The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-25

puffed UP with pride as to make him
misestimate the relative values of
things it becomes a harm and not a
benefit. There are few things less
desirable thar the arid cultivation,
the learning Inc refinement which
lead merely to THAT Intellectual con-
ceit which AXE a man in a demo-
cratic community like ours hold rim
self aloof from his fellows and pride
himself upon the weakness which he
mistakes for supercilious strength.
Small is the $ of those educated
men who in after life meet no one
but themselves, and gather in parlors
to discuss wrong conditions which
they do o understand and to advo-
cate remedies which have the prime
defect of being unavoidable. The
Judgment on practical affairs, politi-
cal and social, of educated men who
keep aloof from the conditions of prac
tical life, is apt to be v~alueless to
those other men who do really wage
effective war against the forces of
| baseness and of evil. From h poll
teal standpoint education is a harm
and not a benefit to the men whom
it serves as an excus for refusing to
mingle with their fellows and for
standing aloof from the broad sweep
of our national life in a %curiously i'm
potent spirit of falcied superiority.
The political wrongheadedness of
such men is quite as great as that
of wholly u~neducated men.
I'm popular government results
worth having can only be achieved by
men who combine worthy ideals with
practical good sense; who are reso-
lutte to accomplish good purposes, but
who can accommodate themselves to
the give and take necessary where
work has to be done, as almost all
important work must necessarily be
done, by combination. Moreover, re-
member that normally the prime
object of political life Mould be to
achieve results and not merely to Is
sue manifestoes-save of course
where the issuance of such manifes-
toes help to achieve the results. 1t
is a very bad thing to be morally
| callous for moral c~allousness is dis
ease.
The religious man Who is most use
full is not he whose sole care is to
save his own soul, but the man whose
religion bids him strive to advance
decency and clear living and to make
the world a better place for his fell
lows to live in; and all this is just as
true of the ordinary citizen in the per
Torrance of the ordinary duties of
political life.
so it is with the great questions
which group themselves around the
control of corporations in the inter
est of the public. There has been
a curious revival of the doctrine of
State rights in connection with these
questions, by the people who know
that the States can not with justice
to iboth sides practically control the
corporations, and who therefore advo-
cate such control because they do no
venture to express their real wish,
which is that there shall be no con-
troll at all. Honest and fair dealing
railway corporations; will gain ami
not ose by adequate Federal control.
Most emphatically. 1t is both the
duty and interest of our people to
deal fairly with sue corporations
and ITO see that a premium is 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 protect
States corporate creations in preda-
tory activities extended through other
States are as s~hort-sighted as those
who once invoked the same doctrine
to protect the special slave4holding in
terest. The States have shown that
they have not the ability to curb the
power of s~yndicated wealth, and,
therefore, in the interest of the PEG
pie. it must be done by National &C
ton. Our present warfare is against
special privilege. The men-many OF
them, l am sorry to say. college mel
who are prompt to speak against ev-
cry practical means which can be de-
tLSSu " dClICNIAS LIZ oDJO&I W.
have in view-the proper and ade-
quate supervision by the Federal Gov
eminent of the great corporations do
ing an interstate busiless-are, new
ertheless, themselves powerless to so
much as outline any plan of colstruc-
tive craftsmanship which shall give
relief. 1 ave watched for six years
these men, both in public and those
in private life, though they are
prompt to criticise every affirmative
step taken, l nave yet to e n OF
them lift a finger to remedy the
wrongs that exist. So it is in every
field of public activity. States rights
should be preserved when they mean
the peoples rights, but not when they
mean the peoples wrongs; not, for
instance uboD thpv oro iDvokQd f0