Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-07-15

throw freedom. To have power over
men means to be able to take from
them their freedom In this country
we do not have power based on birth,
but there is great danger from power
based on wealth Hence one of our
great problems in preserving liberty
is to SO arrange the machinery Of the
government that no group shall con-
troll that government, for the control
of the government by group means
the destruction of the liberty of the
rest of society What we must do is
to extend the control of government
by the whole people. More democracy.
not less, is the only safeguard We
have permitted the organization of
corporations because they have
shown themselves of the greatest val
ne in the organization of business 1t
is useless and foolish to throw this
organization away and to destroy the
corporation. But we, as a people,
must control it. For either the cor
poration will serve the people or it
will control them; and if it controls
them their freedom is menaced and
destroyed.
Another thing which stands i'm
tho way of liberty is race hatred.
The world today sees a great extern
sion of racial hatred and a tendency
toward conflict and war because of
it. Yet freedom for only a part of
a people is meaningless. The tolera-
ton of slavery for one section of a
country weakens the significance of
freedom even for those who hold the
others in slavery. The great numbers
flochng to our shores from Eastern
Europe, if admitted by us to our
country, should be admitted into its
freedom. The fact that they are of a
foreign race should not lead to ha-
tired and the desire to Cypress them
or withhold the liberties we enjoy. 1t
is still true of the world as of one ma
ton, that a people cannot exist half
slave and half free"
Ignorance is perhaps the greatest
bar to liberty If a country is to be
free, its people must be educated.
They must think that if they are to
value the ideals of a free people,
they must grow in intelligence The
places of despotism are always the
places Of greatest ignorance. The |
greatest enemy of tyranny is knowl- |
edge and intelligence. We have a |
school system but it must be extend
ed SO as to include all our children |
Only small part get much of an ed |
ucation today; and the school does |
not recognize that most of its child |
rem must earn their living and so pre- |
pare them for the economic battle of |
life. This is the field in which we
must make our greatest efforts to- !
ward Improvement, if we are to hold |
and extend our freedom. So, too, we
must extend through other means |
than the school the knowledge that |
brings light. Three million people are |
needlessly sick in this country today. |
If knowledge of means of prevention |
of diseases could come to the mass of |
our people it would be easy to avoid /
the terrible suffering of this great |
mass of sickness, and this would |
mean freedom from suffering and |
want |
Liberty does not mean the right |
to do as we please. That would de |
stroy it. But it means the control of |
ones own life, in so far as such con |
troll does not destroy but helps in |
building the life of others Such lib |
erty comes only through sacrifice |
and it is out of sacrifice that great |
character is built. 1t is a precious
heritage which we have entered as |
a result of the struggle of former /
generations. 1t is our duty to pre- /
serve and enlarge this freedom so |
that we, too, shall share in the strug- /
gle and sacrifice through which alone |
is laid the foundations of human .
progress and welfare.