The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-11
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tivity.
Not only is all of this true as be
tween one community and another
but it is just as true between one
class OF our citizens and another. Now
and then we meet well-meaning people
who have a genuine horror and dread
of all rich men and think of them as
being set apart by peculiar vice and
i1iquity. Now and then we meet equ-
ally well-meaning rich men who have
an equally irrational e of those
wnom they style labor leaders" In
each case 1 think the hostility is in
large part due to a want of sympathy
caused by complete ignorance OF the
men who rouse such distrust or an
ger. AS a matter of fact, if we taxi .
given lumber of men Of large fortune
and a like number of w-age-workers,
we find that in their essential human
nature they are all alike. In each
group we find men as wise and as fool
ish, as good and as bad as in the. 9th
er group. Such being the case it is
certainly we'll that, so far as possible.
when the men of a given group, as a
whole, act in a way that We deem
contrary to the public interest, we
should treat the action as a wrong to
be remedied rather than as a wrong to
be avenged. We ought not to tolerate
wrong. 1t is a sign of weakness to
do so, and in its ultimate effects weak
ness is often quite as bad as wicked
ness. But in putting a stop to the
wrong We should, sc far as possible,
avoid getting into an attitude of vim
dictive hatred toward the wrongdOer.
may be morally to blame n it
may be necessary to punish him; but
on the other hand the wrong he a
committed may simply be due to the
existing condition of things, to condi-
tons under which he mas been bro't
up; and in sucn a case while We
must apply the remedy, and e that
there is no further chance of harm to
the community, it is neither just nor
f~arsighted to exact revenge for what
mas been done. In short, friends, let
III realize that il very truth WI are
knit together in ties of brotherhood,
and thai while it is prope n neces-
sary thai we should insist upon our
rights, we should yet be patient and
considerable in bearing with n aloth-
er, and in trying, so far as in us lies,
each to look at the problems mat face
us from his brothers standpoint is
well as from his own.
Progress in the South.
During the last quarter of a cen
fury this nation has made astounding
strides in material progress, and in
other section has this progress
more noteworthy than in the
South. While ner agriculture a
grown faster than ever before, there
has also beer a new growth of her
manufacturing Industries indeed,
there mas been growth of every kind
But of course there is ample Don for
f11rthn- ornuth Tho South will hn all
the better for new immigrants of the
right type, n l hope to see steam
ship lines carrying such immigrants
established at ports like Savannah
and Charleston, just as / hope to see
ports like New Orleans connected by
lines of steamers with the South Am
erican continent, the continent with
which our relations should grow ever
closer aid mutually more advantage
GUS.
Need of Education.
In the South, as everywhere through
Union, we need to see a good edu-
cation given free to all children, no
what may be their race or
Nor can we wisely permit this
education to be of a merely literary
More and more we are growing
to realize that there must be an edu-
cation of the han as we'll as of the
head. There must be agricultural and
Industrial colleges, and, above all.
in which there can be elemen-
preparation for agriculture and
industry. These schools for technical
will hold a great place in the
future in fitting our citizens for doing
economic duties in the best pos
sible shape. In the South there is a
peculiarly fitted to profit
them. a population which has been
generally referred to as poor white"
L population of splendid capacities,
and almost purely OF the old native
stock, which simply lacks the oppor-
to develop a degree of indus
rial efficiency unsurpassed elsewhere
On this continent.
Child Labor.
1t is a matter of congratulation that
mere is such a steady increase of in
in the Southern States in ~
erything pertaining to children. This
already markedly shown itself,
l hope will still more markedly
show itself, in the future, in warning
the evil of child labor in fac
.ories. The factory is a very poor
indeed for a child; indeed, per-
1 think the factory a poor
for a woman-certainly for a
married woman, or for an unmarried
woman for more thai a very few years
n n community organized or re-
lily healthy inc the average woman
will hav quite enough to do in her
home, whether she is rich or poor
nowhere else can she do work
If such value to the nation as a whole
and by work, l mean her homework
Ter work as housewife and mother.
not so-called home industries"
Is regards children it is as essential
o look after their physical as their
mental training. We cannot afford to
children grow up ignorant; and if
hey are sent to school they a not,
While young, also work hard outside
detriment, physical, mental,
moral. There is urgent e. for
he health authorities to increase their
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