Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-27

made each look as through glass dark 1 ly at the other, We can feel tht same pride in the Nalor, the devotion and the fealty toward the right as 1t was given to each to see the right, shown alike by the men who wore the blue and by the men who wore the gray. fsich and prosperous though we are as a peo- ple. the proudest heritage that each of us has, no matter where he may dwell, North or South, East or West; is the immaterial heritage of feeling, the right to claim as his own all the Yalor and all the steadfast devotion to duty shown by the men Of bo-h the great armies, of the soldiers whose leader was Grant and the soldiers whose leader was Lee. The men and the women of the Civil War did their duty brayely and well in the days that were dark and terrible and splen- did We their descendants who pay proud homage to their memories, and glory in the feats of might of one side no less than of the other. need to keep steadily in mind that the homage which counts is the homage of heart and hand, and not Of the lips. the homage of deeds and not of words only. We, too, in our deavor. We must show ourselves worthy sons of the men of the mighty days by the way in which we meet the problems of our own time. We carry our heads high because our fathers did well in the years that tried mems souls; and we must in our turn so bear ourselves that the children who come after us may feel that we. too, have done our duty.
 We can not afford to forget the max i'm upon which Washington insisted. that the surest way 10 avert war is to be pre- pared to meet it. Nevertheless the dG- ties that most concern us of this genera ton arc not military. but social and fn- dustrial Each community must always dread the evils which spring up as at tendant upon the very qualities .liti lb; which Western Republic have to grapple with the dangers that spring from popular elf-goveTnment tried on a scale in m the history of mankind. and from an abounding material prosperity greater also than anything which the world has hitherto Seen.
 behoOyes us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern thmselves or they must submit to being governed by others. IT from lawlessness or fickleness, from fol- iy or self-indulgence. they refuse to gov ern themselves, then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside. They can prevent the need Of government from without only by showing that they possess the power of government from within. A soyer- eign can not make excuses for his fail ures; a sovereign must accept the Te- sponsibility for the exercise of the power that inheres in him; and where, as is true in our Republic, the people are sov- ereign. then the people must show so- Der understanding and a sane and stead fast purpose if they are to preserve that orderly liberty upon which as a founda- tion every republic must rest.
 Tn industrial matters our enormous prosperity has brought with it certain grave evils. It is bUT duty to try to cut out these evils without at the same time destroying our weli-being itself. This is an era of combination alike in tho world of capital and the world of labor. Each kind of combination can do good, and yet each, however powerful, must be opposed when it does iii. At the moment the greatest problem before us is how to exercise such control over the business use of vast wealth, indtVid- ual but especially corporate. as will in- sure it's not being used against the inter est of the public, while yet permitting such ample legitimate profits as will en- courage individual initiative It IS our business to put a stop to abuses and to prevent their recurrence, without show ing a spirit of mere vindiCtivenesS for what has been done in the past. In John Morleys brilliant sketch of Burke he lays especial stress upon the fact that Burke more than almost any other think CT or politician of his time realized the profound lesson that in politics we are concerned not with barren rights but with duties; not with abstract truth. but with practical morality. He especially culogiZpS the way in which his efforts rOr economc reform. Burke combined un- shakablc resolution pressing the reform with profound temDerateneSS or Spirlt which made him. while bent on the extir- patton of the evil system refuse to cher ish an unFeasOning and VindictVe Ill Will toward the men who had benefited by II. Said Burke: If I can not reform with equity, I will not reform at all.
 tThere is) state to preserve as well as a state to reform.
 This is the exact spirit in which this country should move to the reform Of corporate wealth. The wrOng-doer, the man who swindIes or cheats, whether on big scale or a little one, shall receive at our hands mercy as Scant as II ne committed crimes of violence or brutali- ty We are unaIterably determined to prevent wrongdoing in the future; we have no intention of trying to Wreak such an indiscriminate vengeance TOT wrongs done In the past as would con- found the innocent with the guilty our purpose is to build up rather than to tear down We show ourselves the tTuest friends of property when we make It eyi- dent that we will not tolerate the abuses of property We are steadily bent on preserving the institution of private prop, erty; We combat every tendency toWaTd reducing the people to economic serV1- tude: and We care not whether the tend cncy is due to a sinister agitation direct- ed against all property or whether It IS due to the actions of those members of the predatory class whose anu-social power is immeasurably increased because of the very fact that they possess wealth.
 Above all, we insist that while facing changed conditions and new problems, we must face them in the spirit which our forefathers showed when they found cd and preserved this Republic. The
 
 treating each man on his worth as a man, paying no heed to his creed. ms birthplace, or his occupation, asking not whether he is rich or poor, whether ne labors with his head or hand; asking only whether he acted deeently and non orably in the various relations Of lire whether he behaves well to his family, to his neighbors to the State. We base our regard for each man on the essen tiaIs and not the accidents. We judge him not by his profession, but by his deeds: by his conduct, not by what he has acquired of this worlds goods. Other republics have fallen, because the citi- gems gradually grew to consider the in- terests of a class before the interests of the whole; for when such was the case poor who plundered the rich or the rich who exploited the poor: in either event the end of the Republic was at hand. We are resOlute in our purpose not to fail into such pit This great republic oI ours shaif never become the government Of a plutocracy. and it shall never be- come the government of mob. God willing 1t shall remain what our fore fathers who founded it meant it to be a government in which each man stands given the largest personal liberty con sistent with securing the wen-being Of the whole. and where, so far as fin us lies. we strive continually to<secure for each man such equality Of opportunity that in the strife of life he may have a fair chance to show the stuf that is in him We are proud of our schools and of the trained intelligence they give our children the opportunity to acquire. But what We care for most Is the character Of the average man; for we believe that if the average character in the individual citizen is sufficiently high, if he pos sesses those qualities which make him worthy Q respect in hs family life and | Er. ttsax rarL fat1 a o e L.