Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-01


it'll each; and his consistent effort
was to try to Judge all by the same
standard and to treat all with the
same justice. Arrogance toward the
weak, and envious hatred of those
well of. were equally abhorent to
his Just and gentle soul. u
Surely this attitude of his should
be the attitude Of all our people to-
day. 1t would be a cruel disaster to
this country to permit ourselves to
adopt an attitude Of hatred and en-
w toward success worJnily won, to-
ward wealth honestly acquired. Let
us in this respect profit by the exam
pie of the republics Of this western
hemisphere to the south Of us. Some
of these republics have prospered
greatly, but there are certain ones
that have Jagged far behind, that
still continue in a condition Of ma
terial poverty of social and political
unrest and confusion. Without ex-
ception the republics of the former
class are those in which honest in
| dustry has been assured Of reward
and protection !; those where a corr
dial welcome has been extended to
the kind of enterprise which bene-
| fits the whole country, while Incl
dentally, as is right and proper, Civ
ing substantial rewards to those who
| manifest it,. On the other hand,
the poor and backward republics, the
republics in which the lot of the
average citizen is least desirable, and
the lot of the laboring man worst
| of all, are precisely those republics
in which industry has been killed,
| because wealth exposed its owner to
! spoilation. To these communities
foreign capital now rarely comes. be-
| cause it has been found that as soon
as capital is employed SO as to give
substantial remuneration to those
supplying it, it excites ignorant en-
w and hostility, which result in such
| oppressive action, within or with
out the law, as sooner or later to
work virtual contiscation. Every
manifestation of feeling Of this kind
in our civilization should be crushed
at the outset by the weight Of a SEN
sible public opinion.
From the standpoint of our mater
ial prosperity there is only one 9TH
er thing as important as the dis
couragement of a spirit of envy and
hostility toward honest business men,,
toward honest men of means; this
is the encouragement Of dishonest
business men, the war upon the chic
anery and Wrongdoing which are pc
culiarly repulsive, peculiarly noxious,
when exhibited by men who have
no excuse of want, OF poverty, of ig-
norance, for their crimes Men Of
means, and above all men of great
wealth, can exist in safety under the
peaceful protection of the state, on
ly in orderly societies, where liberty
manifests itself through and under
the law. 1t is these men, who, more
than any others, should, in the in
tsrests of their children and their
children's children, seek in every
4 way, but especially in the conduct
of their lives, to insist upon and to
/ build up respect for the law. It may
q not betrue from the standpoint Of
a some particular individual of tli.
class, but in the long run it is pre-
1 eminently true from the standpoint
n of the class as a whole, no less thar
of the country as whole, that i
. is a yeritable calamity to achieve !;
Il temporary triumph by violation o.
8 evasion of the law; and we ar tn,
L best friends of the man of property
we show ourselves the staunchest up
! holders of the rights of property
4 when we set our faces like fin
! against those offenders who do wronl
j in order to acquire great wealth o
who use this wealth as a help t
Il Wrongdoing.
\ Wrongdoing is confined to no class
Good and evil are to be foun
1 among both rich and poor and i
) drawing the line among our fel
J lows we must draw it on conduct an
! not on wholly possessions. In tn
1 abstract most of us will admit this
i In the concrete we can act upon sue
I. doctrine only il we really hay
t | knowledge and sympathy with on
7 another. If both the wage-earner an
s the capitalist are able to enter eac
s into the Others life, to meet him s
I, as to get into genuine sympathy wit
e him, most of the misund erstandin
d between them will disappear and il
b place will be taken by a judgmel
& broader, tuster, more kindly an
4 more generous; for each will find