The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-05
THE TYPE.

In Mr.. Kittredge's Decoration day
speech at W~oonsocekt in 1907, he said:
THE temptations in business in this
age are SO great that it demands the
highest type of conscience, the clear
est brain and the most genuine a
hood that a be enlisted"
Mr.. kittredge was addressing his
observations largely to young men. IN
tending, as he stated at the outset, to
apply his remarks especially to those
just engaging, or about to engage, in
the activities of a business or pfbfes-
sional life, or in the Industrial pur-
suits of the farmer or the mechanic.
Celebrating the idea, the senator con-
tinued:
THE man who is dishonest in his
personal dealings wants only the OPP
portunity of public position to become,
in the p%arlance OF the day, a public
instead Of a private CRATER Their IS
no such thing as impersonal dishon-
esty. Let us remember that the cor
nerstOne of our governmental struc-
ture is intelligent personal integrity.
Upon it depends the endurance of the
republic"
1t is only through the elevation of
the highest type OF manhood to posi-
tons OF trust that any nation, any
state, any municipality, a maintain
~ S' " '~pA o.
ernment-repreSentative in the same
sense that our forefathers had in mind
when they sought freedom from the
disease of official corruption that per
meated the mother country across the
sea.
Had it not been for the moral de-
generacy of the governing forces of
the parent nation there might possibly
have been no United States of Amer
lea England became purified, in a
measure, through the shedding OF
blood following the Declaration of In
dependence.
With the advent OF the new born
era in commercialism in America
there has seemingly crept into our
body polite a decisive propensity to
graft-a term made to fit into modern
conditions.
Senator Kittreage's conclusions
were basel upon reflection ard obsor-
walton, and but conform 20 the each
ing of history. I'm the long run" he
composite character of our people and
our legislation is moulded by public
opinion. II that composite character
is high, our public morals will be
wholesome. If public opinion is form
ed by intelligent thought and moral
conviction, our legislation will be wise
n equitable But perhaps no more
~forceful point was made in the SEN
ator's W~oonsOcket address than that
contained in the following extract:
Integrity without intelligence will
accomplish little. On the other hand,
it may serve as a fruitful field for
exploitation by the CRATER. The indi-
vidual must have discriminating jurg-
ment. He must be able to Judge the
true from the false, the good from the
bad"
Senator Kittredge was not deliver
| ing a political speech, but nevertheless
! some of his deductions might be strik-
ingly applied to present conditions in
| South Dakota. That vice invariably
seeks the protection and concealment
of the garb of virtue" is one of the
human misfortunes. Holy wars in
variably have bred greedy suffers,
camp robbers and a noisy horde of
men whose predatory purposes are
| sought to be concealed by a vocifer-
| erous but spurious patriotism" Po-
litically speaking, this fact is aptly
set forth by another extract from the
senator's address. as follows:
"Paradoxical as at first it may seem,
| there is nothing that the accomplished
CRATER likes better than to associate
| himself with a crusade for moral bet
torment. To him it is opportunity
1t matters not how ~shockingly he may
| have offended morality, he expects his
noisy professions to cause him to be
| recognized as virtues champion par
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