The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-08
THOUSANDS SAW HIM.



thought, shrewdness. self-restraint the
courage which refuses to abandon ones
own rights, and the disinterested and
kindly good sense which enables one
to do justice TO the rights of others
Lack of strength and lack of courage
UNIT men for elf-gOvernment on the
one hand; and on the other, brutal ar
rogance, envy-in short, any manifes-
tation of the spirit of selfish disregard,
whether of ones own duties or of the
rights of others, are equally fatal
The reason why our future is as
sured lies in the tact that our people
are genuinely skilled in and fitted for
selt-g government and therefore will
spurn the leadership of those who seek
to excite this ferocious and foolish class
antagonism. The average American
knows not only that he himself intends
to do about what is right, but that his
average fellow-countryman has the
same intention and the same power to
make his intention effective. He knows,
whether he be business man, profess
sional man, farmer, mechanic, en-
ploYer. or wage-worker, that the well
fare of each of these men is bound up
with the welfare of all the others; that
each is neghbor to the other, is actu-
ated by the same hopes and fears, has
fundamentally the same ideals, and
that all alike have much the same vir-
tues and the same faults. Our average
fellow-Citizen is a sane and healthy
man. who believes in decency and has
a wholesome mind. He therefore feels
an equal scorn alike for the man of
wealth guilty of the mean and base
spirit of arrogance toward those who
are less well off and for the man of
small means who in his turn
either feels, or seeks to excite in others
the feeling of mean and base envy for
those who are better off. The two feel
ings envy and arrogance, are but OPP
posite sides of the same shield, but diff
ferent developments of the same spirit.
Fundamentally, the INSCRIPTIONS rich
man who seeks to exploit and Cypress
those who are less well off is in spirit
not opposed to, but identical with, the
INSCRIPTIONS poor man who desires to
plumber and Cypress those who are bet
ter off. The coulter and the dema-
gogue are but developments of the
same type under different conditions
each manifesting the same servi1e spir-
it, the same desire to rise by pandering
to base passions; though one panders
to power i'm the shape of a single man
and the other to power in the shape of
a multitude. So likewise the man who
wishes to rise by wronging others must
by right be contrasted, not with the
s.
though to a different set of people, but
with the man who wishes 70 do JUS
tice to all people and to wrong none.
who STRIDES to Do His Duty.
THE good citizen is the man who,
whatever his wealth or his poverty,
strives manfully to do his duty to him
self, to his family, to his neighbor, to
the state, who is incapable of the base
ness which manifests itself either in
arrogance or in envy, but who, while
demanding justice for himself, is no
less scupulous to do justice to others.
1t is because the average American cit
izen, rich or poor, is of just this
type that we have cause for our pro-
found faith in the future of the re-
public.
There is no worse enemy of the
wage worker than the man who con-
dones mob violence in any shape or
who breaches class hatred and sure
ly the slightest acquaintance with our
industrial history should teach even
the most shOrt-sighted that the times
of most suffering for our people as
whole, the times when business is
stagnant and capital suffers from
shrlnkage and gets no return from its
investments, are exactly the times of
hardship and want, and grim disaster
among the poor. If all the existing in
strumentaiities of wealth could be abol-
ished, the first and seVerest suffering
would come among those of us who
are least well off at present The
wage-worker is we'll off only when the
rest of the country is well off; and he
can best contribute to this general we'll
being by showing sanity and a firm
purpose to do justice to others.
IN MS turn the capitalist who is
really a conservative, the man who has
forethought as we'll as PATRIOTISM
should heartily welcome every effort
legislative or otherwise, which has for
It's object to secure fair dealing by
capital, corporate or individual to-
ward the public and toward the en-
ploye. Such laws as the franchise-tax
law in this state, which the Court Of
Appeals recently unanimously decided
constitutional-such law as that pass
cd IN Congress last year for the mr.
pose OF establishing a Department of
Commerce and Labor. under which
there should be a bureau to oversee and
secure publicity from the. great cor
poratlonS which do an interstate bust
ness-sueh law as that passed at the
same time for the regulation of the
great highways of commerce SO as to
keep these roads clear on fair terms
10 an producers in getting their goods
10 hlarket-these laws are in the in
terest not merely of the people as
For in no way is the stability of prom
erty better assured than by making il
patent to our people that property bears
It's proper share of the burdens of the
state; that property is handled not only
IN the interest Of the owner. but in the
interest Of the whole community
Among ourseiN es we differ i'm many
qualities, Of body. head and heart: we
are unequally developed, mentally as
Wen as physically. But each of us
has the right 10 ask that he shall be
protected from wrongdoing as he does
ms work and carries his burden through
life. No man needs sympathy because
ne mas To work. because he has a bur
oen 10 carry Far and away the best
prize that life offers is the chance 10
work hard AZ work worth doing. ana
thls ls prize open 10 every man. Tor
mere can be no work better worth DO.
lnR than that done 10 keep Ia health
ana comfort and with reasonable al
Fantages those Immediately dependent
upon The husband the father. or the
son
There ls no room iu our healthy
American life fof the mere idler. for
ne man Or the woman whose object n