored man know that
degree the qualities cut
is
it
me that
of
point
let
to It
seems
to
Reward Good Citizenship Regardless Of Race
in
.
-
your own race
the wrong
;
,
by
14
men
to
and especially against crime for the heaviest wrong done the criminal crime
of
by
to
of
all
in
to
all
precept
is
must
,
Tuskegee ,
at
and example lead your fel abiding lows toward sober industrious law lives You are honor join hands bound favor law and order and war against educated
his
own
race . You must teach the people of your race that they must scru pulously observe any contract into which they in good faith enter , no matter whether it is hard to keep or not . If you save money , se cure homes , become taxpayers , and lead clean , decent , modest lives , you will win the respect of your neighbors of both races . Let each man strive to excel his fellows only by rendering substantial service to the community in which he lives . The colored people have many difficulties to pass through , but these difficulties will be surmounted pursued
if only
the policy
of
reason and common sense is
.
Mem . Ed .,
XVIII
, 474 , ( 1905 ).
Widely Different Races Should Not Be In Intimate Contact In the present state of the world's progress it is highly in advisable that peoples in wholly different stages of civilization , or of wholly different types of civilization even although both equally high , shall be thrown into intimate contact . This is especially undesirable when there is a difference of both race and standard of living .
-
T. R. Autobiography Scribner p . 378 Mem . Ed ., XXII , 429 ( 1909 )
For Racial Purity And
The Right To Social Segregation
15
no
,
in
as
all
1905
).
467
, (
XVIII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
maintained
regards civil privileges all
reflect the further fact that feeling that race purity must
be
with recognition both races are united
of ,
on
equal footing
in
of
should stand way interferes ing men
an
.
of
its
Civil law cannot regulate social practices . Society , as such , is a law unto itself , and will always regulate own practices and recognition habits Full the fundamental fact that men
Racial Violence Must Be Crushed With Ruthless Resolution
violence
I demand that the government representatives put down with ruthless resolution , whether it be of white against
1917
16
to
in
is
virtue somewhere else your own province .
of in
to
in
enforce decency
).
174
behalf
good wishes
not dare (
XXI
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
when you
do
give expression
to
.
of
is
us
let
black or black against white . Before we can help others in drawing draw out the beam that our sentimental debauch own eyes The most dangerous form the beam from their eyes
II CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR RIOT PLOTTERS AMERICAN TRADITION TO OWN ARMS FOR SELF DEFENSE TYRANNY OF MINORITIES CREATES ANARCHY
Violent Fanatics And Rioters Should Be Killed In every great city there are plenty of reckless or fanatical or downright evil men eagerly ready to do some act which is ab horrent to the vast majority of their fellows : and it is wicked to punish with cruel severity immense multitudes of innocent men , women , and children for the midseeds of a few rascals or fanatics . Of course , it is eminently right to punish by death these rascals or fanatics themselves Mem . Ed .,
XX ,
.
45 ( 1915 ).
Disarming Citizens Gives Criminals A Field Day Most Western Americans who are past middle age remem ber young , rapidly growing , and turbulent communities in which there was at first complete anarchy . During the time when police power to which to appeal every man worth his salt , in other words every man for existence such community had prepared defend himself and usually although not always the fact that was prepared saved him from trouble whereas unpreparedness was absolutely certain invite to
,
a
in
;
he to
be
,
all
,
,
to
fit
there was no central
17
regular and fully
interval during which the upon the action single a
of
of
organized police force there came the peace depended
preservation
a
such communities before there was an
In
.
disaster
official,
sheriff or marshal
a
who
,
if the
law was defied in arrogant
comitatus composed of as many armed , thoroughly efficient , law - abiding citizens as were necessary in order to put a stop to the wrong -doing . Under these conditions each man fashion summoned
a posse
had to keep himself armed and both able and willing to respond to the call
of
the peace -officer; and furthermore ,
of wisdom
he kept himself ready
own behalf
if
if he
had a shred
in an emergency
to act on his peace the -officer did not or could not do his duty .
In such towns I have myself more than once seen
well
but foolish citizens endeavor to meet the exigencies of simply passing resolutions of disarmament without any by the case power back of them . That is , they passed self -denying ordinances , saying that nobody was to carry arms ; but they failed to provide
meaning
methods for carrying such ordinances into effect . In every case the result was the same . Good citizens for the moment abandoned their weapons grew
worse
.
The bad men continued to carry
of
instead
better
;
them
and then the good
.
Things
men came
to
their senses and clothed some representative of the police with power to employ force , potential or existing , against the wrong doers
.
XX ,
Mem . Ed .,
82 , 83 ( 1915 ) .
No Justice Unless Government Suppresses
Violent Mobs
1917
).
74 (
XXI
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
18
apt
rights
means
to to
is
by
it
but
ought as a
end
,
itself
is
further progress
government
the
whereas an
,
order not
justice
that
order
,
keeping
in
keeping
The trouble as
.
itself
fine
and until it has been taken
,
to
impossible
is
step to take
all
No government has any warrant for existing if it cannot keep order , and suppress disorder and violence . This is the first con treat
for securing
Tyranny And Anarchy Have Always Stalked Liberty Throughout past history Liberty has always walked between the twin terrors of Tyranny and Anarchy . They have stalked like wolves beside her , with murder in their red eyes , ever ready to tear each other's throats , but even more ready to rend in sunder Liberty herself. Always in the past there has been a monotonously recur rent cycle in the history of free states ; Liberty has supplanted Tyranny , has gradually been supplanted by Anarchy , and has then seen the insupportable Anarchy finally overthrown and Tyranny re - established . Anarchy is always and everywhere the handmaiden of Tyranny and Liberty's deadliest foe . No people can perma nently remain free unless it possesses the stern self - control and resolution necessary to put down anarchy . Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive ; special privi
for the many are alike pro foundly antisocial ; the fact that unlimited individualism is ruin ous , in no way alters the fact that absolute state ownership and regimentation spells ruin of a different kind . All of this ought to even if they are pro be trite to reasonably intelligent people lege for the few and special privilege
fessional intellectuals – but in practice an endless insistence these simple fundamental truths is endlessly necessary .
Mem . Ed .,
XXI ,
377 , 378 ( 1919 )
There Should Be Ten Times There the quantity
on
The Number Of Rifles In The
U. S.
should be at least ten times the number of rifles and
of ammunition
in the country that there are now . In
but
not
.
or
;
,
preferably on the Swiss Chilean model on the Swiss then on the Argentinian service under war conditions
if
in
be
all
our high schools and colleges a system of military training like that which obtains in Switzerland and Australia should be given . actual field trained our young men should Furthermore ,
19
,
.
'
to
or
It
be
The Swiss model would probably better for our people only would necessitate four six months service shortly after college and thereafter only about graduation from high school
in
side
,
in
-
of
,
a
to
no
to
of
-
of
of
to
,
to
trained open shoot march take care themselves the and learn those habits self reliance and law abiding obedience which are not only essential the efficiency citizen soldiery but are less essential the efficient performance civic duties ,
would
to to
the young men
Under this system
be
the same terms side
.
precisely
by
all
eight days a year . No man could buy a substitute ; no man would be excepted because of his wealth ; would serve the ranks on
to
us
It
.
It
.
.
1915
Courts Should Punish Mob Violence
In
).
,
163
(
of
order and respect for law XX
Ed
., >
Mem
.
habits
in
is
in
as
as
.
in
us
a
in
My own firm belief that this system would military matters help civil quite much would efficiency help crease our social and industrial would free democracy
Summary Manner to
if
;
1906
)
407
(
XVII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
to
in be
by
of
or
to
to
in
is
It
permit sympathy for criminals criminal weaken upholding the law and destroy life our hands men seek property no impairment of mob violence there should power the the courts deal with them the most summary way and effective possible
on
hadn't the slightest intention
to
of to
of
,
a
Chicago very ugly strike on found my nervous friends wished me try
I
.
of
I
“
When came account which some avoid the city Of course
I
to
Riots Must Be Stopped Forcibly
doing as
of
a
in to
to
on
.
,
,
it
to
I
at
so .
get very much puzzled questions times finance and perfectly simple matter the tariff but when comes such keeping order then you strike my long suit The strikers were foolish enough come me their own initiative and make
20
appeared
,
it
as
one time
,
had told rioters
at
,
,
F.
of
me an address which they quoted that fine flower Massa chusetts statesmanship the lamented Benjamin Butler who that they need have
no fear
This
of
the United States army , as they had torches and arms.
good opening , and while perfectly polite , I used lan that they could not misunderstand it ; and re
gave me a
guage
simple
so
peated the same with amplifications at the dinner that night . So if the rioting in Chicago gets beyond the control of the State and the City , they now know well that the Regulars will come.” Ed ., XXIII
Mem .
, 504 ( 1905 ) .
Minority Opinion Must Be Checked By Law And Public Opinion
.
to
Of
dif
believe
of
that there are hundreds all
of
is
the answer
,
practice
or
in
, ,
course
they really believe what they profess
if
about
of
,
to
to
to
be
all
The extreme exponents and apologists of any fervent creed can always justify themselves , in the realm of pure logic , for in sisting that accept and act up the world shall made bring this their standards and that they must necessarily strive
in
a
in
in
in
to
is
.
public opinion
)
1900
All
Disorder And Lawlessness Injures based upon law and order
of
of
.
no
be
to
;
21
a
society .
anarchy
in
,
or
1911
of
certain degree ).
110
(
XIX
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
ditions have passed
a
scoundrels can permanently flourish
in
,
of
of
is
in
order there can
,
and without law and justice The triumph disorder and lawless only ness certain the end mean not the undoing the rep utable rich but the undoing the reputable poor and indeed the undoing everybody reputable disreputable for not even is
Justice
law and
by
both
,
Anarchy Due
(
445
To
XIII
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
in
as
of
check without effort
by
,
as
,
to -
in
.
as
it
is
to
,
,
,
ferent creeds shades creeds which are believed with equal devoutness by their followers and therefore work necessary aday government insist that none shall interfere practical with any other Where people are far advanced good sense and religious true toleration the United States day the great majority accept each creed gradually grows kept this position axiomatic and the smaller minority
which the
con
Firm Law Enforcement Needed Against Mobs Mr. Mayor , as representative
as President of the United States , and therefore of the people of this country , I give you , as a my hearty support in upholding the law , in keep
matter of course , ing order , in putting down violence , whether by a mob or by an
apprehension in the heart of the most timid that ever the mob spirit will triumph in this country . Those immediately responsible for dealing with the trouble must , as I know you feel, exhaust every effort in so deal individual . There need not be the slightest
upon any outside body . But if ever the need arises , back of the city stands the State , and back of the State stands the nation . ing with it before
Mem . Ed .,
XXIII
a call
is made
, 505 , 506 ( 1905 ) .
Government Must Relentlessly Put Down Violence
.
the
1917
)
,
177
(
XXI
Ed
.,
Mem
.
to
to the violence and then to deal firmly and wisely with conditions that led up the violence
all
Lawless violence inevitably breeds lawless violence in return , and the first duty of the government is relentlessly to put a stop
,
of
in ,
to
In
every effort
individuals
Mayor
see that
the
has the hearty sup my judgement and
,
the United States
.
,
the United States every good citizen
in
,
preserved
,
the President
should have that
any way but
he
mobs
and that order
or
by
.
my attitude
interfere
of
he
port
of
laws are obeyed
of of
Dunne
prevent violence ,
to
you must not misunderstand
to
have not been called upon
is
I
“
Mob Violence Must Be Suppressed
of
an
or
by
,
as
.
,
As
.
no
22
,
as
.
I
in
a
believer
.
I
honorary member unions am one obey just corporation union But the union must the law the poor must obey the every man rich must obey the law Just yet law action has been called for me and most certainly am
is called for
I
have power .
tion of law and individuals . "
by mobs or
violence
505 ( 1905 ) .
then they are not
aside from the fact that
sham
actual life here
has shown that the effort
sub
of
the United States experience
for
in
And this
and
,
talk about democracy
to
,
people cannot rule themselves
fit
Of Political Privilege And Of Minorities
is
If
free government
of
.
Resist Tyranny
the first essential is the preserva
a
XXIII ,
Mem.Ed. ,
But
the suppression
order ,
is
as
in
man , so far
shall try to do justice under the law to every
I
all
if action
a
of
,
or
I
by
the majority
shall certainly in
,
.
).
1912
(
,
236
a
is -
;
a
by
.,
.
XIX
of
Ed
tyranny
by
Mem
there
But the tyrannies from which we have been suffering this country have ninety nine times out hundred been tyran minority tyranny privilege nies that ,
it .
Whenever
fight
is
.
,
,
in
of
stitute for the genuine rule the people something else always privilege means the rule some form other sometimes political privilege sometimes financial privilege often mixture both
–
Tyranny Of Minorities
The Real Danger
,
.
1912
).
People Capable
Of Freedom
Deserve
by
201
(
,
.,
XIX
It
Only
Ed
A
Mem
.
in
of
,
The only tyrannies from which men women and children are suffering real life are the tyrannies minorities
23
,
be
> ,
A
be
be
,
it
a .
by a
by
a
is ,
strong nation can only The truth that saved itself strong greatly aided and and not man though can guided strong man weak nation may doomed anyhow
its
;
a
;
,
,
a
;
of
,
of
,
of
to
,
in
of
1900
)
458
(
XIII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
,
its
of
doing mighty deeds freedom and destiny the world must work out own and must find men not its masters who will be its leaders
a
people really capable
if
in
despot
its
to
of
be
,
no
it
take
or
,
able
,
a
sole refuge
as
of
a
darkness may
a
nation struggling out first steps only by the help of master hand was true Russia under Peter the Great and nation whether free unfree loses the capacity for self orderly liberty then sobriety and government loses the spirit complain tyranny but really great people has cause or it may find
24
III
,
,
NO
WELFARE FUNDS FOR THE LAZY THE CHISELERS THE DEGENERATES AND THE IMMORAL
Permanent Relief As Bad As Vice Or Oppression
.
an
is
as
is
....
or
of
as
-
of
-r
,
,
Anything that encourages pauperism anything that relaxes the manly fibre and lowers self espect unmixed evil The soup kitchen style philanthropy thoroughly demoralizing oppression most forms vice ,
,
or to
by
to
be
community
to
be
is
be
be
at
In
to
charity the one thing always remembered that helped slip may any his feet once and should while man yet no man can the him carried with advantage either
to
.
1900
” .
-if
to
to
of
,
to
,
spise the things
number
to
out
of
men and
Beatniks
boys who are about become you tell them earn their own living de body nothing the care for material success
a
you tell go
If
Warned Against Policies Which Breed The
“
434
).
,
433
(
XV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
in
,
at
.
a
of
The greatest possible good can done the exten helping hand sion the right moment but the attempt nothing but harm carry any one permanently can end
is
it
in
do .
.
to
to
is
to
;
,
livelihood
tell them that their first duty earn their own support themselves and those dependent upon them is
necessary
to is to
is
of
to
,
to
;
to
you are telling them what you would not want your own boys actually do you are telling them what they cannot do unless they are willing become public charges and what not they try things desirable that should To tell them such morality despise morality What the name invite them
1911
25
,
to
of
.
,
578
mankind
).
577
,
XV
of
(
the rest
,
Ed
.,
Mem
to
service
.
of
in
a
but that when that first duty has been performed there yet remains very large additional duty the way service their neighbor
Charity For The Shiftless An Evil To say that the thriftless , the lazy , the vicious , the in capable , ought to have the reward given to those who are far sighted , capable , and upright , is to say what is not true and cannot be true . Let us try to level up , but let us beware of the evil of levelling down . If a man stumbles , it is a good thing to help him to his feet . Every one
if
of
us needs a helping hand now and then
.
But
man lies down , it is a waste of time to try to carry him ; and it is a very bad thing for every one if we make men feel that the same reward will come to those who shirk their work and to those a
who do it .
Mem . Ed .,
Care
of
XV ,
368 ( 1910 ) .
of Family
Comes Before Crusading
Character must show itself in the man's performance both the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the state . The
man's foremost duty is owed to himself and his family ; and he can do this duty only by earning money , by providing what is essential to material well - being ; it is only after this has been done that he can hope to build
a
higher
superstructure
on the solid material
only after this has been done that he can help in movements for the general well - being . He must pull his own weight first , and only after this can his surplus strength be of use to the general public . It is not good to excite that bitter laughter which expresses contempt ; and contempt is what we feel for the foundation
;
it
being whose
is
to benefit mankind is such that he is a burden to those nearest him ; who wishes to do great things for humanity in the abstract , but who cannot keep his wife in com enthusiasm
fort or educate his children .
Mem . Ed .,
XV ,
358 , 359 ( 1910 ).
