New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JULY SS' ISoo

the midst of a presidential election. one Of tboe.
prolonged national debates, creating incessant tr
moil but invaluable agents of our political educs
ton in so far as they force us all TO take though,
about the underlying principles of policy bv vybicb
we wish to see the Government guided II was
while this political campaign was at its height that
the French visitor TO the Russian novelist ,-as
setting his notes in order and copying his asyer
ton that the Americans were mere noney-grubbers
predatory and barbaric.
If the unthinking Partisan journalist had on1v
taken the trouble TO consider the appeals which the
chief speakers of the two parties here In the Cnited
States were making to their fellowcitzeus in The
hope of winning votes. he would have discovered
that these practical politicians, trained rerceiv
the subtler shades of popular feeling ounding
all their arguments the assumption that the
American people a whole wanted % DO rigbt
He would have seen that the appeal Of these de-
voted partisans never TO prejudice To- race
hatred-evl spirits that various orators have ought
to arouse and TO intensity in the more recent political
discussion of the French themselves.
An examination of the platforms the letters Of
the candidates, and the speeches Of the more in
portant leaders both sides revealed % am Anaerj
can observer the significant fact that each
party tried to demonstrate that It as more
peaceable, more equitable, more sincerely de-
voted to lawful and righteous behav.o IN the
other" In other words, "the vot-- uas in.
stinctively credited with loving peacc and rigb-
teousness and with being stirred by SEM ents Of
goodwill toward men" This seems o. ..7v thar
the heart of the people IS sound and q. ID does
not throb in response to ignoble ar -as l.
seems to show that there IS here the DEL everto
do right and TO see right done, even 8. .e viii IS
weakened alittle by easy going good -e. even
if the will fails at times TO stifen Itsel IuteIy
TO make sure that the right does pre- even
if righteous wrath does not always g. forth
to destroy evil-dOers
Liberty hath sharp and dou ze ft
only to be handled by just and vir.u men"
so Milton asserted long ago, adding TO The
bad and dissolute, it becomes nisch.a ieldv
in their own hands" Even If ve clear
ourselves of being bad and d We
have much to do before we can G.. 20 be
lust and virtuous." Justice and e are
not to be had for the asking; they he r.
wards of a manful contest with sci, and
with sloth. They are the result OF auous
effort to think straight and 10 apr -ernal
principles TO present needs Merely on.v
the beginning; what rernainsis IS 20 think act
An English historian, Frederic Ha- g. who
came here to spy out the land three or wears
before Mr. Morley and Mr.. Bryce visi-. rs last,
was struck by the fact-and by the ,onse-
Ouences of the fact-that -America .e onlv
land on earth where caste has never had .otng
nor has left trace" 1t seemed 20 him vas,
numbers and the passion OF equality -. 20 low
averages in thought, in manners an. public
opinion which the zeal of the devote norirv
tends gradually. to raise to higher 1es Of
thought and conduct" But he believed should
solve our problems one by one beCar-e -le zeal
for learning justice and humanity liz -eep n
the American heart. Mr.. Harrison dil savit
in so many words but 1t IS implied IN he did
saw that the absence of caste and the ceoi
low averages in thought, in manners an. public
opinion impose a heavier task on III. -voted
minority whose duty it Is TO keep burn s-ead-
1y the zeal for learning, justice and anity.
Which Of Us NAV not. il haplv the SILL -.oves