Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-24

cultivation. will not help you IL
YOU make the mistake Of thinking
that IL is substitute for insead
of an addition to those qualities
which In the struggle of life bring
success TO tho ordinary man with.
ont your advantages. Your college
training confers no privilege upon
you save as tested by the use you
make of 1t. II puts upon you the
obligation TO show yourselves better
able to do certain things than your
iellows who have not had your AZ.
vantagcs and II mans conscience
IS always telling HIM to do some.
thing 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 save his own soul hut the
man whose religious BIDS him strive
10 advance decency and clean liv.
ing and to make the world Il better
place FOR his fellows to lie in; and
al this is as true Of the ordinary
citizen in the performance Of tho
ordinary duties of political life.
Philippine Question.
During the last few years much
good has been done 10 the people
OF the Philippines; but tits has
been done, not by those who mere.
~ INDUCED in the personal luxury
OF advocating for the islands doc.
trlnairc liberty which would have
meant their immediate and irretriey-
able ruin, but by those Who have
faced facts as they actually were,
remembering the proverb that teach
es us That in the long run even
the most uncomfortable truth Is sar
er companion than the plcasantest
ialseiood. 1t Is these men the men
who with shortcomings and stumb.
ling yet did the duty of the momenl.
though that dutyw hard and often
disagreeable, and not the men who
confined themselves TO idle talk of
no matter how Understanding n nat
ure, who have done real good 10
the Islands. These are the men who
have brought justice as between
man and man; who are building
roads; who have introduced schools:
who gradually, with patience and
frmness, are really fitting the Is
landers for self.government.
Corporation and States Rights
So 1t IS with tho great questions
which group themselves round the
control CT corporations in the inter-
est of the public. There has been
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 both sides practically
control THE corporations, and who
| therefore advocate such control be-
cause they do not venture TO ex-
press their real wish, which Is that
there sail be no control at ALL
Railway corporations will gain ana
not lose by adequate federal con.
troll; most eniphat.cally it is both
the duty and the interest of our
people to deal fairly with such
corporations and TO see that prem.
illm Is Dut Upon the honest manage
mont of tlem, and that those who
invest IN them are amply protected.
But those who invoke the doctrine
Of State rights TO protect State
corporate creations in predatory ac-
t!vit!es. extended through other
states have Shown t2at they have
not the ability to curb the power
of syndicated wealth. and therefore,
, In the interest of the people
must be done by national action.
Special Privileges.
Our present warfare is against
special privileges. The men--many
OF them. am sorry to say, college
men-wAo are prompt to speak
against every practical means which
can be devised for achieving the
ooJect we have in view--the proper
| and adequate supervision by the
J Federal government of the great
corporations doing all interstate bus.
lhess-tre unable TO so mncl
1 as outline any plan of constructive
craftsmanship which shall give re
hei. Eavc watched for six years
| tnese men. both those in public and
those i'll private life. and though
Iacy are prompt to crit.cise every
ahirmative step taken, j have yet
80 see orc of them lift 81 finger
Ia rr hot ,;.-t