26
Not A Life Of
Ease
But Strenuous Endeavor Builds A Great Nation
all
I preach to you , then , my countrymen , that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor . The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many na tions . If we stand idly by ,> if we seek merely swollen , slothful ease and ignoble peace , if we shrink from the hard contests where men ,
us
,
,
to
;
by
by
all ,
,
,
,
only through strife through hard that we shall ultimately win the goal ,
is
justified for
endeavor
of
and dangerous
> ,
is
that the strife
it
,
or
.
us to
to
;
to
or
.
to of
,
of
,
us
they hold must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of by and will dear then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass win for themselves the domination the world Let therefore boldly face the life duty strife resolute do our well and man fully resolute uphold righteousness deed and word reso lute be both honest and brave serve high ideals yet use practical methods Above let shrink from no strife moral physical within without the nation provided we are certain
1899
)
Envious Idlers Whine While Living
Off Others Through Relief be
281
(
XV
,
.
Mem
Ed .,
.
true national greatness
,
in
to
to
he
of
of
,
is
If
an
a
he
.
to
to
he
;
to
,
,
.
is
a
1896
)
382
(
XVI
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
he
if
;
,
to
he
others must face life with resolute courage victory accept win can and defeat must without seeking responsibility place on his fellow men which not theirs
if
envy the luck
is
taught rely upon man sufferings others and whine over his American anything amount must rely upon himself and not upon the sitting idle State must take pride his own work instead
The worst lesson that can
27
and feeble
minded
-
,
sterilized
;
is
;
.
.
when the evil nature should done Criminals should be
I
wish very much that the prevented entirely from breeding and sufficiently flagrant people these this be
could
my position
of
wrong people
exactly
be
This
is
Against Big Families For The Shiftless
persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them
But
yet there
as
all
.
I
provide
.
families for which the man and woman are unable
do
having enormous
to
question
of
no
This
breed
is
people
.
sirable
to
.
be
is no way possible to devise which could prevent undesirable people from breeding The emphasis should laid on getting de
.
I
advocate such families
I
.
,
to
,
-
,
,
,
of
less people
to
in or
am not encouraging shift marry huge unfit who have families am speaking the ordinary every day Americans the decent men and women who do make good fathers and mothers and who ought have
not believe
1914
Of
Foresaw The Crisis
).
173
(
172
,
XIV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
-
.
good sized families
The Cities
urban development undoubtedly does constitute that said about All that can prophesy how long this growth will continue quite impossible
is .
it
is
it
be
will
cure
to
generation
,
,
generation
tend
then they will die out and the problem ,
,
become stunted and weak
they really exist by
townspeople
far
as
as
the evils
do ,
themselves
.
,
some
,
Moreover
of to
.
real and great danger
If
a
Excessive
,
,
if
on
,
;
.
1894
curse but
in
would work the same way
of
the real greatness
at
,
and we regard highest degree the
or
be
blessing
the
the nation
so
be
,
its
the fullest and most cordial way recognize the fact very nature the most needed work must from ,
we should that some
and for the sake
of in
,
same things
all
.
the idler with scornful pity undesirable that we should
as a
Idler Should Be Scorned
in
We hold work not
The
of
And
It
Blessing
.)
,
250
(
XIV
as a
Work
.,
Ed
Is A
Mem
.
to
,
be
be
they cause will not permanent while the other hand the healthy physically morally objec cities can made both and the tions them must largely disappear
28
he
all
is a
he
If if ,
.
a
do
or
in
.
as
to
he is
.
a
in
unremunerative material sense Each man must choose far the conditions allow him the path which bidden by his must man own peculiar powers and inclinations But making shape way the after man's work some
a
,
to
all
effort that his strength of body and of mind permits , he yet honorably fails, why , he is still entitled to a certain share of re spect because he has made the effort . But if he does not make the effort, or if he makes it half -heartedly and recoils from the labor , the risk , or the irksome monotony of his task , why , he has for right feited our respect and has shown himself mere 1901
)
325
(
XV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
cumberer of the earth
Learn To Carry Your Own Weight Before Saving The World
do
to
be
to
to
to
is
of
1905
)
579
(
578
,
XV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
to
an
of
of
.
I
do
.
to
–
of
you here carry your own The first duty each one weight carry yourselves You are not going able anything for any one else until you can support yourselves and those dependent upon you not want see you develop that kind idealism which makes you filled with vague thoughts your imme beneficence for mankind and awful drawback diate families
–-
Owning No Land Indians Were Nomads Let Both Whites And Indians Who Won't Work Perish
do
I
,
.
,
government
to
.
to
,
government
,
and individuals again and again perform and then promises impossible makes might do even what toward their fulfilment and where
the Indians both
The
by
a
to
'
a
of
During the past century good deal sentimental nonsense taking has been talked about our the Indians land Now not say for mean moment that gross wrong has not been done
as
.
is
to
a
,
by
all .
at
,
29
which
having
a
the land
on
most
we found them they had no stronger claim than that
of
and
of
rivals
to
-g
to
stronger
,
prevented
by
it
it
,
;
is
in it
,
at
,
of
,
of
set
a
;
it
fails brutal and reckless frontiersmen are brought into contact with revengeful and fiendishly cruel savages long treacherous outrages regards series both sides sure follow But taking the land least from the Western Indians the simple truth that the latter never had any real ownership Where the game was plenty there they hunted they followed when moved away new hunting rounds unless they were
previously butchered the original occupants . When my cattle came to the Little Missouri , the region was only in habited by a score or so of white hunters ; their title to it was quite as good as that of most Indian tribes to the lands they claim ; yet nobody dreamed of saying that these hunters owned few years
the country . Each could eventually have kept his own claim of 160 acres , and no more . The Indians should be treated in just the same way that we treat the white settlers . Give each his little claim ; if , as would generally happen , he declined this , why , then
let him share the fate of the thousands of white hunters and trap pers who have lived on the game that the settlement of the country has exterminated , and let him , like these whites , who will not work , perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers .
The doctrine seems merciless , and so it is ; but it is just and rational for all that . It does not do to be merciful to a few at the cost of justice to the many . Mem . Ed ., I , 18 , 19 , 20 ( 1886 )
Cast
Off The Shiftless
- Temper Mercy With Justice
;
,
-h
,
-
of
by
of
by
all
be
Something can be done by good laws ; more can be done by honest administration of the laws ; but most of can done frowning resolutely upon the preachers vague discontent upholding the true doctrine and self reliance self elp and
This doctrine sets forth many things Among them helped when the fact that though man can occasionally carry try yet him when he will not that useless stumbles
.
he
the level
of
bring down the
It
to
the shiftless and the idle ,
the weak
,
capacity
of
of
;
or
try cannot walk and worse than useless work and reward the thrifty and intelligent
to to
to
to
is
,
it
a
be
.
.
astery
is
-m
self
the
further shows
.
is
it
,
as
1895
).
382
(
381
,
XVI
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
to
as
that the maudlin philanthropist and the maudlin sentimentalist are almost noxious the demagogue and that even more justice justice mercy temper necessary with mercy than with
30
False Leaders Preach Ease And Pleasure Instead
Of Effort
It is a good thing that life should gain in sweetness , but only provided that it does not lose in strength . Ease and rest and pleasure are good things , but only if they come as the reward of done , of a good fight well won , of strong effort reso lutely made and crowned by high achievement . The life of mere pleasure , of mere effortless ease , is as ignoble for a nation as for an individual . The man is but a poor father who teaches his sons
work well
should be their chief objects in life ; the woman who is a mere petted toy , incapable of serious purpose , shrinking from effort and duty , is more pitiable than the veriest overworked drudge . So he is but a poor leader of the people , but a poor national adviser , who seeks to make the nation in any way subordinate effort to ease , who would teach the people not to prize as the greatest blessing the chance to do any work , no matter how hard , if it becomes their duty to do it . that
ease
Mem.Ed.
and pleasure
XVIII , 92
( 1907 ) .
31
IV
REDS INCITE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENTS EFFEMINATE
LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS
DEBAUCH THE YOUTH PUNISH REDS BEFORE AND NOT AFTER THEY ACT
Terrorists Should Be Stamped Out Before And Not After They Commit Atrocities But every
Bolshevik movement
fanatics
foolish , simple
brained
and
the sinister advocates
of
"
always
contains
crack
cheek by jowl with It is folly to show these
people
direct action . "
in
“ direct action ” people any consideration . Their purpose is to > spire terror by murder . They use the term " direct action , " but
they mean murder . Blatant anarchists of this type are miscreants and criminals . We ought to stamp them out by exerting the full power of the law in the sternest and most vigorous fashion against them and their sympathizers before, and not merely der is committed Mem . Ed .,
XXI ,
after,
mur
.
393 ( 1918 ) .
Advocates Of Political Murder Are Criminals
For
the anarchist himself , whether he preaches or practises
his doctrines , we need not have one particle more concern than for any ordinary murderer . He is not the victim of social or political injustice . There are no wrongs to remedy in his case his criminality
.
The cause of
is to be found in his own evil passions and in the
of those who urge him on , not in any failure by others or by the State to do justice to him or his . He is a malefactor and
evil conduct
32
nothing
else . He is in
no sense , in no shape or way ,
> social conditions ,” save
a "product
of
highwayman is “ produced ” by the fact that an unarmed man happens to have a purse . It is a travesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and freedom to permit them to as a
be invoked in such a cause . No man or body of men preaching anarchistic doctrines should be allowed at large any more than if preaching
the murder
Mem . Ed .,
XXII ,
of
some specified
private individual
.
97 , 98 ( 1901 ).
Killer of President Incited By Red
Propaganda
was a professed anarchist , inflamed by the professed anarchists , and probably also by the reck
This criminal teachings
of
less utterances
of
those who , on the stump and in the public press ,
appeal to the dark and evil spirts of malice and greed , envy and sullen hatred . The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines , and they cannot escape their share of responsibility for the whirlwind that is reaped . This applies alike to the deliber ate demagogue , to the exploiter of sensationalism , and to the
crude and foolish visionary who , for whatever reason for crime or excites aimless discontent .
,
apologizes
The blow was aimed not at this President , but at all Presi dents , at every symbol of government. Mem.Ed. XVII
, 96 ( 1901 ) . >
Apologists For fore The Fact
The Reds Are Morally Accessories
Of Murder Be
, and especially the anarchist in the United one type of criminal , more dangerous than any other because he represents the same depravity in a greater de
The anarchist
States
, is
merely
gree . The man who advocates anarchy directly or indirectly , in any shape or fashion , or the man who apologizes for anarchists and their deeds , makes himself morally accessory to murder before 33
is a criminal whose perverted instincts lead prefer him to confusion and chaos to the most beneficent form of social order . His protest of concern for working men is outrageous impudent falsity for in the political institutions this coun try every honest and intelligent not afford opportunity
of
if
to
forever closed against him
.
hope
of
then the door
is
toil
of
son
,
of do
;
its
the fact . The anarchist
,
to
suc
he
.
of
,
be is
If
triumph will last for but one red moment despotism ceeded for ages by the gloomy night its
umphant
.
of
,
of
is
everywhere not merely the enemy system and The anarchist liberty anarchy progress but the deadly foe ever tri
or
or
.
in to
in
is a ,
or
purse
.
have
pro
“
man happens
way
is
highwayman to
sense
He
a
.
or no
in
to
on ,
unarmed
his
shape
,
no
save
him
as a
” > ,
.
the fact that
an
of
by
”
“
a
duced
in of
is
be
to
the State
malefactor and nothing else He product social conditions
is do in
justice
to
by
others
found his own evil passions and any failure those who urge him not is
his criminality
the evil conduct
or
byin
cause
of
of
.
no
.
,
we
,
preaches practises For the anarchist himself whether his doctrines need not have one particle more concern than po for any ordinary murderer He not the victim social injustice wrongs remedy litical There are his case The
Marxian Socialism
)
98 (
1901
Is
97 ,
XVII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
if
of
be
.
at or
of
a
in
be
to
a
of to
is
It
upon the great and holy names liberty and free permit them dom invoked such cause No man body allowed men preaching anarchistic doctrines should large any more than preaching the murder some specified pri vate individual travesty
Based On Dangerous
Fallacy
an
as
,
34
or ,
,
by
a
to
of
of
.
to
.
of
I
,
,
None the less without impugning their motives do disagree emphatically most with both the fundamental philosophy and the proposed remedies the Marxian Socialists These Socialists are unalterably opposed our whole industrial system They believe wages means everywhere and inevitably that the payment exploitation the laborer the employer and that this leads inevitably class war between those two groups they
,
,
,
of
a
be
is
is
do
a
-
of
.
do
in
by
or
,
a
as
,
all
would say , between the capitalists and the proletariat . They assert that this class war is already upon us and can only be ended when capitalism is entirely destroyed and the machines mills mines property private production are con railroads and other used expropriated fiscated taken over the workers They not although some rule claim the sinister extremists among them do that this class war war blood and bullets but they claim that there and must continual struggle be
is
policeman's club
a
like
day believe
and do not
,
that such
do
be
I
us ;
be
as
,
or
.
do
,
-
and
than are believe
I
together
insist
(
acting do
.
in
)
in
greater need farmer are perhaps But the community other groups
I
of
( as
do
of
all . I
of
by
of
,
to
is
no
,
,
us
-
,
to
be
It
.
,
-
of
or
us ,
is
upon class war need ever nor believe wage earners and employers cannot that the interests har deny monized compromised and adjusted would idle that wage earners have certain different economic interests from importers just say manufacturers let farmers have dif ferent interests from sailors and fishermen from bankers There reason why any these economic groups should not con group any legitimate means and with due sult their interests regard the common overlying interests not even deny that the majority wage earners because they have less property and less industrial security than others and because they not own the machinery with which they work does the
a
upon
to -
have never believed
,
I
.
a
or
our common morality are class weapons Gatling gun
,
,
-
is
of
In
,
.
,
tween two great classes whose interests are opposed and cannot be reconciled this war they insist that the whole government National State and local on the side the employers and used by them against the workmen and that our law and even
Scribner 1915
)
(
,
,
.
.,
,
pp 483 484 Mem Ed XXII 552 553 .
35
,
all
to
to
.
Autobiography
-
R.
T.
of
as
so
be
adjusted that where these interests are apart they can altering our laws and their interpretation secure bers the community social and industrial justice
by
,
of
as
in
as
in
)
-
of
wage earners take the same view that that the great majority employers and employees have overwhelming interests common industry and partners both citizens the Republic and
mem
Parlor Bolshevik Intellectuals And Pink Tea Şissies Can Lead The People To Ruin Russian exiles were not asked to come here . They came here so as to be free from persecution and to better them selves . They owe this country everything . But the only emotions aroused in the Bolshevik type are mean hatred , mean desire to These
slander
a self - pity
and
,
both mean and morbid
The moral and
.
mental attitude it introduces into this country is much more per manently mischievous than the bubonic plague , and against it we
should erect
rigorous quarantine . The oppressed
far more
a
of
of
a
do .
no
lower than ,
W.W.
the
the squalid crew who preach class ,
into action
expresses
.
,
is
which when preaching translated itself through the bomb and the torch war
would
a
,
and
envy and hatred
,
anarchists
,
the
the gospel
of
,
who preach
all of
of
of
Germanized Socialists
no
,
given power
politics and business stand The worst bourbons these leaders the American Bolsheviks the
I
if
do
to
be
of
this country than these men
,
.
harm
to
,
racy
de
In
.
,
of
it
to
complete who would lead our people into subjection which one item would the German autoc capitalists The most sordid and reactionaries can more
Bergers and Eastmans ruin
its
more dangerous than those
professional proletarian
full produces the Lenins and Trotskys who have brought the brink the abyss and the Hillquits and Victor
velopment Russia
worse and
no
no
this particular type
of
of
and unlovely traits are
;
in
.
be
,
all
other lands who have developed this kind of character should be kept out of this land at hazards and our immigration laws changed accordingly There are plenty should promptly sor this land but their most harmful did and arrogant capitalists
are encouraged
of
to
of
-
to
,
is
and our own moral fibre pink tea sissy Bolshevism dear the
to
of
36
im
. *
,>
,
,
in
to
as
,
our people who like think themselves intellectuals and who are perhaps particularly apt find * Republic certainly expression for their views The New Most hard indifference the conditions and opportunities the
hearts
many
or
men
by the parlor
so
of
weakened
,
These
migrant is a hideous wrong ; but it is not bettered by a dilettante sentamentalism on behalf of those among the immigrants who are of semicriminal type , whether or not they seek to mask their depravity by claiming to be the victims of social oppression . We must never again view the immigrant merely as a labor unit . We must think
him only
as a
of
future citizen , whose children are to share with our
children the heritage of this land . We must do for him everything that is right ; and we must tolerate from him nothing that is wrong . sympathy
* The natural Bolshevism
beloved
-
of Germanism
for Bolshevism
by the Hearst publications, or the parlor Bolshevism
The New Republic was incidentally and amusingly General Becker
in the course
of an investigation
Fort Oglethorpe . One German the interned
- whether
Germans
testified
among
the interned
Attorney
enemy aliens at
that the most widely read periodicals
were “ The Nation of New York
( The Germans ) make only a few subscriptions
...
and
by
inculcated
out by Assistant
brought
the gutter
The New
among
Republic
....
for fear that the government censor
would catch on to the popularity of The Nation and The New Republic .” Many of our professional intellectuals “ American large
have
made
Sociological Congress
a contemptible
,” which
proportion seemed to be divided
met
between
showing
XXI ,
this
in December , 1915 , the
war . At the speakers
those engaged in inane pacifist
and those engaged in downright sinister German Propaganda .
