The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-30

of ALL are precisely those republics
in which industry has been killed be-
cause wealth exposed its owner to
spoliation. To these communities
foreign capital now rarely comes,
because it has been found that as
soon as capital is employed so as to
give substantial remuneration TO those
supplying it, 1t excites ignorant en-
Wy and hostility, which result in such
oppressive action, within or without
the law, as sooner or later to work
n virtual confscaton. Every man
Hesitation of feeling of this kind IN
our civilization should be crushed
lat the outset by the weight OF a seh-
sible public opinion.
From the standpoint of our ma
terlal prosperity there Is only one
other thing as important as the dis
Icouragement of spirit of envy ana
hostility toward honest business men,
toward honest men of means; TINS Is
the discouragement Of dishonest BUS
mess men, the war upon the chlcah-
cry and wrongdoing which are pecul-
iarly respulsive, peculiarly noXlous,
when exhibited by men who have no
excuse of want, of poverty, OF ighor-
ance, for their crimes. Men OF
means. and above all men of great
wealth, can exist in safety under the
peaceful protection Of the state, only
in orderly societies, where liberty
lmanifests itself through and uhder
the law. 1t Is these men who, more
than any others, should, in the IN
terests of the class TO which they
Ibelong I'm the interests of their child
,ren and their children's children, seek
i'm every way, but especially in the
conduct OF their lives, to insist upon
and to build up respect for the law.
II may not be true from the stand
Ipoint of some particular individual OF
this class. but in the long run 1t Is
preeminently true from the stand
point of the class as a whole, no less
than OF the country as whole, that
il rs a veritable calamity to achieve
a temporary triumph by violation or
evasion of the law; and we are the
best friends of the man of property,
we show ourselves the staunChest up
holders of the rights of property,
when we set our faces like flint
against hose offenders who do wrong
in order to acquire great wealth or
who use this wealth as a help TO
wrongdoing.
"Wrongdoing is confined to no
'class. Good and evil are to be found
among both rich and poor, and in
drawing the line among our fellows
we must draw it on conduct and not
on worldly possessions. In the aD-
stract most of us will admit this
In the concrete we can act upon such
doctrine only If we really have
knowledge Of and sympathy with
one another. If both the wage
worker and the capitalist are able
to enter each into the others life,
TO meet him so as to get into genuine
Sympathy with him, most of the mis-
understanding between them Will
disappear and its place will be taken
by a judgment broader, juster, more
kindly, and more generous; for each
will find in the other the same es-
sential human attributes that exist
lin himself 1t was President Nc
Knley's peculiar glory that in actual
practice he realized this as 1t is Civ
en- to but few men to realize 1t; that
his broad and deep sympathies made
him feel a genuine sense Of oneness
with all his fellow-Americans what
ever their station or work IN life, so
that to his soul they We're all Joined
with him in great brotherly dem
ocracy of the spirit, II is not given
to many of us in our lives actually to
realize this attitude TO the extent
that he did; but we can at least have
1t before us Rs the goal Of our en-
deavor, and by so doing we shall pay
honor better than In any other way
to the memory of the dead President
whose services in life we this day
commemorate,