Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-08
4 PLEA FOR RIGHT.
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Concluded from first page,
BY his fellows and the man who seeks
each days wage BY that days work,
wronglng no one and doing his duty By
his neIghbor; not yet does this line OF
cleavage divide the interruptions
wealthy man who exploits others in
his own interest, from the dema-
Gogue. or from the sullen and e~nvious
being who wishes to attack all men Of
property, whether they do well or III.
On the contrary. the line Of cleavage
between good citizenship and bad cit
Isenship separates the rich man who
does well from the rich man who
does III, the poor man OF good conduct
from the poor man or bad conduct.
This limo Of cleavage Hes at right an
gles 10 any such arbitrary line Of al.
vision - that separating one class
from another, or men with 4 certain
degree Of property from those Of q
less degree Of property.
The good citizen II the man who,
whatever his wealth or his poverty,
strives manfuliy to do his duty TO him.
cell, to his family. to his neighbor. to
tho state; who n incapable Of tho
baseness which manifests itself eth.
o. IN arrogance or In envy. but who
while demanding Justice for himself
q no less scrupulous to do Justice TO
others. II II because the average
American citizen. rich or poor. ID of
Just this type that W. have cause for
our profound faith in tho future Of the
republic.
Ours 10 = government Of liberty. BY.
through, ana under the law. Lawless.
ness and connivance at Iaw.breaking
whether the law-breakinG take the
form Of : crime Of greed and cunning
q Of : crime Of violence-ars destruc.
Tive NOT only Of order. but Of the true
liberties which can only come through
order. II alive to their true interests
rich and poor alike will set their faces
like flint against the spirit which seeks
personal advantage by overriding the
laws. without regard to whether this
spirit shows itself In the form Of bodi.
y violence BY one set Of men or IN
the form Of vulninc cunning by anoth.
q set Of mon.
Let the w~atchwords Or all our pen.
pie be the old familiar watchwords
Of honesty. dcccncy. fair-doallng and
common sense. The qualities denoted
By these words arc essential TO all Of
us. as we deal with the complex indus.
trial problems Of today. the problems
affecting net merely the accumulation
but even moro the Wise distribution Of
wealth. We ask no mans permission
when we require him to obey tho law;
neither tho permission Of the poor
man nur yet Of the rich man, Least Of
Ill can the man OF wealth AFFORD 10
break tho law. even for his own iinan.
cIal advantage: for the law Is his prop
and support. and II II both foolish and
profoundly unpatriotic for him 10 fall
IN giving hearty support to those who
show that there is In very fact n
law, and n law only, alike for the
rich and the poor. for the great and
The small.
Men sincerely interested in the due
protection Of property, and men sin.
cerely interested in sccingg that the
Just rights OF labor are guaranteed.
should alike remember not only that IN
the long run neither the capitalist nor
the wage-worker can be helped In
healthy fashion save by helping the
other: but also that 70 require either
side to obey the law and do its full
duty toward The community ia ON
phasically 70 that sides real interest,
There is no worse enemy Of the
waeesworker than the man who con
dones mob violence IN any shape or
who breaches class hatred; ana nnre.
ly the slightest acquaintance with our
Industrial history should teach eyea
the most short.slphted that the tImes
Of most suffering for our people A. 9
wholc.the Hines when business 81 sing.
mani. and capital suffers from shrink
age and gets 10 return from lts III
vcstmcnts. are exactly me times oi
hardship. and want. and grim disaster
among the poor. " all the existing 70.
strumenfalIties e. wealth could be
abolished. the irst and sesefest suffer-.
ing would como among those ~ US
who are least well on at present The