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It is easy to suspect. In our law
courts we proceed on the theory that
a man should be believed Innocent
till lie is proved guilty. As a mat
ter of fact, the majority of people
believe him guilty till he proves him
self innocent.
The voice of scandal never lacks
foi an audience. Stand on the street
corner and praise a man or woman,
and you will have no hearers. Stand
on the same corner and assail some
body, make charges, insinuations, in
nuendoes, and people will crowd to
heur you.
Ceasar's wife, we are told, was
above suspicion. But Ceasar’s wife
had a despot for a husband, and It
was extremely dangerous for anybody
to suspect her publicly.
To-day nobody is above suspicion.
Nobody is beyond the reach of scandal.
Nothing is easier than to put
scandalous stories into circulation.
Nothing is harder than to stop them,
once they have been started on their
de vastating course.
Something in the human mind, some
mysterious survival of the old days
when greed and evil were dominant
human traits, prompts men—and
women—to credit every scandal that
comes to their ears.
It makes little difference who is the j
subject of such a story. The man
who has sought alt hts life to live cor
rectly and honestly has no armor
against scandal.
His right living is interperted as
hypocrisy. His honesty is looked upon
as a cover for secretly practiced vil
lainies.
It Is easy to counsel young men
and women to avoid the appearance
of evil. It is easy to say that he who
cultivates character need have no fear
for his reputation.
But even preachers of these plati
tudes know that they are not true.
As long as scandalmongers exist
reputations can be shattered over
night, no matter how honestly and
how toilfully they have been acquired.
Many arc the ways of starting evil
reports, and many are the sorts of
people who engage In this scoundrel
ly business.
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One of the penalties of real achlve
ment is the breeding of envy in the
unsuccessful. It is a curious fact that
a successful man, no matter how he
lias accomplished his success, finds
himself hated by many people who
never saw him, and of whom he has
never heard.
Why this is no one can say. Great
achievement is always of benefit to
the race. The man who paints a great
picture, who writes a great novel,
who makes a great invention con
tributes to the happiness or to the
prosperity of ail human kind.
Yet these are the very men singled
out by scandal for its work of de
struction.
John Keats, one of the greatest of
pcets, and the kindest, gentlest soul
who ever held a pen, became a sub
ject for villainous attack by the un
successful scribblers of his time.
Every schoolboj knows that Chris
topher Columbus, after the most pro
digious exploit in the history of the
world, became the victim of malicious
enemies. He was imprisoned on
trumped-up charges, and robbed of all
honors he had won.
And the Powers who had trusted
him, and who had vastly profited by
his discoveries, wi n- the first to be
lieve the lies that were told about him.
Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most
lining and courageous, as well as the
most intelligent Englishmen, was ex
ecuted because baseless charges had
been brought against him—charges
which those in office were quick to
credit.
Those are instances of the opera
tion of scandal many years ago, but
they are little different from eases
that occur today.
Whoever becomes prominent be
comes a target. Suspicion tike death,
loves a shining mark.
There is a percentage of rascality
in every collection of human beings,
and its power is out of all proportion
to its magnitude.
No man can la> a straight course
without interfering with others. And
those whom he interferes with are us
ually those who are laying crooked
cources.
They know that it is useless to fight
honestly In the open, so they fight it
in the dark.
It is hard to answer the tongue of
envy. It is almost impossible to free
the public mind of suspicion once
lodged there, however lacking in any f
foundation that suspicion may be. I
Scandal is an unclean weapon. Y'et [
there are many who never scruple to I
use it f it happens to suit their pur- ;
pose.
You may build your Utilise of Repit- I
talioii as carefully as you choose; you)
mat avoid sedulously all appearance j
of wrong; you may mean to do right, j
but somewhere and somehow you are I
likely to find an enemy ready to stab '
you with his unclean knife, and the
wound he will infftet will prove beyond
the power of any physician to heal.
As we said at the beginning, our
theory is that a man is presumed to
la- innocent until he Is proven guilty.
Technically that ts tho practice of the
courts. But it is never the practise
of public opinion, and few are tho
juries who can withstand public opin
ion, when it is once thoroughly aroused.
It 'is seldom that an innocent man
lb sent to his death or even to prison'
on unfounded charges.
But many is the time that a jury,
disagreeing as to a verdict, leaves In
the minds of all who see or read of
tlie trial a firm belief of tho guilt of the j
man who has been arranged before
them.
in very recent years men with more
cleverness than scruple have used j
Organized Scandal to accomplish busi
ness and political ends.
There has been one recent public
instant of an attack on a high public
officer who was dcAng his best for the
people, for the whole country—an
attack made indirectly, but which was
nevertheless calculated to do him and
his policies incalculable Injury.
It happened that this particular at
tack failed, but it 'is unite possible
for others to be set on foot that will
not fail. Tlie weed seed of suspicion
finds far more fertile soil in the human
mind than the grain sect! of good re
port.
Scandal mongers there will always he.
and their possibility for harm will al
ways be great. There is but one way
to render them less dangerous, and
that is to pay no attention to them.
Without publicity evil will flourish.
Whenever there is cause for suspicion,
it is a putilic duty to clear it up. The
method of investigation employed
when public men happen to be suspec
ted is good as far as it goes. It is
seldom thorough enough.
But to credit every evil story of a
man's public or private derelictions,,
without a shadow of foundation, is
merely to keep in the hands of the
most wretched of all human beings
the weapons with which they can de- (
stroy their betters, and against which
lionest men and women have no de- :
fense. 0 ,
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