Let me give you an illustration in point, and so recent that one will be sufficient:  A few months ago the Supreme Court at Washington handed down a decision overturning every argument made against the Eighteenth Amendment and the enforcement law.  Who represented the liquor traffic in that august tribunal?  Not brewery workers, employees in distilleries, or bartenders; these could not speak for the liquor traffic in the Supreme Court.  No!  Lawyers must be employed, and they were easily found—­big lawyers, scholars, who attempted to overthrow the bulwark that society has erected for the protection of the homes of the country.

Every reform has to be fought through the legislatures and the courts until it is finally settled by the highest court in our land, and there, vanquished wrong expires in the arms of learned lawyers who sell their souls to do evil—­who attempt to rend society with the very power that our institutions of learning have conferred upon them.  All of our reforms would be led by scholars, if all scholars appreciated as they should the gift of education.  There are, of course, a multitude of noble illustrations of scholars consecrating their learning to the service of the people, but many scholars are indifferent to the injustice done to the masses and some actually obstruct needed reforms—­and they do it for pay.

My second illustration is even more important, for it deals with the heart.  I am interested in education; if I had my way every child in all the world would be educated.  God forbid that I should draw a line through society and say that the children on one side shall be educated and the children on the other side condemned to the night of ignorance.  I shall assume no such responsibility.  I am anxious that my children and grandchildren shall be educated, and I do not desire for a child or grandchild of mine anything that I would not like to see every other child enjoy.  Children come into the world without their own volition—­they are here as a part of the Almighty’s plan—­and there is not a child born on God’s footstool that has not as much right to all that life can give as your child or my child.  Education increases one’s capacity for service and thus enlarges the reward that one can rightfully draw from society; therefore, every one is entitled to the advantages of education.

There is no reason why every human being should not have both a good heart and a trained mind; but, if I were compelled to choose between the two, I would rather that one should have a good heart than a trained mind.  A good heart can make a dull brain useful to society, but a bad heart cannot make a good use of any brain, however trained or brilliant.