The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-08

the who seeks each days wage by that
days work, wronging no one and doing ms
duty by his neighbor: nor yet does this line OF
cleavage divide the INSCRIPTIONS wealthy man.
who exploits others in his own interest from
the demagogue. or from the sullen anu en-
vious being who wishes to attack all men or
property. whether they do well or Ill On
the contrary the line Of cleavage between Soou
rich man who does we'll from the rich man
who does Ill, the poor man OF good conduct
from the poor man of bad conduct. rms
line of cleavage lies at right angles to any
such arbitrary line of division as that separat-
ing class from another, one locality from
another or men with certain degree OF prop
erty from those of a less degree of property.
The good citizen is the man who whatever
his wealth or his poverty strives manfully to
do his duty to himself to his family, 10 DIS
neighbor to the State: who is incapable of
the baseness which manifests itself either in
arrogance in envy. but who while demand
to do justice to others. 1t is because the
average American citizen. 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. Lawlessness and conni-
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the law
breaking take the form of crime of greed
and cunning or of crime OF violence-are de-
structive 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
riding the laws without regard to whether
this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily
violence Dy one set OF men OF IN the IOTH OIL
vupine cunning by another set Of men.
Let the watchwords of all our people he the
old familiar watchwords of honesty. decency.
fair-dealng and common sense. The qualities
denoted by these words essential to all of
us deal with the complex industrial
problems of to-day the problems affecting not
merely the accumulation but even more the
wise distribution of wealth. We ask no man
permission when We require him to obey the
nor yet of the rich man. Least of all can the
man of great wealth afford to break the law.
for his own financial advantage; for the
law Is his prop and support, and II is both fool
ish and profoundly unpatriotic for him to fail
in giving hearty support to those who show
that there is in very fact one law and one
law only alike for the rich and the poor
for the great and the small.
Men sincerely interested in the due protec-
ton Of property and men sincerely interested
in seeing that the just rights of labor are
guaranteed should alike remember not only
that in the long run neither the capitalist
fashion save by helping the other: but also
that to require either side to obey the law and
do its full duty toward the community is en-
phatically to that sides real interest
FOE OF THE WAGEWORKER.
worker than the man who condones mob vio-
lence in any shape or who breaches class
hatred and surely the slightest acquaintance
with our Industrial history should teach even
the most shortsighted that the times Of most
suffering for our people as a whole. the times
when business is stangnant and capital suffers
from shrinkage and gets return from it's
investments, are exactly the times of hard
ships and want and grim disaster among the
poor. II all the existing instrumentaities of
wealth could be abolished the first and sever
est suffering would come among those of US
who are least well of at present. The wage
worker is well off only when the rest of the
country is we'll OF, and he can best contribute
to this general well-being by showing sanity
and firm purpose to do justice to others.
NO ROOM FOR THE IDLER.
There is no room in healthy American
life for the dler. for the man or the
woman whose object 1t is throughout life to
shirk the duties which life ought to bring
Life mean nothing worth meaning unless
its prime aim is the doing of duty the
achievement of results worth achieving. A
recent writer has finely said: After all, the
saddest thing that can happen to a man is to
carry burdens. To be bent under too great
load is bad; to be crushed by it is lament