The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-01-11

proved by the standard of judgment
,nd the fiber of resistance to be bet
ter. 1t is the lesson of hope, duty
and courage.
LEGISLATIVE DUTY.
Ohio State Journal: We hear a
great deal these days about organic.
ing the legislature and doling out It'd
bits of patronage to political favor
ties. The whole interest, in the as
sembling of this body, seems to be
to personal concerns either
of official position or private legisla-
tion. There must be, probably, more
or less of this at the start, but 1t Is
hoped that this fever will pass away
soon, and the serious business of serv-
ing the people will come here as states
men devoted to problems of public
concern, and not as politicians to
serve party ends or personal self-seek-
ing.
Now is good time for patriotism,
which means getting out of the
clutches of bosses, franchise schemers,
tax plunderers and set-up jobhers of
all sorts. They will be on hand. They
will have rich tales to tell OF great
public necessities. Their tongues will
protrude with the fatness of enter
prise They will want concessions
when the people are being ensaved
by concession. They will want sala-
ries raised for offices that could be
filled by thousands of capable men at
cd rates. They will ask that new
Offices be ordained simply to be filed
by men who want places.
One time an admirer of the Public
Ledger, at Philadelphia, compliment
ed Mr.. Childs on the high tone and
purity of his paper. He parried the
compliment with the remark, that he
should have no credit for that, which
remark lead him to explain, that
there was devoted mother living out
ON - street, a poor woman with
little boy and girl, whom she was try
log to raise to useful lives. "And
every time" said Mr.. Childs, ian
article came in, of doubtful hue, I'd
ask myself how that mother would
feel determined the fate of the arti-
cle." What a noble theory of duty
ls this, to come down to the honest
average experience of life, where
3 en- aud women are struggling with
hard conditions, and ask how will this
thing affect them-will it rid them or
will it pull them down?
A legislator may bring this test
home to himself. Every proposition
that comes to him should be measured
by it's effect upon the farmer, the
carpenter, the miner, the toiler every
where, out of whose wages are paid
all expenses, all salaries, all profits,
all extravaganza, all corruption, all
self. seeking. No patriotic law-maker,
no friend of the people, no lover of
justice will permit any sort of sophis'
try or confusion of purpose to sepa-
rate the tax from the appropriation,
the wage of the poor from the salary
of office, the sovereignty of the people
from the oligarchy of franchise.
In this little pale of activity lies
the full duty of the legislator. 1t ia
not question of what Colonel Bilious
Jones desires for his friend, but 1t Ia
what the honest, Industrious, self-re'
specting citizen, who is busy from
morning till night, earning bread and
meat for his little family, whom he ID
trying to raise in honor and simplicity
what he needs or Is entitled to, to
encourage and assist him in his high
purpose. He is the only man 20 con
slider. He is the only hope of the
country. When he is at last discour.
aged and dlscomfitted, this republic /;
at an end. Humanity has no further
use tor it..
THE MASSACHUSETTS IDEA.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Governor Guild
of Massachusetts, puts the question OF
tariff revision up to congress in the
most forcible language vet used by a
Republican executive. Citing tht
fact that both great parties in the
state, the general court and the gov
ernor have already demanded the
immediate construction of a tariff
framed to meet the lines of modern
competition he asserts that Massa
chusetts asks "the removal of such
duties as are now needless, the re
duction of such duties as were once
just but are now excessive, and the
development, not of our commerce
but of the commerce of the United
States by more friendly trade treaties
with other nations"
There 10 no hesitation or doubt
about this language. Governor Doug
las himself could hardly have made II
more specific or stronger. Even Mr.
Whitney's skill as letter writel
fades beside the trenchant pen O,
Governor Guild. Still, 1t might HI
suggested that Massachusetts, frs
duty IL 10 convince her own repre-
sentatives In the senate that sh'
knows what she wants. If, for in
stance, Governor Guild can brinl
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