Mem . Ed .,
in
in
prattle
- T . R.
387 , 388 ( 1918 ) .
Academic Revolutionary Fools Harm True Social Reform “ The
stories
Gorky
is a class
class of realistic writer of poems and short beings for whom I have no very great regard
of
per se ; but I would not have the slightest objection to receiving him , and indeed would be rather glad to receive him , if he was merely a member of it . But in addition he represents the very
type of fool academic revolutionist which tends to bring to con fusion and failure the great needed measures of social , political , and industrial reform . I have scant sympathy for that maudlin sentimentality which encourages these creatures abroad , when at home , as Gorky instantly showed by his action when he came , for instance , here , they would be the special sympathizers with > 37
the peculiarly foul assassins who are now rallying to the support the men indicted for the murder of the ex -Governor of Idaho .
of
In addition to this , Gorky in his domestic relations seems to represent with nice exactness the general continental European revolutionary attitude , which in governmental matters is a revolt against order as well as against tyranny , and in domestic matters is a revolt against the ordinary decencies and moralities even more than against conventional hypocrisies and cruelties. ” Mem.Ed. XXIV , 15 , 16 ( 1906 ) .
Morbid Vanity Of Extremists of
These little knots
For Notoriety
Who Thirst extremists
are found everywhere
,
one
type flourishing chiefly in one locality and another type in another . In the particular objects they severally profess to champion they as the poles ,
are as far asunder
its
that each little group has
for one of their characteristics
own patent recipe for salvation
is
and
,up
in
be
of
,
of
.
tal
;
to
no
attention whatever the other little groups but men and moral habit they are fundamentally alike They may twenty different types from the followers Tolstoy Socialists
pays
,
or
,
of
,
is
as
of
,
as
or
in
or
they may ostensibly champion some cause down and municipal reform temperance they itself excellent such may merely with comprehensive vagueness announce themselves corruption machine the general enemies what bad ,
is
at
is
,
the vanguard
and may possibly
not possible The others marching the
is be
,
one side
as
,
,
be
to
them
it
different directions
.
.
of
off
to
,
must
in be
for more than one best
,
to
marching
in
are
of
groups
all
of or
;
.
,
politics and the like Their policies and principles are usually mutually exclusive but that does not alter the conviction which each feels affects feel that his particular group the real vanguard the army reform Of course the particular
38
their associates the
them also
as
speaking
of
pay some
of
unmerited compliment
to
these men we are too apt
of
of
,
of
.
in
, it
of
as in a
, >
is
of
;
only occasion wrong way fact matter the rear and ally that any one them the front There are each group many entirely sincere and honest men and because the presence honest but
matter of fact , the typical extremist of this kind differs from the practical reformer , from the public man who superior moral strives in practical fashion for decency , not at .
As
a
he
is
;
not more virtuous less virtu When Wendell Phillips denounced he
more foolish
of
is
inferior sense He merely
.
.
ous He
.
,
ity but
is in
all in
impracticable
,
”
kind were swept aside
,
definite shape then
the statesmen
and soldiers
,
by
Union and against slavery took
he
on
.
.
,
-
“
as
Abraham Lincoln the slave hound Illinois did not show himself more virtuous than Lincoln but more foolish Neither did he advance the cause of human freedom When the contest for the and his
like Lincoln to
no
it
be
in
of
do
,
morality
,
In do
superiority
is
.
as
,
Grant and Farragut who alone were able ride the superiority efficiency storm Great the the men who things over those who may greater than their not and Seward
,
denounc
384
1900
).
383
(
,
382
,
XV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
sit
to
prefer outside and attract momentary attention ing those who are really forces for good
by
,
to
in
if
go
,
to
,
of
of
,up
to
.
,
a
in
in
addition the simple and sincere men who have twist their mental make these knots enthusi asts contain especially among their leaders men morbid vanity who thirst for notoriety men who lack power accomplish any thing they fight with their fellows for results and who
And Corruptionist Are Natural Allies
Demagogue
as
a
In
.
to
has
much
to
,
deal justly by his fellows
as
,
or
if
,
to
tries
as
is
to
,
of
of
just thing The triumph the mob evil the triumph the plutocracy and have escaped one danger avails nothing whatever we succumb the other the end the poor who earns his own living and honest man whether rich fear from the
,
39
these two classes we shall ,
either
of If
.
men
of
of
fall into the hands
as
,
,
,
be
to
,
on
,
to or
,
promising much and per insincere and unworthy demagogue forming nothing performing nothing else but evil who would plunder the rich set the mob from the crafty corrup tionist who for his own ends would permit the common people exploited by the very wealthy we ever let this government
ourselves false to America's past . Moreover , the demagogue
show
and the corruptionist often work hand in hand
. There are at this moment wealthy reactionaries of such obtuse morality that they regard the public servant who prosecutes them when they violate the law , or who seeks to make them bear their proper share of the public burdens , as being even more objectionable than the violent
agitator who hounds on the mob to plunder the rich . There is nothing to choose between such a reactionary and such an agi tator ; fundamentally they are alike in their selfish disregard of the and it is natural that they should join in opposi tion to any movement of which the aim is fearlessly to do exact others
;
all . 420
1906
Cheap Money
really does not matter much
as
in It
,
,
Denounces Riot Revolution
And Crime the quantity
of of
,
,
419
to
XVII
).
Ed
.,
Mem
.
and even justice to
(
of
rights
the
of
it
is
of
of
be
.
is
is
of
of
is
It
.
a
money country the quality the money that im portance and the circumstances the people The real point good and that that the credit the country should should merely the measure contain those things which money .
value
.
is
of
do
But the Bryanites not depend and cannot depend only upon the cry for cheap money Dishonest finance only one
,
of
.
of
.
hatred for
and the rest
the crew
are
,
represen
of
fit
-
.
of
jealousy
-
,
,
Debs
of
,
Coxey
sectional
of
and the men who stand
Tillman
envy
Mr. Bryan his right and his left hands Altgeld
class and at
of
do ,
to -
the mean and sombre vices
and
of
invoked the aid the well
,
of of
is
to
to
;
a
an
their rallying cries they wish also debased judiciary and ex ecutive pledge not interfere with violent mobs What they appeal the spirit social unrest the spirit discontent They have
40
,
if
,
,
every those forces which simmer beneath the surface community they civilized and which could break out would destroy not only property and civilization but finally even them
tatives
selves , leaving after them a mere burnt - out waste
cooled lava overflow becomes mere slag and cinders . They seek to rally to their banners all the forces that make for social disorder and na , as a
tional destruction . They hold out lures to the honest man who , through no fault of his own , has met with crushing disaster , and who strikes at what he calls the conditions of society with the same unreasonable
anger that makes a child strike at the table or
door against which it has hurt itself . They dazzle the eye of the visionary social reformer ( well known to every man who has strug gled for practical reform as one of his greatest enemies ) ; the being who reads Tolstoy , or , if he possesses less intellect , Bellamy and Henry George ; who studies Carl Marx and Proudhon , and believes that at this stage
of
the world's progress it is possible to make every
one happy by an immense siasts
just
as other enthu possibility mental caliber believe in the of con perpetual - motion machine . They bid for the support of
social revolution
,
of similar
structing
a
the knaves who see their profit in social convulsion , hoping to find it , if they be demagogues , in the shape of high office ; or if they are
more vulgar wrong -doers , in the opportunities offered by a general relaxation of the laws . They attract to their standard of the sullen , men without very much intellect or very much strength
of charac
ter , who are given to emotional bursts , both of good and evil , who are apt to think themselves injured because they do not get along as
well
their more thrifty or harder working or more intelligent
as
neighbors
,
and who can be readily led by demagogues into an agita
tion of which they will ultimately be themselves the most helpless victim .
There is something pathetic in the sight of these dupes of the demagogues and visionary reformers . They are not to blame so much for hardness of heart as for softness of head . They mean well usually , but they find life a difficult and disheartening problem , and instead of standing to their work like men , winning or losing if they must , they whine about the “ social forces ” being unjust and listen eagerly
both to the designing scoundrel who exercises his passions for his own profit and to the well - meaning enthusiast , 41
distribution
do of
.
to
wealth and secure business success alike just quack doctors are willing all
,
as
the deserving and undeserving
to to
unequal
of
all
to
all
who thinks he has some patent cure make every one happy struggling These amiable enthusiasts like assure the masses specifics away misery mankind that their will cure and with
be
to
is
of
criminals the men
and even Mr.Tillman's
,
assassination
,
of
to
of of
foulest
those
a
,
,
is
as
be
they can far understood include everything that decent whether the abhorred so
,
on
,
which
of
If
.
of
he is
,
whose crimes take the form general attack
is
he
.
-
,
to
it
free riot and free pardon
nostrums
,
guarantee that their drugs will make men equally healthy equally strong and equally clear sighted them can each try his own patent remedy willing allowed combine Mr.Bryan's with the remedies others own favorite motto join with Mr. Altgeld's recipe repudiation but willing
of
;
,
be
(
a
rather complicated excepting always that
403
.
1896
).
402
,
401
,
,
XVI
(
of
a
) is
hard work and thrift has accumulated competence every other class benefited by the plunder
1912
42
)
404
(
XXIV
,
.,
.
Ed
a
have
Do
very strong
their ceaseless and intemperate and against the mushy people
other criminals once the crime
.
who would excuse him and been committed
,
,
to
,
feeling against the people who abuse excited him the action
I
;
have not the slightest feeling against him by
I
Shooting Of T.R. Inspired By Agitators And Excused By Gooders
Mem
as ,
be
.
or
,
which every class
Ed .,
by
itself into
resolves
be
to Mem
ultimately robbery
.
which
believe
by
of
their plan system
takes the form
affect
to
or ,
of
by
,
of
decency
believe
of
speech action All them that people generally must bene giving them something which they have not got and fited course this something must taken from somebody else
spirit
has
Parlor Reformers Reflect Cowardice And Hypocricy I had already had some exasperating experiences with the silk stocking ” reformer type , as Abraham Lincoln called it , the gentlemen who were very nice , very refined , who shook their "
heads over political corruption and discussed it in drawing - rooms and parlors , but who were wholly unable to grapple with real men in real life . They were apt vociferously to demand “ reform " as if
it
were some concrete substance , like cake , which could be handed out at will , in tangible masses , if only the demand were urgent enough . These parlor reformers made up for inefficiency in action by zeal in criticising ; and they were delighted in criticising the men who really were doing the things which they said ought to be done , but which they lacked the sinewy power to do . They
often upheld ideals which were not merely impossible but highly undesirable , and thereby played into the hands of the very poli ticians to whom they professed to be most hostile . Moreover , if they believed that their own interests , individually or as a class , were jeoparded, they were apt to show no higher standards
than
did the men they usually denounced . One
of their shibboleths
was that the office should seek the
man and not the man the office . This is entirely true
of
certain
offices at certain times . It is entirely untrue when the circum stances are different . It would have been unnecessary and unde sirable for Washington to have sought the Presidency . But if Abraham Lincoln had not sought the Presidency he never would have been nominated . The objection in such a case as this lies not to seeking the office , but to seeking it in any but an honorable and proper manner . The effect of the shibboleth in question is usually merely to put a premium on hypocrisy , and therefore to favor the creature who is willing to rise by hypocrisy .
T.R. Autobiography
- Scribner
pp . 86 , 87
Mem.Ed. XXII
, 105 , 106 ( 1884 ) .
43
Vigilantes
And Lynch -Law
Necessary During Social Anarchy
In great crises it may be necessary to overturn constitutions and disregard statutes , just as it may be necessary to establish a vigilance committee , or take refuge in lynch -law ; but such a remedy is always dangerous , even when absolutely necessary ; and the mo ment it becomes the habitual remedy , it is a proof that society is going backward . Of this retrogression the deeds of the strong man who
sets
himself above the law may be partly the cause and partly
the consequence ., XIII ,
Mem . Ed
but they are always the signs
;
of
decay
.
325 ( 1900 )
Civilization Is Based On Law And Order
– Anarchy
Breeds Tyranny
of
is
in
no
, it
at
,
be
it
of
,
to
of
.
of
,
no
in
,
it
be
.
of
lie
The first essential of civilization is law . Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism . Law and order enforced with justice and by strength the foundations upon justice civilization Law must based else cannot stand and must enforced with resolute firmness because enforcing justice weakness means the end that there disorderly and unscrupulous and law nothing but the rule orderly obedience strength Without the habit the law with or
,
of
;
to
.
to
arms
redress griev
justified that can only extreme very suffer any moderate evil even 44
a
in
or
measures
far better
to
the appeal
Of Rebellion
be
are
No Justification
,
is
;
these
It
.
cases
revolution to
,
Rebellion
There
Is
With Peaceable Redress
ances
no
,
if
to
1901
)
338
(
Ed
,
as
.
Mem
be no
.
in
XV
at
,
.,
,
be
at
out the stern enforcement the laws the expense those who defiantly resist them there can possible progress moral weakening material civilization There can the law abiding spirit here home we are permanently succeed and just little can we afford show weakness abroad
is
or
;
to
,
its
peaceable redress evil , so long as there is a chance of country plunge the than into civil war and the men who head instigate armed rebellions for which there not the most ample
serious
be
justification
it
he
as
;
to
as
.
is
is
of
.
of
as
must held one degree worse than any but the despotism and the Cha tyrants Between the Scylla most evil rybdis anarchy there but little choose and the pilot who blameworthy who throws throws the ship upon one on the other 1900
)
313
(
XIII
,
.,
Ed
.
Mem
government
,
be all
not merely admit but insist that popular government there must
in
I
-
Populations Without Self Control Invite Tyranny and
,
;
en
it
I
be
in
-
it .
1912
ex
every community there are little knots
of
Mock Reformers
”
Fantastic Extremists Are In
experiences that they are not capable contend that the American people most
“
234
(
XIX
the world which have
of
;
but
are capable
,
Ed
.,
.
emphatically Mem
.
their lamentable
this self control -
of
There are people
.)
proved
self control -
practise
by
to
in
of
is
it
.
,
if
,
in
control and fur thermore that control does not come from within must come from without Therefore essential that any people which gages the difficult experiment self government should able especially
fantastic
who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteous reality ness and who their feeble best for unrighteousness peculiar scorn the man Just the upright politician should hold
.
do
,
45
the
champions
is
,
shame
so
in
a
of
politician reproach and who makes the name genuine reformer should realize that the cause
he a
in
,
as
,
tremists
jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he
especially
can to make reform a laughing -stock among decent men Mem .
Ed .,
XV
.
,> 381 , 382 ( 1910 ) .
The Corrupt , The Agitator , The Dreamer Are A Menace We cannot trust the mere doctrinaire ; we cannot trust the mere closet reformer , nor yet his acrid brother who himself does
nothing , but who rails at those who endure the heat and burden
of
the day
Yet we can trust still less those base beings who treat politics only as a game out of which to wring a soiled livelihood , and in whose vocabulary the word “ practical ” has come to be a .
synonym for whatever is mean and corrupt . A man is worthless unless he has in him a lofty devotion to an ideal , and he is worth less also unless he strives to realize this ideal by practical methods . He must promise both to himself and to others , only what he can
.
hazards make good
1900
).
403
(
402
,
XV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
such promise he must at
all
perform ; but what really can be performed he must promise and
In
Distrust Reformers Who Find Wickedness Only
The
Rich
.
Scribner 1913
.)
96 (
,
Mem.Ed. XXII
95 ,
80
.
