The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-23

H8St y SoaA SSkttNNs
that You are to be excused from effort
in after life, that you are to be ex.
cused from contact with the actual
world of men and events, then it will
prove a curse and not a blessing. It
en- the other hand you treat your edu-
cation as a weapon the more in your
hands, a weapon to fit you to do better
in the hard struggle Of effort, and not
as excusing you in any way from tax.
ing part in practical fashion in that
struggle, then It will be a benefit to
you.
Must Work With Others.
Let each of you college men emem-
Der in sfter life that in the fundamen-
tails he is very much like his fellows
who have not been to college, and that
If he is 20 achieve results, instead Of
combining himself exclusively to dis
arrangement Of other men who have
achieved them, he must manage to
come to some kind OF working agree
ment with these fellows OF his. There
are times of course when it may be
the highest duty Of a citizen to stand
alone or practically alone. But IL this
Is a mans normal attitude-ff formal.
~ he is unable to work in .combina.
ton with a considerable body OF his
fellows, is safe to set him down as
unfit for useful service In a democra.
cy. In popular government results
worth having can only be achieved
by men who combine worthy ideals
with PRACTICAL good sense; who are
resolute to accomplish good purposes,
but who a accommodate themselves
to give and take necessary where
work has to be done, as almost all
important work must necessarily be
done, b. combination. Moreover, r
membsr that normally the prime OBJ
iect OF political life should be to achieve
results and not merely to issue mani
festoes-save Of course where the Is.
Of such ~manifestoes helps to
achieve the results. 1t is a very bad
thing to be morally callous, for moral
callousnass Is disease. But infiamma.
ton of the conscience may be Just as
unhealthy SO far as the public is on.
cerned and II a mans conscience is
telling him to do something
he will do well to m~istrust its
workings. The religious man who is
most useful is not he whose sole care
is to save his own soul, but the man
whose ! ,igion bids him strive to al.
vance decency and clean living and to
make world q better place for his
fellows to live in; and all this is Just
true of the ordinary citizen in the
performance of the ordinary duties OF.
political life.
The Doors VS.. the Knockers.
During the last few "a much GOOD
has been done TO the people of thu
Philippines; but this has been done.
not by those who merely INDUCED in
the personal luxury OF advocating for
the Islands a doctrinaire liberty which
would have meant their immediate and
irretrievable ruin. But by those who
faced facts as they actually
were. remembering the proyerb that
teaches us that In the long run even
tina most uncomfortable truth is a SAT.
er companion than the pleasantest
%falsehood. 1t is these men. the men
who with shortcomings and standings
yet did the duty OF the moment, though
that duty was hard and often disagree.
able, anil not the men who confded
themselves to Idle talk Of no matter
how hiSli.sounding a nature, who have
done e a good TO the islands. These
are the men who have brought jus.
tice as between man and man; who
ere Building roads; who have intro.
drced schools: who, gradually, with
patience and firmness. are really Mt
ting the islanders for selfgovernment.
So It is with the great questions
which group themselves round the
control of corporations in the interest
of the public. There has been a curl.
Gus revival Of the doctrine of State
In connection with these qaes.
tions, q. the people who know that
the States can not with justice to
both sides practically control the cor
porations. and who therefore advocate
such control because they do not ven.
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