Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-10

featuring campaign
material. discussed 1.-THE reasons. princi-
pies and limitations involved in the gen.
eral regulation of persons in their occu-
pations' The ordinary general deba te"
effort on the floor of the House is COM
posed of two bushels of words. more
or less, high sounding and properly ap-
piled, sparsely decorated with from two
ounces to a pound and half of facts.
Mr. Hamiltons speech is noteworthy from
the fact that it contains a number of
crisp epigrammatic utterances to relieve
the general gloom. Here are some OF
them picked from his speech, and more
or less isolated:
This struggle for what men call sue
cess begins early and ends late. ends
only in the cemetery, and even there the
monument of success towers in marble
pride above the humber graves.
The moneygetting faculty ranges all
the way from the mere mOney-getting in
stinct with it's presensile grasp to the
capacity for greater affairs.
Notwithstanding the ate of Dives
and the possible effect Of a bank account
as 'contributory negligence, there are
worse things than being rich. and one of
these. things is being liar and hypo-
critic and pretending you would not like
to do it yourself.
THE Scriptures enjoin diligence in bust
ness, and the man who returned 100 per
cenL on the ldleHt lett WITH LOT
vestment was made ruler over many
things and he still continues to rule over
many things.
"A world without business is an i'm
possible world. and in world of business
men have right to their reward.
Il have great respect for the man who
does things. but at the same time l do
not want him to reduce the rest of man
kind to mere material to be worked like
the rank and file in Honer's Iliad.'
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for his heroes to. break.
when l see the success of some men
in politics l know that the saying that
You cannot get something for nothing,
when applied to politics. is a lie
eff we are to continue as a republic
there must not be any such thing as or
ganized class propretorship of the re-
sources of this country.
Liberty is universal, education is COM
mon. and everybody is the equal of every
body before the law, except that, as
rule. the poor man has the advantage
over the rich man. before the jury
If we have Inherited the accumulated
endowment of centuries we have also in
herited the unsolved problems of all the
past
Civilization still presents the paradox
of want in the midst of plenty. hunger
in the midst of feasting. and the abolition
of poverty is still the dream of vision
aries.
THE meek may eventually inherit the
earth. but the laws of descent are not
framed that way now.
I'VE have not titles of nobility. but we
have men VINO command markets to
rise. and they rise: to fall. and they fall
and we have constant illustration Of the
involuntary Difference that one million
pays to two millions. just as it always
THE mammoth pumpkin. the charlatan
the juggler. the clever swindler, the adept
in high finance still attract and hold the
crowd and still collect toll from their
credulity, just as they always did, and
the demagogue who loves the people for
what ne can get out of them is still
talking with JUNCTION. just as he always
did.
I'VE can see the mote in our neigh
boris eye a good deal easier than we
can see the beam in our own-just as
we always could.
1--WE talk about the simple life. but the
conveniences of civilization contribute to
it's compile kites.
I'm the social world of clothes and con-
versation we are doing the oldest sort
Of things in the newest sort of way.
I'VE talk about peace and we establish
an International foundry for the beating
of swords into ploughshares and spears
into pruning hooks. but the worlds great
est gunmaker died year or so ago. the
richest man in Europe. and the Nobel
prize goes 10 the man whose peace pOllCy
is to be prepared for war.
Business interests are selfish interests
necessarily. but there never was time
when business interests realized and re-
sNonded in their obligations to society
more generously than now.
The nineteenth century began with
cruelty and intolerance and the occa-
siOnal individual temporary relief of
mendicancy and ended with organized
benevOlence and huma nit rism
Mankind has not ceased TO make war,
but patriotism has widened into altruism.
and our relations with Cuba, China and
the Philippines have been characterized
by a spirit of brotherhood which the
world fas never witnessed heretofore.
never get too much of and is always
willing to pay for, and these qualities are
Intelligence. courage and honesty.
Recent criminal instances do not char
acterize or even qualify the true standard
of our civic virtue. and the sun in it's
daily journey never shone upon a more
generous and philanthropic people than
our own.
I'm answer to the charge Of unlawful
combination it is no defense to say that
the public has not been injured or that
a monopoly has resulted in lower prices.
Trusts exist alike in empires and re-
pubics under free trade and protective
policies. and the more advanced nations
are CONNIE REALLY the more their industries
have combined.