New-York tribune., 1907-02-24

great as that of wholly uneducated men, and no
people could be less trustworthy as critics ana
advisers. The educated man who seeks TO con-
sole himself for his own lack OF the ROBUST
qualities necessary to bring success in Arneri-
can politics by moaning over the degeneTacy or
the times instead Of trying to better them, by
railing the who do the actual work or
political life instead Of trying himself 10 DO the
work is a poor creature, and so far as ms
feeble powers avail, IS damage and not help
To the country. You may come far short OF TINS
disagreea Bile standard and still be rather use
less member Of society: Your education, your
cultivation, Will not help you II you make the
mistake Of thinking that 1t is a substitute Tor
instead Of addition 10 those qualities which
in the struggle OF life bring success to the ordI-
nary man without your advantages. Your COZ
lege training conIers no privilege upon you save
as tested by the use YOU make of II. 1t puts
upon You the obligation to show yourselves bet
ter able to do certain things than your fellows
who have not had your advantages. If II has
served merely TO make you believe that you are
to be excused from effort in after life, that you
are 10 be excused from contact with the actual
world Of men and events then il will prove a
curse and not u blessing. If on the other hand
you treat your education as q weapon the more
IN your hands weapon to fit you to do better
in the hard struggle OF effort and not as eXcus-
Ing you in any way from taking part in prac-
tical fashion in that struggle then It viii be q
benefit 10 you.
THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL
Let each Of YOU college men remember in
aiter life that in the fundamentals he is very
much Ike his fellows who have not been To
college. and that If he is to achieve results IN
stead OF confining himself exclusively to dis
!.ti@Seinent Of other men who have achieved
theih, he must manage to come TO some kind o1
working agreement with these fellows of his.
mere are times. Of course, when It may be the
highest duty Of a citizen TO stand alone prac-
IldI4 aIoHe. But II this Is a mans normal
attllude-if normally he is unable 10 work in
combination with a considerable body of his
leIoWs-it Is safe 10 set him down as unfit for
useful service in a democracy.
IN popular government results worth having
can be achieved only by men who combine
worthy ideals with practical good sense; who are
feSoIute TO accomplish good purposes, but who
can accommodate themselves to the give and
take necessary whore work has to be done.
almost all important work must necessarily he
done by combination. Moreover. remember
that normally the prime object Of political life
should be 10 achieve results and not merely to
issue manlfestoes-save, OF course, where the
issuance Of such manifestoes helps to achieve
the results Il IS a very bad thing to be morally
caiouS. for moral Callousness is disease. But
Inflammation OF the conscience may be Just as
uhhea.thE So far as the public is concerned.
and II a mans conscience is always telling him
10 90 sohleihlng Ioohsh he VIII 90 well TO mis-
lfust lis EoThlngs The religious man who is
most useful is not he whose sole care is to save
his own SOUL uUt the man whose religion bids
ihi9 strive 10 advance decency and clean living
ana 10 make the world a better place for his
fellows 10 live in; and al this is just as true
of the ordinary citizen in the performance of the
ordinary duties Of political life.
During the last few years much good has been
done 20 the people Of the Philippines: but this
has been done not by those who merely in .
dulged IN the personal luxury Of advocating for
the islands q doctrinaire liberty which would
RUIN, out by those who have faced facts thew /
actually were, remembering the proverb that
teaches Us that in the long run even the most
iico Die truth Is safer companion than
the IlA-san1est falsehoOd. 1t is these men. the
men who with shortcomings and stum5lngs yet
Cid the duty Cf The moment though that duty
was hard end often disaEreaable. and not the
men who confined themselves 10 idle talk of no
matter how high-goundirg q nature who have .
done real good to the islands These ere the
men who have brought Justice between man .
ana man, who building roads, who have
vHh I1y- .t-ith
ttenca and drmness, are really fitting the ISL I
ancers for sef-EOveTument.
STATES AND CORPORATIONS
So it is with the great questions which group
themselves round tho control Of corporations IN .
the interest of the public. There has been . .
IN connection with these questions by :he peo-
pie who know that The states cannot with Jus
tice 10 both sides practically control tho cor
poTaiiels ana VINO therefore advocate such .
control hecause 1E=y do not venture 10 express .
their real wish, which IS that there shall be 10 .
control at all Railway corporations will gain .
ana not lose by adequate federal control; most /
EN- Ehatically. 1t IS both the duty and the inter .
est Of our people to deal fairly with such cor .
Pcrations and 70 see that premium is put upon
The honest mana cement Of them and that those
who invest IN them are amply protected. But .
those who invoke the doctrine Of state rights 10
protect state corporate creations IN predatory .
activities extended through other states are as
ShoTtsiGhted as those who once invoked the same
doctrine to protect the special slavehOldiug inter-
est. The states have shown that they have moi .
the ability 10 curb the power OF syudicated .
wealth, and. therefore in the interest of the .
people, il must be done by national action
our present warfare Is against special priv
iIeSe. The men-many Of them, I am sorry TO
say. college men-WhO are prompt TO suea[c .
against every practical means which can be de-
vised for achieving the object wa have in view
the proper and adequate supervision by the fed /
eral government Of the great corpora lions doing
an interstate Dustness-are. nevertheless, them |
selves powerless TO so much as outline any Man
Of constructive craftsmanship which shall give /