Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

work out the great problems of the
future, and any man who is worth his
salt ought to feel the most supreme
pleasure over the fact that he is given
the opportunity to try his hand to help
work out these problems.
Everywhere 1 went abroad I was in
terested in finding that the leading
statesmen of the various countries
were watching us, We're looking at
what we were doing and were consid-
ering the methods by which we had
tried to solve the different problems
before us. They said that they were
interested in us because the things
we were doing today were the things
they would have to do tomorrow or the
day after.
HAVE GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY
"You are the pioneers in solving So
cial problems in America, and for the
whole world 1t is for you to solve
these problems in the spirit of democ-
racy, [ need not say that that i'm
poses a very grave responsibility on us.
1.-TWO other things impressed me. One
was that the ordinary man, the man to
whom life was pretty hard, was looking
to us to realize the possibility of hap
piness on earth. The man who suffers
injustice is looking toward this coun-
try as the place in which he would be
free from the pressure of much in
Justice, as the place where the ordinary
man could have a chance in life.
There is another side to this pic
ture. Everywhere 1 went there was
certain astonishment mixed with a
much less pleasing feeling, over the
accounts of business and political cor
ruption that come to Europe about
what happens here in America. think
you will probably acquit me of any
great admiration of the mere multimil-
lionaire at home. But 1 like him even
less abroad.
II want to call to your attention that
l have said the mere multimillionaire.
There are good men Ia every walk of
life, and the man who is a good Amer
lean, who has done his duty and has a
great fortune, is entitled to our hearty
respect, and it is unworthy anyone to
deny it to him if he deserves it.
SCORES MILIAoNAIREs
"I am speaking of the same class of
multimillionaires of whom it was said
two thousand years ago that it was
more difficult for them to get to heaven
than for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle. 1t is the rich man who
trusts to his riches that am speaking,
the multimillionaire whose sole title to
distinction is the fact that he is a null
timillionaire. Such a one is a poor
citizen, and is a very Objectionable
American exhibit abroad.
81 was always ashamed when 1 saw
that type of men accepted abroad as
the typical American, and I felt even
more ashamed when things happened
here which gave the impression abroad
that corruption in business, in politics
and lawlessness and brutal violence OBJ
tanned here more than they did in any
other country.
EVERY corruption in our business or
political life and every deed of violence
by mob is a blow at democracy; it is
a blow at self-government. The mob in
lynching a criminal puts itself down on
the same level of infamy that the Grim
inal stands on. The big man of bust
ness who swindles the public, or de-
bauches a legislature, the grating poll
tician who blaekmails a corporation,
are all enemies of democracy and self
government. Reports of such corrup-
tion and -lawlessness bring joy to the
hearts of every reactionary in Europe
who wants to see popular government
fail, and who is glad to see that gov
ernment by the people on a large scale
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