The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-20


trial fabric are interviewer in such COM
pick fashion that what strengthens or
weakens part also strengthens or weak
ems the whole.
eff we, penalize industry we will
ourselves in the end have to pay a con-
make conditions such that the men of
exceptional ability are able to secure
marked benefits by the exercise of that
ability, then we shall ourselves benefit
somewhat. 1t is ours interest no less
than our duty. to treat them fairly. On
the other hand, it is no less their inter-
est to treat us fairly-by Gus" mean
the great body of the people, the men
OF moderate or small fortunes, the farm
ers, the wage-workers, the smaller bust.
ness men and professional men.
Wrong to Body Politic. 49,.
1.-The man of great means who
achieves fortune by crooked methods
does wrong to the whole body polite.
But he not merely does wrong to, he
becomes source of imminent danger
e. other men Of great means; for his
lli-Won success tends to arouse a feeling
OF resentment, which if it becomes in
famed fails to differentiate between the
men OF wealth who have done decentlv
and the men of wealth who have not
done decently. w. ''N'
1.-The conscience of our people has
been deeply shocked by the revelations
made OF recent years as to the way in
| winch some OF the great fortunes have
6een obtained and used, and there is,
think, in, the minds Of the people at
large a strong feeling that a serious
effort must be made TO- put q stop to
the cynical dishonesty and contempt for
right which have thus been revealed. I
believe that something, and I hope that
a; good deal, can be done by law to
remedy the state of things complained
of. :, But when all that can be, has thus
been done, there will yet remain much
which the law cannot touch, and which
must be reached by the force Of public
Law Honesty Created.
"There are men WHO do not divide &C.
lions merely into thds. that are honest
and those that are rot, bnt, create a
third notwithstanding Of law honesty;
OF that kind of honesty which consists
IN Keeping clear Of the ,penitentiary. It
is hard to reach astute men Of this type
save by making them feel the weight of
an honest public Indignation. But this
indignation, if it is to be effective, must
| be intelligent. It is, Of course, to the
great advantages of dishonest men Of
wealth If they are denounced not for
being dishonest, but for being wealthy,
and IT they are denounced in terms SO
overstrained and hysterical as. to in.
I vito reaction in their favor. 49,, -,
/ e We cannot afford in this country to
4 draw the distinction as between rich
man and poor man. The distinction
upon which we must insist is the vital,
deep-lying, Interchangeable obstruction
4 between the honest man and the dishon.
4 est man, between the man who acts de.
Gently and fairly by his neighbor and
with a quick sense of his obligations
and the man who acknowledges no in
ternal law save that Of his own will
and appetite. -, y X, / 49,. -
Practical Politics. - .1r.,7@
| "Above all, we should treat with 4
man who, in spirit Of sheer cynicism
debauches either our business life or oul
political life. There are men who use
the phrase practical politics as mere.
y euphemlsm for dirty politics, and
! it is such men who have brought the
word politician into discredit. There
are other men who use the noxiouf
phrase business is business as an
excuse and justification for every kind
men make honest Americans hang Their
heads because Of some of the things
they. do. It is the duty Of every honest
patriot to rebuke in Emphatic fashion
alike the politician who does not un
derstand that the only kind of sprac
tica politics which nation can with
safety tolerate is that kind which we
know as clean politics, and that we are
as severe In our condemnation Of thu
business trickery which succeeds as Of
the business trickery which fails, The
scoun!ldred who fails can never by any
possibility be as dangerous to the com
munity as the scoundrel who succeeds
and of all the men in the country, the
worst citizens, those who should excite
in our minds the most contemptuou.
adherence are the men who have
achieved great wealth, or any Other
form OF success, in any save a clear
and straightforward manner"
Chinese Boycott.
I President Roosevelt then turned hi
attention to the Chinese boycott Of
American RI. goods and products. He said
This government is doing, and will
continue to do, all it can to put a sto1
to the boycott. But there is one meas
ure to be taken toward this end il
which l shall need the assistance Of tn,
congress. We must insist firmly on ou1
rights; and China must beware Of per
slstlngs1n course of conduct to which
! we can not honorably submit. But W,
IN our turn must recognize our dutie.
exactly as we insist upon our rights
We can not go into the internationa
: court Of equity unless we 20 in Will
clean hands. We can not expect Chin;
!; to do US justice unless we do Chin;
; Justice.
The chief cause in bringing abou
the boycott of our goods in China wa,
undoubtedly our attitude toward til,
Chinese who come to this country. Thi,
attitude of ours does not Justify tht
atcion of the Chinese in the boycott
and especially some Of the forms which
that action has taken. But the fact re
J mains that in the past we have com.
} short of our duty toward the people 81
I, China.
I Shut Out Coolies.
It is our clear duty, ii the interest 81
our own wageWorkers, to forbid all Chi
nese of the coolie class-that is, labor
ers. skilled or unskilled-fron comins
here. The greatest of all duties is ma
d Iional self-preservation and the mos
important step in national self -preser
walton is to preserve in every way thu
wellbeing of the wageworker.
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