Arizona republican., 1903-09-08
CITIZENSHIP
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citizen is q sane and healthy man. who believes in decency and has q whole some mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike fer the man of wealth guilty ct the mean and base spirit ot arro- s3nce toward those who are less well off. and for the man of small means who in his turn either feels. or seeks Jo excite in others the feeling Of mean and base envy for those who are bet ter eff. The ;No feelings, envy and arrogance, are but opposite sides Cf the same shield. but different development, of the g me spirit. Fundamentally. the unsc. ,. ulous rich man who seeks to exploit and oppress those Wnu are less well off iS in spirit not opposed to. but identical with. the interruptions poor man who desires to plunder and op press those who are better off. The courier and tha demagcgue are but de- VelC1ments of the same type under diff ferent conditions. each manifesting the same serV;le spirit, the same desire to rise by pandering to base passions; though one panders tG power in the shape of a single man and the other to power in the shape e. a cu!titude. So likewise the man who wishes to rise by WrOnsing others must by right be con- trasted. not with the man who likewise wishes to do wfcng. though to q differ ent set Cf people. but with the man who wishes to do justice to all people and to wrong none.
 The line of cleavage between good and bad citizenship lies, not between the man of wealth who acts squarely by his l fellows and the man who seeks each days wage by that days work. wrong i ing no enc and doing h.s duty by his i neighbCr; nor yet does this line of ! cleavage divide the unscrupulous wealthy man who exploits others in his | oWn interest. from the demag06-ue. or from the sullcn and envious being who wishes to attack all men of property, | whether they do well or ill. on the 1 contrary. the line of cleavage between ecod citizenship and bad citizenship i separates the rich man who does well l from the rich man who does i'll, the poor
 man Of good conduct from the pooI man of bad conduct. This line of cleav- ase lies at right angles to any such arbitrary line of division as that sep 3rating one class from another, one To- ality from another, CT men with q cer-
 tain degree of property from those oi 2 less degree of property.
 The good citizen is the man who
 whatever his wealth or his poverty strives manfuly 10 do his duty to him. ! self. to his family. to his neighbor tC
 he state: who is incapable of the base ness which manifests itself either ir arrogance or in envy. but who while demanding justice for himself is no less scrupulCus to do justice to others. IL is because the average American citi-
 zen. rich or poor, is of just this type that we have cause for our profound faith in the future of the republic.
 Ours is a government of liberty, by
 through. and under the law. Lawless-
 ness and connivance at law-breaking- | whether the aW-breakiug take the form | Cf crime of greed and cunning or Ci l crime Of Violence-are destructive not 1 only Of Crder. but of the true liberties
 which can only come through order. Il alive to their true interests rich and l poor alike will set their faces like Hint
 against the spirit which seeks personal ! advantage by overriding the laws, with { cut regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by orc set of men or in the form of Vul- i pine cunning by another set of men.
 Let the watchwords of all our people
 be the old familiar watchwords Of hon | eSlN, QCCency, ldlE-QedllllS anu CCiIl- mon sense. The qualities denoted by these words are essential 10 all of us
 as we deal with the complex industrial problems of today, the problems affect ing not merely the accumulation but | even more the wise distribution of wealth. We ask no mans permission when we require him to obey the law; neither the permission of the poor man nCr yet of the rich man. Least of all can the man of great wealth afford to break the law, even for his own finan- cial advantage; for the law is his prop and support. and it is both foolish and profoundly unpatriotic for him to fail in giving hearty support to those who show that there is in very fact one l law, and enc law only, alike for the rich and the poor. ter the great and the small.
 i Men sincerely interested in the due protection of property, and men sincere | ly interested in seeing that the just rights of labor are guaranteed, should i alike remember not only that in the