Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1913 — AWAY WITH CUSS HATRED [ARTICLE]

AWAY WITH CUSS HATRED

Distinction of Condition Should Bo Forgotten If the Ideal Ever Io to Be Attained. Perhaps there is no feeling more subtle, more elusive, and more difficult to eradicate from human nature than tbe sense of "superiority.* In a hundred different ways it manlfesta itself, and no class of society ooems free from it The professional man's wife “cow-

descends** to the grocer's wife, the clerk’s wife patronizes the mechanic's wife, the “charlady** looks down on the "stepslady,** and so It goes on. Is It any matter for wonder, then, that those who clothe themselves in purple and fine linen, who fare sumptuously everyday, who are surrounded by all the culture, all the beauty, and all tbe luxury which modern civilization can provide find it hard to believe that a common humanity binds them to people who dwell in hovels, whose hands are begrimed and knot-

ted with barren years of soulless labor, whose back* are bent beneath the terrific burden Imposed upon them from their cradles, and who dwell continuously in the company of the grim specters of disease and poverty? The gulf certainly seems almost impassible, but it must be bridged before any advance can be made in the direction of the abolition of class war and class hatred.—Chicago Tribune.