79 ,
T.R. Autobiography
as .
is
,
46
a
,
,
no
of
,
be
in
a
or
if
man
pp
"
of
“
is
,
it
.
he
as
;
of
a
it
in
to
We grew heartily distrust the reformer who never de nounced wickedness unless was embodied rich man Human type change nature does not and that reformer noxious popular rights now ever was The loudmouthed upholder who attacks wickedenss only when allied with wealth and publicly any who never assails misdeed matter how flagrant committed nominally the interest labor has either warped mind trusted by no honest tainted soul and should
Attractive Demands
In
Of Revolutionary
the hideous welter
of
Demagogues
a social
Is A
revolution it
Snare
is the
brutal ,
, and the criminal who prosper , not the hard - working , sober , and thrifty . Life is often hard enough at best ; it is sometimes quite as hard for the rich as for the poor , and too often the good man , the honest and patriotic citizen , suffers many blows from fate , and sees some rascals and some idlers prosper undeservedly ; but the surest way to increase his misery tenfold is for him to play into the hands of the scoundrelly demagogues , to abandon that stern morality without which no man and no nation can ever permanently succeed , and to seek a temporary relief for his own real or imaginary sufferings by plunging others into misery .
the reckless
Mem .
Ed ., XVI ,
404 , 405 ( 1896 )
Anarchy Breeds Despotism Anarchy always serves simply as the handmaiden potism , as those who bring it about should know . Mem .
Ed .,
XIII , 447
of des
( 1900 )
Legal Sedition As Immoral As Illegality
ment ,
Sedition , in the legal sense , means to betray the govern to give aid and comfort to the enemy , or to counsel resis
tance
to the laws or to measures
of law . There
of
government
can be conduct morally may yet not be violation of law . which Mem . Ed ., XXI , 316 ( 1918 ) .
47
having the force
as bad as legal
sedition
COURTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO INTERPRET THE
CONSTITUTION VOTERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECALL
JUDGES ' DECISIONS PROMISCUOUS
PARDON POWER ABUSED
American Right To Criticize Judges Our position on this matter
is
fundamentally the position
of Lincoln . Our opponents say that we attack the courts . We do not . We attack judges when they go wrong , just exactly as we attack other people when they do wrong Presidents , senators , congressmen .
We do not go as far as Jefferson and Jackson went .
-
Mem..Ed ., XIX , 497
( 1913 ).
Judges Have No Right To Make Laws By Interpretation But where the judges claim the right to make our laws by finally interpreting them , by finally deciding whether or not we have the power to make them , we claim the right ourselves to exercise that power . We forbid any We stand for an upright judiciary
.
men , no matter what their official position may be
,
to usurp the
, the right which is the people's . We recognize in Congress neither court nor nor President , any divine right to over
right which is ours
will of the people expressed with due deliberation in orderly fashion and through the forms of law . ride
the
Mem . Ed .,
XIX ,
460 ( 1912 ).
American People, Not Judges, Are Ultimate Authority
48
.
as
and legislative
representatives
of
to
the executive
of
the acts
of
as
be
all
The American people , and not the courts , are to determine their own fundamental policies . The people should have power to deal with the effect of the acts of their governmental agencies judicial acts This must extended include the effects well the
people . Where the judge merely does justice
as between
man and
then the interest of the public is only to see that he is a a wise and upright judge . Means
man ,
not dealing with constitutional questions
,
should be devised for making it easier than at present to get rid of an incompetent judge ; means should be devised by the bar and the bench acting in conjunction with the various legislative bodies to make justice far more expeditious and more certain than at present . The stick -in -the -bark legalism , the legalism that subordinates equity
to technicalities , should be recognized as a potent enemy of justice . But this is not the matter of most concern at the moment .
Our prime concern is that in dealing with the fundamental law of the land , in assuming finally to interpret it , and therefore finally to make it , the acts of the courts should be subject to and not above the final control of the people
as a whole . I deny that American people have surrendered to any set of men , no matter what their position or their character , the final right to determine those fundamental questions upon which free self
the
government ultimately depends . The people themselves must be the ultimate makers of their own Constitution , and where their agents differ in their interpretations of the Constitution the people themselves
judgment
,
should be given the chance , after full and deliberate authoritatively to settle what interpretation it is that
their representatives
shall thereafter adopt as binding .
Mem . Ed ., XIX , 367 , 368 ( 1912 ) .
Leniency Through Pardons Does
Harm
To Cause Of Justice
49
;
be
be
,
it
as
in ill
as
Every time that rape or criminal assault on a woman is par doned , and anything less than the full penalty of the law exacted , a premium is put on the practice of lynching such offenders . Every time a big moneyed offender , who naturally excites interest and sympathy , and who has many friends , is excused from serving a sentence which a man of less prominence and fewer friends would have to serve , justice is discredited in the eyes of plain people – and to undermine faith in justice is to strike at the foun dation of the Republic . As for health must remembered healthy prison they would that few people are outside
should be no discrimination among criminals on this score either criminals who grow unhealthy should out given none Pardons must sometimes order that the cause justice may served but cases such these am consider ing while know that many amiable people differ from me am obliged say that my judgment the pardons work far reaching justice harm the cause
,
be
,
I
as
in
be
I
1913
)
513
(
512
,
,
XXII
.
of
-
in
to
to
Ed
.,
.
Mem
in
;
I
,
be
.
of or
;
let
there
all
and
of
.
to
a
is a
and
ac
,
issue
whereas
,
;
given
or
,
is
case
action
us
,
the people with one purpose may
at
to
its
It
or
definite and clear
certainly far Constitution
the
with the Fourteenth Amendment for instance has shown that
,
a
as
be
to
of
.
of
it
getting method apply merely will the
called
quicker
the National
amendment by
passed
by
Constitution
amended
the
declare
constitutional
an to
tual experience
applying the Constitution
the Constitution
be
therefore would
passage
mere terminology whether this
ordinary
the
treated
in
getting
is
-
construing
because
,
method superior
matter
a
is
or
method
amended
not the proposed law
to of of
It
whether
period which
have the right
the people shall themselves
be
could not original law
-
that after due deliberation for less than two years after the
be
I
propose
for
People Should Have Right For Judicial Recall
it
of
a
to
cases
,
conflicting fashion
of
of
the people the Consti mere guesswork on the part our
the people could not decide
could not possibly 50
in
,
the next place
is
,
this
by
of
multitude
my opponents say that under my proposal there
the first place
.
opponents
apply
who passed the amendment had
conflicting interpretations In
.
would tution
In be
Some
of
applying
is
the people
which
it
positive
not the remotest idea
to
the courts
it .
by
.
a
in
a
has been construed
to
to
the courts apply wholly different purposes construction which makes wholly different manner The Fourteenth Amendment and
more
make their decisions
con
flict with one another to a greater degree , than has actually been the case with the courts . Mem . Ed .,
XIX ,
The People,
261 , 262 ( 1912 ) .
The Courts , Should Set Social Policy
Not
And I contend that the people , in the nature of things , must be better judges of what is the preponderant opinion than the courts , and
the courts should not be allowed to reverse
that
the political philosophy
by
a recent
of
decision
of
the people
.
My point is well illustrated , holding that the court
the Supreme Court
involving the constitutionality of the initiative and referendum laws of Oregon . The ground of the decision was that such a question was not judicial in nature but should left for determination the other ordinate de a case
,
co -
of
in
a
is
,
the legislature
or
Is it
is
by
be
settled
the
1912
).
206
not equally plain that the ques for the public good not
the people themselves (
XIX
,
.,
Ed
.
Mem
but should
by
judicial nature final instance
,
a
.
the government given social policy tion whether
?
of
partments
to
be
its
would not take jurisdiction of
,
Lincoln
that we must
prevent
of
to
,
men who pervert
progress
to ,
by
or
,
51
by
,
.
a
1912
.)
253
by
or
XIX
,
.,
Ed
(
a
.
Mem
,
for the cause the humanity and the betterment.of mankind are pledged eternal war against tyranny and wrong the few the many by plutocracy mob
uplift
of
We who stand for the cause
of
."
the Constitution
of
,
to
of
.
or
being done either Congress courts The people rightful these United States are masters both Congress and courts not overthrow the Constitution but overthrow the “
wrong
the words
by
,
in
We say
of
Oppose The Courts Or Mobs Who Pervert The Constitution
Courts Power To Interpret Is Power To Establish Now
the power to interpret is the power to establish
,
;
and
if are not to be allowed finally to interpret the funda mental law , ours is not a popular government . the people
The true view
is
that legislators
and judges
alike
are the
servants of the people , who have been created by the people just as the people have created the Constitution , and they hold only
power
such them
.
as the people
If these
of power
sets
respectively
Constitution a matter
two
,
of
and
if
course
,
have for the time
being delegated
to
of public
servants disagree as to the amounts delegated to them by the people under the
of sufficient importance , then , as it should be the right of the people them
the case is
selves to decide between them
.
I do not say that the people are infallible . But I do say that our whole history shows that the American people are more often sound in their decisions governmental
bodies
delegated portions
If
to whom
with any of the for their convenience , they have
than is the case ,
of their power .
this is not so , then there is no justification
of our government cation for refusing to give
existence
;
and
if it
is so , then there is no
for the
justifi
the people the real , and not merely the nominal , ultimate decision on questions of constitutional law . Mem . Ed .,
XIX ,
190 ( 1912 ) .
People Should Be Able To Recall Unfit Judges I do not believe in adopting the recall save as a last resort when it has become clearly evident achieve the desired result .
that no other course
,
will
But either the recall will have to be adopted or else it will have to be made much easier than it now is to get rid , not merely 52
of so
judge , but of a judge who , however virtuous , has grown out of touch with social needs and facts that he is unfit longer a bad
to render good service on the bench Mem . Ed .,
XIX
.
, 185 ( 1912 ) .
The People Must Have Power To Fashion True Justice But where
in my own State of New
, the highest court of the State , because of philosophy outworn dead and gone systems understanding and sympathy with the living the those the community whose needs are greatest
,
of
,
,
of
,
all
of
of
,
in
lack
vital needs
to
of of to
its
, as
instance
adherence and
in any community
its
York , for
,
to
be
the
.
less
1912
.)
243
(
XIX
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
,
,
Constitution made binding upon their servants the judges than upon their servants the legislators and executives
,
have their judgment made efficient and their interpretation
no of ,
,
in
I
;
in
a
privilege and the most effective becomes bulwark means efficient fashion for for preventing the people from working given true justice then hold that the people must themselves the power after due deliberation and constitutional fashion
provide
means which will enable the people readily any point works injustice and also means which
53
,
and
after due
without appeal
any constitutional point
is . to
,
1912
).
166
(
,
.,
.
XIX
popular vote
,
but finally
deliberation and discussion settle what the proper construction Ed
by
themselves
of
permit the people
will
,
it
at
if
amend
it
constitution
this
Mem
ask you clearly
to in
therefore very earnestly
to
I
Public Should Decide On Constitutional Interpretation
Of A
Crime Committed In The Name
Cause
Is No Excuse
of
be
;
;
all -
I treated anarchists and the bomb - throwing and dynamiting gentry precisely as I treated other criminals . Murder is murder . It is not rendered one whit better by the allegation that it is com mitted on behalf of “ a cause .” It is true that law and order are not sufficient but they are essential lawlessness and mur quelled before any permanence derous violence must re ,
,
engine
of
its
being turned into
-
561
1913
)
XXII
Scribner
(
Ed
,
R.
Mem
Autobiography
.,
T.
491
.
.p
.
and that will not tolerate injustice and oppression
an
to
as a
we
is
of
in
be
.
be
form can obtained Yet when they have been quelled the beneficiaries of the enforcement of law must their turn upheld justice taught that law means the enforcement
Well Intentioned Reformers Often Frame The Worst Laws
of
a
.
by ;
is
of
of
to
and on the other hand that many
is
in
of
to
is
It is
of
.
is
,
of
be
by
,
is
at
in
to
,
or to
is
to
It
almost equally dangerous either blink evils and refuse acknowledge their existence spirit strike them ignorant revenge thereby doing far more harm than remedied The need can met only careful study conditions and boldly action which while taken and without hesitation neither heedless nor reckless well remember on the one hand that reformers the demands reasonable what the adoption adoption prevent way what unreasonable the the surest the worst and most dangerous
1900
)
48 (
47 ,
XVII
,
.,
Ed
Mem
.
.
-
laws which have been put upon statute books have been put there by zealous reformers with excellent intentions
Swift And Severe Legal Punishment Will Prevent Lynching
54
of
a
of
in
a
I
in
The views then held and now hold were expressed Negro convicted memorandum made the case the rape
of
a
young Negro girl , practically
don had been sent me .
a
child . A petition for his par
White House , Washington , D. C.,
August
8,
1904 .
The application for the commutation of sentence of John . This man committed the most hideous crime , known to our laws and twice before he has committed crimes of a similar, though less horrible , character . In my judgment there is no justification whatever for paying heed to the allegations that he
W. Burley is denied
not of sound mind , allegations made after the trial and convic tion . Nobody would pretend that there has ever been any such degree of mental unsoundness shown as would make people even consider sending him to an asylum if he had not committed this crime. Under such circumstances he should certainly be esteemed is
to suffer the penalty for his monstrous deed . I have sympathy scant with the plea of insanity advanced to save a man consequences from the of crime, when unless that crime has been committed it would have been impossible to persuade any respon sible authority to commit him to an asylum as insane . Among the most dangerous criminals , and especially among those prone to commit this particular kind of offense , there are plenty of a temper so fiendish or so brutal as to be incompatible with any other than a brutish order of intelligence ; but these men are nevertheless responsible for their acts ; and nothing more tends to encourage crime among such men than the belief that through the plea of insanity or any other method it is possible for them to es cape paying the just penalty of their crimes . The crime in ques sane enough
tion is one to the existence of which we largely owe the existence of that spirit of lawlessness which takes form in lynching . It is a crime so revolting that the criminal is not entitled to one particle of sympathy from any human being . It is essential that the punish ment for it should be not only as certain , but as swift as possible . The jury in this case did their duty by recommending the infliction of the death penalty . It is to be regretted that we do not have special provision for more summary dealing with this type of cases . The more we do what in us lies to secure certain and swift justice in dealing with these cases , the more effectively do we 55
work against the growth of that lynching spirit which is so full of evil omen for this people , because it seeks to avenge one infamous crime by the commission of another of equal infamy . The application is denied and the sentence will be carried into effect . T.
R. Autobiography
–
Scribner
pp . 474 , 475 Mem .
Ed ., XXII
, 425 , 426 ( 1904 )
56
VI FOR FIRM POLICE ENFORCEMENT EXPOSE
MAWKISH JUDGES
THE
AND
MUSHY
SENTIMENTALISTS VICTIMS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN CRIMINALS RAMPANT CRIME WILL BREED VIGILANTES Weakening
To
The Police Power Increases Dishonesty And Crime
weaken the force in its dealings with gangs and toughs and
criminals generally is as damaging as to permit dishonesty , and , moreover , works towards dishonesty . But while under the present law very much improvement can be worked , there is need of
of the law which will make the Police Commissioner a per non -partisan official, holding office so long as he proves throughly for the job completely independent the poli change
of
,
fit
manent ,
–
> ,
Scribner
224
Sympathy Belongs
1913
).
223
To
XXII
,
Mem.Ed.
(
186 ,
.p
T.R. Autobiography
.
of
.
be
,
ticians and privileged interests and with complete power over the force This means that there must the right law and the right public opinion back the law
The Victims Not The Criminals
particle
57
.
an
.
,
I
of
a
–
or
to
of
of
.
is
all
at
to
to to of
-
I
I
of
–
of
a
it ,
I
as
I
sympathy with the sentimentality deem the mawkishness which overflows with foolish pity for the criminal and cares not for the victim the criminal am glad see wrong doers punished The punishment society and put the absolute necessity from the standpoint society reformation the criminal second the welfare But do desire see the man woman who has paid the penalty and helping hand who wishes surely every one reform given have not
.
1913
)
154
(
XXII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
-
all
us who knows his own heart must know that he too may stumble , and should be anxious to help his brother or sister who has stum bled . When the criminal has been punished , if he then shows a sincere desire to lead a decent and upright life , he should be given the chance , he should be helped and not hindered ; and if he makes good , he should receive that respect from others which so often possessions aids in creating self -respect – the most invaluable of
a
at
of
by
or
,
of
have not the slightest sympathy with put the policeman the mercy him efficient weapons While Police
any policy which tends tough which deprives
.
may explain that
to I
I
Violent Crime Must Be Punished With Police Severity
to
to
of
.
in
or to
;
in
,
up ,
”
"
of
to
or to to
of
.
an
all
Commissioner we punished any brutality the police with such severity brutality practically came immediate that cases end No decent citizen had anything fear from the police during the two years my service But we consistently encour aged the police prove that the violent criminal who endeavored molest them resist arrest interfere with them the discharge grave jeopardy and we had their duty was himself every gang broken and the members punished with whatever .
severity was necessary
180 216
1896
).
XXII
(
.
.
