The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-04

see them and hear their voices. Their willingness to go "a the people and the desire of the people to sec and hear them Ia creditable enough from ono point of view but os a prapara- ton for the arduous duties of the presidency 1t is dangerous. No man. not even strong men or the youth and physical vlgor of Mir Bryan and Mir Taft, can enter upon such a test of his powers of endurance and come out of 1t as well as he entered, The fact appears to have been lost sight of that their real service is to their country as president not to their coun- try as campaigners, But change will not be made unless the electorate see and understand the folly of these whlrlwind campaigns The voters must have 1t brought to them that they are asking too much of their candidates and that an equally effeo- tive method Is at hand to carry to them the arguments, which make at least theoretically for victory. We hope sincerely that the country has seen the last of circuit campaigns and that it will agree to give them up be- fore some able and useful man is made the unhappy physical victim of them.
 Another needed change relates to the attitude of the general public towards tho public service corpora tions of the country. The suspicion, which has been provoked with regard to them. is not warranted by the facts, There are bad corporations just as there are bad men, but it is by no means true that the great majority of the corporations and the great major ity of men are bad. The exact oppos- itc is true as a matter of fact The only thing that is needed is q realiza- ton on the part of the public that corporations are necessarily less hu- man than an individual. and that therefore they require for their owr protection and for the protection oi the public system of control, which shall anticipate what for better term may be called organized weakness but which shall not embarass then in their legitimate development anc progress Of tho influences which l have contributed to the situation which we are deploring, the less sait the better but that the people should cease to yield to their seductive power is obvious. This country will neveI develop along sound and progressive lines so long as the false doctrine | preached that corporations and cor poration managers are inherent! wicked.
 It is up to the press of the country which is by no means free from tn offense of having fomented these fals doctrines, to teach a new and bette philosophy and to especially inveigl against every hysterical form of pub lie agitation. There is sound moral and sound sense fin the cry of tn country for 0 rest from extravagan denunclatlon and reckless criticism To have hurriedly condemned Joh, I D Rockefeller because he stated pub licly his choice for president, les somebody might on that account D led to vote against his previous con clusions, can scarcely be called com plment to the American electorate The American people can always b trusted to arrive at their own con clusions without being interfered wit
 by all of the processes of chaotic agl tation. So now that the battle is ove and the air is cleared the countr should be given the rest 1t so muc
 needs and the quiet, which is so es sential to the recovery of Its nerves Tho alarm bell has been rung lon
 enough