Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-26

abuses of corporate wealth. The wrong
doer the man who swindles and cheats,
whether on a big scale or little one, shall
receive at our hands mercy as scant as II
he committed crimes of violence or brutal
ity. We are malterably determined to
prevent wrongdoing in the future; we have
no intention of trying to wreak Such an
indlscriminate vengeance for wrongs done
in the past as would confound the inno-
cent with the guilty. Our purpose is to
build up rather than to tear down We
show ourselves the truest friends of prop
erty when we make it evident that we
will not tolerate the abuses of property.
We are steadily bent on preserving the in
Stitution of private property; we combat
every tendency toward reducing the peo-
pie to economic servitude; and We care
not whether the tendency is due to SIN
lister agitation directed against all prop
erty, or whether it is due to the actions
of those members of the predatory classes
whose anti-social power is UNNECESSARILY
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 founded ana
preserved this republic. The corner stone
of the republic lies in our treating each
man on his worth a man, paying no
heed to his creed, his birthplace or his oc-
cupation, asking not whether he is rich or
poor. whether he labors with head or
hand: asking only whether he acts decent
ly and honorably in the various relations
of his life, whether he behaves well to his
family, to his neghbors, to the state. we
base our regard for each man on the es-
sentials and not the accidents.
Judged by Deeds.
We judge him not by his profession, but by
his deeds by his conduct, not by what he
him not by his profession, but by his
deeds; by his conduct, not by what he
hoe Of worlds goods Other
republics have fallen, because the citizens
gradually grew to consider the interests of
a class before the interests of the whole,
for when such was the case it mattered
little whether it was the poo who plum
dered 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 fall into such a PIT.
This great republic Of ours shall never be-
come the government OF d plutocracy, ana
it shall never become the government OF
mob. God willing, it shall remain what
our fathers who founded it meant it tosbe-
a government in which each man STANDS on
his worth as a man, where each is given
the largest personal liberty cons stent with
securing the well-being of the whole, ana
where so far as in US lies, we strive Goa
tinually to secure for each man SUCH
equality of opportunity that in the strife
of life he may have fair chance to show
the stuff that is in him. We are proud
of schools and of the trained intell1-
gence they give children the oppor-
tunity to acquire. But what We care for
most is the character of the average man;
for we believe that if the average of char
acter in the individual citizen is sufficient
~ high, if he Possesses those qualities
which make him worthy of respect in his
family life and in his work outside, as well
as the qualities which fit him for success
in the hard struggle of actual existence
that if such is the character of our indi-
vidual citizenship, there is literally no
height of triumph unattainabie in this vast
experiment of government by, of and for a
free people.