Spartanburg journal. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1900-1906, 1906-09-06
Strictly Ethical In its Management; !;
Sells Only Standard Articles
Of Established and Well
Known Merit.
Known Merit.

Twenty years ago, perhaps, James
Russell Lowell, speaking at a ban
quet of business men in Boston, said:
The time is coming when men will
be guided by that coed taste which
is the conscience CT the mind, as by
that conscience which is the good
taste CT the soul"
These who heard and felt the
force Ct that wonderful epigram ap-
piled TO the conduct Cf public and
mmercial lie, must have realized
that they we've in the presence not
Cn!y Cf a poet, but Cf prophet Of
his day. Fer then, as now, cCmmer-
CialiSm dominated the minds CT men
tCo completely to admit CT the eX
CrCise of the ideal conscience in
business CT governmental affairs.
The fCr:nuia tf physical warfare
to the strong, the battle; to the vic
ter, the spoils; to the swift. the race:
and to the devil, the hindmost'-had
been translated long before, into the
terms of the not less strenuous
struggle for industrial existence CT
political success. Too often, indeed
there has been imposed upon the
employment CT force the exercise of
cunning; upon the indulgence CT
greed the practice CT graft; upoE
the worship of speed, the cruelty of
the Juggernaut; upon the Sc;;i of
failure, the cul-de-sac of despair.
Yet with all this food for pessi-
mism in the commercial and politi-
cal characteristics of his day, James
Russell Lowell still foretold the
taste which Is the highest express
sion CT the intellectual and spiritual
conscience That hc was not a mere
idealist who dreams but seer who
saw into the future as far as hui
man eye could see; saw the vision
CT the world and all the wonder that
would be- the history Ci today bears
witness. He discovered the forces
CT an evolution already at work in
the moral nature of men which peo-
pie OF his day and generation could
not see.
The present decade has been mark
cd in America by the great awaken
ing CT public conscience, by the
organized operation of Il mighty mass
of individual consciencss educated
to the Judgment of questions of right
and wrong, of good taste and bad
taste in public affairs. This public
conscience has already proved it's
elemental power. 1t has challeged
the prostitution OF public office to
private gain. 1t has revealed the
skeleton in hundreds of political
closets. 1t has attacked the true
name and penalty to the fattening
OF trust official upon trust funds. 1t
mas restored to the people valuable
franchises obtained through fraud. 1t
has declared for public ownership
Of public utilities. 1t has moved for
revision and reduction of our rob-
Der tariff. 1t has forbidden the rail
roads discrimination between ship
pers or competing points. 1t has
inaugurated relentless warfare
against the iniquitous trusts. And
last but net least, IL has exposed the
adulteratiOn and pollution in the
preparation Of human foods and med
icines. While in this field the work
has just begun. there will be no ces-
sation of the warfare till every state
as well as the national government.
has enacted stringent laws against
every form of adulteratiop. or mis-
representation Of the component
parts Of any article offered for sale,