The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-04
Dr.. Lyons
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Used by people of refinement
for over a quarter of a century.
his deed being committed on behalf of
the people against the government, the
government was obliged at once to ex-
ert its full police power to save him
from instant death at the hands of the
people, Moreover, his deed worked not
the slightest dislocation in our govern
mental system, and the danger of a re-
currenCe of such deeds, no matter how
great ii might grow, would work only
in the direction of strengthening and
giving harshness to the forces of or
der No man will ever be restrained
from becoming President by any fear
as to his personal safety. II the risk to
the Presidents life became great. 1t
would mean that the office would more
and more come to be filed by men of
spirit which would make them resolute
and merciless in dealing with every
friend of disorder. This great country
win not fall into anarchy, and if anar-
chists should ever become a serious
menace to its institutions. they would
not merely be stamped out. but would
involve in their own ruin every active
or passive sympathizer with their doc
trines. The American people are slow
to wrath, but when their wrath is once
kinded it burns like a consuming
fame.
Our National Prosperity.
During the last five years business
confidence has been restored, and the
nation is to be congratulated because
OF its present Astounding prosperity.
Such prosperity can never be created
by law alone although it is easy
enough n dRgtf-DV If nv miscellaneous
laws. If the hand of the Lord is
heavy Upon any country II food or
drought comes, human wisdom Is
powerless to avert the calamity. More
over. no law can guard us against the
consequences of our own folly. The
men who are idle or credulous, the
men who seek gains not by genuine
work with head or hand but by gam
bling in any form, are always source
of menace not only to themselves but
to others. If the business world loses
it's head, it loses what legislation can
not supply Fundamentally the well
fare of each citizen, and therefore the
welfare of the aggregate of citizens
which makes the nation, must rest
upon individual thrift and energy, res
olution and intelligence. Nothing can
take the place of this individual ca
pacity: but wise legislation and hon
est anu llllCiHSGHl dblilllloNi dAiOiA Noi
give it the fullest scope, the largest
opportunity to work to good effect.
The New Social Problems.
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went on
with ever accelerated rapidity during
the latter half of the nineteenth cen
fury brings us face to face, at the be-
ginning of the twentieth, with very
serious social problems. The old laws.
and the old customs which had almost
| the binding force of law, were once
| quite sufficient to regulate the accumu-
lation and distribution of wealth. Since
the industrial changes which have so
enormously increased the productive
power of mankind, they are no longer
sufficient.
! The growth of cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the
growth of the country. and the up
building of the great industrial centers
has meant startling increase, not
merely in the aggregate of wealth, but
| in the number of very large individual,
and especially of very large corporate,
| fortunes. The creation of these great
corporate fortunes has not been due
| to the tariff nor to any other govern
mental action, but to natural causes
in the business world, operating in
| OlnG1 countries do liity OPNi oAN III ONi
| own.
The process has aroused much an
tagonism, great part of which is
wholly without warrant 1t is not true
| that as the rich have grown richer the
poor have grown poorer. On the con-
| trary never before has the average
man, the wage worker, the farmer, the
| small trader been so we'll off as in this
country and at the present time. There
| have been abuses connected with the
| accumulation of wealth; yet II remains
| true that a fortune accumulated IN le-
| ultimate business can be accumulated
| by the person specially benefited only
| on condition of comforting immense IN
cidental benefits upon others. Success
| full enterprise, of the type which bene-
! fits all mankind can only exist If the
! conditions are such as to offer great
prizes as the rewards of success.
The captains of industry who have
| driven the railway systems across TINS
continent, who have built up our com
MERGE who have developed our man
ufactures, have on the whole done
| great good to our people. Without them
the material development of which we
are so justly proud could never have
taken place. Moreover, we should rec
ognize the immense Importance to this
/
! hampered as is compatible with the
| public good the strong and forcetul
men upon whom the success of busl-
| ness operations inevitably rests. The
| slightest study of buiness conditions
will satisfy anyone capable of forming
a Judgment that the personal equation
! is the most important factor in bus
! mess operation: that the business abil-
| ity of the man at the head of any bus
mess concern. big or little, is usually
| the factor which fixes the gulf be-
tween striking success and hopeless
| failure.
An additional reason for caution In
dealing with corporations is TO be
found in the International commercial
conditions of to-day. The same bust
ness conditions which have produced
the great aggregations of corporate and
Individual wealth have made them
very potent factors in international
commercial competition. Business con-
Germs which have the largest means at
their disposal and are managed by the
ablest men are naturally those which
| take the lead in the strife for COM
mercial supremacy among the nations
of the world. America has only just
begun TO assume that commanding po-
siton in the international business
world which we believe will more and
more be hers. II is of the utmost Inn
portance that this position be not jeo-
pardized. especially at a time when
the overlooking abundance of our own
natural resources and the skill bust
| ness energy and mechanical aptitude