The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-16

| the professional briber, The iehaueh-
Ter Of the ballot. the dishonest Iegis-
lator, the corrupt executive. and the
lunjnss Judge We need leak no FUR
Ither than to the practices tolerated
by our state and municipal govern
ments throughout the country. TO
find the cause OF corruption which is
so common. Hence vicious legisla-
ton and lax administration of public
affairs.
The time was when employer and
employee worked in the same shop.
BY a personal contact each learned
to know and respect the other This
condition has given place to estrange-
ment, TO hostility. 10 open war.
The proprietor is now an artificial
being, without soul or conscience
Its executive officers do not know
their employees and often do not care
TO know them. The largest return
for the smallest outlay is the guild
ing principle. The employee, on the
other hand, has none but a selfish
interest In the enterprise and to get
what he can for the least expense
Of time and labor. These contrary
impulses beget antagonism, hence
are boycotts and blacklists, strikes
and iockouts, destruction of life and
property, and martial law with all
the brutality of actual war.
Another condition of our national
life which may be called by-product
OF the conditions just referred to, is
a tendency to anarchy and socialism,
now grown so common. They are the
opposite extremes of antagonism to
organized government The one
would oyerturn by violence; the other
would by peaceable means substitute
for organized government a paternal
corporation owing all the capital, with
every citizen stakeholder Social
ism is repulsiye and dangerous, but
not near so dangerous as the profess
sional lobbyist and purveyor of cor
ruption funds The one assaults
from without; the other insinuates
itself into the heart of the social
fabric and undermines its very foun-
dalton.
The solution of the question how TO
treat the trust and 10 repres8 the
baieful influence of commercialism
upon political affairs, must not be
approached in a spirit of hostility
with purpose 10 destroy. II is nat
ural for men to combine capital and
experience for mutual profit. Not all
such combinations are trusts, though
the ymay possess power. The lawful
must be distinguished from the un~
lawful, hue each becomes a menace
TO society when II undertakes TO
usurp the functions of government
aud oyeFrides the rights Of the peo-
pie
Likewise the problems arising out
Of the relations between employer
and employee cannot be solved il the
work be undertaken in a spirit Of
partisan opposition. There are rights
on both aides which must be respect
ed ana preserved The employer has
a right TO conduct his business as be
pleases The employee has the equal
right 10 do the best he can for him
self. either sy his individual effort
or by omhination with his fellows
What is most needed is a deeper
philosophy In the performance Of our
civic duties We need a public senti-
ment which viii require that every
man shall declare his wishes AT the
ballot box, uninfluenced by fear OF
offense or by the hope Of personal
profit. that every public servant shall
keep faith with the people, and that
every one who Violates The right OF
sBffragp by force. fraud "a corrsp-
tion shall be denounced and punish
cd as a traitor To tine schools aud
the home we look AS the source from
which this sentiment masT come
In the family and ia rbe schools must
be taught the hoHiely lessons OF
honesty, of obedience. and Of idus-
try. aud the principle OF sAa golden
rule until bE habit they become the
rui~ 81 conduct. lt Is yse office Of
the colleges and universities 20 build
upon the foundations thus iais In bfe
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