El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-31

tors. 1t is a necessary result of the
principle of conservation widely ap-
piled. In the end it Will determine our
failure or success as a nation. National
efficiency has to do not only with nat
ural resources and with men. 1t is
equally concerned with Institutions
The state must be made efficient for
pie of the state; and the nation for that
which concerns all the people.
There must remain no neutral
ground TO serve as a refuge for law
breakers. and especially for law break
ers of great wealth, who can hire the
vulpine legal cunning which will teach
them how to avoid both jurisdictions.
It is a misfortune when the national
Legislature fails to do its d<lty in pro-
viding national remedy. so that the
only national activity is the purely
negative activity of the judiciary in
forbidding the state to exercise power
in the premises.
Il do not ask for over Capitalization
but i do ask that we work in a spirit
of broad and far-reaching nationalism
when we work for what concerns our
people as a whole We are all Ameri-
cans. Our common interests are as
broad as the continent. The betterment
which we seek must be accomplished, ]
believe, mainly through national gov
eminent.
A New NatiOnalism-
The american people are right in de-
handing a new nationaiism without
which we cannot hope to deal with new
problems. The new nationalism puts
the national need before sectional or
personal advantage. 1t is impatient of
the utter confusion that results from
local legislatures attempting to treat
naional issues as local issues. 1t is
still more impatient of the impotence
which springs from the over-diviSiOn Of
government powers, the impotence
which makes 1t possible for local sell
fishness or for legal cunning, hired by
wealthy special interests, to bring ma
tional activities to deadlock. This
new NJ Nism regards the executive
powe. the steward of the public well
fare L, demands of the judiciary that
it~shan be interested primarily in hui
IN welfare rather than in property,
just as it demands that the representa-
tive body shall represent all the peo-
pie, rather than any one class or Sec
ton of the people.
Dividends and Their Value
Il believe in shaping the ends of
governmental protect property as we'll
as human welfare. Normally and in
the long run, the ends are the same,
but whenever the alternative must be
raced am Tor men and not for prop
erty. L nm far from underestfmatfng
the importance of dividends, but 1 rank
dividends below human character. 1
know well that the rcformers mrst
not bring upon the people economic
ruin, or the reforms themselves will go
down in the ruin. But we must be |
ready TO face temporary disaster wheth-
er or rot brought on by those who Will !
war against US to the knife. Those |
who oppose all reform Will do well TO |
remember that ruin In its worst form |
Is inevitable II our national life brings |
us nothing better than swollen fortunes
for the few and the triur,nb I'm both |
politics and business of sord,d and !
selfish materialisEa.
People Must Awaken.
IF our political institutions were !
perfect they would absolutelv nravent
the political domination of monav in
any part of our affairs. W. 800 +o
make our political representativas moro
quickly and sensitively RESPONSIVE 70
the people, whose servants tbev arc /
More direct action by the nao-,,. =,
their own affairs under pror.- s.se-
guards is vitality necessary. IT, d,ract
urinary is step in this direct,on AZ a.
is associated with corrupt ,,,act,ce.