The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-26

way in which in his efforts for econo.
mic reform, Burke combined unshak.
nble resolution In pressing the reform
with "a profound temperatures of
spirit which made him, while ben on
the extirpation of the evil system
refuse to cherish an unreasoning and
vi1dictive i'll viii toward the me1
who had benefited by it. Said Burke
IF / can not reform with equity, I will
not reform at all. = (There isl
a state to preserve as well as a state
to reform"
This is the exact spirit il which this
country should move to the reform OF
abuses of corporate wealth. The wrong
doer, the man who swindles and
cheats, whether on a big scale or a
little one, shall receive at our hands
mercy as scant as if he committed
crimes of violence or brutality. We
are unalterably determined to prevent
wro1gdoing in the future; we have
no intention of trying to wreak such
an indiscriminate for wrong
done in the past as wou confound
the innocent with the guilty. Our
purpose is to build up rather thar
tear down. w show ourselves the
truest friends of property when we
make it evident that we will not toll
SAo a SAAO ONio vi PAOPSA wv AAN
steadily bent on preserving the i1sti-
tuition of private property; we combat
every tendency toward reducing the
people to economic Servitude; and we
care not whether the tendency is due
to a sinister agitation directed against
all property, or whether it is IL to
actions of those members of the pre-
datory classes whose anti-social pow
er is UNNECESSARILY increased because
of the very fact that they possess
wealth.
Above all, we insist that while fac
ing changed conditions and new prob
lens we must fact them in the spirit
which our forefatherS showed when
they founded. and preserved this Re
public. The cornerstone of the republic
lies in our treating each man GA his
worth as a man, paying no heed to his
creed, his birthplace, or his occupa-
ton, asking not whether he is rich
Or poor, whether he labors with a
or hand; asking only whether he acts
dece1tly and honorably in the various
relations of ais life, whether he be
HAYES well to his family, to his neigh
bors, to the State. We base our re-
gard for each man on the essentials
and not the accidents. We judge him
not by his profession, but by his deeds
ny LIE CO1uuCI, hol ny "HdI hS IdS
acquired of this worlds goods. 9th
er republics have fallen, because the
citizens gradually grew to consider
the interests of a class before the in
terests of the whole; for when such
as a man, where each is given the larg
est personal liberty consistent with
securing the well-being of the whola
4 where, so far as in us lies, we
strive continually to C for each
man such equality of opportunity that
in the strife of life ne 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 if the average of
character in the individual citizen is
sufficiently nigh, if he possesses those
qualities which make him worthy of
respect in his family life and il his
work outside, as we'll as the qualities
which fit him for success in the hard
struggle of actual eXistence-that if
such is the character of individual
citizenship, there is literally no height
of triumph unattainable in this vast
experiment of government by, of and
for a free people.