People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — A Just Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Just Rebuke.

I < Mias Kats Field In her Washington ipeaks of the populists ss the “disgruntled tailings” of both political pardas.” We are rery sure Mies Field has *ead history, and that she has noted ’.he fact that, springing in protest out rs the present which has been nourished by the past, has come every re’orm and all reformers. Using her syni- ! :lsm we could- mock every noble effort of humanity to make better its conditions. We could even sneer at the great Galileean who was pre-eminently | ‘disgruntled” with the two old sects, those scribes and pharisees. The cultured editor of the Washington can not be excused for her contemptuous ■ treatment of the reformers of today. Her vision is too broad, her historic sense is too keen, to charge her with ignorantly reviling the two million men who demand a more complete ascendancy of ethics in our civilization. Her offense consists in yielding to the rule of the popular of this culminating age. She is foolishly weak in this particular, and by so yielding she weaves the shroud of oblivion for herself and her paper. Just so did those Boston editors who reviled William j Lloyd Garrison in the fifties. William Lloyd Garrison’s cause triumphed, howeyer. He is today one of the few immortals yet given to American history. Those fastidious journalists and publicists who regarded him as a despicable “tailing” died when their j their hearts stopped pumping, and | Garrison lives growing greater with 1 each generation. We remember well, years ago, how all that Miss Field , wrote and spoke had the elemental strength of reform In it. Her love for humanity was apparent in every para--1 graph. How much we regret the grad- ; ual hardening of her heart we cannot tell. Inevitable petrifaction must follow if revulsion to the snobbery of the national capital does not take place in her. She is young enough to Bee the “disgruntled tailings" ln possession of every state legislature* in the republic, and even In possession of the executive j mansion at Washington. She ought to know this. She would know, If she had not been blinded by the glamour : of a corrupt capital and the flattery ; of a frivolous and flippant “four hun- ! dred” who have no more real life and | love than the vegetables of our fields, i The “disgruntled tailings”indeed! Such ; an invidious metaphor /Is beneath a ! woman of such general strength of | character. —Progressive Age.