The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31

this lead to war upon the owners
of property. Property is the fruit of
labor: property is desirable; is a
positive good in the world Let not
him who is houseless pull down the
house of another, but let him work
diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example showing that his own
sha.. oe '-afe- from violence when
built. 1t seems to me that in these
words Lincoln took substantially the
attitude that We ought to take; he
showed the proper sense of proper
ton in his relative estimates of cap
ital and labor. of human rights and
property rights. Above all. in this
speech, as in many others. he taught
lesson i'll wise kindness and char
ity; an Indispensable lesson to us of
today. But this wise lindliness and
charity never weakened his arm or
numbed his heart. We cannot afford
weakly to build ourselves to the ac-
tual conflict which faces us today.
The issue is Joined, and we must
fight or fail
Equality of Opportunity.
In every wise struggle for human
betterment one of the main objects,
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achieve in larger measure equality
of opportunity
Practical equality of opportunity
for all citizens, when we achieve it.
VIII have two great results. First.
every man will have fair chance to
| make of himself all that in him lies.
to reach the highest point to which
his capacities unassisted by special
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by the special privileges of others.
can carry him, and to get for himself
and his family substantially what he
has earned Second, equality of op-
portunity means that the common
wealth viii get from every citizen the
highest service of which he is capa-
Bile. No man who carries the burden
OF special privileges of another can
give to the commonwealth that serv-
ice to which II is fairly entitled.
] stand for the square deal. But
when say that / am for the square
deal ] mean not merely that I stand
FOR fair play under the present rules
of the came, but I. stand for having
those rules changed so as to work
for more substantial equality of nn-
portunity, and Of reward for equally
good service
This means that our governments,
Dational and state. must be freed
from the sinister Influence or control
of spe"ial interests. Fxactlv as the
suecial interests Of cotton and slavery
Threatened orr political integrity be
fore the Civil Wan % now the great
srecial business interests too often
control and corrupt the men and
methods or government FOR their own
prcfit. We must drive the special in
terests out of uolities That is one OF
our tn Sis todav. Every special in
terest is entitled to iustice-fuu. fair.
and nlete---but not buc is entitled
To vote in congress, o voice on the
bench. or to representation in any
public office. The constitution guar
antees protection to property. ana we
must make that promise good. But
IL does not give the right of suffraee
to any corporation.
There can be no effective control of
crrDorations while their political ae-
tiyity remains. To put an end to it
viii be neither short nor an easy
task. but it can be done.
We must have complete and effect
i've prhlicity of corporate affairs, 50
tbat the people may know beyond
neradVenture whether the corpora
.tions obey the law and whether their
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