The Globe-republican., 1901-12-12
FROM THE PRESIDENTS MES


/ after war breaks out
Anprchy is more an expression of
-.social discontent'' than picking pockets
or wife beating.
can never have its effects limited to the
men at the top.
Anarchy is crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should
band against such Anarchists.
The merit system making appointm ents
is in its essence as democratic and Ameri-
can the common school system itself.
The national government should
demand the highest quality OF service
fro its employees, and in return il should
be good employer.
We desire the peace which comes asof
right to the just armed; not the
peace granted on terms of ignominy to
craven and weakening.
The mechanism of modern business is
SO delicate that extreme care must be
taken not to interfere with it in spirit
of rashness or ignorance.
The pretentious and unmeaning title of
ssnaya1 cadets should be abolished; the
| title of ssmidshipmen.' full of historic as
sociation, should be restored.
The chief factor in the success of each
man-wage- worker, farmer and capital
ist alike-must ever be the total of
his own individual qualities and abilities.
1t should be as much the aim of those
who seek for social betrerment rid the
business world of crimes of cunning to
rid the entire body polite of crimes of
violence.
All we want is peace, and towards this
end we wish to be able TO secure the same
respect for our rights from others which
their rights in return.
- The western half of the United States
| would sustain a population greater than
that OF our whole country to-day if the
waters that DOW run to waste were saved
and used for irrigation.
The Anarchists, and especially the An
| archists of the United States, is merely
one type of criminal, more dangerous
than any other, because he represents the
same depravity in greater degree.
The men who are idle or credulous, tn e
men who seek gains not by genuine work
| with head or hand. but by gambling in
any form, are always source of menace,
not only to themselves, but to others.
Great corporations exist only because
they are created and safeguarded by our
institutions, and it is, therefore, our right
| and our duty to that they work in
harmony with tn ese institutions.
The man who advocates anarchy, direct
ly or Indirectly, in any shape fashion.
or the man who apologies for Anarchi lists
and their deeds, makes himself morally
| accessory to murder before the fact.
The merit system is simply one method
of securing honest and efficient admins
tration of the government, and in the
long run the sole Justification of any type
of government lies in its proving itself
both honest and efficient.
1t is as right for the national govern
| ment to make the streams and rivers of
the arid region useful by engineering
works for water storage as to make useful
the rivers and harbors of humid region
by engineering works of another kind.
What has taken thirty generations
to achieve we cannot expect to see an
especially when large portions of that
race start very far behind the point which
our ancestors had reached even thirty
centuries ago.
Each man must work for himself and
unless be SO works outside help can
avail him, but each man must remember
also that he is indeed his brothers keeper
and that while no man who refuses to
walk can be carried with advantage TO
himself or anyone else, yet that each at
times stumbles halts, that each at
times needs to have the helping hand
outstretched to him.
1t was forethought and preparation
which secured us the overwhelmino o
triumph of 1898. If we fail to show fore
thought and reparatiou now there may
come a time when disaster will befan US
instead OF triumph, and should this time
come the fault will rest primarily, not
upon those whom the accident of events
puts in supreme command at the moment
but upon those who have failed to pre-
pare in advance.
1t is no Limitation upon property rights,