Dear Editor...Is There A Sanity Clause

Inspired by Francis P. Church...first published in The New York Sun In 1897


Dear Editor:

I am 232 years old, most of my people say there is no Sanity Claus. The Founders say "If you pass the 2,000 page Health Care Bill, its so" Please tell me the truth....is there a Sanity Claus.

The American People.

Dear American People:

American's, your people are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a Bailout Age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All Minds...Americans whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere INSECT, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, American, there is a Sanity Claus. He existes as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas how dreary would be the world if there were no AMERICA. It would be as dreary as if there were no Americans. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no inventions to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Sanity Claus! You might as well not believe in America. You might get your Government to hire men to just to sit on the side's of the road and do nothing and try to find the Sanity Claus.

Nobody sees Sanity Claus just yet but that is no sign that there is no Sanity Claus. The most real thins in the world are those that niether children nor men can see. Did you ever see Barney Frank dancing on the Lawn? Of course not, but that's no prof that he's not not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wounders there are unseen and unseeable in America's people.

You tear apart the American's freedom and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which note the STRONGEST GOVERNMENT, nor even the united strength of all the strongest Socialistic Governments cold tear apart America. Only the faith, dedication, freedom of America could push aside that curtain and view the beauty and glory of AMERICA. In all this world there is NOTHING ELSE REAL AND ABIDING.

No Sanity Claus!! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, America, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make Glad The Hart Of Freedom.

Credit...By Francis P. Church, Modified..Ron Melancon Origial First published in The NEW YORK Sun in 1897.