The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-10
GOOD TINES ARE NOT THE
PRODUCTS OF The LAWS
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1
I your exhibition TO get into touch with
the West Indies This is wise. The
events of the last four years have
shown Us that the West indies and the
I fsthmus in the future occupy far
| larger place in cur national policy than
| in the past. This is proved by the me-
g0tiatiOns for the purchase of the
Danish Islands the acquisition of Porto
Rico. the preparation for building the
I isthmian canal and finally by the
/ changed relations which these years
have produced between us and Cuba.
/ As a nation we have an especial right
and take honest pride in what we have
/ done for Cuba. Our critics abroad and
/ at home insisted that we never intend
/ ed to leave the island. But on the zUth
/ OF next month cuba becomes a free re-
public, and ne turn over TO the island
the control of their own govern
. MEN 1t would be very difficult to find
a parallel in the conduct of any other
! great state that has occupied such O.
/ position as ours We have kept our
word and done our duty, just as an
: honest individual in private life keeps
/ his word and does his duty.
] BE il remembered. moreover. that
! after our three years occupation of
/ the island we turn il over to the Gu
( bans in a better condition than it ever
! has been in all the centuries Of Span
/ ism rule. This has a direct bearinS
upon our own welfare. Cuba is so near
to us that we can never be indifferent
TO disagreement and disaster within
/ its limits. The mere fact that our ad-
ministratiOn in the island has minim-
lied the danger from dreadful scourge
of yellow fever. alike TO Cuba and to
ourselves. is sufficient to emphasize
the community of interest between US.
But there are other interests which
bind us together Cuba's position
/ makes it necessary that her political
relations with us should differ from her
political relations with other powers.
This fact has been formulated by US
and accepted by the Cubans in the
| Platt amendment. 1t follows as a
corollary that where the Cubans have
| thus assumed a position of peculiar
relationship to our political system
they must similarly stand in peculiar
relationship to our economic system.
Something Due From Cuba.
1--WE have rightfully insisted upon
Cuba adopting toward us an attitude
differing politically from that she
[ adopts toward any other power; and
in return. as a matter of right, we
| must give to Cuba d different-that is
a better-position economically in her
| relations with US than we gave or give
TO other powers. This is the course
dictated by sound policy. by a wise and
! far-sighted view of our own interest
and by the position we have taken dur
ing the past four years. We are a
wealthy and powerful country. dealing
with a much weaker one. and the con-
trast in wealth and strength makes it
all the more our duty TO deal with
Cuba as we have already dealt with
her. in a spirit Of large generosity
This exposition is rendered possible
because Of the period of industrial
prosperity through which we are pass
inE. While material welbeing is never
all-suficient TO the life OF a nation, yet
it is the merest truism TO say that its
/ absence means ruin. We need to build
a higher life upon it as q foundation
but we can build little. indeed. unless
this foundation Of prosperity Is deer
and broad. The Nellbeing which we
are now enjoying can be secured only
through general business prosperity
and such prosperity is conditioned upor
the energy and hard work, the sanity
and the mutual respect of all classes
of capitalists. large and small, of wage
workers of every degree. As IS ineVita-
BILE in a time Of business prosperity
some men succeed more than others
and it is. unfortunately. also inevitable
I that when this is the case some pnWisS
people are sure 20 try TO appeal TO tbs
envy and jealousy of those who sue
/ coed least. 1t is a good thing wheT
these appeals are made. to remember
that while il is difficult to increase
prosperity by law, il is easy enough e
9 IS Lea
faction to The less prosperous if they
succeed in overthrowing both the more
prosperous and themselves in the CrasI
OF a common disaster.
Talks of Prosperity.
Every industrial exposition of thi.
type necessarily calls up the though
/ of the complex social and economic
questions which are involved in on
present industrial system. Our Est5und
ing material prosperity, the sweep ans
rush rather than the mere march Of GU
/, progressive material development, hav'
brought grave troubles in their train
We cannot afford to blink at thes'
troubles any more than because 90
them we can afford 20 accept as tru'
= the gloomy forebodings of the prophet
of evil. There are great problems be
fore us They are not insOluble, bu
they can be solved only if we approach
them in a spirit Of resolute fearless
ness. Of common sense and Of homes
intention to do fair and equal justtc
; 70 all men alike. We are certain &
fail if we adopt the policy Of the dem
ag0gue who raves against the wealth
which is simply the form of embodied
thrift foresight and intelligence; wh
I would shut the door of opportunlt,
& q rlfueN ~h0aa Who's Ennfrf
3 especially foster by penalizing tn
qualities which tell for success. Jus
as little can we afford to follow thos
who fear to recognize injustice and en-
deavor to cut il out because the task i
/ difficult or EVENT. performed by IN
skilled hands-dangerous
This is an era Of great combination
of both labor and capital. In man.
ways these combinations have worke'
for good, but they must work unde
the law, and the laws concerning then
must be lust and wise or they viii in
evitably do evil. and this applies a
much 70 the richest corporation as &
e the most powerful labor union on
& laws must be wise. sane. healthy, con
ceived In the spirit Of those who scor
the mere agitator. the mere meter O
class or sectional hatred, who wish jus
tice for all men: who recognize In
need of adhering so far as possible 9
the old American doctrine Of giving Tn
widest possible scope for the free eX
; ercise Of Individual initiative. and We
/, who recognize also that after combina
! lions rave reached a certain stage il
o Indispensable to the general welfar
E that the nation should exercise owe
{ them. cautiously and with self-re
straint but firmly. the power Of super
, vision and regulation.
Above all. the administration of tn
government. the enforcement OF tn