Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-02


semblances; and there is no warrants
for our being drawn into any pessi-'
mistic comparison between the two
civilizations. But there is every rea-
son why we should study carefully
the past in order to draw from it
lessons for use in the present. One
of the most striking features of the
years which saw the downfall 8 fthe
Roman republic was the fact that the
political life of Rome became split
between two camps, one containing
the rich who wished to exploit the
poor, and the other the poor who
wished to plumber the rich. Natur-
ally, under such circumstances, the
public man who was for the moment
successful tended to be either vio-
lent reactionary or a violent dema-
gogue. Any such condition of poll
tical life is as hopelessly unhealthy
now as it was then. yss,l q,
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= plutocracy; that he desires :
= to see justice done to and jus :
: tice exacted from rich man and 8
I. poor man alike.
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We are not trying to favor any
man at the expense of his fellows
We are trying to shape things so
that as far as possible each man
shall have fair chance in life; so
that he shall have, so far as by law
this can be accomplished, the chance
to show the stuff that there is in
him.
Man Judged BY His Conduct.
The other day listened TO an ad-
mirable sermon by Bishop Johnston,
of western Texas. His theme was
that the vital element in judging any
man should be his conduct, and nei-
Their his position nor his pretensions;
and, furthermore, that freedom could
only stay with a people which has the
habit of self-mastery. AS he said,
the price of liberty is not only eter-
nal viligance, but eternal virtue; and
I may add, eternal common sense.
Each man here knows that he him
self has been able to use his free
dom to advantage only provided that
he could master himself, that he
could control his own passions and
direct his own faculties. Each of
you fathers and mothers here knows
4 that IL your sons are to do well in
4 the world they must know how to
master themselves. Every man must
have master; ii he is not his own
/ master, then somebody else will be.
This is Just as true of public life
| as of private life. If we cannot mas.
ter ourselves, control ourselves, then
sooner or later we shall have to sub
/ NIT to outside control; for there
must be control somewhere.
One way of exercising such con-
troll is through the laws Of the land
Ours is a governments of liberty, but
it is a government OF that orderly
i liberty which comes by and through
the honest enforcement of and obed-
4 fence to the law. At intervals dur
ing the last few. months the appea
j has been made to me not to enforce
i the law against certain wrongdoers
/ of great wealth because to do SC
would interior with the business
i prosperity of the country. Under ths
effects of that kind of fright which
| when sufficiently acute we call pan
/ ic, this appeal has been made to me
even by men who ordinarily behave
1 as decent citizens. One newspaper
which has itself strongly advanced
this view gave prominence to tht
| statement of certain man Of grea
wealth to the effect that the so-callet
financial weakness was due entire
i ly to the admitted intention of Pres
ident Roosevelt to punish the large
moneyed interests which had trans
/ crossed the laws" I do not admit
that this has been the main cause
of any business troubles we have had;
4 but it Is possible that it has been I
/ ccntributary cause. IL so, friends
i as far as / am concerned it must bs
accepted as disargeeable, but I'M
Iavoidable feature in a course Of pol
icy which as long as I am Presidenl
will not be changed.
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4 !. Of evil are strongly entrenched, !
/ \. It is unfortunately inevitable
1 y that some unoffending people I
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