The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-13
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PERIODS OF SANITY.

PERIODS OF SANITY.
 It may not be significant but it is at least satisfactory to find among some of the bigger men of the country disposition to talk sense. One is al- most encouraged to believe that the intelligent offer of the olive branch is to be substituted for the careless thrusting of the big stick Attention is actually being called to the waste al- ready made by an overzealous spank ing of corporations, and while there is nowhere a tendency to let lawbreak- ing take out fresh license there is a slowly but surely forming demand that in handling the prosecuting rib bons of the governmental coach more care shall be paid the innocent whose rights are being forgotten. The zeal for higher conception of civic duty is not abated but larger interest is taken in the manner of expressing it.
 Tn an excellent speech made We'd nesday to the grangers of New York State Lieutenant Governor Chanler declared that i've need to-day in our national life a truly conservative force, the conservative force of mature com mon sense. This is a time of feverish unrest. Our public men seem to be w. ing with one another in flaming the flames of general discomfort. The man who can cause the greatest disturb ance seems to be the hero of the hour. Any one can find fault and the feeblest hand can hurl some missile" Are the business men of the country ready to deny this effective statement of need? It is not at all a question of letting the wicked and interruptions have their own way and return to practices the exposure of which is calculated to do much good, but it is the live question of protecting the hon. est man while hunting the dishonest one. As Governor Chanler told the grangers later in his speech, there are always sure to be wicked men in the country, some of whom succeed in raising themselves to high places, and they should be rooted out, but the er- TOT of Judgment should not be made of exaggerating their dishonesty as a national sign. Whether these things should have been said at the time the corporations were getting their drubbing, or whether to have said them would have spoiled the movement of reform does not mater ially matter now. That they should be said now in voice which will con- vince men made timid by too much noise admits of but little dispute. Con- fldence is impaired and it is worth noting that such of it as has been re- covered in the city of New York, as shown in the bond sale, was the di- rect consequence of the attitude of one of the men who has been severely handled, J. P Morgan. He made the sale possible when others were alarm ed at the general artificial condition.
 The principal speaker at the Jamestown exposition Wednesday,
 Ohio State day, was Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, former attorney general of the United States. He, too, raised his voice for a more conservative reading of the signs of the times and a larger faith in the older principles of government, The people of Ohio, he declared, favor the State control of it's corporations and oppose federal con- trol. '"They realize." said he, "that for people who have set out to gov ern themselves to look to some one else, no matter who, to help them is a confession of unfitness." Could this entire controversy over the necessity of the federal government taking upon it's shoulders the care of the States of the Union be better put? Is not the very proposal more than an admission of unfitness? Is it not an unjustiflabIe charge of State incompetency? t hi well that MT. Harmon informed his audience, whose ears have been attun- ed to a different score, that the State of Ohio is fully capable of attending to her own business. Nor is he swe pt from his feet by the swollen fortuno.'' '' He is against all dishonesty acquired wealth, whether 1t foots up one dollar or one million dollars. Tn our free country" says this sane student of af- fairs, "eYery man who thinks happi. ness lies in wealth has right to get as rich as he honestly can. All we should demand is that he shall not in. crease his gains by withholding from the Iaborer his just reward or adding hardships to his lot, nor by depriving others of their gains by unfair com