People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — A Just Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Just Rebuke.

Miss Kate Field in her Washington ipeaks of the populists as the “disgruntled tailings" of both political parses.” We are very sure Miss Field has ■ead history, and that she has noted '.he fact that, springing in protest out it the present which has been nourished by the past, has come every re’orm and all reformers. Using her syni:ism 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 historicsense is too keen, to charge her with ignorantly reviling the two million men who demand a more complete ascendancy of ethics in our civilisation. Her offense consists in yielding to the rule of the popular of this culminating age. She is foolishly weak la this particular, and by so . yielding sh. weaves the shroud of o’.’.’ ion for herself and her paper. Ju.» so did these Boston editors who reviled William Lloyd Garrison in the fifties. William Lloyd Garrison's cause triumphed, however. He is today one of the few immortals yet given to American history. Those fastidious jo realists and publicists who regarded him as a despicable “tailing” died when their their hearts stopped pumping, and Garrison lives growing greater with 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 paragraph. How much we regret the gradual 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 see the “disgruntled tailings” In possession of every state legislature in the republic, and even in possession of the executive 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 hundred” who have no more real life and love than the vegetables of our fields. The “disgruntled tailings"lndeed! Such an invidious metaphor is beneath a woman of such general strength of character. —Progressive Age.