Evening journal., 1907-04-26
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/ bchooves Us to remember that men can
never escape being governed. Either they
must govern themselves or they must
submit to being governed by others If
from lawles sncss or hckleness, from folly
or self-indulgence. they refuse to govern
themselves. then most assuredly in the
end they will have 10 be governed from
the outside. They can prevent the need
of government from without only by
showing that they possess the power of
government from within. y sovereign can
not make excuses for his failures; a SOW
ereign must accept the responsibility for
the exercise of the power that nhorcs in
him; and whore, as is true i'm our Re
public. the people are sovereign. then the
people must show a sober understanding
and a sane and steadfast purpose il they
are to preserve that orderly liberty upon
which as foundation every republic
must rest
Problem of Corporations.
lin Industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with it certain
grave evils 1t is our duty 10 try to cut
out these evils without al the same time
destroying our wcll-being itself. This is an
era of combination alike in the world of
capital and I'm the world Of labor. Each
kind of combination can do good, and yet
each. however, powerful, must be opposed
when it does in. At the moment the
greatest problem before us is how to
exercise such control over the business
use of vast wealth, individual, but cs-
peciany corporate, as will insure its not
being used against the interest of the
public. while yet permitting such ample
legitimate profits as will encourage in
dividual initiative IL is our business
TO put a stop 10 abuses and 20 prevent
| thcir recurrence without showing a spirit
of mere vindictiveness for what has been
done I'm the past. In John Moreys bril-
liant sketch OF Burke he lays especial
stress upon the fact tina Burke more than
almost any other thinker or politician Of
his time realized the profound lesson
that tn politics We are concerned not
with barren rights but with duties not
B. with abstract TRUTH but with practical
morality. He especially eulogizes the
way I'm which in his efforts for economic
reform Burke combined unshakable reso-
luton i'm press .ng the reform with pro-
found tcmperateness of spirit which made
him. whilo bent on the eXtrpation of the
veil system refuse to cherish an unreal
sonng and vindictive il will toward the
men who had benefited by IT, said Burke:
"If 1 can not reform with equity, l VIII
not reform at ALL Crhere i9 a
state to preserve as we'll as a state to re.
/, FORM"
This is the exact spirit in which this
country should move to the reform of
abuses of corporate wealth. Tho 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 n he committed crimes of violence or
brutality We are unalterably determined
TO prevent wrong-doing IN the future;
3 we have no intention of trying to wreak
such an ind.scriminate vengeance for
; wrongs done I'm the past as would con-
I found the innocent with the guilty. our
4 purpose Is to build up rather than to tear
! down We show ourselves the truest
} friends of property when we make it evil
r dent that we will not tolerate the abuses
G of property We arc steadily bent on pre-
! serving the institution OF private prop
orty; we combat every tendency toward
reducing the people 10 economic servitude;
and we care not whether the tendency
is due to a sinister agitation directed
against all property, or whether 1t is dt'
, TO the actions of those members of th'
I, predatory classes whose ant-social powe
Is immeasurably increased because of th
very fact that they possess wealth
- Above an, we insist that while facinl
changed conditions and new problems
we must face them in the spirit which ou
forefathers showed when they founded
and preserved this Republic. The corner
r. stone Of the Republic lies i'm our treating
}. each man on his worth as a man; payini
: no heed TO his creed, his birthplace, or hi
K occupation. asking not whether he is
p rich or poor, whether he labors wit
u head or hand, asking only whether ~
! acts decently and honorably in the var
. ious relations Of his life, whether he be
- haves well TO his family, to his ncighoors
TO the state. We base our regard for oacl
= man on the essentials and not the acci
dents We judge him not by his profes
!, sion. but by his deeds; by his conduct
=. not by what he has acquired of thii
!, worlds goods. other republics have fallen
!, because the citizens gradually grew &c
!, consider the interests of class before
n the interests of the whole; for when sue
n. was the case il mattered little whether
was the poor who plundered the rich o
the rich who exploited the poor; in eithe
event the end of the Republic was al
hand. We are resolute IN our purpose no
TO fan into such a pit. This great Repub
y lie of ours shall never become the gov
y ornment of a plutooracs. and IL shal
, never become the government Of a mob
- God willing. It shall remain what oul
:, fathers who founded il meant it to be-
a government in which each man stand
on his worth as a man, where each q
i, given the largest personal liberty consis
Z, tent with securing the well-being Of IN
u whole. and where so far as in us lies, W
Il strive continually to secure for each ma
such equality of opportunity that IN IN
strife of life he may have a fair chance
10 show the stuff that IS in him. We ar
proud OF our schools and OF the trained
intelligence they give our children thl
.' opportunity TO acquire. But what we car
for most is tho character of the averaE
~ man: Tor we believe that II the averae
of character IN the individual citizen
sufficiently high. II he possesses thos
qualities which make him worthy of re
=, spoct In his family life and On his worl
/, outside. as well as tho qualities which
=, him for success in the hard struggle q
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