The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-27

as scant rs if he committed crimes of
violence or brutality. We are unal-
terably determined TO prevent wrong
doing in the future; we have no inten-
tion of trying to wreak such an indis-
criminatc vengeance for wrongs done
in the past as would confound the in.
nocent with the guilty, Our purpose is
to build up rather than to tear down.
We show ourselves the trucst friends Of
property when we make it evident that
we will not tolerate the abuses of prop
erty, We arc steadily bent on preserv-
ing the institution of private prop
erty; we combat every tendency toward
reducing the people TO economic servi.
tude; and we care not whether the ten.
dencv is due to a sinister agitation di..
rected against all property, or whether
it is due TO the actions Of those mem
bers of the predatory classes whose anti
social power is immeasurably increased
because of the fact that they possess
wealth.
Old Spirit Is Needed.
"Above all, we must insist that while
facing changed conditions and new
problems, we must face them IN the
spirit which out forcfathers showed
when they founded and preserved this
republic The cornerstone of the re
public hes in our treating each man on
his worth as u man. paying no heed 10
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patton, asking not whether he is rich or
poor. whether he labors with head or
hand; asking only whether he acts de-
Gently and honorably in the various re-
lations Of has life whether he behaves
well TO his family, to his neighbors, to
the state. We base our regard for each
man on the essentials and not the ac-
cidents, We Judge him not by his pro
fession, but by his deeds; by his con
duct, not by what he has acquired of
this world s goods. Other republics
have fallen, because the citizens grad
ually grew TO consider the interests OF
a class before the interests of the
whole, for when such was the case 1t
mattered little whether it was the poor
who plundered the rich or the rich who
exploited the poor; in either event the
end of the republic was at hand. We
are resolute in our purpose not to fall
into such a PIT. This great republic of
ours shall never become the govern
ment of plutocracy, and it shall never
become the government of mob. God
willing, 1T shall remain what our fathers
who founded it, meant IL to be-a gov
ernment in which each man stands on
his worth as n man, where each is given
the largest personal liberty consistent
with securing the well-being of the
whole, and where, so far as in us lies,
we strive continually TO secure for each
man such equality of opportunity that
in the strife of life he may have fair
chance TO show the stuff that is in him.
We are proud Of our schools and of the
trained intelligence they give our chill
dren the opportunity to acquire, But
what we care for most is the character
of the average man, for we believe that
if the average of character in the in
dividual citizen is sufficiently high. if
he possesses those qualities which make
him worthy of respect in his family
life and in his work outside, as well as
the qualities which III him for success
III the hard struggle of actual existence
that if such is the character OF our
individual citizenship. there is literally
no height of triumph unattainable in
this vast experiment OF government by,
of, and for a free people -