Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-04

VICE IN AUS EFudcI faESt 4 Hi0i y q S2x1AANs II
forms shocks every body, but there IL
very urgent need that public opinion
should be just as severe in demna-
ton Of the vice which hides itself be-
hind class or professional loyalty or
which denies that it is vice II 1t can es-
cape conviction iii the courts. The pub
L lie and the representa- Of the pub
lie, the high officials, whether on the T
bench, or in executive or legislative po-
sitions, need to remember that often
1 the most dangerous criminals, SO far as
1.-THE life of the nation is concerned. are
not those who commit the crimes
known to and condemned by the popu |
| lar conscience for centuries. but those 1
who commit crimes only rendered pos
sible by the complex conditions of our
modern industrial life. 1t makes not a \
particle OF difference whether these
crimes are committed by a capitalist or
/ by a laborer, by d leading banker or
manufacturer or railroad man or by
Heading represents alive OF a labor union.
Swindling in stocks, corrupting legis-
/ latures, making fortunes by the infia-
4 ton Of securities, by Wrecking railroads,
/ by destroying competitors through re-
A bates these forms Of wrongdoing in
4 the capitalist are far more Infamous
4 than any other form of embRzzlement or
4 forgery, yet it is a matter Of extreme
4 difficulty to secure the punishment Of
4 the men most guilty of them, most re-
\ sponsibIe for them. The business man
Il who condones such conduct stands on
4 a level with the labor man who de-
liberately supports a corrupt dema-
\ gogue and agitator, whether head Of a
union or head OF some municipality.
because he is said to have "stood by
! the union" The members of the bust
ness community, the educators or
!. clergymen who condone and encourage
. the first kind of wrongdoing are no.
more dangerous to the community, but
| are morally even worse, than the labor
! men who are guilty Of the second type
/, Of wrongdoing, because less is to be
pardoned those who have no such ex-
T. cuse as is furnished either by igno-
rance or by dire need
j Farmers and Waseworkers.
When the department of agricul-
! ture was founded there was much
, sneering as to its usefulness. No de
{ partment of the government, however,
l has more emphatically Vindicated its
Z usefulness, and none save the post
j. office department comes so continually
& and intimately into touch with the PEG;
! Pile. The two citizens whose welfare
+ is in the aggregate most vital to the
r welfare of the nation and therefore
y to the welfare Of all other citizens arr
s the wageWorker who does manual la
0 Dor and the tiller of the soil. the farm
t er. There are of course Kinds of labo
e where the work must be purely men
I tai, and there are other kinds of Labor
Ic where under existing conditions yer!
% little demand indeed is made upon tn
G. mind, though I am glad to say tina
1T the proportion of men engaged in thi
e. kind of work is diminishing. But il
Of any community with the solid, health
Of qualities which make up a really grea
d. nation the bulk of the people should d
er work which calls for the exercise o
le both body and mind. Progress canine
De permanently exist in the abandonment
Of Of physical labor, but in the develop
IN I'ment of physical labor, SO that it shal
ID represent more and more the work o
C. the trained mind in the trained body
ut Our school system is gravely defecHv
e. in so far as it puts premium upo
is mere literary training and tends, thers
O. fore, to train the boy away from th
ut farm and the workshop. Nothing
as more needed than the best type of ii
IL dustrial school, the school for mechaI
Of ica1 Industries in the city, the schot
ed for practically teaching agriculture
Id the country The calling of the skille
ut tiller Of the soil, the calling of th
C. skilled mechanic, should alike be recot
n nized as professions just as emphati
Sc ally as the calling of lawyer, docto
d. merchant or clerk. The schools shout
lg recognize this fact, and it shout
" equally be recognized in popular opil
be ion.. The young man who has the ia
l.. sightedness and courage to recogniz
= it and to get over the idea that
n makes difference whether what i
Ne earns is called salary or wages an
2 who refuses to enter the crowded fiel
-, of the so called professions and take
| To CtISlluCllSt 1AStCoo
reasonably sure of an ample reward
Id earnings, in health, in opportunity
is marry early and to establish HON
M with a fair amount of freedom frol
he worry. 1t should be one Of our prin
IT'S objects to put both the farmer and ii
ar- mechanic on higher plane of eff
lly cheney and reward, so as to increas
ne their effectiveness In the econom
re- world and therefore the dignity, til
ur remuneration and the power OF the
ne positions in the social world I'll,
ch No growth of cities, no growth (
ro- wealth, can make up for any loss
M either the number or the character (
ed the farming population. We of Il
ng United States should realize this aboH
III almost all ether peoples. We bega
nd our existence as a nation Of farmer
Ito and in every great crisis of the past
en- peculiar dependence has had to