Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-12-06

II Ice I'm its cruder and more archaic
\ forms shocks every body but there ( ii
& very urgent need that public opinion:
\ should he Just as severe in ,cond emna-
4 tionI OF the vice which hides itself be-,
I bind class or prof essional loyaIt VA or,
h Whie II denies that It Is vice If sit can es-
i ape convict ton ID the courts. The pub
iic8and the $repres tatives Of the pub.
c,ss the Ugh Off ials, H WI ether. Oh the
bench or il executive or legislative po-
sitions, need to rememb er5 that often
4 the most dang criminals, SO far as
!: the life Of the nation is concerned are
B not those who Il commit the crimes
K .kEn known to and condemned by the popu-
lar conscience for centuries, but those
j who commit crimes only rendered pos,
sable by the complex conditions Of our
modern Industrial life 1t makes not
1 particle of difference whether these
2 crimes are committed by capitalist OF
4 by laborer,l by a leading banker or
or railroad man or by q
leading representa- tive. of a labor union.
+ SWind ling in stocks, ,corrupting legis-
latures, making fortunes by; the inf1a-
ton Of securities, by wrecking railroads,
by destroying petitors* through re;
bates-these forms Of .wrongdoing In
the capitalist are far more infamous
than any other form Of embezzlement or
forgery, yet 1t is a matter Of, extreme
difficulty to secure the punishment Of
{ the men most guilty of them, most re-
sponsible for them. The business man
who condones such conduct stands on
o level with the labor man who de-
nberately supports corrupt ydema-
gogue and 9agitator, whether head of a
union or head Of some municipality.
because he is said to have "stood by
the union" The members of the bust
ness. community, the educators OF
Z clergymen who condone and encourage
the first kind of wrongdoing are no
more dangerous to the community, but
are morally even worse, than the labor
=. men who. are guilty of the second type
OF Wrongdoing, because less is to be
pardoned those who have no such ex-
cuse as is furnished either BY igno-
.sA1~S Va ~ oALC ACCu. g. d..
IA, Farmers and Wageworkers.
When the department Of agricul-
ture was founded there was much
sneering as to it's usefulness. No de-
partment of the government, however,
has more enphatically vindicated it's
usefulness, and none save the post
office department comes so continually
and intimately into touch with the peo-
pie The two citizens whose welfare
is In the aggregate most vital to- the
welfare of the nation and therefore
to the welfare Of all other citizens are
the wageworker who does manual Ia
Dor and the tiller of the soil, the farm
err There are of course kinds of labor
where the work must be purely men,
{ tai, aud there are other Einds Of labor
where under xistings conditions very
: little demand indeed is made upon the
mind, though i am glad to say that
the proportion of men engaged in this
kind Of work Is diminishing. But, in
any community with the solid, healthy
qualities which make up q really great
nation the bulk Of the people should do
work which calls for the exercise of
both body and mind. Progress cannot
permanently exist In the abandonment
Of physical labor, but in the develop
ment ofsphysical labor, so that itsshall
represent more and more the work OF,
the trained mind In the trained body
Our school system IA gravely defective
IN SO FAR us it puts d premium upon
mere literary training and tends, there
fore, to train the boy away from the
farm and the workshop Nothing Is
more needed than the best type of In
dustrial school, the school for nechan-
ical Industries III the city, the school:
gor practically teaching agricu lture Is
the country The calling ofS the skilled,
Issiller OF the sol. the & calling .of the
skilled mechanic, should alike be recog-
.nizedS as protest. nsS just as emphatic.
4 ally as the calling of lawyer. doctor.
/ merchant or clerk. The schools should
recognize this fact, ~ and its should
: equally be ecognized III popular opin-5
\ lon The young man who has the far
{ sightedness and courage to recognize
sit and to get over the idea s. that It
makes q difference whether what he
earns Is called salary or wages and
who refuses to enter the crowded field
ofthe 50 called SESSIONS and takes
to- constructive Industries Instead s*is;
5Eeasonab bly, sure ;off an ample reward In
SSearnin #in health ia opportunity to-
marry early and To- esta lish q home
with ii fair ount of reedom rom.
worry It should be one of orr prime
objects to put both the farmer and the
egsssaaasag 10 d higher plane of eff
cheney and rewas.s. 10 % ~ aasssassaaya
IN s:s eeene.nsie
\ world ana therefore the gnit the
& remuneration and the over Of their.
posi- tons liz the social world.