Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-26

has hitherto seen.
MEN MUST BE GOVERNED,
Az regards the first set OF dangers it
behooYes us to remember that men can
never escape being governed. Either
they must govern themselves or they
must submit 10 being governed by 9th
ers. II from lNWlessness or hckleness
from folly or sclr-lndtEencA they re-
fuse to govern themselves, then most
AssuredIy In the end they VIII hare 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. A sovereign can NO. make eN-
cuses for his failures: a sovereign must
accept the respO visibility for the e1er-
else of the power that nhcrSs in hln;
and where. as is true in our republic
the people are sovereign, then the ped-
pie must show a sober understanding
and n sane and steadfast purpose IL
they are 20 preserve that orderly lib
erty upon which as 4 foundation every
republic must rest,
AN ERA or COMBINATION,
In industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with IL cer-
tain grave evils. Ii IS our dusty to try
to cut out these evils without at the
same time destroying our well-being
itself, THIS IS nm era OF combination
alike In the world OF capital and In
the world of labor. Each kind OF
binatlOn can do good. and yet
each, however powerful must be op~
posed when 1t does III. AT the mo-
ment the greatest problem before us
rs how 10 exercise such control over
the business use of vast wealth, indi-
vldual, but esq ecially corporate. as
win insure its not being used again 81
The interests of the public. while yet
permitting slch ample legitimate pro-
Nts as WIZ encourage Individual ifl-
itiative. It Is our business 10 put q
stop to- abuses and ia prevent their
recurrence, without showing a soirlt
of mere vindictiveness Tor what nas
been done In the past In John Nor
ley's brilliant sketch of Burke he laws
especial stress upon the fact that
Burke more than almost any OH or
thinker or politician of his time real
ixed the profound lesson that ia poll
tics we are concerned mot with barren
rights but with duties not with abb
8tract truth, but with practical moral
isy. He especially euloglzes the way
I'm which in his efforts for economic
reform. Burke combined unsuitable
resolution in pressing the reform with
profound temperatures Of spirit
which made him. while bent ON the
eNtlrpatiOn of the evil system. refuse
~ cherish an lnEsasoning and yindic--
tive IN will toward the men who had
benefited by it. Said Burke, "If !
can not reform with equity ! win not
a state to preserve as well as state
to REFORM
SPIRIT THAT SHOULD CONTROL.
This is the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the 70
form III abuses of corporate wealth.
The wrong doer, the man VIII" swirl
dies and cheats, whether on big
scale OF a little one. shall receive at
OLE han Is mercy as scant AZ 1t ho
committed crimes OF violence or bru-
tality, We are nnalterably determin-
ed 10 prevent wron ed DING In tho su-
cure; we have no Intention Of trying 10
wreak such an fndlscrinlinate van
seance for wrongs done In the past
as would confound the innocept with
the guilty our purpose is to build
up rather than to tear down. We
show ourselves tho truest friends OF
property when we mako II evident
that we will not tolerate the abuses
of property We are steadily bent on
preserving the institution of private
property; we combat every tendency
toward reducing the people to soo-
nomic sel-vitude; and we care not
whether the ten dency is due to a sim
lister agitation directed against all
property or whether IT lis due to the
actions of those members OF the pre-
da tory classes whose anti-soclal power
Is irnrnea surabIy Increased because ct
the very fact that they possess
wealth,
FACING NEW PROBLEMS,
Above all, we insist that while facing
changed conditions and new problems,
L.. ~ e-tt IA lfala
our forefathers showed when they
founded and preserved this republic
The cornerstone OF the republic lies Ia
orr Urea ting each nan on his worth as
a man, paying no heed to his creed, his
birthplace, OF his occupation, asking
not whether he is rich or poor whether
he abors with read or hands asking only
whether he acts deCentIy and honorably
in the various relations on his life.
whether no behaves well To- his family,
to his nelghbors. to the state We base
our regard for each man ON the essen
tails and not the accidents We Judge
him not by his profession, but by bis
d eeds by his conduct not by what he
has acquired OF this worlds goods.
Other republics have fallen. because the
citizens gradually grow TO consider the
interests OF Il class before the interests
OF the whole for when such VAS the
case It mattered little whether IL was
the poor VINO plundefen tine g1Ch or LAe
rich who exploited the poor: In ethel
event the eIid 81 the republic Was at
hand We are resOlute IN our purpose
not to fan into such pit This great
republic OF ours shall never become the
COVE rnunent OF plut0cracy, and II shall
never become the government OF a mob.
God willing, II shall remain what our
fathers who founded 1t meant II 10 be-
a government In which each man stands
on his worth as man, where each IL
CIV en- the largest personal liberty COM
sistent with securing the well being or
the whole. and whore so far az IN us
lies, va strive continually TO secure for
each man such equality OF opportunity
that In the strife OF life he may have a
fair chance TO show the stuft that vs. 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
II the average OF character In the IN
dlvlduRI citizen Is sufficiently high, n
he possesses those qualities which
make him worthy Of respect In bis fam
lily ITO and In his work outside. as well
ns tho qualities which NJ him for sue
cess In tho hard struggle FOR actual cE-
n such Is the character
OF our Individual citizen ship, there Ia
literally no height or triumph unattain-
abba In this vast ca pertinent OF govern
ment by, OF, and for free people