Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-02

need to have them rcsolutcly admins
tered. We can get such laws and such
administration only if the people are
a!lVe TO their interests. The other day
| listened to an admirable sermon bv
Bishop Johnston, of western Texas.
HIS theme was that the vital element in
Judging any man should be his conduct,
and neither his position nor his preten-
sions: and. Furthermore, that freedom
could only stay with Il people which he S
tho habit of sclf-maStcry As 10 said.
the price of liberty is not only eternal
Vigilance. but eternal virtue; and l
may add. eternal common sense. Each
man here knows that he himself has
been able to use his freedom to advah-
ta@c only provided that he could mas
ter himself, that he could control his
own passions and direct his own facul-
ties. Each Of you fathers and mothers
here know that if your sons are to do
well in the wcrll they must know how
to master themselves. Every man must
have q master; if he is not his own
master. then somebody else will be.
This is just as true of public life as Of
nriT9tc fife. If we can not master our
selves, control ourselves. then sooner
or later Wc slAIl have to submit to out
side control: for there must be control
somewhere.
ono way Of exercising such control
IS thro,,rIl the laws of the land Ours
is government of liberty. but it is Il
government Of that orderly liberty
wEich comes ~ and through the honest
enforcement of and obedience to the
law. At intervals during the last few
months Tie appeal has been made to
mo not to enforce the law against GER
tain WroNg,iocrs Of great wealth be-
cause to do 80 would interfere with the
Husiness prosperity Of the country
Under the effects of that kind of fright
which when sufficiently acute we cal
"anic this arrcal has been made to me-
1vnr by men who ordinarily behave a.
7oocnt citizens. One newspaper which
''9s itealf strongly advanced this view
gave prominence to the statement of =
'crtain man Of great wealth to the ef-
foot that the sD-cailed financial weak
ness was due entirely to the ADMITTED
Intention of. President Roosevelt t.
| nunish the large. moheyed interests
which had. transgfesscd the laws"
| DO not admit that this has been tho
main .canse of any business troubles
VIC have hal:, but it is possible that
it has been a contributory cause. j
so, friends, as far as I am concerned il
must =" accepted as a disaercoable bu
| unavoidable feature in a course of pol
icy which as long as 4 am Presden
will not be charged. In any grea
movement for righteousness, where thu
forces OF evil are strongly INTERCEPTED
| it is unfortunately inevitable that SOM
| unoTcnding people, SHOULD suffer il
| conl!,ariy with the. real offenders. Thi.
is not our fault. n "a the: fault Of thos'
to whose deceptive action these limo
cent people owe. their false position.
year or two.ago. certain representative
Of labor called uEona me and in TIL
course Of a very pleasant conversation
told inc that they Eesarded me as eth
friend IF labor" + answered that esr
tairly was. ard that I would do every
tthing in my power, FOR the laboring ma
except anything that was wrong.
havr the same answer to make to til
business man. I.wih do everything
can do to help business Conditions. ex
| ccrt anything that is wrong. And
| would 10 not merely wrong but in
| famous to fail to do oil that can b
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