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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER $
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Wostorn Radicals
Principle and prejudice regarding
property can both be found abundant
ly in the gusty west. In many states
there is such hostility to "foregu cap
ital" that any annoyance inflicted upon
corporations or individuals residing at
n distance is looked upon as patriot
ism, and juries can be relied upon to
twist every doubt In favor of an orna
ment of the neighborhood again3t an
outsider, especially if the brave citi
zen has shown 'confidence" or "be
lief" in his native or adopted state and
is also poor. With such prejudices, so
intense and narrow as often to be dis
tressingly unjust, goes much that is
sincerely sympathetic with average
human needs, above what is to be
found in other regions. The west Has
led in the movement, now gaining mass
and speed, against the power of money
to make and beat the law. It has in
spired Roosevelt, and It has produced
most men of the class to which, in va
rious aspect, belong LaFolIette, Folk,
Bryan, and Tom Johnson, and it is
making the principal experiments in
municipal and state resistance to mo
nopoly. Kansas, a very hotbed of West
ern ardor, vim and carelessness of
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MISCELLANEOUS.
iM.iiftnn lma thrown her gauntlet into
the face of Standard Oil, that great
est octupus of all. The land applauds
and blesses her. The national govern
ment will do what it can and dares.
The Standard Oil is unpopular to a
degree hardly equaled by monopolists
in beef and coal. When one sot of
half a dozen men can play any tricks
they choose with light, when another
can not only control beef, but run up
the price of storage eggs, and when
another can manage railways and coal
mines together under the banner of
Divine Providence, no surprise is need
ed if the people begin to storm. Kan
sas is in a rage "for fair." Her rem
edy may fail or it may strike into the
monopoly as an entering wedge. Other
states talk of following her example.
At any rate, we trust in her to stay
in the ring until she wins or is too
groggy to stand up. Colliers' Weekly.
Strong's New Book
Josiah Strong's new book, "The Next
Great Awakening," published by Baker
& Taylor company, Union Square
North, New York, ought to be in the
hands of every reader of The Com
moner. It analyzes the the move
ment, now gathering force, which ha3
for its object the application of Christ's
teachings to social conditions. No ob
server has failed to notice the increas
ing interest taken in the ethical ques
tions raised by the problems which
confront this generation. It is upon
these' questions that Mr. Strong's hook
throws light. The following chapter
heads indicate the scope of the work:
"The Supreme Need of the World,"
"The Law of Spiritual Quickening,"
"The Kingdom of God," "The Social
Laws of Jesus," "The Social Teach
ings of Jesus Not Accented " "The So
cial Teachings of Jesus Applied Will
Bring Social Healing," "The Social
Teachings of Jesus Applied Will Bring
Spiritual Quickening." In speaking of
the church'3 work he says:
"Let us suppose a church somewhere,
whose members have such an enthu
siasm for humanity that when they lie
awake at nights they are planning, not
how to make money but how to make
men. Their sunreme ties? a t i,Qi
world in general and their mvn
the
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