The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-23

ance and the rack and the stocks and
the thumbscrew and the prison and
the headsman's axe have receded,
men and women have been lifted up
into dignined life. our country
especially has reflected the moral glo-
ry of a high concept of civilization
Meanwhile, By taking these fetters
eff the intellects and souls of men,
their thoughts have gone out into new
fields such as agriculture, manufac-
turing merchandising, mining and
transportation, and the old systems
have been overturned and revolu-
tic nized until they wouldn't know
themselves. Go see the wilderness of
Riverside transformed into a garden;
behold the desert of Redlands made
To bud and blossom and bring forth
golden fruit Observe the mighty en-
pine rushing across the longitudes,
ignoring space and time. and carry
ing a nations commerce. See the
magic wireless thrust out q hand
through the clouds and the raging
billows of the sea and
Rescue the pershing,
Care for the dying.
The betterment OF human condi-
tions has largely heen effected by
the activities Of scientific research
mans mastery over material nature.
II was necessary TO rescue human
thought and methods of reason from
the wild and illusory distractions of
the idealists and place them on a
sound basis. 1t was thus that Lord
Pacon and John Locke and Sir Will
liam Hamilton were able to arrest the
scphistries of the learned and to
change the currents of the world
civilization. An equally effective tri-
mvirate--Coter ernicus Kepler and
Calllleo-operating along the lines of
physical science, were able to swing
this old world out into the starry
skies and take its place as planet
In the great scheme of the solar sys-
TEN. Thus the splendid genius of
the philosopher, the observer and the
lc gician laid the groundwork for the
uplifting of the ideas and conceptions
OF mankind and for the advance
movement in liberty, education, re-
hnement and moral power.
There were $4,000 freemen in Ath-
ems, the most noted republic of the
ancient world, and the mo1ern con-
ception that all men were entitled toI
decent chance for life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, never seems
to have occurred in them. But such
independent thinkers as Wflberforct
and Bright and Golden In Great
Britain, and Claiming, Adams, Gar
rinson Lovejoy. Summer, Seward and
Lincoln i'm America, and their fell
low-workers, were able to crystalline
the clear inductions of logic on the
rights of men into fact and law.
Thus 1t has been that on the wings
of time and in the triumphs of man.
Kind and i'm the victories of human
ity have como the fruitions of hope
and the building up of the heart and
soul of man for his accession to the
best age of the worlds civilization and
the brightest years of the centuries.
But with mere freedom and great
er opportunities and increased en-
ergy come new responsibilities and
problems. Society Is still
resembles boiling
cauldon. There is always something
to do. And il Is well there Is, for II
all problems We're solved and all
questions decided civilization would
oecline and human society might
have an arrested development that
would produce cataclysm and eatas-
trophe.
Here we have the poor always with
US. And also the ungodly rich, whicn
io worse. Then we have decent
tariff maltreated and MADE
atominable by the disloyalty and aV-
arice of a half dozen scoundrels. Al
80 there is the common CRATER VINO
Ioots state ana local treasures. What
VIC want Is statesmen, not robbers
What we need Is Pinchots who VIII
stand guard over the peoples prop
critics and not Guggenheims, whose
sole business is to grab 1t. What is
desirable Is that the public service
shall be conducted i'm an economic
way and that II will require only one
dollar to get a dcllar's worth or
work, and not two dollars. In the
great transportation problem the gov
ernment should work out its own
plans and not be assisted too much
ty the advice of railway presidents
Beware of iho Greeks bearing gifts.
AnG over all the government should
held the protecting shield of equai-
ity of right and opportunity and thus
neutralize the machinations OF mon
opoly and privilege.