The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-02

the bar. cost Of living, and hours OF ~
Dor short enough 50 that after MS o~y
work ia done he will have time ana en-
arcv ia hear his share In the manage
rnent OF the community, to help IN car
ryinx the general load. We keep coun'
less men from being good citizens oy tns
conditions Of ife with which we surroun'
them We need comprehensive "oih
mems compensation acts, both state anu
National laws to regulate child labor ana
the work Of women. and especially wo
need in our common schools not merely
education in book Learning but also plae
tical training for daily life and work we
need to enforce better sanitary conditions
for our workers and to extend the use
of safety appliances in industry ana com
merce both within and between the
states Also, friends, in the interest OK
the workingmen himcelf we need TO SET
faces like nint against mob violence
Just against corporate greed, against
violence and injustice and lawlessness by
wage e-workers just much as against
lawless cunning and greed and selfish ar
rogance Of employers.
National efficiency has many factors.
1t is necessary result of tho principle
OF conservation widely applied. In the
end 1t will determine our failure or sue
cess as Nation. National efficiency has
to do not only with natural resources and
with men, 1t is equally concerned with
institutions. The state must be made e1-
hcient for 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 lswbreakers of great
wealth. who hire the culpine Legal
cunning which will teach them how to
avoid both jurisdictions. 1T is misfor-
tune when the National legislature fails
10 dn I,,tI- jr inc at
remedy, so that the only National activ-
ity is the purely negative activity of the
judiciary in forbdding the state to eX-
ercise power in the premises
Calls for Broad Nationalism.
DO not ask for decentralization,
but l do ask that work in a spirit Of
broad and far-reaching Nationalism when
We work for what concerns our people as
a whole. We are all Americans. Our
common interests broad as this
continent | speak to you here in Kan
sas exactly as l would speak in New
York or Georgia. for the most vital prob
lens are those which affect us all alike.
The National government belongs to the
whole American people. and where the
whole American people are interested,
that interest can be guarded effectively
only by the National government The
Setterment which we seek must be ac-
complshed. l believe. mainly through the
National government.
The American people are right in de-
rnanding that new Natonalism without
which we cannot hope TO deal with new
problems. The new Nationalism puts the
National need before sectional or per-
sonal advantage. 1t is impatient of the
utter confusion that results from local
legislatures attempting to treat National
issues as local issues 1t is still more I'm
patient Of the impotence which springs
from the over division of government
powers, the impotence which makes it
possible for local seltishness for legal
cunning, hired by wealthy special inter
ests, to bring National activities to a
deadlock. Thi. new Nationallsm regards
the executive power the steward OF the
public welfare. 1t demands of the iudici-
ary that 1t shall be interested primarily
In human welfare rather than in proper
ty, just as 1t demands that the represent
tative body SHAY represent all the people,
rather than any class section OF
the people.
believe In shaping the ends of gov
ernment to 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 faced
am for men and not for property.
am far from Understanding the impor-
tance Of dividends. but I rank dividends
below human character. I know well
that the reformers r1u.t not bring upon
themselves will go down in the ruin
But We must be ready to face temporary
disaster whether not brought on by
those who will against us TO the
knife. Those who oppose all reform will
do we'll to remember that ruin in its
worst form is inevitable If our National
HE brings US nothing better than swol-
len fortunes for the few and the triumph
in both politics and business OF sort9id
and selfish materialism.
Honesty In Public Servants.
IF our political institutions We're perfect
they would absolutely prevent the polite
nj domination of money in any part of
affairs. We need to make our polit-
ieal representatives more quickly and sem
sitively responsive to the people whose
servants they are More direct action by
The people In their own affairs under
proper safeguards is vitally necessary.
The direct primary Is a step in this drec-
ton II it is associated with a corrupt
practises act effective to prevent the ad-
vantage Of the man willing recklessly and
Hnscrupulously TO spend money over his
more honest competitor. 1t is particular-
~ important that all moneys received or
expended for campaign purposes should
be publicly accounted for not only after
election but before election as we'll Po-
atical action must be made simpler cas-
fer. and freer from confusion for every
citizen. / believe that the prompt re-
.noval of unfaithful or incompetent pub
lie servants should be made easy and
sure In whatever way experience shall
chow to be most expedent in any given
las. of cases
one of the fundamental necessities in
4 representative government such as ours
8 to make certain that the men to whom
he people delegate their power shall
serve the people by whom they are elect
I'd and not the special interests I be-
,ieve that every National officer elected
r appointed should he forbidden to per-
form any service or receive any COM
pensation directly Indirectly from in
er-state corporations; and a similar pro-
t1sion could not fail to be useful within
he states
The object OF government is the well
are Of the people. The material progress
and prosperity Of nation are desirable
chiefly so far they lead to the moral
and material welfare OF all good citizens
lust in proportion n. the average man
and woman are honest, capable OF sound
Judgment and high ideals, active in pub
lie affairs-but first of all sound in their
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