Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-09-13

iy sugnr ccated and ts1 IN swallow
lake No Substitute. s,--.---
virtue and patriotism OF the peopl
make it SO. The deople are beginnin
to understand that when they uudel
teke to be kings they assume the re
sdonsibilities as we'll as the privilege
OF sovereignty. This awakening wi,
go on, for while reforms sometime
die, revolutions never 60 backward
and this is revolution that is bein,
wrought in the hearss Of men.
This movement against wrongs 4
not crusade against wealth. Wealth
In itself is blessing; the abuse o
wealth is a curse. Wealth gained by
bonest industry is commendable. Th,
poverty of Incidence is contemplate
This government does not rest upor
the idle rich, nor the idle poor, bul
upon the Industry and patriotism o.
the middle classes. There can be M
objection to honest riches, but there
Is objection to the crimes and privi
leges out of which tainted riches grow
There is no disposition to inlure cor
porations that obey the law, but the
demand is that corporations, even the
greatest, obey the law just like anyone
else. Special interests should be made
to respect the law regulating theil
conduct, as they ask Others to respect
the law protecting their property. The
need is not so much for new laws as tC
enforce those laws we have, There
has been too much OF making OF laws
to please all the people, and too little
enforcement OF those laws to please
special interests,
PEOPLE NOW WAR ON GRAFT.
The regenerated conscience of the
people has been assailing these abuses
one by one, and has now commenced
to attack the deeper evil of privileges.
Graft is a privilege which is
is exercised either against the
law or me which the law itself
may give. No one ever heard of a leg
islator being bribed to give equal
rights to all the people. 1t is always
for the purpose of obtaining privileges
for the few. Graft cannot be fully
done away with until special privileg-
es are exterminated and the doctrine
Of equal rights becomes the standard
for governmental action. 1t matters
not whether this privilege be In the
form of tariff so arranged as to fos-
ter the monopoly of trust to control
the price Of the necessities of life, or
rebaits for favore shippers.
No protection for monopoly is the
battle cry Of the newborn patriotism.
As monopoly is founded on privilege;
without privilege monopoly must fail.
The platform for privileges for the
few is opposed by the platform of priv
ileges for none. The doctrine of pro-
lection for monopoly as against the peo.
pie is opposed by the doctrine of pro-
lection for the people as against mon
opoly.
The light is breaking and good men
and true will say. Let there be light
and yet more light that we may es-
cape the snares set for our feet and
walk in safety along the highway of
larger freedom to a more equalized
national existance and higher
life.
Let US, In this crisis, be neither ra-
iical nor conservatives; rather let us
be conservative In charging wrongdo-
ng, lest justice be caused In charging
where it does not exist, but once sure
If the evil let us be radical in its ex-
Let US have neither
ihe conservative of stagnation nor the
'adicalism of indlscriminate destruc-
lion. We want progress along the |
light lines. States and nations like
men, should never be satisfied, but
,ver strive for higher development.
In this epoch, so important to |
american liberty, we ask the people
% set up no new gods, we ask them to |
ollow no new paths which may lead |
nto the quicksands Of dishonor and
Iespair. Our safest and surest guide
5 still the old maxim "that there
hall be equal rights to gil; special pri-
Tileges to none"
EQUAL RIGHTS DUE TO ALL
With this maxim as our chart we
annot lose our course; with this rule
or our guidance, the infamies Of
privilege In every from will be des-
royed and unto all men there will be
estored the equal right that belong |
0 each, the fair and equal opportun-
ty of each and every man to live and
abor upon the earth which God has
.iven to all and to enjoy untrammel-
d the gains of individual industry.
The gospel of equal rights sounds
he death knell Of privilege and means
he uprooting Of monopoly throughout
he land. This gospel teaches that
{ is more important that all of the
'eople be prosperous than that a few
Ie very rich, that it is better that all
4 the people should have all of the
wealth than that all of the wealth
hould be In the hands Of few people.
The other republics that have lived
nd died during the fight of time
through the ages have been wrecked
Ipon the rock OF privilege. But the
Iope for the perpetuity of his govern
nent was never brighter than it is to-
ay, because the people are awakened
0 the dangers ahead. AS long as the
eople are aroused there will be only
afety lights for the popular govern
1ent.
The ideal republic is one Uf charity
OF all, OF brotherhood among men, Of
quail rights for all mankind. We
nay not achieve the ideal at any time
Oon, but we can strive for it with the
Ssurance that this endeavor will lead
S up the heights Of attainment until
re are face to face with the ideal and
be true.