Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-29


 flicted by others. either wantonly or cf set design. We are confronted by the question. not of damage to ore mans body. but of damage to the other mans character. Brutality in
 playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown con. my trienus ] number professional box CTS and grestlers. oaTsmen. and base
 ball men, whose regard 1 value, and whom in turn l regard as thoroughly good citizens. But the college under graduate who. in furtive fashion. be- comes a semi-professional. is an un- mitigated curse. and that not alone to university life. and to the cause of amateur sport; for the college grad uate ought in after years to take the lead in putting the business morality of this country on proper plane, and he can not do it if in his own college career his code of conduct has been warped and twisted. Moreover. the spirit which puts sIs excessive a value upon his work as to produce this semi-professional is itself unhealthy. wish to see Harvard win a reason able proportion of the contests in which it enters, and l should be heart fly ashamed of every Harvard athlete who did not spend every ounce there was in him in the effort to win, pro vided only he does it in honorable and manly fashion. But I think our effort should be to minimize rather than to increase that kind of love of athletics which manifests itself. not in joining in the athletic sports. but in
 cTowding by tens of thousands to see other people indulge in them. It is a far better thing for our colleges to have the average student interested in some form of athletics than to have them all gather in a mass to see other people do their athletics for them.
 Now for the Alumni.
 So much for the undergraduate Now for the alumni. the men who are at work out in the great world Of course the mans first duty is to him self. and to those immediately depend ent upon him. Unless he can pull his own weight he must be content to remain a passenger all his life. But we have a right to expect tha- the men who come out of ,'acvard viii do something more than merely pull their own weight. We have a right to expect that they will count as positive forces for the betterment of 7 thus count only if they combine the power of devotion to a lofty ideal with practical common sense in striving to realize this ideal
 Men of Lofty Ideals Needed.
 This nation never stood in greater need than now of having among it's leaders men of lofty ideals. which they try to live up to and not merely rA toll nf a ideals in public life. and We need them just as much in business and in such a profession as the law. We can by statute establish only those ex- ceedingly rough lines of morality. the overpassing of which means that the man is in jeopardy of the constable or the sheriff. But the nation is badly off if in addition to this there is not a very much higher standard of con duct, a standard impossible effectively to establish by statute. but one upon which the community as a whole, and the real leaders of the com munity. insist Take such a question as the enforcement of the law. It is, of course. elementary to say that this is the first requisite in any civilization at all
 The Grating Criminal.
 But a great many people in the ranks of life from which most college men are drawn seem to forget that they should condemn with equal se- verity those men who break the law by committing crimes of mob violence, and those who eyade the law, or who actually break it. but so cunningly that they cannot be discovered, the crimes they commit being not those hut af and graft on the largest scale. The very rich man who conducts his busi- ness as if he believed that he were a law unto himself. thereby immensely increases the difficulty of the task of upholding order when the disorder is menace to men of property; for if the community feels that rich men disregard the law, where it affects themselves. then the community is apt to assume the dangerous and un- wholesome attitude of condoning crimes of violence committed against the interests which in the popular mind these rich men represent This last attitude is wholly evil; but so is the attitude which produces it. We have a right to appeal 10 the alumni of Harvard. and to the alumni of every institution of learning in this land, to QO LlelT III CFEdAAA-S d PQOAAC timent which shall demand of all men of means. and especially of the men of vast fortune. that they set an ex' ample to their less fortunate brethren by paying scrupulous heed not only to the letter but to the spirit of the
 laws. and by acknowledging in the heartiest fashion the moral obliga' tions which cannot be expressed iD law, but which stand back of and
 above all laws. It is far more impor- tant that they should conduct their
 business affairs decently than that i they should spend the surplus of their fortunes in philanthrophy. Much has been given to these men and we have
 right to demand much of them in
 return. Every man of great wealth
 who runs his business with cynical
 contempt for these prohibitions of the | law which by hired cunning he can escape or eyade. is a menace to our
 comn-u2-sy, and the community is not
 to be excused if it does not develop a spirit which actively frowns on and
 discountenances him The great pro
 fession of the law should be that