Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-04-21

airy. AS we strive for reform we find
that it is not all merely the case Of
a long uphill pull. On the contrary,
there is almost as much Of breeching
work as of collar work; to depend on
ly on traces means that there will
soon be runaway and an upset.
THE men of wealth who today are
trying to prevent the regulation and
control of their business in the inter-
est of the public by proper govern
ment authorities will not succeed, in
my judgment, in checking the progress |
of the movement. But If they did sue
coed they would find that they had
sown the wind and would surely reap
the whirlwind for they would ultimate
ly provoke the violent excuses which
accompany a reform coming by con-
vulsion instead of by steady and nat
ural growth. On the other hand, the
wild preachers of unrest and discon-
tent, the wild agitators against the
entire existing order, the men who act
crookedly, whether because of sinister
design or from mere puzzleheadedness
the men who preach destruction with
out proposing any substitute for what
they intend to destroy, or VINO pro-
pose a substitute which would be far
worse than the existing evils-all
these men are the most dangerous OPP
ponents of real reform. If they get
their way, they will lead the people
into deeper pit than any into which
they fall under the present system.
If they fail to get their way they will
still do incalculable damage by pro-
voking the kind of reaction which in
it's revolt against the senseless evil
of their teachings would enthrone
more securely than ever every evil
which their misguided followers be-
lieve they are attacking.
More important than aught else is
the development of the broadcast SYM
patty of man for man. The welfare
of the wageworker, the welfare of the
tiller of the soil, upon these depend
the welfare of the entire country
their good is not to be sought in pull
ing down others, but their good must
be the prime object of all of our states
manship Materially we must strive
to secure a broader economic oppOrtu
, nifty for all men, so that each shall
have better chance to show the stuff
5 of which he is made; spiritually, ant
ethically, we must strive to bring
about clean living and right thinking
2 We appreciate that the things of thu
I body are important; but we appreciate
e also that the things of the soul ar
!. UNNECESSARILY more important TIL
+ foundation stone of national life is, AM
e ever must be, the high individual char
|, acter of the average citizen"
: Again, the national government
G must in some form exercise superv
l. sion over corporations engaged in il
e terstate business-and all large col
r porations are engaged in interstat
n business-whether by license or othel
e wise. so as to permit us to deal wit
r the far-reaching evils of Overcapita
ization. This year we are making
s. beginning in the direction of seriou
II effort to settle some of these econon
e les by the railway rate Legislation
e Such legislation, if so framed, as | al
IL sure it will be. as to secure definit
+ and tangible results, will amount
o something of itself and it will amour
Ie to a great deal more in so far as it
T. taken as a first step in the directic
x of a policy of superintendent and co
d troll over corporate wealth. engaged
ID interstate commerce. This superb
lie tendence and control ought not to
" exercised in spirit of malevolence t
ward the men who have created II
r. wealth, but with the firm purpose bol
u, to do justice to them and to see TIL
lg they in their turn do justice to II
p public at large. The first requisite
re the public servants who are to de
or in this shape with corporations, whet
~ err as legislators or executives. is no
81 esty This honesty can be no respet
OF er of persons. There can be no SUI
se thing as unilateral honesty. The da
oil ger is not really from corrupt corr
to rations; it springs from the corrupti'
he itself, whether exercised for or again
n corporations.
gs mo good whatever will come fro
ed that warped and mock morality viii
ie- denounces the misdeeds of men
-ol wealth and forgets the misdeeds pre-
re. ticed at their expense; which denou
ces bribery. but blinds itself to blae
mail; which foams with rage if CT
poration secures favors by improp
~ methods and merely leers with hiC
~ Gus mirth if the corporation is it's
~ wronged
THE only public servant who C
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