The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-04-28

favor.
Untold Injury Is Done.
The effort 10 make financial or po-
litical effort out OF the destruction oil
character can only result in public
calamity. Gross and reckless assaults
on character, whether on the stump or
in newspaper. magazine or book, cre-
ate a morbid and vicious public senu-
ment and nj the same time act as
profound deterrent 10 able men oil
normal sensitiyeness and tend 10 pre-
vent them from entering the pubic
service at any price.
Damage 20 Whole Country.
"To assall the great and admitted
evils OF our political and Industrial
life with such crude and sweeping gen.
civilizations as TO include decent men
in the general condemnation means
the soaring OF the public conscience.
There results a general attitude Ell.
ther OF cynical belief and indifference
to public corruption or else distrust
full inability 10 discriminate between
the good and the bad. Either atti.
tude is fraught with untold damage 10
the country as a whole.
"In his ecclesiastical polity that fine
old Elizabethan divine. Bishop Hook
err, wrote He that goeth about 10
persuade n multitude that they are
not so well-governed as they ought 70
be shall never want attention and IA
vorable hearers, because they know
the manifold defects whereunto every
kind OF regimen Is subject. but the SO.
cret lets and difficulties, which in pub
lie proceedings are innumerable and
inevitable, they have not ordinarily the
judgment TO consider
This truth should be kept constant
ly in mind by every free people desir.
ing TO preserve the sanity and poise
indispensable 10 the permanent sue
cess OF self-goyernment Yet. on the
other hand, IL IL vital not 10 permit
this spirit OF sanity and selfcommand
TO degenerate into mere mental stag
nation. Bad though a state OF hyster.
ical excitement Is and evil though the
results are which come from the VIC
lent oscillations such excitement In.
variably produces, yet a sodden ac-
quiescence In evil Is even worse.
Preachers OF Unrest.
AT this moment we are passing
through period OF great unrest-so-
cial, political and Industrial unrest.
IL Is OF the utmost Importance for our
future that this should prove to be
not the unrest OF mere RIGHTEOUSNESS
against life. OF mere dissatisfaction
with the inevitable inequality OF con.
ditions, but the unrest OF resolute
and eager ambition 10 secure the bet.
terment OF the individual and the ma.
tion.
Progressive Tax on Wealth.
ut is important 10 this people 20
grapple with the problems connected
with the amassing of enormous for
tunes and the use OF those fortunes,
both corporate and individual, in busl-
ness. We should discriminate in the
sharpest way between fortunes well
won and fortunes ill won, between
those gained as an incident TO per-
forming great services 10 the com
muni.y as n whole and those gained
in evil fashion by keeping just within
the limits OF mere law honesty.
Must Control Corporations.
Again, the national government
must in some form exercise superyis-
ion over corporations engaged In in
terstate business--and all large cor
porations are engaged in interstate
business-whether by license or other
wise, so as 10 permit us 10 deal with
the far-reaching evils OF oyercapltali-
cation.
1.-THE men or wealth who to-day are
trying TO prevent the regulation and
control OF their business in the inter-
est or the public by the proper govern
ment authorities will not succeed, In
my judgment. in checking the progress
OF the movement. But IL they did sue
coed they would find that they had
sown the wind and would surely reap
the whirlwind. for they would ulti-
mately provoke the violent excesses
which accompany n reform coming by
CONFUSION instead OF by steady and
natural growth.
I'VE can no more and no less AFFORD
to condone evil in the man OF capital
than evil I'm the man OF no capital.
The wealthy man who exults because
there Is failure OF justice in the Of.
fort 10 bring some trust magnate TO
account for his misdeeds is as bad and
no worse than the so-called labor lead
er who DANGEROUSLY strives to excite
foul class feeling on behalf OF some
other labor leader who Is implicated
in murder. One attitude is as bad as
the other and no worse; in each case
the accused is entitled 10 exact justice.
and in neither case is there need OF &C
tlon by others which can be construed
into an expression OF sympathy for
crime.