Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-27
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! can not reform with equity, 1 will
not reform at all. = = \ There is a
state to preserve as well as state
to reform $
I This Is the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the re-
form Of abuses Of corporate wealth.
The wrong-doer, the man who swindles
and cheats, whether on big scale or
a little one, shall receive at our hands
mercy as scant as IL he committed
crimes Of violence of brutality. We
are unalterably determined to pre-
vent wrongdoing in the future; we
have no intention Of trying to wreak
such an indiscriminate vengeance for
wrongs done in the past as would
confound the innocent with the guilty.
Our purpose is to build up rather than
to tear down. We show ourselves the
truest friends Of property when we
make 1t evident that we will not toll
crate the abuses Of property. We are
steadily bent on preserving the insti-
tuition Of private property; we combat
every tendency toward reducing the
people to economic seryitude; and we
care not whether the tendency is due
to a sinister agitation directed against
all property, or whether it is due to
the actions OF those members Of the
predatory classes whose anti-social
power il UNNECESSARILY increased be.
cause of the very fact that they pos:
Esess wealth.
Above adj, we insist that while fac.
ing changed conditions and new prob:
lens, we must face them IN the spirit
which our forefathers showed when
they founded and preserved this re
public. The cornerstone Of the re
public lies in our treating each man on
his worth as q man, paying no heed t.
his creed, his birthplace. or his occu
patton, asking not whether he labort
with hand or head; asking not wheth
er he acts decent1y and honorably. Ii
the various relations Of his life
whether he behaves well to his family
to- his neighbors, to the State. W.
base our regard for each man on tlit
essentials and not the accidents. WI
Judge him not by his profession, but b.
bis deeds; by his conduct, not by wha,
he has acquired Of this worlds goods
Other republics have fallen, because
the citizens gradually grew to consid
er the interests Of class before thu
interests of3the whole; for when sucl
was the case 1t mRttered but littlt
whether it was the poor who plunder
| ed the rich or the rich who plunderes
the poor; in either event the end d
the Republic was at hand. We an
resolute in our purpose not to fan
into such d pit. This great Republic
of ours shall never become the govern.
ment Of plutocracy, and 1t shall
never become the government OF
a mob. God willing, it shall re.
main what our fathers who found
ed 1t meant it to be-a govern
fment in which each man stands on
his worth as man, where each is
given the largest personal liberty con-
sfstent with securing the well-being
Of the whole, and where, so far as
in us lies, we strive continually to se-
cure for each man such equality Of
opportunity that III the strife Of life
he may have5a fair chance to show the
stuff that Is ii him. We are proud
OF our schools and Of the trained intel
ligence they give our children the OPP
portunity to acquire. But what we.
care for most is the character OF the