Mem Ed
,
.p
-
T.R. Autobiography Scribner
Too Lenient Judges Nullify Police Law Protection is
to
58
of
let
of
if
;
1896
)
311
(
310
,
XVI
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
is
,
go
.
do
to
,
In
the next place the most effective way reduce crime impose heavier sentences on for the judges and magistrates criminals The police their duty well but the courts the criminals with inadequate sentences the effect the labor largely wasted the police
Police Must Be Armed Well And Required To Be Just There is every possible reason for seeing that the efficiency of the police is not impaired , for such impairment is always at the expense of law - abiding and upright men , whether rich or poor . There can be no possible justification for seeking to impair this
If
let
a
to
the police power is used oppressively , or improperly , stop means put the practice and punish those
all
by
us
let
efficiency .
be
a
.
.
as
be
all
uniform
would policemen instead
;
A
.
is
bad man
purpose
it in of
is
at
evil
but
no
a
,
is
ef
.
as a
,
regards the
1917
).
XXI
73 (
Ed
., .
Mem
..
of
.
tion complete Exactly the same rule applies ficiency the police force whole
as
a
;
in
he
to be it at
,
.
-
be
,
having
,
this fact insist that automatic revolvers armed with flint lock pistols give policeman We must the individual the best arms possible may not disadvantage when pitted against order that criminal and then see that under circumstances are imperative these arms used unless the need and the justifica
of
childish because
foolish
his weapon
use
to
perhaps
to
any other course
of
may
or
,
a
To follow
or
a
us
for
it ;
just but remember that brute will much of brute whether he inefficient efficient Either keep them efficiency abolish the police the highest point
responsible
The More Atrocious Crimes Attract Most Maudlin Sympathy
Any
,
of
of
.
of
a
on
so
or
,
-
of
to
do with the infliction man who has ever had anything punishment the death penalty indeed with any form beings constituted that their knows that there are sentimental the behalf sympathies are always most keenly aroused penalty peculiar atrocity offender who pays the for deed
)
386 1900 (
XIII
,
,
Mem.Ed.
.
of
,
,
is is
that the more conspicuous the crime The explanation probably and the more acute their arrested the more their attention sympathy become manifestations
59
Firmness Against Criminals Will Deter Mob Violence
In connection with
of
the delays
the law , I call your atten
in
its at its
to
the
own by
is
it
corruption necessary supplement this
.
necessary
A
the execution
is
in
legislation will add speed and certainty the law When we deal with lynching even more
.
and
to
of ,
public conscience
whatever
of
own
has
,
its or
,
of of
be
it
;
.
an
to
awakened
West
time jeering busy trying amend
faults another section should shortcomings To deal with the crime have
East
can with wisdom spend
of
;
faults no section
South
,
,
,
Each section North
.
another
,
,
in
up
to
all
tion and the attention of the nation to the prevalence of crime lynching and mob vio the epidemic lence that springs now one part our country now
among us , and above
of
of
black men
the hideous
of
bestial
deed
and reducing
level with the criminal
.
a
themselves to
death the man committing ,
in
thus
to
themselves torturing avenging bestial fashion
this crime
a
by
it ; of
.
-
,
crime the most abominable the category crimes frequently avenge the commission even worse than murder Mobs in
rape
,
especially
all
by
,
the perpetration
of
is
ing
.
in
to
,
is
peculiarly fre great many white men are lynched but the crime lynch quent respect black men The greatest existing cause
grows by what feeds upon and when mobs lynch they begin speedily extend the sphere for rape their operations and lynch for many other kinds crimes that two thirds the lynchings are not for rape while considerable ,
so
.
all
all ;
aa
of
crime
1906
).
412
(
411
,
of XVII
the individuals lynched are innocent
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
proportion
at
of
of
to
of
;
it
Lawlessness
the Congress
our criminal law more
request that you pay heed this subject Centuries ago
60
it to
-g
I
;
of
make
of
I
action
effective and most earnestly report eneral the attorney
.
need
to
urgent
asked the attention
on
the
my last message
of
to
In
Change Laws That Coddle The Criminal
the was
especially
needful to throw every safeguard round the accused . The danger then was lest he should be wronged by the State . The danger is now exactly the reverse . Our laws and customs tell immensely in favor of the criminal and against the interests of the public he has wronged
Some antiquated and outworn rules which the threatened rights of private citizens , now merely work harm to the general body politic . The criminal law of once
.
safeguarded
the Unites States stands in urgent need Mem .
Ed .,
XXII
of revision .
, 365 , 366 ( 1005 ) .
Death Penalty For Murder And Rape My experience of the way in which pardons are often granted is one of the reasons why I do not believe that life imprisonment for murder and rape is a proper substitute for the death penalty . The average term of so - called life imprisonment in this country is
only about fourteen Mem . Ed .,
XXII
years .
, 351 ( 1913 )
Police Cannot Be Guided By Mushy Sentimentality
You don't want any mushy sentimentality when you are deal ing with criminals . One of the things that many of our good re formers should learn is that fellow -feeling for the criminal is out of place . You may be sorry for him ; you may not feel revengeful toward him ; but if you are going to do good you will put him down , and you've got to put him down . That is what the police man is there Mem . Ed .,
for.
XVI ,
282 , 283 ( 1895 )
Laws Cannot Change A Man's Will Or Character the last analysis , the most important elements in any man's career must be the sum of those qualities which , in the aggregate ,
In
we speak
of
as character .
If he
has not got it , then no law that the 61
–
then
in of
the
,
1910
)
,
30 (
XIX
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
to
of
,
of
.
a
a
in
man
,
good neighbor You must have that and you law and the kind must have the kind addition ministration the law which will give those qualities private citizen the best possible chance for development
makes
ad ,
,
a
,
a
a
in
all ,
wit of man can devise , no administration of the law by the boldest and strongest executive , will avail to help him . We must have the right kind of character – character that makes a man , first of good husband good father that good man the home
to
of
the Congress
to
make
it
.
on
of
.
of
in
the criminal and against the interests
the
has wronged Some antiquated and outworn rules which safeguarded the threatened rights private citizens now .
366
.
1905
);
365
,
,
Mem.Ed. XVII
(
in
of
.
to
work harm the general body politic The criminal law urgent need the United States stands revision merely
of
,
of
once
favor
he
public
.
be
he
is
mensely
by
.
to
-
of
I
;
our criminal law more effec tive and most earnestly request that you pay heed the report the attorney general this subject Centuries ago was especially needful throw every safeguard round the accused wronged The danger then was lest should the State The exactly danger now the reverse Our laws and customs tell im need
action
to
asked the attention
I
In
my last message
the urgent
of
Outdated Laws Favor The Criminal Against The Public
our criminal laws
to
the execution
of
The two great evils
in
Sentimentality And Technicality Cripple Criminal Laws
.
,
its
,
of
.
day are sentimentality and technicality For the latter the remedy must come from the hands the legislatures the courts and the lawyers The other must depend for cure upon the gradual
62
all
of
a
of
growth sound public opinion which shall insist that regard for the law and the demands reason shall control other
influences and emotions in the jury -box. Both of these evils must be removed or public discontent with the criminal law will con tinue . Mem .
Ed ., XVII,
506 ( 1907 )
63
VII PACIFISM
AS AN
ENEMY WEAPON
TO
UNDERMINE AMERICA
OUR FOES MOBILIZE THE EFFEMINATE
, THE COWARDLY ,
THE DUPES AND THE BARBAROUS
Ancient Civilizations Destroyed By Pacifism But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight . Materialism , luxury , safety , even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality , weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn ; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful . Mem . Ed .,
XIV ,
48 , 49 ( 1917 )
Pacifists Do More Harm Than Thieves And Grafters Some of the men and women who uphold the cause of the professional pacifists are actuated by good motives . The same statement can be made of some of the Tories in the Revolutionary War , of some of the Copperheads in the Civil War . But the fact remains in this case , as in the case of the Copperheads and the
Tories , that the sum of the activities of the men and women thus engaged was purely .mischievous and represented evil to America and evil to the cause of international justice and right. Wilkes Booth was an honest he was doubtless great
courage
sincere
in
; when he assassinated Lincoln the belief that he was doing right ;
man
to perform
the evil feat. Yet Wilkes Booth did a worse deed than the most corrupt politician or business man of exactly the same way time preaches peace any price the man who non resistance wrong disarmament and the submission everything arbitra and
was needed
64
all
to
-
,
In
to
,
of
.
at his
surely
tion , no matter how sincere and honest he may be , is rendering a worse service to his fellow countrymen than any exponent of crooked business or crooked politics . The deification of peace without regard to whether it is wise or righteous does not represent virtue . It represents peculiarly base and ignoble form of evil .
either a
Mem . Ed ., XX ,
346 , 347 ( 1916 )
A Foe Of Mankind
- Patriot
Non
Let me say at once that I am no advocate of a foolish cos mopolitanism . I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be , and as the only possible way of being , a good citizen of Experience teaches
us that the average man
,
so
;
of
a
be
of
mankind
citizen
any
very fact
of
in
is
,
be
to
In
of
a
is
citizen the world citizen whatever corner the moment the dim future
undesirable at
,
he
an
happens
does not care
373
,
at
distrust
him
,
to
,
wise
to
it
indifference
dis
.
distrust the man who can take the same his wife and mother
1910
).
XV
,
.
.,
Mem Ed
view
of
passionate
wise
(
is
it
just
as
the same level with tepid
is all
;
moral needs and moral standards may change but present man can view his own country and other countries from
a
if
all
the world
he
that the man who says that one country because usually exceedingly
he
proves himself the foe
to
practice
actual
he
,
in
he
does not care for his country because
of
tests that his international feeling swamps
mankind
who pro feeling national that cares much for
his
.
in .
the world
College Bred Pacifists Are The Most Pernicious these professional pacifists preach such cowardice other times they preach the utter flabbiness and feeble
.
At
Sometimes
openly
is
.
to
of
in
is a
it
;
to
a
to
,
,
65
It
moral and physical which inevitably breeds cowardice dreadful thing think that the event war brave men would have shed their blood worse thing think that these
ness
purchase their own ignoble safety by the blood The men and women guilty of such preaching and such practice are thoroughly bad citizens . The worst of them , of course , feeble
of
folk would
others
.
are those in the colleges , and those who profess to speak for the colleges ; for to them much has been given and from them much should be expected . The college boys who adopt the professional
pacifist views , who make peace leagues and preach the doctrines of international cowardice , are unfitting themselves for any career more manly than that of a nursemaid . A grown - up of the profes sional pacifist type is not an impressive figure ; but the college boy who deliberately elects to be a “ sissy ” should be replaced in the nursery and spanked Mem . Ed .,
XX ,
.
363 , 364 ( 1916 )
Empty Resolutions and Phony Treaties A National Menace The persons who seek to persuade our people that by doing nothing , by passing resolutions that cost nothing , and by writing eloquent messages and articles that mean nothing , and by com placently applauding elocution that means less than nothing , some service is thereby rendered to humanity , are not only ren dering
no such service , but are weakening the spring of national . This applies to the publicists and politicians who write messages and articles and make speeches of this kind ; it applies character
to the newspaper
editors and magazine writers who applaud such of all it applies to those of our people who insist upon the passage of treaties that cannot and will not be enforced , while they also inveigh against preparedness , and shud utterances
,
and most
der at action on behalf Mem .
Ed ., XX ,
of our own
rights
.
352 ( 1916 )
Pacifism In Civil Life Aids Crime - National Pacifism Aids Tyranny Righteousness when triumphant brings peace ; but peace may bring righteousness . Whether war is right or wrong depends not
purely upon the purpose for which , and the spirit in which , it is 66
with what takes place in civil life is per fect . The exertion of force or violence by which one man masters another may be illustrated by the case of a black -hander who kid naps a child , knocking down the nurse or guardian ; and it may also be illustrated by the case of the guardian who by violence withstands and thwarts the black -hander in his efforts to kidnap the child , or by the case of the policeman who by force arrests the black - hander or white - slaver or whoever it is and takes his victim Here the analogy
.
away from him . There are ,
all
waged
of
course , persons who believe that always immoral resist wrong doing -
to
a
is
It
,
,
in in
or or
of
,
to
is
a
.
,
or .
of
a
to
he
or to in
by
if
I to
a
is
or
to
or
it
it .
to
;
of
.
I
in
is
it
,
is
force immoral that by force have never taken much interest the individuals who profess this kind twisted morality and do not know the ex they are right tent which they practically apply But theory wrong their then for man endeavor force daughter from rape save his wife sister other abuse save his children from abduction and torture waste of position folly any time discuss with man such wickedness willing and poltroonery But unless man take this position cannot honestly condemn the use force violence war
or
or
-
in
to
differentiate among wars and nations certain wars and equally praise other nations certain other wars
of
.
in
to
us
principles which require condemn unstintedly certain without stint
or
to or
be
-
or
an
for the policeman who risks and perhaps loses takes life deal ing with burglar anarchist white slaver black hander highwayman must justified condemned on precisely the same
to
its
1916
)
270
(
269
,
XX
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
67
a
as
;
.
be
to
of
as
as
,
a
or
to
in
,
or
,
,
,
is
to
,
If
,
.
in
as
If
force the use war also objects although logical position both above outlined his civil life politicians automo the college presidents absurd and wicked two bile manufacturers and the like who during the past year degrading ignoble form and most have preached pacifism fairly think out the subject and are both sincere and are willing police force intelligent they must necessarily condemn they and they armies just condemn posse comitatus much constable the and sheriff the regard the activities must abolished being essentially militaristic and therefore the man who objects
The Bestial
And The Effeminate Hide Under Pacifist Colors
In some of our big cities , since the war began , men have formed vegetarian societies , claiming to be exempt from service on the ground that they object to killing not merely men , but Others among the leading apostles of applied pacifism are not timid men ; on the contrary they are brutal , violent men , who are perfectly willing to fight, but only for themselves and not for the nation . These rough -neck pacifists have always been the chickens
.
potent allies of the parlor or milk -and -water pacifists ; although they stand at the opposite end of the developmental scale . The parlor pacifist, the white -handed or sissy type of pacifist , repre sents decadence , represents the rotting out of the virile virtues among people who typify the unlovely senile side of civilization . The rough -neck pacifist, on the contrary , is
a mere belated
sav
who has not been educated to the virtues of national pa triotism and of willingness to fight for the national flag and the age ,
national ideal . The savage is a turbulent person anxious to brawl and to fight for his personal advantage , but too short - sighted and selfish to be willing to fight for the common good . Mem . Ed .,
Songs
XXI ,
181 , 182 ( 1917 ) .
Of Protest
?
Recently , in certain circles , some popularity has been achieved entitled " I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier " - aа song which ought always to be sung with a companion piece en titled “ I Didn't Raise My Girl To Be a Mother .” The two would by
-
a song
stand on precisely Mem .
Ed ., XX ,
Political
“
the same moral level .
357 ( 1916 )
Peace
”
Panderers
Exploit Fear And Softness
Moreover , it should always be remembered that in these matters the weak cannot be helped by the weak ; that the brutal 68
by
wrong -doer cannot be checked by the coward or by the fat, boast ful , soft creature who does not take the trouble to make himself ,
,
.
of
,
,
using high sound
.
to
,
them and relieve their secret sense shame ing names describe their shortcomings
-
of
by
a
-g
,
by
,
in
.
,
,
to
,
fit
enforce his words his deeds Preparedness means fore thought effort trouble labor Therefore soft men selfish indolent money etting and the great mass men men absorbed well meaning men who shrink from performing the new duties created political leader who will comfort new needs eagerly welcome
he
,
a
on —
.
to
to be
,
or
their timidity vitality the moral the
1916
)
377
(
.
sapping
may
words
men who wish
of
.
he
376
,
XX
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
is
he
-s
,
, to
win votes and gain office thus pandering hear their selfishness their short ightedness exalted into virtues But people whom misleads
if
in
high sounding -
in
the use
by
he
excels
of
to
or
”
,
“
”
"
if
to
,
politician
as
as a
he
if
,
in
An adroit politician can unquestionably gain many votes duty praises such fashion exalts unpreparedness peace and advocates neutrality both themselves moral even although the peace and neutrality may conditioned the failure do our duty either others ourselves Such
All
the men advocating
such action
,
of
International Wrong Doers Like Criminals Only Respect Effective Force including the profes foreign birth and ,
,
exact par with
York of all
69
the
otten
spoils
a
it
and
they
re
-
,
ill -g
,
-
,
undisturbed possession
of
taining
to
the police and should propose substitute for that the highwaymen white slavers black handers burglars cease their activities for the moment on condition quest
re
,
in
New lawlessness the immediate cessation
,
demand
an
this stamp stand on
epidemic
improper posi
base and
of
of
thoroughly
of
to
,
by
activity
if
there was men who should come together
an
.
,
shrink from duty occupy tion The peace advocates
a
or
all
-
-
,
of
sional pacifists the big business men largely the well meaning but feeble minded creatures among their allies and including especially those who from sheer timidity weakness
had
acquired . The only effective friend
already
of
peace in a big city
be
,
is
is
in
-
,
of
to
,
.
