The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-28
WORDS OF A STATESMAN
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also better methods as well sometimes. The reform of the civil service and the ballot are examples of reforms carried out by peaceable methods, The whole Is question of pride to the race.
 Goldwin Smith has said: Never glorify revolution, and he spoke the truth.
 Tt became a fad in France after the French revolution to glorify 1t and make much of 1t, and as @ result of the spirit thus inculcated followed the revolutions of 1880, 1S40 and the Com nue.
 Ut was also customary to glorify in this country after revolution; to eXtol it rather than the great triumphs of re- conciliation and statesmanship attained by Washington, Franklin and others, and there Is little doubt that this had much to do in producing our civil war. Instead of revolution let us glorify jus tice, morality and peace.
 Let us endeaVor to clear the way for peaceful prayers by the improve ment of the individual. It is well enough to prepare checks and balances to reform public morals, but until each individual has power of will and bal ance of mind We shall never secure sat- isfactory public morality. We need to cultivate the will power in order to se- cure this,
 ''If we don't develop better methods of progress we, as a nation, will be- come nervous and dyspeptic and will die out and our places will be filled by a better npOn1n Vn chpnlA oiVh credit to those who develop our farming and commercial resources and less to phrase makers and political dema- gosues. We should seek better methods of dealing with our pauners and our criminals. We ought to inculcate a better knowledge of our government We ought to impress upon the people the fact that a poorly paid, short term ed judiciary is the most expensive in- vestment they can make
 We ought to develop more consider ation for the hard working masses than for the vicious criminal classes. There is to-day widespread superstition against the punishment of criminals. We need to get rid of the sickly sen timental regard for the criminal. There should be a manly and womanly deter imitation to exterminate crime, and if necessary the criminal.
 We should seek to evolve the idea also that public office is not held for | partisan purposes"
 Speaking of the evolutionary progress in International affairs Mr. White said that future historians would point to | the arbitration treaty of Grants ad- ministration its most glorious incl dent, and the arbitration of the Vene- zuelan trouble as the most glorious event of Cleveland's administration, and the general arbitration treaty, when it shall have been secured will rebound to the greatest glory of those who have taken part in securing it.
 Speaking of interior matter, he said that we were probably the only consti- | tutional government where there was not a single paper that gave an accu- rate account of what the national leg islature was doing, though they gave full accounts of the really trivial mat ters
 After comparing the moral revolution in Germany with the revolutionary one in Austria, he said:
 During last fall we looked over the edge of the precipice, which every re- public has looked over. We were res cued by an effort so noble that it would have done credit to the best day of our republic. The question for us now is how this shall be perpetuated Some of you are able to labor for this in a quiet way, others more vigorously in the caucus, in the convention anG In the hall of legislation Do not pros titute your honor and talents. Keel faith in humanity. Never despair o
 the republic"