The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-12-07

interstate commerce. But before using
this 1t ought certainly to enact model
laws on the subject FOR the territories
under It's own immediate control
The Really Dangerous Criminals.
Vice In its cruder and more
archaic forms shocks everybody: but
there is very urgent need that public
opinion should be just as severe in con-
demnation of the vice which hides itself
behind class or professional loyalty. or
which denies that 1t Is vice IL 1t can
escape conviction in the courts.
Swindling in stocks, corrupting ::
{: legislatures, making fortunes by !:
I: the imitation OF securities, by wreck !:
ing railroads, by destroying COM !:
7: petitorS through rebates-these !:
4: forms of wrongdoing In the cap !:
/: italist, are for more infamous than !:
any ordinary form Of embezzlement !:
or forgery; yet it is a matter of ex-
IRENE difficulty TO secure the pun !:
(: ishment of the man most guilty OF ::
them, most responsible for them. ::
The business man who condones !:
such conduct stands on level with {:
the labor man who deliberately sup ::
ports corrupt demag ogue and agi- !:
tator, whether head of a union or !:
head OF some municipality, because ::
he is said to have stood by the !:
union" The members of the bust ::
4: ness community, the educators, or
/. clergymen, who condone and en-
courage the first kind OF wrongdo-
ing, are no more dangerous to the ::
community, but are morally even I:
worse, than the labor men who are !:
guilty OF the second type of wrong
doing, because less Is to be par
doned those who have no such ex-
cuse as is furnished either by ignor-
ance or by dire need.
I. - - -. 49, 49,.
Farmers and Wage Workers.
The national government, through
the department of agriculture, should
do all it can b. joining with the state
governments and with independent as
sociations of farmers to encourage the
growth in the open farming country
of such institutional and social move
ments as will meet the demand OF the
best type of farmers, both for the i'm
provement of their farme and for the
betterment of the life itself. The
farmer must not lose his independence,
mis- initiative. his rugged self reliance,
yet he must learn to work In the
heartiest cooperation with his fell
lows, exactly as the business man has
learned to work; and he must prepare
to use to constantly better advantage
the knowledge Ghat can De obtained
from agricultural colleges, while he
must insist upon practical curriculum
in the schools in which his children
are taught.
The present diverse methods of in
spection and grading OF grain through
out the country under different laws
and boards, result In confusion and
lack of uniformity, destroying that con-
fidence which is necessary for healthful
trade. ] therefore suggest to the con-
gress the ACCESSIBILITY Of a national
system of inspection and grading Of
grain entering into interstate and for
eign commerce as a remedy for the
present evils.
Inland Waterways.
The conservation of our natural re-
sources and their proper use constitute
the fundamental problem which under
lies almost every other problem of our
national life. We must maintain for
our civilization the adequate material
basis without which that civilization
cannot exist. We must show fore
sight, we must look ahead. For the last
few years, through several agencies,
the government has been endeavoring
to get our people to look ahead and
to substitute a planned and orderly
development of our resources in place
of haphazard striving for immediate
profit.
: Our great river systems should be de- ::