.
international affairs 184
Of Alien Militarism
Professional pacifists attack evil only when
be
Pacifists Are Tools
1915
)
183
(
in XX
,
to
of
means
,
Ed
.,
.
arises
successful
larly true Mem
wrong subdue the worst kind the only argument that wrong doers respect private life force What thus true simi
occasion
,
doers namely
by
the
,
when
is
it
to
of
to
in
of
all
is the man who makes the police force thoroughly efficient , who tries to remove the causes of crime , but who unhesitatingly insists upon the punishment of criminals . Pacifists who believe that use force international matters can abolished will do well remember that the only efficient police forces are those whose violence commit acts members are scrupulously careful not possible when avoid them but who are willing and able
it
to
of
in
to
to
of
an
of
hyphenated Americanism who are ally and tool alien militar turn this country into
1916
)
Of Right
70
,
-
world wide peace like mind Josh Billings's astute remark
that the advocates
should bear
in
,
all
The truth reformers
is
Pacifist Doves Cripple The Forces
of
305
(
XX
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
to
glove with these exponents seeking ism
.
in
.
in
.
,
to
all
to
;
of
its
to
,
In
.
to
can done with entire safety themselves the present great crisis the professional pacifists have confined themselves trying prevent the United States from protecting honor and interest and the lives its citizens abroad and their loud denunciations war they have been careful language apply equally use which would terribly wronged peoples defending that was dear them against cynical and ruthless oppression and the men who were They dare responsible for this cynical and ruthless oppression They speak righteousness not for the concrete dare not speak They against the most infamous wrong the concrete work hand
that
" it
is much easier to be aa harmless dove than a wise serpent .”
The worthy pacifists have completely forgotten that the Biblical injunction is two -sided and that we are bidden not only to be
.
harmless as doves but also to be wise as serpents . The pacifists have undoubtedly been an exceedingly harmless so far as obtaining peace is concerned . They have exerted tically no influence in restraining wrong , although they have
ultra body
prac some
had a real and lamentable influence in crippling the forces right and preventing them from dealing with wrong .
times
of
Mem .
Ed ., XX ,
42 ( 1915 ) .
Flabby Pacifists Represent Unmanly Emasculation Unless we are thoroughgoing Americans and unless our patriotism is part of the very fibre of our being , we can neither serve God nor take our own part . Whatever may be the case in an infinitely remote future , at present no people can render any service to humanity unless as a people they feel an intense sense of national cohesion and solidarity . The man who loves other
.
of
an
it
its
nations as much as he does his own , stands on a par with the man who loves other women as much as he does his own wife . The United States can accomplish little for mankind , save in so far develops as within borders intense spirit Americanism .
of
of
.
a
it .
Is
)
1916
Pacifism By Nature
Also Against Law Enforcement
or
to
,
The precepts and teachings upon which the pacifists rely concerning questions arising from not war but to
apply
a
or
,
233
(
,
XX
is
if
as
of
.
as
its
of
Ed
.,
.
Mem
It
it
if
,
,
a
is
,
A
flabby cosmopolitanism especially expresses itself through flabby pacifism only silly degrading represents not but hyphenated every form national emasculation The professors truly the foes they dwelt Americanism are this country against outside borders and made active war This not hyperbolic statement figure speech
71
individual and mob violence and the exercise of the internal police power . In so far as sincere and logical pacifists are con cerned , they recognize this fact . There are schools of pacifists who decline to profit by the exercise of the police power , who decline to protect not merely themselves , but those dearest to from any form of outrage and violence . The individuals of this type are at least logical in their horror even of just war . If a man deliberately takes the view that he will not resent having his wife's face slapped , that he will not by force endeavor to save his
them
,
of
in
a
by
an
all
,
is
fit
by he is
,
he
,
-
,
of
by a
,
as
he
a
to
a
to
,
.
he is in
at to
,
by
or
to a
,
he
disapproves from outrage and that the police man who interferes force save child kidnapped black girl run off by logical hander white slaver then objecting my mind occupies war Of course un speakably base and loathsome position and not cumber only the world which matter fact exists daughter
,
240,241
Easier To Stop
.
1916
)
XX
(
Ed
.,
Mem
.
he
to
of
protected the maintenance others the very principle which repudiates himself and declines share
because
All Crime
Than To Get World Peace
of
all
,
all
of
similar working ,
by
is
Asia try
to
,
,
One
secure
Europe America the various peoples failings the commonest mankind
of
and Africa
.
among
a
live together undoubtedly very much easier than
agreement
,
and also the reign New York abandon the force harmony without any police force would
of to
,
to
men and mechanics
of
be
and
all
the business
professional crooks
to
,
professors
in in
all
.
of
is
of
a
in
a
,
is
On the whole there much greater equality intellectual among great and moral status the individuals civilized com munity than there between the various nations and peoples getting the earth The task the policemen the college
of
.
is
at
to
to
grandil perform the duty make amends for failure hand oquent talk about something that afar off Most our worthy
to
.
, of
in
pacifist friends adopt this matter the attitude Mrs. Jellyby took foreign toward missions when compared with her own domestic neighborhood meeting together and passing and duties Instead resolutions affect the whole world let them deal with the much 72
of regulating their own localities . When we have dis method by which right living may be spread so uni versally in Chicago and New York that the two cities can with safety abolish their police forces, then , and not till then , it will be worth while to talk about the abolition of war . ” Until that easier task
covered
a
time the discussion will not possess even academic value Mem .
Ed ., XX ,
371 , 372 ( 1916 )
Who Cannot Take Their Own Part Encourage
Weaklings
.
Evil
The man who cannot take his own part is a nuisance in the community , a source of weakness , an encouragement to wrong doers , and an added burden to the men who wish to do what is right . If he cannot take his own part , than somebody else has to take it for him ; and this means that his weakness and cowardice and inefficiency place an added burden on some other man and make that other man's strength by just so much of less avail to the community as a whole . No man can take the part of any one else
unless he is able to take his own part
nations
of
as
Mem . Ed .,
XX ,
men
.
This is just
as true
of
.
232 ( 1916 )
Pacifists Harbor Many Who Lack
“
Virile Manliness
"
Not the smallest particle
of good has come from the peace years of the last ten as carried on in America . Literally , agitation professional pacifists during these ten years this of the represented has not the smallest advance toward securing the peace propaganda
of righteousness . It has , on the other hand , represented a very considerable and real deterioration in the American character . I do not think it is a permanent
deterioration . I think that we heartily ashamed of our lapse from virile manliness . But there has been a distinct degeneracy in the moral fibre of our people owing to this peace propaganda , a shall
recover
and
become
73
distinct increase in moral flabbiness , and sentimental untruthfulness . Mem . Ed .,
XX ,
a
distinct increase in hysteria
351 , 352 ( 1916 )
Neither Local Crime Nor International Perfidy Can Be Arbitrated No man is required to “ arbitrate ” a slap in the face or an insult to his wife ; no man is expected to “ arbitrate ” with a burglar or a highwayman . If in private life one individual takes action which
an
a
of
,
is
so
or
is
near the wronged man not only justified the assailant thief but fails his duty
New York one policeman not knocking down
in
a
,
and
a
the streets
steals his watch
he
,by
man assaults another
witness and not necessarily in
.
,
essential witness
of
is in
It
merely man For example
if ,
The wronged
or
.
ing
is all .
immediately jeopardizes the life or limb or even the bodily well being and the comfort of another , the wronged party does not have to go into any arbitration with the wrong - doer . On the con trary , the policeman or constable or sheriff immediately and sum marily arrests the wrong - doer. The subsequent trial is not in the nature of arbitration at the nature criminal proceed
.
if
in
by ,
,
is
of
.
to
.
in as
.
-
a
If
does not act policeman near the policeman promptly arrests the wrong doer The magistrate does not arbitrate the question property rights the watch nor anything about the assault He satisfies himself the facts and delivers judgment against the offender
covenant
,
a
.
be
.
to
,
no
if
kept Such
ever arise
)
1915
Of Non
Resistance Against Enemy Worse Than Criminals well have been
a
might just
as
he
Harvard
the press with saying the other day that
wishes the United States would take the position that 74
if
in
is
–
A
Yale professor professor credited he
such questions
-
Advocates
174
(
XX
,
Ed
neither could nor ought
harmless only
.,
Mem
.
will
be
and interest
,
to
all
A
covenant between the United States and any other power including those involving national honor questions arbitrate
attacked
it would not defend itself , and would submit unresistingly to any spoilation . The professor said that this would afford such a beau tiful example to mankind that war would undoubtedly be abol ished . Magazine writers , and writers of syndicate articles pub lished in reputable papers , have recently advocated similar plans .
who talk this way are thoroughly bad citizens . Few mem bers of the criminal class are greater enemies of the Republic . Men
Mem .
Ed ., XX ,
158 , 159 ( 1915 )
Condemning Righteous War Is Like Damning Police War On Crime
To condemn equally
might which backs right and might which
overthrows right is to render positive service to wrong -doers . It is as if in private life we condemned alike both the policeman and the dynamiter or black -hand kidnapper or white -slaver whom he has arrested . To denounce the nation that wages war in self defense , or from a generous desire to relieve the oppressed , in the same terms in which we denounce war waged in a spirit of greed or wanton folly stands on an exact par with denouncing equally a murderer and the policeman who , at peril of his life and by force of arms , arrests the murderer . In each case the de nunciation denotes mind Mem .
and
of
Ed ., XX ,
morals
not loftiness of soul but weakness both of .
191 , 192 ( 1915 )
Pacifism Can Destroy America
If be
.
go
,
if
For democracy will
75
it
if
assuredly down incompatible with national security The .
is
.
blame shown that
it
once
be
primarily
to
,
in
at
all
Every professional pacifist in America , every representative of commercialized greed , every apostle of timidity , every sinister creature who betrays his country by pandering to the anti - American feeling which masquerades under some species of hyphenated Americanism – these men and women and their representatives public life are this moment working against democracy democracy goes down they will the democratic ideal fails
law of self - preservation is the primary law for nations as for in dividuals . If a nation cannot protect itself under a democratic form of government , then it will either die or evolve a new form of government. Mem . Ed .,
XX ,
386 , 387 ( 1916 )
When Tyranny Rules The Debate Over
"
Rights
” Is
Ended For Good
In December last I was asked to address the American Socio logical Congress on " the effect of war and militarism on social values .” In sending my answer I pointed out that infinitely the most important fact to remember in connection with the subject in question is that if an unscrupulous , warlike , and militaristic nation is not held in check by the warlike ability of a neighboring “
of
.
to
,
is
by
”
dealing
with own moral and social won't allowed deal with anything Until thoroughly recognized and the duty national pre
because
this fact
of
be
the
values
well -behaved nation , then the latter will be
and
necessity
it
spared
its
non - militaristic
as
of
,
,
in
;
;
upper
of
servation
of
of
“
as
-
is
of -
,
justice loving nations explicitly acknowledged there paredness solemnly debating such questions very little use the one sociological congress assigned me which which the detail was How war and militarism affect such social values the sense the preciousness human life care for child welfare the con
1916
)
264
(
XX
76
of
;
;
."
rights
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
personal
-
in
-
;
interest
resources
;
class concern for the lot popular education appreciation truth telling and truth printing respect for personality and regard for
the masses
human
VIII AFRICAN SAVAGES 50 TO 100 THOUSAND YEARS BEHIND WHITES IN DEVELOPMENT GREW ONLY UNDER WHITE RULE
NEGRO POPULATION
Some Africans Are
Ape -Like
The dark - skinned races that live in the land vary widely . Some are warlike , cattle - owning nomads ; some till the soil and live in thatched huts shaped like beehives ; some are fisherfolk ; some are ape - like , naked savages , who dwell in the woods and prey on creatures not much wilder or lower than themselves . Mem . Ed .,
Negro
V , XXv , xxvi
And Eskimo
( 1910 )
Savages 50 To 100 Thousand Years Behind
To say that progress goes on and has gone on at unequal different continents , so far as human society is con cerned , is so self - evident as to be trite . Yet , after we hardly laymen visualize even this fact ourselves and we least often ,
,
at all ,
;
to
speed in
as
he
of
is
as
of
or
else frankly forget the further fact that this state equally regards the prehistory ment true mankind and regards the paleontological history great the beasts with which has been associated on the different continents during the last either disregard
by
,
a
In
.
or
history given century two three hundred thousand years may on one continent mean what on another continent was meant a
77
.
in
is
of
as
.
In
a
a
or
century that came thousand thousand years before prehistory and paleontology there the same geo development graphical difference regards the rapidity time years later
The Tasmanians , Bushmen , and Esquimaux of the eigh teenth century had nothing in common with the Europeans of their day . Their kinship , physical and cultural , was with certain
of Palaeolithic Europeans
races
thousand years back
fifty or
and Asiatics
a
hundred
.
its
many
of
,
and
in
,
Europe and Asia the
if
a
in
incalculable
mere moment
,
-
of
period
that
of
.
,
in
speak
meant
we speak historic time but geologic time which witnessed
of as
length
general aspect
reproduces the life that once was Europe what paleontologists call the Pleisto
both the Americas By Pleistocene age cene and
is in
,
most striking details
it
and the Americas . Yet in
in
its
In just the same way the fierce wild life of parts of Africa day to has nothing in common with what we now see in Europe
we
to -
whom were phys
the more advanced races
of
,
abreast
of
as
we can see
of
a
far
,
of
the savages that still exist and some
,
forms ically
as
of
on
-
of
slow change the brute like and but partly human predecessors man into beings who were culturally level with the lower
be
,
of
.
a
scholars gifted with imagination
.
all
to
and vivid interest
intense
it
,
all
of
of
of
is
of
.
of
in
a
this phase
this planet offers
of
the vast epic life development fascinating study The history man himself by far the most absorbing histories and cannot under stood without some knowledge his prehistory Moreover the history the rest the animal world also yields drama ,
Surely
on
.
day
of
-
furtive human life 78
the wilderness
and
at
my life
,
of
on
the banks
the thronging herds
the African
of
watched
.
,
tures and the sly
of
.
over the empty sunlit African wastes
palm and thorn tree
Day after day
one year
,
,
hand
of
camp
by
rifle
I
.
rivers
was my good fortune throughout
in
,
roam
night
to
to
It
-
-
of
-
of
humanity and the history The two histories the prehistory culminating phase the non human mammalian life were inter woven during the dim ages when man was slowly groping upward from the bestial to the half divine
wild crea Often and
often , as I so watched , my thoughts went back through measure less time
to the
ages
when the western lands where my people now
dwell , and the northern lands of the eastern world where their re mote forefathers once dwelt , were filled with just such a wild life .
In those days these far -back ancestors of ours led the same lives of suspicion and vigilant cunning among the beasts of the forest and plain that are now led by the wildest African savages . In that immemorial past the beasts conditioned the lives of men , as they conditioned the lives of one another ; for the chief factors in man's existence were then the living things upon which he preyed and the
which sometimes made prey of him . Ages were before his mastery grew to such a point that the fanged things he once had feared , and the hoofed things success in the
fearsome
creatures
to pass
of which
chase
had once meant to him life or death , became
gible factors in his existence
of
Some
.
the naked
or half skin -clad
and with whom I hunted were still leading these ages -dead forebears of ours . Ed .,
Mem .
IV ,
negli
whom I met
savages
precisely
the life
of
138 , 139 , 140 ( 1916 ) .
African Negroes Are Child - Like And Despise Any Weakness
is
,
to
in
to
he
if
is a
I
.
,
a
,
to
,
;
,
in
,
all
Safari life is very pleasant , and also very picturesque . The porters are strong , patient , good - humored savages , with something childlike about them that makes one really fond of them . Of savages and most children they have their limita course , like dealing with them firmness tions and even more necessary poor creature who does not treat than kindness but the man them with kindness also and am rather sorry for him does not grow feel for them and make them return feel for gusts of passion him real and friendly liking They are subject
and they work hard 79
if
amusing
,
cheerful are always
;
.
,
at
,
;
of
grave misdeeds and short and they are now and then guilty comings sometimes for no conceivable reason least from the white man's standpoint But they are generally cheerfui and when the white
man is able to combine tact and consideration with that insistence on the performance of duty the lack of which they despise as weakness Mem .
Ed .,
.
