Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-06-15
MAYOR GAYNOR'S SPEECH.
Continued from FIRST Page)

hSN4a Stt aioAS ottNtA e4AN PAS'eA''. AeN
Their with it.
OF all things you young men should
come out of here with such a loyalty to
the community and 10 government, and
first Of all to the local government in
which your lot is cast, that you abhor,
let me express myself TO the full by say
ing absolutely hate, the slightest self
seeking or dishonesty in those who get
into public office. If you are fanatics on
that subject, if that be possible, all the
better Hoist that flag tomorrow when
YOU get home and never let it 90 down
unless You 60 down with it. And DO not
suffer the notion that the ordinary rules
of morality which apply in affairs be
tween individuals do not apply in deal
ngs between an individual and the com
muuity or government. The extent to
which this pernicious notion prevails
among men vino are looked upon as re-
spectacle. and even leading citizens, and
rated even as good church members, is de-
plorable. II has been diffused by de-
grees. Many men who would not cheat
an individual under any circumstances,
or who. if they did, would be troubled in
conscience until they made restitution or
amends. think II quite permissible TO
cheat government by eorrupting public
officials to underyalue their property for
taxation, by procuring mconscionable
contracts, by selling their lands to gov
| eminent on eollusiye valuations. and the
like They Just shrug both shoulders
and smile oTer it. II never seems 10
cost them a pang Of remorse. They 90
to church and continue 10 be respectable
figures, but only because the general
moral tone Of the community is the same
as theirs
You should also go out of here with a
moral and intellectual independence. or
honesty, which viii prevent you from
acting with any political party ont of
mere habit, or heredity, much less preju
dice, or bigotry. That becometh no man,
especially no college bred man. We have
large political and economic problems
Immediately ahead of MS to deal with
| We have to rcadiust our protective tar
n. Instead of blindly rushing in on the
mere statement that you believe in pro-
tectiye tariff, pause and ask whether
high tariff on articles which we do not
produce ut all, or do not and never can
produce enough of for our use, owing to
conditions of SOIL of climate, of the set
lied habits and character of>our people,
and the like is consistent at all with the
principle of protective tariff, to which
YOU may adhere from conviction. Weigh
All things rs intelligent and educated
men. Otherwise, what profit is it to the
community or body polite that you have
been educated? Embrace no idea, es-
pouse no cause, simply to be respectable,
or deemed respectable Stand by your
own educated second thought always,
which means by your enlightened con
science. The economic or political het-
erodoxy of the few today is often the
orthodoxy of all tomorrow; and as for
the man who will shape his course simply
to appear respectable, and without re-
gard 70 what is true and wise, his life is
sin against himself, against his day
and generation, and against posterity,
all the time The educated man. the
college graduate. who is ready to cry out
cruelty him because the majority or
crowd does, and in order TO look respect
able, is untrue to everything and de-
grades himself.
Those who come from our colleges and
schools should try to justly estimate
everything. Their minds should leaven
the mind of the community. Whatever
question be up, and whatever the hue and
cry, il should he studied and examined
10 ascertain he truth. If the cry be
against high prices. for instance, we need
to inquire into the cause of existing high
prices. If high prices be normal, if
they he the result of natural causes in
stead of being evil they may be good.
Instead of denoting hard times. they
may denote prosperity and good times.
If, however. they are the result of artif
cial causes. of monOpolies, then they are
wrong to the community and the causes
should be removed Inquire whether past
history does not show that high price.
have always marked periods of prospe-
rity. while falling and low prices have
accompanied periods of hard times In
word do not normal rising prices
mean prosperity, and falling prices bus
mess failures and hard tines Periods
of great gold output are periods of
great and growing industry, and of ris-
ing prices. AS the gold output mounts
prices mount. And when the gold out
put reaches its apex and begins to les
sen, and descends the other side of the
cone to the base, after a while business
contraction sets in, prices begin to fall.
and continue to fall, and falling markets
are the rule. The period is one of low
and falling prices, in fine, of hard times
Many now crying out against high prices
viii live to suffer period of falling
prices and cry out against them. The
part which is yours, young men, which
is that of all men who can reason and
think, is TO ascertain whether present