The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-02-22
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League Club. His subject was. "Conserv-
attsm; The Essential in American Char
acter and Policy" He said in part:
The meaning of Washington in Arleri-
can history Is discipline The message
Of WashingtOn's life TO the American peo-
pie Is discipline. The need Of American
character Is the cultivation OF discipline
Washington did not give patriotism to
the American colonies. The people had
that as abundantly as he. He did not
give them courage. That quality was and
is in the American blood. He did not
even give them resource. There were in
tellectg more productive than his But
Washington gave balance and direction to
elemental forces. He was the genius OF
order He was pOise personifed. He was
the spirit Of discipline He was the Great
Conservative 1t was this that made all
other elements Of the Revolution effect
i've. II was this that organized a nebu-
lous independence into q nation Of liberty.
The parts of a machine are useless until
assembled and fitted each TO its apprO-
pirate place. Washington did that. And
50 IL is that We are q people.
Labor and Capital Arbitration.
In the daily press we read Of a CO.
operative council Of capitalists clergy,
workers. and pubIicists to settle the con
nicts between labor and productive
wealth We applaud it, and we should.
But not because il will be effective-for il
may not be effective. But we hail il as
an evidence that the spirit Of forbearance
is spreading among the people. L is an
expression Of The instinct Of order which
must become the ruling element in Amer
lean civilization And this it is which
more and more. will settle strikes and in
the end prevent them This il is which.
more and more, Will take Wildness out OF
e~H1 al
remain. The remedy for friction between
employer and employed is in the breasts
Of the men themselves and their employ
ers. The saving CT the people is in the
hands Of the people themselves and no
where else. Better than councils and
comm rsiCns and congresses is the self
discipline, the reasoning reserve, the reg
ul2ted conscience Of a free people. And
congresses and councils are effective only
as they are expressions Of this.
Word of the Constitution Inadequate
More aud more this viii be so. The
growth Of modern industry, the gradual
change Of competition into corporation.
the manifold and Infinitely interviewer
activities Of modern business, the steady
knitting together of all the agencies Of
production. distribution and exchange un-
til she whole nation is well-nigh an in
dustTial unit as il is a political unit the
extension Of this process until interna-
tiOnal relations are so interlaced that no
nation. even by war, can entirely cut the
golden cords Of commerce and culture
that bind her to her sisters-the pro-
CeSseS OF civilization. in shOrt-bring into
play national necessities and national
powers as much greater and more COM
pick than those exercised by the fathers
as the nation and its activities today
are greater and more complex than they
were a century ago. We cannot adopt
sew constitutions to meet those new
conditions They would be inadequate il
We did adopt them: and each decade
would make the constitution Of the pre-
cedins decade cbsOlete if its letter alone
we're read And so we rely on a law
more permanent and more vitaI-the in
SD .'9nal law with its roots springing
ne very soul Of our race, by whose
nS meaning our written laws and
constitutions are interpreted. Our hope
IS IN oGssel -es- Our safety is in our
racial customs and tendencies. Our sal
OF our people.
4 do not mean that we should bind
ourselves 10 custom.
Trusts OF Labor and Capital.
We ara in a period OF growth which
IS itself proof Of our youth and en-
larging vitality. It is inevitable that each
heare-or developments in our Industrial
commercial. financial methods. Let US be
not startled al them They may Oe bene-
heent CT they may be malevolent. but de-
nunciation, hasty action, conclusions
which are jumped at instead Of being
thought out. are no proper test
The new Developments in the com
hsaations OF capital call for jr-st such
popular treatment. the increasing deyeI-
opment in combinations Of labor calls for
just such treatment. We behold millions
Of money which yesterday were acting
separately, today massed In mighty or
CARNATIONS for the production. che trans
pOrtatiOn, the distribution Of national
products Let US not be alarmed at their
magnitude Let US not be panicked 1t their
novelty. u is not helpful 10 slap on the
statute books hasty screeds and call them
laws. IL will throw no light upon the real
question for excited meetings 70 grow
frenzied over excited appeals No great
problem was ever Illuminated by the torch
.ecn the COnnagratiOLs
and fiery talk OF agita-
- must carry Ihe next
Jst there is little diff
be useful In revolu-
useful in the bloody
N.Y. but neither is
people, who hold
cir own hands
trusts.
&c.. .hallowest OBJ
server and certain 20 the profoundest.
that the great combinations Of capital re-
Gently developed are based upon some OF
the fundamental principles Of progress.
il Is equally apparent and certain that in
their development. evils and cruditfes
have attended then. But this Is true o.
everything. IL is even true OF the de-
velOpment Of a child into a boy and Of a
boy into a man; and constant care Is ex-
erciEed in the training OF the infant mind
and character Maturity is a hard process
and slow, but 10 is a simple process. Let
as simple process be exercised in the
new development OF our social economy.
AS violent and hot words and stormy con
duct spoil the vision OF the parent so
will the same savage methods spoil the
vision and make foolish Tho action Of the
people IN tie regulation Of the develop
meBt Of capital and labor. The great
combinations OF capital devoted TO the
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