V ,> 81
( 1910 )
African Population Flourishes Under White Dominion There is one feature in the expansion of the peoples of white , or European , blood during the past four centuries which should never be lost sight of , especially by those who denounce such expansion on moral grounds . On the whole , the movement has been fraught with lasting benefit to most
of
the peoples already
dwelling in the lands over which the expansion took place . Of course any such general statement as this must be understood with , no the necessary reservations. Human nature being what it is >
move
for four centuries and extending in one shape or another over the major part of the world could go on without cruel injustices being done at certain places and in certain times . ment
lasting
Occasionally , although not very frequently , a mild and kindly race has been treated with wanton , brutal , and ruthless inhumanity by the white intruders . Moreover , mere savages , whose type of life was so primitive as to be absolutely incompatible with the existence of civilization , inevitably died out from the regions across which their sparse bands occasionally flitted , when these regions became filled
they died out when they were kindly treated as quickly as when they were badly treated , for the simple reason that they were so little advanced that the conditions of life necessary to their existence were incompatible with any form of with
a dense
population
;
higher and better existence
.
It
is also true that
,
even where great
good has been done to the already existing inhabitants , where they have thriven under the new rule , it has sometimes brought with it discontent from the very fact that it has brought with it a certain amount
of well-being
and a certain amount
of knowledge ,
so that people have learned enough to feel discontented and have prospered
enough to be able to show their discontent . Such ingra 80
it
a
of
As
result
a
of
Europe over hundred European blood and many millions in
of
;
as
of
of
of
people wholly million European blood and more partly another result there are now on the whole more people native blood the regions where these hundred million intruders dwell than there were when
1909
).
;
as
brother the zebra was
taming
its
as
readily tamed
susceptible
as
buffalo
of
The African
Tamable African Animals as
Did Not Domesticate
Negroes
is
342
(
341
,
XVIII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
f
.
the intruders went thither
Asiatic
the early wild
.
of
all
to
;
is
of
probably big ruminants the one the eland that most readily lends itself domestication But none them horse and ass
were tamed until tribes owning animals which had been tamed for
,
,
of
,
of
-
of
,
,
go
to
for ages through the
tame beast
.
a
a
than
wild into
again
1916
Australian Aborigines
).
157
is
it
to
changing
A
156
,
IV ,
.
Ed
deal with animals already accustomed
domestic servitude
labor incident Mem
;
.
the yoke
to of
to
more convenient
(
whites
,
are
in
Asia
Africa and then the already tamed animals were their stead The asses cattle sheep and goats now the domestic animals the negroes and the profitable merely Africa because easier more and in
accepted
in
ages appeared
.,
Low Racial Type
.
,
Australia which was much less important than America was also won and settled with far less difficulty The natives ,
1
f
this expansion there now live outside
,
.
,
is
-
in
the countries where the expansion has taken place
.
of
of
of
,
On the whole and speaking generally one extraordinary this expansion the European races that with has population and well being among the natives increase
an
fact gone
in
its
; but it is also , any both unwarranted and foolish and the fact of existence given case does not justify any change attitude our part
of
S
titude is natural , and must be reckoned with as such
on
e
81
15
)
Of Early Man
Eurasia
or
in
had died out
,
types
all
,
America
at
to
A
Backward Vestige
probable that before man came
is
It
,
Negroes Australoids
the earlier
.
1889
(
X ,
.,
Ed
.
Mem
14 ,
an
of
all ,
were so few in number and of such a low type , that they practi cally offered no resistance at being but little more hindrance equal number ferocious beasts than
had been absorbed , ,
-
of
,
,
,
or
and developed else had been thrust southward into Africa Tasmania Australia and remote forest tracts Indo Malaysia being such backward savages they never developed thing remotely resembling civilization .
a
1916
).
176
(
IV ,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
any
,
,
where
white man's country and the right type can undoubtedly the country well them
of
as
-
to
although planters and merchants do well there the advantage
as
this kind
;
of
Uganda can never
of of
be
African Negro Religions Bestial With No Ethical Basis
must remain essentially black man's country and the chief task the officials the intrusive and masterful race must bring forward the natives help train them and above they industry may them train themselves that advance morality capacity for self government for learning ,
is in
it
-
,
in
;
to
,
-
-g
the gift
of
to
all
of
overnment
,
people self
so a
giving
in
,
“
talk
”
in
of
idle
to
,
,
be
to
of
a
-it
selves
the all
;
,
,
a
,
,
,
-
to
,
-
is
to
is
the
be
,
when
is
lacking inward spirit mere folly patiently help people acquire that can done the neces sary qualities social moral intellectual industrial and lastly political and meanwhile exercise for their benefit with jus forms
as
82
,
a
of
, ,
in
.
,
,
as
sympathy and firmness the governing ability which yet they themselves lack The widely spread rule strong European race lands like Africa gives one incident thereof the chance
tice
for nascent cultures , nascent semicivilizations , to develop without fear of being overwhelmed in the surrounding gulfs of savagery ; and this aside from the direct stimulus to development conferred by the consciously and unconsciously exercised influence of the
white man , wherein there is much of evil , but much more of ultimate good . In any region of wide - spread savagery , the chances for the growth of each self -produced civilization are necessarily small
,
because each little center
exposed savagery
;
of effort toward this
end is always
to destruction from the neighboring masses of pure and therefore progress is often immensely accelerated
by outside invasion and control . In Africa the control and guidance is needed as much in the things of the spirit as in the things of the body . Those who complain of or rail at missionary work in Africa , and who confine themselves to pointing out the undoubtedly too numerous errors of the missionaries and shortcomings of their least dispelled
a
has
at
but feeble and gray
it
is
in
been
let
flocks , would do well to consider that even if the light which has worse
-
as
,
-
of
.
As
than Stygian darkness soon native African religions prac tically none which have hitherto evolved any substantial ethical beyond d evelop basis the most primitive stage they tend notably ,
to
its a
underlying foundation
of
creed
.
an ,
a
,
:
the government
Compared
to African
farms was being run by
an
One
advance on such
1909
Enjoy Advantages
of
Negroes
363
immeasurable
justice
).
,
362
(
,
V ,
.,
.
S.
U.
Ed
with
a
in
understood Christianity and mercy represents Mem
of
grow into malign creeds middle and western Africa cruelty and immorality with bestial and revolting poorly taught and imperfectly ritual and ceremonial Even unspeakable
educated
a
impressed
who must necessarily 83
in
with the immense advance with the native negro and think much
of
compared
;
as
American
,
an
deed
to
these men represented
be
.
tor No one could fail
to
a
as
;
colored man from Jamaica and we were shown much courtesy by colored man from our own country who was practising doc
the
race problem at home , it is pleasant to be made to realize in vivid fashion the progress the American negro has made , by comparing
him with the negro who dwells in Africa untouched , or but lightly touched , by white influence . Mem .
Ed ., V ,
10 ( 1909 ) .
Indiscriminate Cannibalism In Congo Free State One of the public officials whom I met at the governor's table was Major Hinde . He had at one time served under the gov
of
ernment
of
the State
per hand
,
the Congo Free State
;
and
,
at a crisis in the fortunes
when the Arab slave - traders bade fair to get the
,
he was one
of
up
the eight or ten white men , representing
half as many distinct nationalities , who overthrew the savage sol diery of the slave-traders and shattered beyond recovery the Arab the wild pagan tribes just as their Arab they fought foes had done in a land where deadly sickness struck vanquished down victor and with ruthless impartiality ; they
power . They organized ;
found their commissariat as best they could wherever they hap pened to be ; often they depended upon one day's victory to fur ammunition with which to wage the morrow's battle ; and ever they had to be on guard no less against the thousands of cannibals in their own ranks than against the thousands of cannibals in the hostile ranks , for , on whichever side they nish
the
fought, after every battle the warriors of the
man - eating
tribes
watched their chance to butcher the wounded indiscriminately and to feast on the bodies of the slain . Mem .
Ed ., VII ,
( 1909 )
White Rule Leads African Blacks Out
Of Savagery
There have been very dark spots in the European conquest and control
of Africa ; but on
the whole the African regions which 84
during the past century have seen the greatest cruelty , degradation , and suffering, the greatest diminution of population , are those where native control has been unchecked . The advance has been that have been under European control or
the regions
made in
influence ; that have been profoundly
ministrators ,
influenced by European ad European and American missionaries . Of
by
and
of
high civilization
assimilate and profit
to
its
,
of
,
in
the prerequisite
cases
condi
of
very large number
all
is
of
;
of
a
in
,
defects
is
to
,
or
to
American European ideas the ideas civilization and Christianity with spite out submitting alien control but such control a
own
by
its
course the best that can happen to any people that has not already
exploit the natives moral well being should
merely
,
made use
to
of
;
where without regard
is
brutally
to it
.
is
in
the moral and material advance the peoples who dwell the darker corners of the earth Where the control exercised
tion
on be
;
it
-
of
to
wrong doing
on
.
,
,
be
or
their physical unsparingly criticised and there should resolute insistence amendment and reform But we must not because occasional -
,
blind ourselves the fact that the whole the administrator and the Christian missionary have exercised profound and wholesome influence for good savage regions Ed
XVIII
.
in
1909
).
344
(
,
.,
Mem
.
a
white
Revolution Impelled Haitian Negroes Into Savagery
At
,
in
of
,
is
is
this moment Haiti more backward than any other West average negro Indian island her citizen less well off than the corresponding negro any the other islands and the general
for
its
curse
,
success was
a
nevertheless
its
century
,
teenth
;
at
of
.
of
a
of
;
all
is
in
any condition worse and contains less promise than other island and because the other islands have been through process evolution instead revolution There was ample moral warrant for the Haitian revolution the end the eigh social
suc
a
85
in
,
to
,
,
;
to
,
cess with the dreadful accompanying atrocities put off the day when emancipation came the other islands and moreover short time emancipation would have inevitably come Haiti
.
1910
Body And Mind
,
(
and possibly here and may there remain white states
the Zambezi
it )
south
there on high plateaus north
of
Africa
of
In
-
Blacks And Half Caste Are Negroid
In
,
.,
190
)
XIV
Ed
.
Mem
(
fit
anyhow , with comparatively little shock and dislocation ; and then there would have been left in the island , as in the other islands , an element naturally for uplifting leadership
built
in
;
does not seem possible that any white state can
Doubtless for many centuries
European adven
turers and Arab raiders will rule over huge territories
in
,
.up
ever
be
Africa generally
it
,
to
a
although even these states will surely contain large colored popu tropical swamp the whites but lation always threatening
coun
the
,
of
of
of
by
be
by
,
of
of ,
,
of
try south Capricorn the Soudan and north the tropic and the whole structure not only social but physical the negro profoundly changed and the negroid peoples will their
.
in
anything but negroid
type
of
,
of
be
to
will
240
1894
).
,
239
, (
XIV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
ever ultimately changed body and mind
,
is
it
of
-
influence and the influence the half caste descendants European these and Asiatic soldiers fortune and industry But hardly possible conceive that the peoples Africa how
-
Self Government Impossible For Tribal Savages a
in
86
overnment
.
it
.
to -
of
a
obtain self
,
give him the chance
-g
.
for himself You can
to
-
to
-
to
. I
to
to
-
to
give such and such Now and then we hear the appeal government worthy nation self have had some friends Boston appeal give self government me number individuals who regard themselves overdressed when they wear breech clouts anybody He has got You cannot give self government earn
but he himself out govern
must
his own heart must do the governing
himself . That is what it means
.
.
He
That is what self
And now , as our people assume control more and more of the machinery of government , as their part in the government occasionally or rapidly becomes more direct , as their representatives become more intelligently their representatives it .
behooves them to remember and
its
interest
of
,
needs
in the experiment ,
its
ever succeeded
that only the exceptional people have
of
self - government , because
its
means
successful working imply the existence
be
1911
).
548
(
XV
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
87
,
,
.
.
-
the
-
if
is
.
,
qualities
heart
be
the
be
citizen certain very high mastery There must control There must some where and there no self control and self mastery the control imposed from without and the mastery will ultimately within
average
of
government
of
IX WHITES MOST SUITABLE TO BUILD CIVILIZATION IN WORLD TEMPERATE ZONES
NEW
NEGRO FREEDOM GAINED BY SHEDDING
WIDELY DISSIMILAR
OF WHITE BLOOD
RACES SHOULD NOT
MIX
RACIAL DIFFERENCES THE MAJOR FACTOR
For
New World A Heritage
White Civilization
it
its
Nineteenth - century democracy needs no more complete vindication for existence than the fact that has kept for the
.
America and Australia
temperate
surface
,
'
the new worlds
Had these regions been under aristocratic by
a
,
,
our Southern
words
that
the new
.
As
a
has kept the temperate zones heritage for the white people
a
the future owes
democratic policy which and the newest worlds
trans
to
expressed
of
of
The whole civilization
greater than can
in
gratitude
a
in
of
.
.
of
debt
the negro
legacy from the time when we were ruled by
aristocracy
oceanic
The presence
alien
be
is a
States
,
of
the dangerous
necessity
;
to
,
holding oligarchy and the result would
in
-
is
the slave trade
encouraged
of
immigration would have been encouraged
Chinese
any slave few generations have been even more fatal the white race but the democracy with the clear instinct race selfishness saw the race foe and kept out as
precisely
,
governments
of
white race the best portions
seriously
1894
88
al
menaced
,
is
for the latter can
protective tariffs and stringent
).
246
(
245
,
XIV
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
he
soon
as
,
his own home
.
,
,
in
the white laborer protect ways himself and always will protect himself migration laws status
by as
of
do .
;
of
,
for the industrial competition the Chinaman and the Hindoo may drive certain kinds white traders from the tropics they They can never change the but more than this cannot
im
Negro
Gained Through Shedding Of Whites Blood
Freedom
The liberty secured in the Civil War to the black man was thus secured only because the white man was willing to fight to the death for the Union , and for the flag to which we owe un allegiance
divided
Mem .
Ed ., XXI ,
.
187 ( 1917 ) .
Slavery is Better Than Savage Anarchy
Sometimes
In 1833 the abolition societies of the North came into prominence ; they had been started a couple of years previously .
it
to
by
.
in in a in
its
Black slavery was such a grossly anachronistic and un American form of evil , that it is difficult to discuss calmly the efforts to abolish it , and to remember that many of these efforts were calculated to do , and actually did , more harm than good . We are also very apt to forget that it was perfectly possible and reasonable for enlightened and virtuous men , who fully recognized having it as an evil , yet to prefer continuance interfered produce way with that would even worse results Black slavery
at
,
;
to
it
be
,
so to it
-
-
its
in
her benefit the end have had slavery continue longer ultimate extinction being certain rather
-
century
or
a
been greatly
of
Haiti was characterized worse abuse than ever was the United States yet looking the condition that questioned whether may well republic now would not have the case
is
1887
Mass Oriental Immigration Would Be
A
)
(
118
deal
.
be
is
117
,
VIII
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
it
,
it
possible way size exists often the case that there fraught ing with that will not itself with baleful results
of
no
.
,
as
to
than have had her attain freedom she actually did with the results that have flowed from her action When an evil of colossal
Calamity of
89
,
,
,
is
If
there one question upon which the philanthropists the present day especially the more emotional ones are agreed
it is that any law restricting Chinese immigration is an outrage ; yet it seems incredible that any man of even moderate intelligence should not see that no greater calamity could now befall the to have the Pacific slope fill up with
United States than golian population . Ed ., VIII ,
Mem .
a
Mon
118 ( 1887 )
Widely Different Peoples Should
Not
Be Mixed
out of hand , the peoples represent of two such lines of divergent cultural development would be fraught with peril ; and this , I repeat , be cause the two are different , not because either is inferior to the An effort to mix together
,
ing the culminating points
other . Wise statesmen , looking to the future , will for the present endeavor to keep the two nations from mass contact and inter mingling , precisely because they wish to keep each in relations of permanent good will and friendship with the other . ( U.S. and Japan T.
]
R. Autobiography
–
Scribner
pp . 381 , 382
Mem . Ed .
XXII
, 433 , 434 ( 1909 )
Conquest By Inferior Barbarian Races Brings Sheer Evil Nothing but sheer evil has come from the victories of Turk and Tartar . This is true generally of the victories of barbarians of low racial characteristics over gentler , more moral , and more re fined peoples , even though these people have , to their shame and
of
savage
in
of
submersion
the armed settlement
it
and barbaric strange lands
90
.
,
an
of
in
of
the races who hold their hands the fate the years Every displacement inferior race every such
such submersion
or
of
as a
been for the displacement peoples consequence
or
all ,
discredit , lost the vigorous fighting virtues . Yet it remains no less true that the world would probably have gone forward very little , indeed would probably not have gone forward at had not
or conquest by a superior race , means the inflic tion and suffering of hideous woe and misery . It is a sad and dread ful thing that there should be of necessity such throes of agony ; and yet they are the birth - pangs of a new and vigorous people . That they are in truth birth - pangs does not lessen the grim and armed settlement
of the race supplanted ; of the race outworn or over wrongs The done and suffered cannot be blinked . Neither
hopeless woe
thrown . can they be allowed to hide the results to mankind of what has been achieved Ed ., XI ,
Mem .
.
