Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23

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| the actual world of men and events. thai
y. VIII prove a curse and not a blessin&
II on the other hand You treat your edliS
! cauon as weapon the more in youf
hands, weapon to fit you to 30 betteh
IN the hard struggle Of effort, and not az
excusing you in any way from taking pare
IN practical fashion in that struggle then,
IL Will be benefit to you.
Let each OF you college men rememberi
| IN after life that in the fundamentals he Isl
very much like his fellows who have notd
been to college and that II he is TO achieved
results. instead OF combining himself excu.
siFely 10 disparagement of other men Who'll
| have achieved them, he must manage tA
| come TO some kind of working ayrcemenel
| with these fellows of his. There are tines
| or course when II may be the highest duty
| or citizen to stand alone or practicallYI
alone But IL this is a mans normal attis'
| tude-if normally he is unable to work ir,I
| combination with considerable body OF
| ms ieiiows-it is safe to set him down az
| unit for useful service in a democracy. In!
popular government results worth havingt
| can only be achieved by men who combinei
worthy Ideals with practical gooI sense:i
] who are resolute to accomplish good pur.
! poses but who can accommodate them-
| selves to the give and take necessary where
| work has to be- DONE almost all inn
| portant work must necessarily be done, by
combination Moreover, remember that
| normally the prime object of poIi;ical life
| should be to achieve results and not merely
10 Issue manifestoes-save of course where
| the Issuance of such manifestocs helps to
\ achieve the results.
/ 1t is very bad thing to be morally call.
Iots, Tor moral callousness is disease. Buc
| Inflammation of the conscience may be Just
| as unhealthy so far as the public is con-
| cerned; and If a mans conscience is all
| ways telling him to do something foolish
| he will do well to mistrust It's workings
| The religious man who is most useful is
not he whose sole care Is to his own
\ soul, but the man whose religion bids him
| strive to advance decency and clean living
and to make the world a better place for
| his fellows to live in, and all this is Just az
true Of the ordinary citizen in the performs
| ance of the ordinary duties of political life.'
In the Philippines.
During the last few years much good has
been done to the people Of the Philippines:
but this has been done, not by those who
merely INDUCED in the personal luxury OF
advocating for the islands a doctrinaire lib
erty which would have meant their imme-
| date and irretrevable ruin, but by those
| who have faced facts they actually
| Were remembering the prOverb that teaches
US that in the long run even the most I'M
| comfortable truth is a safer companion
! than the pleasantest fasehood. Ii is these
| men,, the men who with shortcomings and
| stumblings yet did the duty of the mo-
| ment, though that duty was hard and often
| disagreeable, and not the men who con-
| fined themselves TO idle talk of no matter
| how high-sounding nature, who have
| done real good to the islands. These are
| the men who have brought justice as be-
| tween man and man; who are buildine
| roads; who have introduced schools; who,,
gradually, with patience and firmncss ara!
| really lifting the islanders for self gov ern.
| ment.
| So it is with the great questions which
| group themselves round the control of cor
porations in the interest of the public. There
| has been a curious revival of the doctrine
| of state rights I'm connection with these
| questions by the people who know that the
| states cannot with justice to both sidesf
practically control the corporations. and
who. therefore, advocate such control be-
| cause they do not venture to express their
| real wish, which is that there shall be no
| control at all. Honest and fair dealing rail-
| way corporations will gain and not lose by
| adequate federal control. Most emphatical-
| ly 1t is both the duty and the interest of our
people to. deal fairly with sucn corporations
and to see that a premium is put upon the
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 state corporate crea-
| tons in predatory activities extendedi
| through other states short sighted
| as those who once invoked the same doc
| trine to protect the special save-holding
| interest The states have shown that theyi
| have not the ability to curb the power OF
syndicated wealth. and, therefore. in the
interest of the people, it must be done by
| national action.
| The Present Warfare.
Our present warfare is against special
privilege. The Ten-nany of them, ] am
| sorry to say, college men-who are prompt
| to speak against every practical means
| which can be devised for achieving the OBJ
| ject we have in view-the proper and ade-
\ uuate supervision by the federal governs
ment of the great corporations doing an in
| terstate busness-are, nevertheless, them
! selves powerless to so much as outline any
| plan of constructive craftsmanship which
| shall give relief l have watched for six
| years these men, both those in public and
| those in private life. and though they are
! prompt to criticse every affirmative step
| taken l have yet to SEE one OF them llft u
4 finger to remedy the wrongs that eAlst. So
| it is in every field of public activity. States
| rights should be preserved when theN mean
! the PEOPLES rights, but not when they mean
the peoples wrongs; not, for instance, when
| they are invoked to prevent the abolition OF
child labor, or to break the force OF tre iaws
| which prohibit the importation of contract
| labor to this country: in short. not When
| they stand for wrong or oppression 81 any
kind for national weakness vi ihiP''oh'"
| at home or abroad.
| II 10 TO the. men who work in practical
fashion with their fellows, and nol 10 ln sos1
who whether because they are mp , ,o n,,a
| or incapable cannot thus work, that We wv
| what success we have had In deailhR Wi,n
| every problem which we have eitnsr sorte1
| or started on the path Of solution ou'i"s
the last decade. ~ -. ,.,ors of
great achievement for this nation. During
| that period we have dealt and are heallns
| u;th many different matters of great mo-
| ment. We have acquired the right to puild'
| and are now building, the Panama canai.
| We have given wise government TO me
| philippines. We have dealt with exceedihgay
coronlex difficult and important auestions
| In Cuha and Santo Domingo. We nave
bulf no the navy; our surest safeguard OF
peace and of national honor.
Progress Everywhere.
We are making great progress in deaiihs
with the questions of irrigation and Tor
estrv. of preserving to the public the right
full use of the public lands and of the min
| eraI wealth underlying them. and with that
group of vital questions which concern tho
proper supervision of the immense corpora
tons doing an interstate business. the
proper control of the great highways OF m
terstate commerce, the proper regulation OF
Industries which, If left unreguated, threat
en- disaster to the body polite We have ave
settlement of the Alaska boundary. We
! have made progress in securing better reia-