The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-01

Ing IT, cxcites ignorant envy ana
hostility, which result in such ops
p1resssiiye action, within or without
work a virtual confisca ton. Every
manifestation OF feeling Of S this 4
Kind In ur4civllizat 5o{Glhouid5 be
crushed at 1.-THE outset by the weight
i OF a sensible public opinion. n
Condemns Crimes Of Rich.
From the standpoint Of our ma
3terial prosperity theresis only one
other thing as important as the
Acknowledgment Eofs q spirit ofSenvyi
3itess men. toward honest men OF
means;s this is: the encouragement
E of dishonest business men, the war i
upon the chicanery and wrong
doing which are peculiarly epul-E
4 sive peculiarly n oxious, when cx-
of want. OF poverty, of ignorance,
Il for their crimes. Men Of meaas,
and above all men of great wealth.,
can exist In safety under the peace
full protection OF the State, only in
orderly societies.. where liberty.
amanifests itself through and under
the law. It is#these men who more
than any Others should, in the 1n-
terests Of the class to which they
$Sbeiong. In the interests of,5theiri
4 children and their children's chll-a
cially in the conductor theirslives,S
to insist upon and to build up re-
& spect for the law. It may not be
: true from the standpoint Of some
1 particular Individual Of this class,
" b in the long run IT Is pre- e1ni-s
4 nentlyS true from the standpoint
Of the class as a whole, no less.
than Of the coun try. as a whole,
that 1t is O. veritable calamity to.
5t achieve fS asai. te mpora y triumph
Y by violation or. evasion Of he
law; and we are the #bestGfriends
Y of# the man of roperty, we
show ourselves -t the staunchests
upholders OF the rights Of
il property. when we set our faces
like flint against those offend ers
& who do wrong In order to acquire
Il great wealth or who use Wa this
!. wealth as q help to wrongdoi Ding.
Wrong ding is confined to no
Ed class. Good and evil arctic IN be
"a found among no tn rich and poor,
and in drawing the line among our
XII fellows,3&We must draw 1t on con-
duct and not on worldly possessions.
~ Il the abstract m ost of US will ads
nit this. In the concrete we can
ssi really have know Il 81 c,9z..tS;E 4
E sympathy with one another. If both
3F the wage-worker and the capitalist
4 are capable to enrtsr yearh into the
Gg others life to- meet him SO as to
u get. into B genuine sympathy with
him, most Of the misunderstanding
fs5 be tween them vii disappear and
al It's place will be- taken by a jud g
8 nlent broader. juster, more kindly
53 and more generous; for each viii
~ find In the other the same esse n
tiAl& human attribu ties that exist If
himse elf, 1t. twas8President Mc1Sin.
{ ley $peculidr glory that in actua
practice he realized this as It'll:
given to but few men to realize
zs 1t;%that his broad and deep sympa,
thies made him feel a genuine
sense of oneness with all his fel,
low-Americans, swha tever& their sta,
ton or w ork in life. so that to hi.
H soul they were all Joined with hin
E59i in a grea t brotherly demo cracy o
h. The spirit. Is not given to man,
of8tus in our lives actually ss5Gs
realize this attitude to the exten
that he did ! but we can at leas
have it before u as the goal & Q
our ndeaVor,j and by so doing ",
shall pay honor bet ter than in an.
other way to the memory OF tn
dead President whose services Il,
life we this day commemora rate.