389 , 390 ( 1889 )
Masterful White Texans Supplanted A Weaker Race
Any
one who has ever been on the frontier , and who knows
anything whatever of the domineering , masterful spirit and bitter race prejudices of the white frontiersmen , will acknowledge at question long once that it was out of the that the Texans should continue under Mexican rule
;
and it would have been
a
great
mis
if
they had . It was out of the question to expect them to submit to the mastery of the weaker race , which they were sup planting . Whatever might be the pretexts alleged for revolt , the
fortune
real reasons were to be found in the deeply
marked difference of unfitness of the Mexicans then to govern
race , and in the absolute
themselves Mem .
,
to say nothing of governing others
Ed ., VIII ,
131 ( 1887 )
Need To Practice Elemental Law
Thrift
.
Of Racial
Well - Being
and hard work will avail no more than
a
cultivated
if there is wilful sterility in mar forget if men and women the great primal and elemental law of racial well - being , and this whether the fault be due to vice in taste and an amiable philanthropy
its
riage ,
to
or
,
risk
91
to
to
,
forms
or
timidity and unwillingness run cold and selfish shrinking from the trouble and labor
crude and repulsive
which living .
are inseparable
Mem . Ed .,
XIX ,
from
every kind of life that is really worth
149 ( 1911 ).
Major Racial Differences Out Weigh Other National Factors National unity is far more apt than race unity to be a fact to reckon with ; until indeed we come to race differences as funda mental as those which divide from one another the half - dozen divisions of mankind , when they become so impor tant that differences of nationality , speech , and creed sink into great ethnic littleness
Mem . Ed .,
XIV ,
84 , ( 1910 )
92
X
MISCELLANY SNEERING INTELLECTUALS ARE WEAKLINGS MUST BE EARNED
TRUE FREEDOM
CHEAP JOURNALISM SPREADS CORRUPTION ONE MAN , ONE VOTE
- A DECEPTIVE VALUE
AFFLUENCE MINUS SPIRITUAL VALUES IS CORROSIVE Real
Conservatives
Are Progressive - Radicals Are Wreckers
not in the least afraid of the word
We are
there is any reason
conservative
“
,”
we are not only
wherever for caution content but desirous to make progress slowly and in
and
,
,
a
cautious ,
conservative manner . Moreover ultraradicalism may be as hostile to real progress now as it was in Lincoln's day . Lincoln was a ,
compared to Buchanan
radical
tive compared
to
John Brown
and Fillmore
;
and Wendell
Phillips
he was a conserva ;
and he was
in both positions . The men and forces whom and which he
right
had to overcome
were those behind Buchanan
and Fillmore
;
to
them was vital to the nation ; and they would never have
overcome
1911
,
be to
to
of
leisure
himself and outgrown emotions and one
.
whom good and evil are 93
lettered
pose
as
the man who has
to
,
,
the man
as
beliefs
,
as
the cynic
to
of
that queer and cheap temptation
others
able
national scale
Sneering Intellectuals Are Unhealthy Beings Let the man of learning the man ware
better
).
,
XIX
81 (
Ed
.,
.
Mem
infinitely
to
and therefore
.
,
wiser and saner
accomplish practical results
a
was
on
overcome
far
under the leadership of men like Brown and Phillips . Lincoln was to the full as conscientious as the extremists who regarded him as an opportunist and a compromiser ; and he been
The poorest
way to face life is to face it with a sneer . There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism ; there are many who con
is
that
that noble effort
in
in
A
.
to
an to
all
–
these are
superiority
,
of
contact with life's realities
the possessor would fain think
,
as
,
intellectual aloofness but
353
1910
).
XV
,
.,
Ed
.
Mem
(
.
,
marks not of weakness
perform
,
the critic himself never tries
which will not accept
a
to
,
,
it
,
sneering disbelief toward
achievement
cynical fails comes second achievement thought and speech readiness criticise work which
even
of
habit
if ,
which
whether
or
of
feigns to hold , an attitude great and lofty
all
fine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they them selves dare not even attempt . There is no more unhealthy being , no man less worthy of respect , than he who either really holds , or
common
sense
the power
of
,
self mastery -
-
,
Self restraint
,
-
No Freedom Without Responsibility and Self Control
-
it
)
1915
and
all
theology
the more dangerous
there
is
much
as
as
science quite is
superstition
it in
Kidnapped By Materialists
,
in
There superstition
is
Science
Is
,
"
The Term
174
"
XX
(
.
.
no
,
Ed
.,
,
or a
.
Mem
in
of
conjunction accepting individual responsibility and yet acting with others courage and resolution these are the qualities which people can control mark masterful people Without them being self save itself from controlled from the outside
because
materialism
as it .
survived into nineteenth ,
much more intolerant
much
in
,
in
is
morality that fine the spiritual civilization itself than that hard dogmatic ,
in
indeed
even
could
to -
and
all
destructive
of
sense
,
more
of
century Spain and Naples
be
mediaeval superstition
,
ness
,
of
all
it
those suffering from are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from superstition No grotesque repulsive
day which often not merely calls itself scientific
94
but arrogates to itself the sole right to use the term . If these pre tensions affected only scientific men themselves , it would be a matter of small moment , but unfortunately they tend gradually to affect the whole people , and to establish a very dangerous dard of private and public conduct in the public mind . Mem . Ed .,
XIV ,
stan
418 ( 1911 ) .
Lofty Principles Prematurely Applied all
Can Bring
Ruin
or
of
,
if
,
,
-
of
,
of
in
,
it
,
and they servility
a
If
.
less than
by
only for nations that deserve
licentiousness
no
is
by
it
right
to
all
Free government lose
it ;
Only For Those Who Deserve
It
)
,
1900
,
Freedom
426,427
Is
,
Mem.Ed. XIII
(
.
of
at
,
no
a
,
if
;
a
of
of
-s
of
,
it
.
all
in
a
,
of
if
of
,
,
,
in
it
as
,
of
point this was most excellent moral purpose would have been absolutely right from the abstract ethical standpoint the Constitution 1789 the Republi can Convention 1860 had declared for the abolition slavery the States Of course the Constitution had made such declaration would never have been adopted and the English peaking people North America would have plunged anarchy like that into condition the after time South American republics while the Republican platform 1860 position Lincoln would not have been elected had taken such war for the Union would have been waged and instead slavery being abolished would have been perpetuated least one the confederacies into which the country would split have been Now
just
its
,
,
of
,
to
of
,
of
of
its
95
to
-
to
.
of
on
a
of
it
to
or
-
,
to its
its
,
makes comparatively little difference nation cannot govern itself inability springs whether from slavish and craven distrust citizens the part from sheer incapacity own powers exercise self control and act together Self governing freemen accept necessary compromises must have the power make prejudice and necessary concessions each sacrificing somewhat principle and every group must show the necessary sub even particular interests ordination the interests the com
as a whole . When the people will not or cannot work to when they permit groups of extremists to decline to accept anything that does not coincide with their own extreme views ; or power slip from their hands through sheer supine when they indifference then they have themselves chiefly blame the power grasped by stronger hands Yet while keeping this forgotten that great and patriotic leader mind must not may the people have any capacity for self government whatever help them upward along their hard path by his wise leadership his wise yielding even what does not like and his wise refusal consider his own selfish interests
munity
gether
if
all
,
.
,
)
In
in
to
I
,
I
I
,
a
I
In
.
or or
-
a
in
other words feel that the yellow magazine makes a
,
is
to
a
a
Politics
but not want let windows are bolted am per windows but would not in
in
to
If
.
-
I
light and air sewer gas room fetid and the fectly contented knock out the knock hole into the drain pipe yellow newspaper man who want
Evil do
linging Both Equally
Mud
-S
-
White Wash
1900
let
,
424
(
XIII
Or
.,
Mem
.
to
to
he
,
-
a
be
,
,
if
.
Ed
it
in
is
;
to
let
;
to
it
or
of
,
-s
of
1906
)
14 (
XXIV
,
Ed
.,
Mem
.
.
in
no
as
of
as
.
I
of
in
to
a
,
or
us
of
of
is
ferocious attack on good men even attacks bad men with potent enemy for things they have not done good faith expose bad those who are really striving disapprove men and drive them from power the whitewash brush quite much mud linging and seems me that way implies approval shape the disapproval one the other exaggeration
Sensational Newspaper Exaggeration Promotes Corruption Vice
...
And
96
as
to
,
,
of
,
of of
of
in
as
our newspapers including those who professedly stand representatives the highest culture the community have making such constant and reckless assaults been the habit upon the characters greatly even very good public men
detract from their influence when they bad . They paint every one with whom
attack one who is really they disagree black . As
a consequence the average man , who knows they are partly wrong , thinks they may also be partly right ; he concludes that no man is
absolutely white , and at he is painted ; and takes
.
an
to
to
.
a
or
against
of
;
as
politicians
alike are gray effort either
rouse him make scoundrel Nothing helps dishonest much this feeling and among the chief instru production we must number certain our news
good man
a
for
its as
It
then becomes impossible
all
the same time that no one is as black as refuge in the belief that
on
“
to
is at
to
all
the
.”
of
to
,
in
the whole the most potent the city
work
1885
)
92 (
,
.,
.
XV
Ed
91 ,
at
,
and private vice and are forces for evil which are Mem
of
,
as
in
New York there small need charac public corruption very great promotive on
;
the largest circulation terize them they form
a
"
,
.
As
in
in
ments papers who are loudest asserting that they stand the highest frankly moral plane for the other newspapers those sen present claim sational character such the two which have
-
Patronage Corrupts Political Parties Creates Bossism
in
,
in
.
it
-
as
.
a
of
of
of
to
– It
party helps the bosses does not really help control the machinery the party 1912 was but true does not help the party the Republican party On the average the most sweeping party victories our history Patronage
get
in
to
,
of
is
.
have been won when the patronage was against the victors All help the worst element that the patronage does the party retain control the party organization
132
The
Vote
1913
.)
158
Is
,
Mem.Ed. XXII
(
.p
-
T.R. Autobiography Scribner
Useless
For
Those
Who
Are Not Fit For
Self
the vote will
no
its
97
:
depends upon the char
of
the user
rifle
usefulness The mere possession a
is
like .
acter
vote
of
A
Government
more
benefit men and women not sufficiently developed to use it than the possession of rifles will turn untrained Egyptian fellaheen into and no more true . soldiers . This is as true of woman as of man Universal suffrage
in Haiti has not made the Haitians able to govern themselves in any true sense ; and woman suffrage in Utah in no shape or way affected the problem of polygamy . T.R. Autobiography - Scribner
p . 163
Mem . Ed .
XXII ,
196 ( 1913 ) .
Achievement Is More Important Than Political Titles As so often , I found that the titular position was of no con ; what counted was the combination of the opportunity with the ability to accomplish results. The achievement was the important thing the position whether titularly high low consequence only widened the chance for far was
,
or
it
as
.
achievement
so
in
of
,
;
all -
sequence
96 1884
High Sounding Phrases
aa
104
.)
,
Mem.Ed. XXII
(
.p
-
T.R. Autobiobraphy Scribner
Cover For The Slothful Weakling
of
,
to
to
it
.
,
to
-
no
as is
to
of
to
by
of
to
,
of
an
to
on ,
by -
,
or
are
of
learning well meaning people utterly incapable incapable history utterly any lesson taught understand even ing aright what has gone before their very eyes during the past year two who nevertheless wish turn this country into Occidental China the kind China which every intelligent seeking Chinaman the present day abolish There are plenty politicians their well meaning who find means profit pander the desire common most men live softly
There
,
in
,
-
in
.
,
and easily and avoid risk and effort Timid and lazy men men money getting men absorbed absorbed ease and luxury and
-
to
all
soft and slothful people naturally hail with delight anybody who will give them high sounding names behind which cloak 98
to
;
in
-
a
of
all
their unwillingness to run risks or to toil and endure . Emotional philanthropists to whom thinking is a distasteful form of mental exercise enthusiastically champion this attitude . The faults of highly non militaristic and unwarlike these men and women are type and naturally they feel great satisfaction condemning mis
lofty
a
anything with
of
favor
demand
ever made upon them
to
,
to
no
provided
name
in
.
to
pass resolutions always that
to
delighted
of
an
are
is
which
to
wholly
be
incident lives that they would themselves unable lead without amount toil and effort that they are wholly unwilling undergo These men and women are deeds
268
is
good purpose
.
to
of
of
the downright iniquities strength them elements
1916
)
267
,
,
XX
(
,
be
at
if
;
,
.,
.
Ed
in
formed the men who are guilty life for the latter least have guided aright could which used
Mem
It
a
by
of is in
do
.
to
in
to
pay with their bodies even the smallest degree order questionable whether give effect these lofty sentiments the long run they not form less desirable national type than
Is
Virtue Plus Efficiency
Necessary
For Good Government
,
on
to
of
, to
the one thing
virtue
cannot
is
and
result
if
,
bad men the
con
happy
.
men
be
inefficient
to
left solely
,
solely
to
fined
efficiency
is
If
.
is
course
re is,
which corrupt machine politicians most desire have decent men frown the activity that on the efficiency the honest man who genuinely wishes form politics
Of
-
T.R. Autobiography Scribner 107
1913
).
106
,
XXII
,
Mem.Ed.
(
p.87
Slanted Journalism Degrades Public Life
99
to
as
often turn
to be
because
sometimes
the special interests and quite capitalize sensationalism and ,
they are controlled cause they are seeking
to
by
,
Many newspapers and many magazines
by
practised
at
difference
because the writer
by
indirectly
or
directly
makes
falsehood
of
the cost
not the slightest
is
It
.
of
this form
whether
is
of
hysterical mendacity
reckless sensational and reputable public servants
or
to
all
commercial advantage the literature of exposure , have done , and are doing , they can practising every species degrade public life
plane
as
a
in
,
upon con
outrages as
to
a
perpetrate
the
particu
what
stands the eighth
low
ethical
commandment and
The Idle Poor
118
1911
And
The Idle Rich Are Unfit Citizens
The man who receives what
he has
not earned and does not he
,
.,
XIX
).
Ed
.
Mem
(
.
man
as
on
his neighbor
an
in
assails The infamy lies the deed the ninth commandment and bears
who violates steals from that neighbor the
or
,
he
of
.
against
crude fanatic who
makes little difference
public servant class itself The man who violates witness
to
willing
.
,
sour envy
is
,
finally
it
conscience
and
lar
;
science
,
name
is
it
by
;
of
vated man actuated
false
by
,
or
,
is
he
,
some special interest whether merely recklessly bent upon gaining money notoriety sensational slander makes no difference whether he culti hired
on
is
he
in
in
on
to
a
be
,
he
in
he
a
of or
100
a
be
a
1911
).
141
he
,
a
.
XIX
(
.,
tramp
,
Ed
a
Mem
.
aire
or
in
of
.
its
in
is
,
is
what
of
form
,
what nature the plunder the industrious Effortless ease ignobly en joyed and the avoidance serious work render man equally citizenship republic unfit for whether multimillion some
still worse
on
charity
or ,
of
,
;
to
he
or be
;
a
he
in
of
place
,
of
is
,
,
the man who does not render service
in
full for all that community equally has out democratic and place whether out man living idle luxury millions ways that repre which has not earned which has won sent no service the State whether man living idle squalid sloth content poverty enjoying the luxury exist
earn
Weak Public Servants Cloak Base Actions With Fancy Talk This combination of mean timidity and mean commercial opportunism is peculiarly odious because those practising it have sought to hide it by profuse outbursts of wordy sentimentality and loud professions
of attachment
to impossible
and undesirable
ideals . One of the besetting sins of many of our public servants ( and of not a few of our professional moralists , lay and clerical ) is to cloak weakness or baseness of action behind insincere oratory on behalf of impractical ideals . The true servant of the people is the man who preaches realizable ideals , and who then practises what he has preached .
.
Mem
Ed ., XX ,
237 ( 1916 )
Vapory Long Range Aims
Harm
Needed Immediate Cures
The important thing is generally the next step . We ought not to take it unless we are sure that it is advisable ; but we should not hesitate to take it when once we are sure ; and we can safely join with others who also wish to take it , without bothering our as to any somewhat fantastic theories that may have concerning, say , the two hundredth step , which is not yet in sight .
heads overmuch
Mem .
Ed ., XVIII ,
565 ( 1909 )
Material Prosperity Is No Substitute For Spiritual Values
us
The most perfect inachinery of government will not keep as a nation from destruction iſ there is not within us a soul. No
our people an inner life which finds out morality not very widely different from that
a
by
in
ward expression preached the seers
1917
)
133
(
132
,
XXI
,
Ed
.,
.
Mem
101
.
Judea when the grandeur glory that was Greece and the that was Rome still lay the future in
and prophets
of
us unless there be in
its
abounding material prosperity shall avail us if our spiritual senses atrophy . The foes of our own household shall surely prevail against
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