The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-31

of agriculture of the various states,
the United States department of az
riculture, and the agricultural col;
leges and experiment stations shoull
extend their work to cover all phases
of life on the farm, instead of limiting
/ themselves as they have far too often
| limited themselves in the past, solely
/ to the question of the production OF
crops.
! Nothing is more true than that eN.
cess of every kind is followed by ro-
action; a fact which should be pCn-
| dered by reformer and reactionary
alike. We are face TO face with new
/ conceptions of the relations of prop.
erty to human welfare chiefly because
property as against the rights of men
have been pushing their claims too
! far. The man who wrongly holds that
every human right Is secondary to his
profit must now give way to the adj
vocate of human welfare who rightly
maintains that every man holds his
property subject to the general right
of the community to regulate its use
to whatever degree the public welfare
go still further. The right to regu-
late the use of wealth in the public
interest is universally admitted Let
us admit also the right to regulate the
terms and conditions of labor, which
is the chief element of wealth, directly
in the interest of the common good.
The fundamental thing TO do for every
man is to give them the chance to
reach a place in which he will make
the greatest possible contribution to
the public welfare. No man can be
good citizen unless he has wage
more than sufficient to cover the bare
cost of living, and hours Of labor short
enough so that after his days work
is done he will have time and energy
to bear his share in the management
of the community TO help in carrying
the general load. We keep countless
men from being good citizens by the
conditions of life with which we sur.
round them. We need comprehensive
workmen's compensation acts, both
state and national laws to regulate
child labor and the work of women,
and especially we need in our COM
mon schools not merely education in
book-learning but also practical train
ing for daily life and work. We need
to enforce better sanitary conditions
Tor our workers, and to extend the use
Of safety appjlicances in industry and
commerce both within and between
the states. Also friends, in the in
tcrest of the worldngman himself we
need to set our faces like flint against
mob violence just as against corporate
| greed; against violence and injustice
and lawlessness by wageworkers just
and greed and selfish arrogance of
! employers.
National efficiency has many factors.
! 1t is a necessary result of the prin-
| cipc of conservation widely applied,
! In the end it will determine our fail
ure or success as Il nation. National
efficiency has TO do not only with nat
ural resources and with men. 1t is
equally concerned with institutions.
! the work which concerns only the
people Of the state, and the nation
! for that which concerns all the people.
! There must remain no neutral ground
| to serve as refuge for lawbreakers.
and especially for lawbreakers of
great wealth, who can hire the vulpine
! legal cunning which will teach them
I how to avoid both Jurisdictions. 1t
| is a misfortune when the national
vidng a 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.
do nit ask for decentralization,
but do ask that We work in spirit
OF broad and far-reaching nationalism
when we work for what concerns our
people as a whole. We are all Amer |
leans. Our common interests are as
broad as the continent. | speak to
you here in Kansas exactly as would /,
speak in New York or Georgia, tor
the most vital problems are those |
which affect us all alike. The national /
government belongs 10 the Whole |
American people, and where the whole !
American people are interested, that !
interest can be guarded effectively /
only by the national government. The