The San Francisco call., 1904-04-09
A CONTRAST.

r. under an obligation by his clear utterance of
those things which others think. Men have an
unuttered of the duties which life imposes upon
them They hold views which arc not formulated, but
which become the better guides of life when put in
plain statement. The depend for acceptance
and the false for rejection upon being stated plainly.
In his address the Periodical Publishers Asso-
citation, the President stated views of the
quirements of good citizenship He speaking to
who represent what may be called force in
national life. 1t is far cry from the original
Harpers' New Magazine the old Knickerbocker and
Godeys Ladies Book. 10 the numerous modern maga-
zines and reviews. in which science, sociology, and
domestic and politics thoughtully and
soundly discussed and fiction and philosophy have a
place that brings them to the more thoughtful and
leisurely attention of the people Speaking such
audience the President said "A people has merely
substituted seresraint for external restraint and the
permanence of our freedom people and of our
liberty depends upon the way in which shall exer-
else that restraint
This puts government by law and by the majority
different basis from government by that external
restraint which the control of the majority by
arbitrary will in whose working and direction they
had voice and power of control Self-restraint
that quality which rerains from exerng arbitrary
control Others and is devoted secontrol
is consistent with the right of others and with their
freedom to exercise the serestrant. The exposi-
ton is admirable, and adds important definition
the many homely truths that have been uttered by
President Their uterance is timely. The vagares of
theorists and the visions of dreamers have done much
confuse the ideas of about their duties as
bers of free society like
Self-restraint merely control of appe
tites and the safe harnessng of passions, but puts
bounds the methods by which sefshness exceeds its
proper limits, and when made controlling force
among men is the safeguar&o of all rights 1t is self
restraint worked into science and called the law
prudence and appears the protector of the rights
person and property President Roosevelt affrfns the
relation between self-restrant and civil liberty When
that withdrawn freedom and the will
of the strong is the only law.
By way of contrast, and, beg say, for other
purpose, this view of human duty may be examined
alongside of the celebrated utterance often repeated of
Mr. Hearst The is suggested only by the fact
that Mr.. Hearst is candidate for the Presidency and
is the favorte of such considerable number of
bers of his party make necessary the examination
of his views of public policy and of human duty In
the months Immediately preceding the assassination of
President Mckinley, when Mr.. Hearst sowing the
seeds of anarchy and trying nightly divert public
attention from the rising prosperity of the country and
its cause he caused the frequent publication in his
papers OF this advice You should be, in many ways
possible, breeder of discomfort among the human
beings around you"
What kind OF society may be expected from the fol-
lowing OF that advice! 1t all,
possible breed discomfort and each gives and takes
the influences which it and the suspicious and
greeds and grudges which go with it, how long would
life be toerable? If each huctuation and for
tune, in condition and circumstances, be ascrbed to
external influences and made continually dis
contented with and suspicious of each other how long
will free institutions survve Iago followed the advice
of Mr. Hearst and breeder of discomfort in the
mind of Othello If all men become lagos to each
ether, Mr.. Hearst advises. then society and civil
liberty will meet the fate of Desdemona
The assassin of Mckinley was a man. human being
upon whom Mr. Hearsts advice had done its perfect
work. He had tuned his listen only to the
breeders of discomfort. He did that sef-re
sraint which induces determination search of the
cause he had for hatred of the social order and the
Government and its representative the President whom
he murdered. Whatever had happened impair his
personal fortunes impede his rise was not sought
for in his lack of thrift intelligence or industry
Mr.. Hearst's recipe taught him to look upon society
and government bis enemy. and he blindly struck at
both.
AS so many read and admire Mr.. Hearst and wish
TO make him President, it is proper consider his
siderable number of whose members think him fit for
the Presidency, must go to judgment and be weighed
by its Endorsement of his ideas. and by the contrast
between them and the views of President Roosevelt