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poles from every form of weakness
and sentimentality. AS In war to
pardon the coward Is TO do cruel
wrong TO the brave man whose life
his cowardice jeopardizes, so in
civil affairs IL is revolving 10 every
principle OF justice to give TO the
lazy. the vicious, or even the feeble
and dull-witted, a reward which is
really the robbery of what Drawer.
wiser, ADLER meu have earned. The
only effective way to help any man
is TO help him to help himself; and
the worst lesson to teach him Is that
he can be permanently helped at the
expense of some one else. True lib
erty shows itself TO best advantage
in protecting the rights OF others.
and especially of minorlties. Privi-
lege should not be tolerated because
il Is to the advantage of a minority,
nor yet because Il is to the advan-
tage OF a majority. No doctrlnaire
theories OF vested rights or freedom
of contract can stand in the way of
our cutting out abuses from the
body polite. Just as little can We
afford to follow the doctrinalres OF
an impossible-and incidentally of
a highly undesirable-social revolu-
tion which, IN destroying individual
rights (including property rights
and the family. would destroy the
two chief agents in the advance of
mankind, and the two chief reasons
why either the advance or the pre-
servation of mankind is worth while.
IL is an evil and a dreadful thing TO
be callous TO sorrow and suffering,
and blind to our duty TO do all things
possible for the betterment OF social
conditions. But II is an unspeakably
foolish thing to strive for this bet
terment by mean so destructive that
they would leave no social condi-
tons to better. In dealing with all
these social problems. with the init
mate relations of the family, with
wealth in private use and business
use. with labor. with poverty, the
one prime necessity is to remember
thai, though hardness OF heart is a
great evil, II is no greater an evil
than softness OF head.
Colonial Government.
But in addition to these prob
lens the most intimate and impor-
tant of all which to larger or less
degree affect all the modern nations
somewhat alike. we of the great
nations that have expanded. that are
now in complicated relations with
have special problems and special
duties OF our own. You belong to
a s.ation which possesses the great
est empire upon which the sun has
ever shone. / belong to nation
which is trying. on a scale hitherto
unexampled, to work out the prob
lens of government for. OF, and by
the people, while at the same time
doing the International duty OF
graf power. But there are certain
problems which both of as have To
solve. and as to which our standards
should be the same. The English
man, the man of the British Isles,
in his various homes across the seas.
ano the American. both at home and
abroad. are brought into contact
with utterly alien peoples. some with
a civilization more ancient than our
own, others still in. or having but
recently arisen from, the barbarlsm
which our people left behind ages
ago The problems that arise are of
well-n!gh inconceivable difficulty.
They cannot be solved by the foolish
sentimentality of stay-at-home peo-
pie. with little patent recipes, and
these cut-and-dried theories OF the
political nursery which have such
imited annIicahilitv amid the crash