The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23


Ito achieve tho results. II Is very,
lhad thing to be nIoially calous, FOR
Imorai callousness Is disease But In
Illumination OF the conscience may be
lust US unhealthy 30 far as tho public
lis concerned; and II mans cor,-
science is always telling him to do
sopcthing foolish he will do we'll
to mistrust It's workings. The re-
lligious man who is most useful is
not he whose sole care is-to save his
own SOUL but the man whose relig-
ion bids him to strive to advance
dcccncy and clean living and to
make the world better place for
lis fellows to live in; and all this
lis Just as true of the ordinary c!ii-
zen in the performance Of the or lin
larry duties Of political life.
During the last few years much
good has been done to the people OF
the Philippines; but this has been
dcne, not by those who merely in
ldulged in the personal luxury of adj
lvocating for the islands a doctrinairc
liberty which would have meant
their immediate and irretrievablc
lruin, but by those who have faced
facts as they actually were, remem-
Ibering the provcrb that teaches MS
that in the long run even the most
Uncomfortable truth Is safer com
Ipanion than the pleasantest false
hood. 1t is these men. the men
lwho with shortcomings and stumbl-
ings yet did the duty OF the moment,
though the duty was hard and often
disagreeable, and not the men WHO
confined themselves to idle talk OF
nc matter how high-sounding u
mature, who have done real good to
i the islands. These are the men who
have brought justice as between
man and man; wro are building
roads: who have introduced schools;
who. gradually, with patience and
frmuess. are really fitting the island
ers for self-government.
50 It is with the great questions
which group themselves round the
control of corporations in the inter-
curious revival Of the doctrine or
State rights in connection with these
questions, byt the people who know
that the States can not with justice
tn both sides practically control the
corporations, and who therefore aJ-
vocate such control because they Go
not venture to express their real
wish, which Is that there shall be
no control at all. Honest and faig
dealing railway corporations will
gain and not lose by adequate Fed
eral control: most emphatically 1t is
both the duty ana interest of our
lpeople to deal fairly with such cor
porations and 10 see that a, premium
put upon honest management Of
them and that those who invest
| in them are amply protected.
But those who invoke the
doctrine of State rights TO nro-
tcct State corporate creation in pred
atory activities extended through
lother States are as short-sightcl
as those who once invoked the same
doctrine to protect the special slave
holding interest. The States have
shown that they have not the ability
tc curb the power of syndicated
wealth, and therefore, in the inter-
,est Of the people, it must be done
by National action. Our present
warfare is against special privilege. /.
1.-THE men-many of them. | am sorry
Ito say, college men who are prompt
to speak agalns. every practical
means which can be devised for
aohieving the object we have in view
the proper and adequate superyi-
sion by the Federal Government OF
the great corporations doing an in
terstate business-are nevertheless,
themselves powerless to so much as
loutlne any plan of constructive
craftsmanship which shall give re-
,lief. have watched for six years
these men, both those in public and
those In private life, aud though
they are prompt to criticse every
affirmative step taken. I have yet
to see one Of them life q finger to
lremedy the wrongs that exist. SO
1t is in every field of public activity.
States rights should be preserved
when they mean the peoples rights,
but not when they mean the peo-
pies wrongs; not, for Instance, when
they are invoked TO prevent the
abolition OF child labor. or to break
ithe force Of the laws which prohibit
the importation OF contract lalior to