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wrecked homes, the ruined or extinguished 

 lives, the blasted innocence worst of all 

 for the young children would be in- 

 credible were it not for one's familiarity with 

 the apparently inexhaustible fund of senti- 

 mentality, i.e., misplaced sentiment, at the 

 command of the two nationalities who have 

 pre-empted a claim on the good, hard sense 

 of the world. Some more drastic and com- 

 mon-sense remedy than hysterical ebullitions 

 must be applied if the evil of lynching is to 

 receive a permanent check. Better is it to 

 inquire into causes than to rail at results. 



There is yet another form of emotionalism 

 if so it may be called. It is that which 

 makes a slave of the servant of the Republic, 

 or at best renders independence of thought 

 or action on his part a matter of supreme 

 difficulty. 



In the words of a notable college Presi- 

 dent : * The independent thinker or actor, 

 or the public servant, when his thoughts 

 or acts run counter to prevailing popular or 

 party opinions, encounters sudden and intense 

 obloquy, which to many temperaments is very 

 formidable. That habit of submitting to the 



