Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-30

10 cut out IIl6Se evils WlIHOuI d. lne
same time destroying our well-beine
ITSELF This is an era Of combination
alike in the world of capital and in the
world of labor. Each kind Of combi-
nation can do good, and yet each
however, powerful, must be opposed
when it does Ill. 1t Is our business tc
put a stop to abuses and to prevent
their recurrence, without showing q
spirit Of mere vindictiveness for what
has been done in the past.
1.-The wrongdoer, the man who
swindles and cheats, whether on a big
scale or little one, shall receive al
our hands mercy as scant as IL he
committed crimes of violence or bru-
tality. We are unalterably determin-
ed to prevent wrongdoing in the fu-
ture; We have no intention Of trying
to wreak such an indiscriminate
vengeance for wrongs done in the past
as would confound the innocent with
the guilty. Our purpose is to build ur
rather than to tear down. We show
ourselves the truest friends Of proper
ty when we make 1t evident that we
will not tolerate the abuses Of prop
erty. We are steadily bent on pre-
serving the institution Of private prop
erty; We combat every tendency to-
ward reducing the people to economic
servitude; and We care not whether
the tendency Is due to sinister agi-
tation directed against all property, OF
whether 1t is due to the actions OF
those members Of the predatory
classes whose anti-social power is i'm
measurably increased because Of the
very fact that they possess wealth.
1.-The cornerstone of the republic lies
in our treating each man on his worth
as man paying no heed to his creed,
his birthplace. or his occupation, ask
ing not whether he is rich or poor,
whether he labors with head or hand
asking only whether he acts decently
and honorably in the various relations
Of his life, whether he behaves well to
his family. to his neighbors, to the
state. We base our regard for each
man on the essentials and not the ac-
cidents. We Judge him not by his
profession, but by his deeds; by his
conduct, not by what he has acquired
Of this worlds goods.
This great republic of ours shall
never become the government of a
plutocracy, and 1t shall never become
the government Of mob. God will
ing, 1t shall remain what our fathers
who founded it meant it to be-a gov
ernment in which man stands on his
worth as man, where each Is given
the largest personal liberty consistent
with securing the well-being Of the
whole, and where, so far as In 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 stuff 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 II the average of
character in the individual citizen is
sufficiently high, IL he possesses those
qualities which make him worthy Of
respect In his family life and In his
work outside, asIwell as the qualities
which At him for success in the hard
struggle Of actual existence-that II
such is the character Of our individual
citizenship. there Is literally no height
Of triumph unattainable in this vast
experiment Of government by, Of and
for a free people"