The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-07-11

their allegiance to party. we will have
way now unknown make amends for
our mistakes. The most hopeful sign
is the increasing independence of the
great newspapers. Indeed the great
ness and influence of Il newspaper in
these days may be said to increase in
proportion as it becomes independent.
influential paper as The Minneapolis
Journal is as time goes on taking
higher and higher ground and more
independent action. The Journal truly
says, America is good. but it must
be made better" In an editorial pub
lished Oh July / it says:
The reaction from political corrup-
ton, faithlessness in office. selfish ma
terialism and binding commercialism
is beginning. Men are turning their
thoughts to great national problems,
and there are evidences on all sides
of an earnest desire to make this q
better land than it has ever been be-
fore. America is good, but it must be
made better. 1t has some dis.raceful
conditions which must be changed, it
has some knotty questions that must
be settled.
1t should be the ambition of all
sober-minded Americans to keep this
nation in the van Of human progress,
to make it such that it's people will
have something to be proud of besides
the extent of its territory, the multi
tude of its people, the dazzling pro-
portions of their wealth, and their
commercial and mechanical achieve
ments.
"All men are created equal" says
the Declaration of Independence" but
we have yet long road to travel be-
fore all men shall have that equality
that the law entities them to. This
state statement that all men are Great
ed equal has of late years been held
by some of our people to be nothing
but IL Jeifcrsonian rhetorical flourish.
and that instead of being IL self-evi-
dent truth it is IL self-evident error.
Nothing is palmer, we are told. than
that I'LL men are not created equal.
But people who talk in this way would
do we'll to read the Declaration. 1t
does not say and it waS never intend
ed to say that one man is born with
as much brain. muscle or potentiality
as another. Our revolutionary fathers
We're no fools. What they meant. and
believed that no man is entitled to adj
vantages by right of birth. before the
law or in the government. over other
men. The common Inheritance of all
men by virtue of their humanity is
an equal start in life: 10 legal handi-
caps for the PEASANTS son, no legal
hereditary government or political
rights and privileges of any kind.
Give every man Il free field for the
pursuit of life. liberty and happiness.
Then every man will receive and
achieve according to his deserts as
near as may be in this world. The
Declaration teaches that because IL
man is Il man he has as many rights
before Il Just government and just
laws us any other lnan-nO more, 10
less That was good doctrine 1871
years ago and it is good doctrine now
1t is democracy"
1t is to lie hCifr,l that til" "s,tinnAl
reaction has set in. We are all more
interested in the welfare of our coun-
try than we are in men or theories.
We owe greater duty to our country
than to merely preserve it for our
horn to preserve it for them. Truly
it ought to be 1.-The ambition of all
sobcr-mintlcd Americans to keep this
nation in the van Of human progress,
to make it such that it's people will
sides the extent of it's territory, the
multitude of it's people. the dazzling
proportions of their wealth and their
commercial and mechanical achieve
mentS."