The Day Book

REFORM STUFF.

Reformer stuff isn't well rehearsed. There's nothing to reformers. They don't know their subjects.

Jesus gave high praise to the Roman captain. Who but a fool would expect to get a money-making formula from a revolutionist.

Revolutionists and other tribes say they are saved. Unless you accept their plan of salvation you are going to hell. All those tribes have a great plan. They are all self sufficient.

Revolutionists are going to gather up all the businesses of the world and run them. The plutes and their trained hosts of master minds will then go fish or they will smoke them out. How can you have confidence in such men and women?

All save the big reformers are provincial. Individualistic. Reactionary, non-constructive. Primitive, centrifugal, unwieldy, swashbucklers.

Only the far-sighted can grasp complex situations, continental unity and cope with international problems.

Who ever heard of an aristocratic Puritan?

Puritans are always non-conformists. They are plebs, radicals, hot-headed and not to be thought of. They are bad actors and unmentionable.

The "blue laws" are classics of damfoolishness.

The only well-behaved people and the best to know are the Episcopalians. They are harmless. Of course, religiously they are ridiculous, like all the rest. But they are the classy church people.

Of course, the Presbyterians and Baptists are respectable they pay their bills—but they are plebs.

—Hadrian Baker.