The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
CHEERING HOST.
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life, and the foundation of all public
life the intimate life of the home.
Lessons He Taught.

Lessons He Taught.
Many lessons are taught us by his
career. but none more valuable than
the lesson of broad human sympathy
for and among all of our citizens of
all classes and creeds- No other presi-
dent has ever more deserved to have
his life work characterized in Lincoln 8
words as being carried on with malice
toward none, with charity toward all
As a boy he worked hard with mis-
hands; he entered the army as pri-
waite soldier; he knew poverty; ne
earned his own livelihood; and by his
own exertions he finally rose to the
position of a man of moderate means.
Not merely was he in personal touch
with farmer and town dweller. with
capitalist and wageworker, but ne felt
an intimate understanding of each,
and therefore an intimate sympathy
with each: and his consistent effort
was to try to judge all by the same
standard and to treat all with the
same Justice. Arrogance toward the
weak. and envious hatred of those we'll
off. were equally abhorrent to his just
and gentle soul.
Surely this attitude of his should be
the attitude of all our people today. 1t
would be a cruel disaster to this
country to permit ourselves to adopt
an attitude of hatred and envy to-
ward success worthily won. toward
wealth honestly acquired. Let us in
this respect profit by the example of
the republics of this western hemi-
sphere to the south of US. Some of
these republics have prospered great
": but there are certain ones that
have Jagged far behind. that still con-
tinue in a condition of material pow
erty, of social and political unrest and
confusion. Without exception the re-
publics of the former class are those
in which honest industry has been as
sured of reward and protection; those
where a cordial welcome has been ex-
tended to the kind of enterprise
which benefits the whole country.
while incidentally. as is right and
proper. giving substantial rewards to
those who manifest 1t. On the other
hand, the poor and backward repub-
lies in which the lot of the average
citizen is least desira BILE, and the lot
of-the labOring man worst of all. are
precisely those republics in which in
dustry has been killed because wealth
exposed its owner to spoliatiOn. To
these communities foreign capital now
rarely comes. because it has been
found that as soon capital is en-
ployed so as to give substantial re-
Enumeration to those supplying it. 1t
excites ignorant envy and hostility.
which result in such oppressive action
within or without the law, as sooner
OF later to work a virtual cOnfiscation.
Every manifestation of feeling of this
kind in our civilization should be
crushed at the outset by the weight of
a sensible public opinion
Dishonest Business Men.
FROM
terial prosperity there is only one 9TH
er thing as important as the discour-
agement of a spirit of envy and hos
tflity toward honest business men, to-
ward honest men of means: this is
the encouragement of dishonest busi-
ness men, the war upon the chicanery
and wrongdoing which are peculiarly
repulsive, peculiarly noxious, when
exhibited by men who have no excuse
OF want. OF poverty, of ignorance, for
thar crimes
Men of means. and above all mon OF
great wealth, can exist in safety under
the peaceful protection of the state,
only in orderly societies, where liberty
manifests itself through ana under the
law. It is these men who, more than
any others. should, in the interests of
the class to which they belong, in the
interests of their children and their
children's children. seek in every way,
but especially in the conduct of their
lives. to insist upon and to build up
respect for the law 1t may not be
true from the standpoint of some par
ticular individual of this class, but in
the long run it is pre-eminently true
from the standpoint of the class as d
whole. no less than of the country as
a whole. that it is a verita BILE calamity
to achieve a temporary triumph by
violation or evasion of the law; and we
are the best friends of the man of
property. We show ourselves the
staunchest uph FOLDERS of the rights of
property. when we set our faces like
flint against those offenders who do
wrong in order to acquire great wealth
or who use this wealth as a help to
wrongdoing.
Wrongdoing is confined to no class.
Good and evil are to be found among
both rich and poor. and in drawing the |
line among our fellows we must draw
Il on conduct and not on worldly pos
sessions In the abstract most of us
Will admit this. In the concrete We |
can act upon such doctrine only If we
really have knowledge of any sympa- |
thy with one another. If both then |
wage-worker and the capitalist are
able to enter each into the others life |
to meet him so as to get into genuine |
sympathy with him. most of the mis- |