Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-11
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a particular class are always unsafe,
and are sometimes very dangerous,
leaders.
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!: Distrust equally the man who :
:. is never able to discover any :
= vices of rich men to attack and :.
: the man who confines himself ::
: to attacking the sins and short {.
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It is a sure sign of moral and men,
tai dishonesty in any man if in his
public assaults upon iniquity he is
never able to see any iniquity save
that of a particular class; and this
whether he is able only to see the
crimes of arrogance and oppression in
the rich or the crimes of envy and
violence in the poor.
He is no true American if he is a
respecter of persons where right and
wrong are concerned and if he fails
to denounce the demagogue no less
than the corruptionist, to denounce
alike crimes Of organized greed and
crimes Of brutal violence. There is
equal need to denounce the wealthy
man who swindles investors or buys
legislatures or Expresses wage-work-
ers, and the needy man who infiames
class hatred or incites mob violence.
We need to hold the scales of justice
even. and to weigh them down on one
side is as bad as to weigh them down
on the other.
Two Great Movements.
So much for what / have to say to
you in your capacity Of molders and
guides Of public thought In ad-
dition want to speak to you on two
great movements in our public life
which I feel must necessarily occupy
no inconsiderable part of the time of
our public men in the near future
One of these is the question of, in GER
tain ways. reshaping our system of
taxation SO as to make it bear most
heavily on those most capable of sup
porting the strain. The other is the
question of utilizing the natural re.
u sources of the nation in the way that
will be of most benefit to the ma.
ton as a whole
In utilizing and conserving the nat
ural resources of the nation the one
Characteristic more essential than any
other is foresight Unfortunately
foresight is not usually characteristic
OF a young and vigorous people, and
it is obviously not a marked charac
teristic of us in the United States
Yet assurediY it should be the grow
4 ing nation with future which takes
the long look ahead; and no othel
nation is growing so rapidly as our
or has a future. SO full of promi se
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No other nation enjoys so wond- !:
:. erful a measure of present pros !
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= treated as an earnest of future .
success, and for no other are i.
the rewards Of foresight so .
4 great so certain, and SO easily !
. foretold. .
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Yet hitherto as a nation we hav
tended to live with an eye single )
the present, and have permitted th
reckless waste and destruction .
much Of our natural wealth.
Conservation Of Natural Resources
The conservation Of our natural Il
sources and their proper use const
srte the fundamental problem whic
underlfes almost every other probler
Of our national life. Unless "
B maintain an adequate material basi
for our CIVILIZATION, we can not maiI
tain the institutions In which we tax
SO great and so Just a pride; and 3
waste and destroy our natural ii
sources means to undermine this ma
terial basis During the last fiv
years efforts have been made in Sc;
erai new directions III the Govern
nlent service to get our people =
look ahead. to exercise foresight, an
To substitute q MANNED and orderl
Development Of our resources In th