The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-09-02

/ No man oan DO q coed citizen uHleas no
has q wage more than sufficient to cover
the bare cost Of living, and hours OF Ia
Dor short enough 30 that after hln day'D
work IL done he will have time n en-
ergy to bear his share In the Enage-
ment Of the community, to help In ear
rying the general load. We keep count
less men from being good citizens by tho
conditions Of life with which we surround
them. We need comprehensive work
mems compensation acts. both state and
National laws to regulate child labor and
the work OF women. and especially we
need IN our common schools not merely
education In book-learning but also prao-
tical training for daily life anG work. We
need to enforce better sanitary conditions
for our workers, and to extend the use
Of safety appliances In industry and com
ruerce both within and between the
states. Also, friends, IN the interest Of
the workingmen himrelf we need to set
our faces like Mint against mob violence
just as against corporate greed; against
violence and injustice and lawlsssness by
wage-workers just as much as against
lawless cunning and greed and selfish ar
rogance Of employers.
National efficiency has many factors.
II 10 a necessary result Of the principle
OF conservation widely applied. In the
end 1t will determine our failure or sue
cess as a 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 eff
fcient 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 a refuge for lawbreakers, and
especially for lawbreakers of great
wealth uho pan hira tho n,tIntra lAno1
cunning which will teach them how to
avoid both jurisdictions. 1t 10 q misfor-
tune when the National Legislature fails
to do it's duty in providing o National
remedy, so that the only National activ-
ity Is the purely negative activity of the
judiciary in forbiddiue the state TO ex-
erctss power in the premises.
Calls for Broad NationaIism.
I do not ask for ovsr-oentrsnxation.
but / do ask that we work in q spirit Of
broad and far-reachinR Nationalism when
we work for what concerns our people az
a whole. We are all Americans. OuY
COMMON interests are as broad az the
continent. I speak to you here In Kan
sas exactly as 1 would speak In New
York or Georgia, for the most vital prob
lens are those which affect Us all anka.
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
betterment which we seek must be ac-
cemplished, ! believe, mainly through the
National government.
The American people are right In de-
manding that new N~Rtionalism without
which we cannot hope to deal with new
problems. The new Nationalism puts the
National need before sectional or per-
mnnn Auo 7 49,
utter confusion that results from local
legislatures attempting to treat National
Issues rs local issues. 1t In still more I'M
patient OF the impotence which springs
from the over-division Of RIM
powers, the impotence which makes II
possible for local selhshness or for legal
cunning. hired by wealthy special inter-
ests, to bring National activities TO q
deadlock. This new Nationalism regards
the executive power as the steward OF the
public welfare. 1t demands Of the judici-
airy that 1t shall be interested primarily
in human welfare rather than in proper
ty, just as 1t demands that the represen-
tative body shall represent all the people,
rather than any one class or section OF
the people,
I believe in shaping the ends Of gov
eminent to protect property as well as
human welfare. Normally. and in the
long run, the ends are the same, but
whenever the alternative must be faced
I am for men and not for property. I
am far from Understanding the impor-
lance Of dividends. but I rank dividends
below human character. I know well
that the reformers must not bring upon
the people economic ruin. or the reforms
themselves will go down In the ruin.
But we must be ready 60 face temporary
disaster, whether or not brought on by
those who viii war against US to the
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do well to remember that ruin in its
worst form Ia inevitable II our National
life brings US nothing better than swol-
len fortunes for the few and the triumph
in both politics and business of a sordid
and selfish materialsm.
Honesty In Public Servants.
II our political Institutions were perfect,
they would absolutely prevent the polite
al domination Of money In any part Of
our affairs. We need to make our poiit-
ical representatives more quickly and sem
sitively responsive to the people who's
servants they are. More direct action by
the people in their own Affairs under
proper safeguards is vitality necessary.
The direct primary is a step In this direc-
ton II It is associated with a corrupt
practises act effective to prevent the adj
vantage of the man willing recklessly and
u~nscrupulously to spend money over his
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ly important that all moneys received or
expended for campaign purposes should
be publicly accounted for not only after
election but before election as well. Po-
htical action must be made simpler, cas-
Ter. and freer from confusion for every
citizen. l believe that the prompt re-
moval of unfaithful or incompetent pub
lie servants should be made easy and
sure In whatever way experience shall
show to be most expedient in any given
class of cases.
One OF the fundamental necessities in
a representative government such as ours
is to make certain that the men TO whom
the people delegate their power shall
serve the people by whom they are elect
ed. and not the special interests. 1 be-
lieve that every National officer, elected
or appointed. should be forbidden to per-
form any service or receive any COM
pensation directly or indirectly from in
ter-state corporations: and a similar pro-
vision could not fail TO be useful within
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The object OF government is the well
fare of the people. The material progress
and prosperity of a nation are desirable
chiefly so far as they lead to the moral
and material welfare of all good citizens.
Just In proportion as 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
home life. and the father and mother OF
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