The San Francisco call., 1907-02-24
PLEA FOR MANLY SPORT

/ The preparatory schools are able TO keep foot
! ball clean and to develop the right spirit In
the PLAYERS without the slightest necessity ever
arising TO much consider the question OF
sbolishing II. There is no excuse whatever Tor
colleges failing to show the same capacity, and
there is real need for considering the question
OF the abolition OF the game II necessary, let
the college authorities interfere TO stop any ex-
cess or perversion making their interference as
little offcious possible and yet as rigorous as
is necessary TO achieve the end But there Is no
Justification for stopping thoroughly manly
sport because it is sometimes abused when the
experience Of every good preparatory school
shows that the abuse is In no shape necessarily
attendant upon the game.
Athletics are good, especially in their rougher
forms, because they tend TO develop courage and
encourage a true democratic spirit. I would not
however, excuse that perversion OF athletics
which would make It the end of life instead Of
in which all should take part, simply good
American citizens-the work Of self-government.
Man may neglect his political duties because
be IS too lazy, too selfish, too shortsighted, or
too timid; but whatever the reason may be, 1t
is certainly unworthy reason, and II shows
either weakness or worse than weakness In
the mans character. Above all, you college
men, remember that If your education, the pleas
ant lives you lead, make you too fasticious, TOO
sensitive 10 take part in the rough hurry yburly
/ Of the actual work OF the world IL you become
so oTercultivated, so overrefned that you cannot
DO the hard work of practical politics, then you
had better never have been educated at all The
weakling and the coward are out Of place in q
strong and free community.
In a republic Ike ours the governing class is
composed Of the strong men who take the
/ trouble 10 DO the work OF government; ana II
you too timid or too fastidious too careless
/ TO DO your part in this work then you forfeit
your right to be considered one Of the governing
and you become one of the governed instead
one Of the driven cattle Of the political
SPEAKS OF PHILIPPINES
During the last few years much good has been
done to the people Of the PhSippines, but this
has been done not by those who merely tndulged
/ Islands a doctrinaire Iberty-which would have
been their immediate and irretrieyable ruin
but By those who have faced facts as they
actually were and remembered the proverb
that teaches us that in the long run even the
most bitter truth is safer companion than
/ the pleasantest falsehood 1t is these men,
/ the men who with shortening and stumblings
4 did the duty Of the moment, though that
duty was hard and often dsagreeable, and not
the men who confined themselves to talk Of
no matter how high-sounding a nature, who
have done real good TO the islands. These
/ are the who have brought justice as be-
tween man and man who building the
roads; who have introduced schools; who gradu-
/ ally, with patience and frmness, are really
/ fitting the islanders for self-government
So it is with the great questions which
group themselves around the control Of corpora
tions in the interest OF the public. There has
been a curious revival Of the doctrine Of State
rights IN connection with these questions by
with justice TO both sides practically control
the corpora tons and who therefore advocate
such control because they do not venture to
express their real wish, which is that there
| shall be control at all. Honest and fair
dealing toward railway corpora tions wifi gain
| and not lose by adequate federal control and
most emphatIcalIy It is both the duty and to
the interest Of our people to deal fairly
MUM is put upon the honest management of
them and that those who invest in them are
But those who invoke the doctrine of State
rights to protect State corporate creations in
| States are as short-sighted as those who once
] invoked the same doctrine to protect the special
/ slave-hOlding interest. The States have shown
/ that they have not the ability to curb the power
/ of gyndicated wealth, and therefore IN the In
terest Of the people II must be done by national
| action.
CAUTIOUS CRITICS RAPED
Our present warfare is against special privi-
say. college men-who prompt to speak
| against every practical means which can be
devised for chleying the object we have in in
the Federal Government OF the great corpora
tions doing an interstate business-are, never
1 tbeless themselves powerless to so much as
/ ontiine a plan Of constructive statesmanship
which shall give relief have watched for
those in private life-and though they are
prompt to. critcise every affirmative step taken.
/ have yet TO see of them lift a Anger to
remedy the wrongs that exist. So It Is in every
/ field Of public activity.
States rights should be preserved when they
| mean the peoples rights but not when they
| mean the peoples wrongs; not, for instance,
when they, are invoked to prevent the abolition
] laws which prohibit the importation of contract
/ labor 10 this country in short, not when they
| for national weakness or impotence at home OF
/ abroad It Is 10 the men who work IN practical
/ fashion with their fellows and not to those
4 Who whether because they are impracticable
/ Or Incapable, cannot thus work that we owe
what success we have had IN dealing with every
1 problem which he have either solved started
On the path Of solution during the last decade.
BUSY DAY FOR PRESIDENT
The visit to Harvard today of Roose-
4 Welt, who came, not as President of the
/ United States. but as a grad" return
] ing to meet mis- fellow Harvard men, in
/ elfding his own son. Theodore Jr., de-