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Eral parade. Psychologically, some interesting impressions were made
upon observant minds. Many of our national hypocrisies were emphasized,
and these occurrences revealed certain inconsistencies of public
pretension and action in other fields closely correlated to this one,
and it became evident that improvement in theory and practice, in
matters of this sort, was impossible so long as more fundamental abuses
were not only permitted but sanctioned in a most aggressively
affirmative manner. These observing people were reminded that in this
Christian nation a cross of considerable dimensions is generally ready
for instant use in immolating the person who is rash enough to interfere
too strenuously or persistently with the operations of our morally
depraved and generally rum-soaked political bosses, who have boldly
usurped the functions of government and whose aims and purposes are
widely at variance with all of the teachings of the lowly Nazarene;
that, much as we pride ourselves upon our philosophical advancement,
there is usually a cup of hemlock in reserve for a master spirit that
attempts too far to outdistance the crowd; that, fond as we are of
orating and writing about the dark days of barbarism, we continually
applaud the barbarian methods of those who appropriate the property and
liberties of their fellow men to increase their own wealth and power;
that, while there is no longer much of a disposition to consider the
earth flat, there is a marked tendency to regard most every other
mysterious thing as of that character. Dr. John Earl had friends who
understood the complex and extensive nature of these sentiments, and,
whatever might be their opinion concerni