, 1907-08-20
administration NOT
To CHANGE ITS LINES

TT is a good thing that life should
gain in sweetness. but only provided
that it does not lose in strength. Ease
and rest and pleasure are good things
but only il they come as the reward OF
work well done, of a good fight well
won, of strong effort r%esolutely made
and crowned by high achievement
The life of mere pleasure, of mere eff,
fortress ease, is as ignoble for a ma
tion as for an individual. The man is
but a poor father who teaches his sons
that ease and pleasure should be their
chief objects in life; the woman who
is a mere petted toy, incapable of ser
ious purpose, shrinking from effort and
duty, is more pitiable than the veriest
overworked drudge.
Traits Of Poor Leader.
so he is but a poor leader Of the
people, but a poor national adviser,
who seeks to make the nation in any
way subordinate effort to ease, who
would teach the people not to prize as
the greatest blessing the chance to do
any work, no matter how hard, II 1t
becomes their duty to do it. To the
sons of the Puritans it is almost need
less to say that the lesson above all
others which Puritanism can teach this
nation is the all-importance of the reso-
lutte performance Of duty.
Ideals Should Be High.
"If we are men we will pass by with
contemptuous disdain alike the advis-
ers who would seek to lead us into the
paths of ignoble ease and those who
would teach us to admire successful
wrongdoing. Our ideals should be high,
and yet they should be capable Of
achievement in practical fashion; and
we are as little to be excused If we per.
NIT our ideals to- be tainted with what
is sordid and q and base, as IL we
allow our power Of achievement to
atrophy and become either incapable
of effort or capable only of such fan
tastic effort as to accomplish nothing
of permanent good.
A Work Worth Doing.
"The true doctrine to preach to this
nation, as to the individuals composing
this nation, is not the life of ease, but
the life Of effort. II it were in my
power to promise the people Of this
land anything, l would not promise
them pleasure. 1 would promise them
that stern happiness which comes from
the sense of having done in practical
fashion a difficult work which was
worth doing.
Methods Of Dealing.
I'm dealing with those who offend
against the antitrust and interstate
commerce laws the department of JUS
tice has to encounter many and great
difficulties. Often men who have been
guilty of violating these laws have
I really acted in criminal fashion. and
if possible should be proceeded against
criminally; and therefore it is ad-
/ yisable that there should be a clause
in these laws providing for such Grim.
inal action, and for punishment by i'm.
prisonment as well as by fine.
In Favor of Defendant.
But, as is well known. In a Grim
inal action the law is strictly con-
| strued in favor of the defendant, and
in our country, at least. both judge
| and jury are far more inclined to con-
slider his rights than they are the in
| terests of the general public; while
in addition it is always true that a
mans general practices may be so
bad that a civil action will lie when 1t
may not be possible to convict him
| of any one criminal act.
Reference to Boise Case.
There is, unfortunately, a certain
number of our fellow-countrymen who
seem to accept the view that unless a
man can be proven guilty of some par
ticular crime he shall be counted a
good citizen, no matter how infamous
the life he has led, no matter how per
nicious his doctrines or his practices.
This is the view announced from time
to time with clamorous insistence, now
by a group Of predatory capitalists,
now by a group of sinister anarchistic
leaders and agitators, whenever a spe-
cial champion of either class, no mat
ter how evil his general life, is &C
quilted of some one specific crime.
A Wicked View. :
Such a view is wicked, whether ap'
piled to capitalist or labor leader. to
rich man or poor man. But we have
to take this feeling into account when
we are debating whether 1t is possible
to get a conviction in a criminal pro
ceeding against some rich trust mag
nate, many Of whose actions are Be
verely to be condemned from the
moral and social standpoint, but nc
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