The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-27
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important still are the common plane
every day qualities and virtues.
War Sometimes Unsuitable.
In. the next place, the good man
should IL, be both strong and ND 4 bra aht
he should be able to serve his country
as soldier if the need arises There
are we'll meaning philosophers who de.
war They are right only they lay all
their emphasize upon the unrighteous-
ness. War is dreadful thing. and UNI
just war is crime against humanity.
But it is such crime because 1t is
unjust not because ' 1t is war ar 81, The
mus and this BE IN R aer
native be war: The question must not
rs mas BE- 0f Is he rg To-
eousness once. more to be fulhlled?, and
peope MUST be aeS the
cost. Every honorable effort should al
ways be made, to avoid war, just as
be made by the Individual in private
life to keep out of a brawl, to keep
out Of trouble; but no self respecting
can or ought to submit to wrong: Fin:
to work, even more important than
at fhe 60 CHEF E' Of f. b ds e for
ton is that it shall leave it's seed to
inherit the land. 1t was the crown Of
est Of all curses is the curse of sterility,
and the, severest of all, condemnat lions
civilization is that the man and the
woman shall be father and mother Of
| Increase and not decrease. If this is
| not so, If through no fault of the So
ciety there. is failure to increase. it IS
great misfortune. If the failure is
due to deliberate and wilfull fault then
it is not merely a misfortune, it is one
of those crimes. of ease and self indulg--
and risk, which in the long run nature
Furnishes more heavily than any other.
Race Suicide Crime.
-, If we of the great republics, if we
emancipated ourselves from the thral-
dom of wrong and error, bring down on
our heads. the curse that. comes upon
idle waste of breath to prattle of our
achievements to boast of all that we
have hay, done: No refinement of life, no
no sordid heaping up of riches, no sem
suous development of art and litera-
ture,, can in any way compensate for
| the loss of the. great fundamental vlr-
| tues; and of these great Fundamental
virtues, the greatest Is the races power
| to perpetuate the race.
But if a mans efficiency is not guided
the more efficient he is the worse he
pc the ta h all 09%
masterful qualities, serve but to make
a man evil, if they are used merely
that ans own ia h b IT,
ers. 1t speaks i'll for the community il
the community worships these quail
anr tasds e WheSeT quail
ties are used rightly or wrongly. II
makes no, difference, as to the. precise
| way in which this sinister efficiency is
shown. 1t makes no difference wheth.
err such mans force and ability betraS
themselves in the role of money maker
list or popular leader. If the man works
for evil, then the more successful he
is the more he should be desIpissed ane
ng To H man a merely rel Sf b,
success is an abhorrent wrong; ant
the people at large habitually sc
wickedness, because the wicked mar
triumphs, they, show their inability
to understand that in the last analysis
ter of citizenship and that by such ad
miration Of evil they prove themselve:
unfit for liberty.
Justice In federation.
The good citizen will demand liberty
for himself and as matter of pride
he will see to it that others receive the
liberty which, he, thus claims as his
love of liberty in any country is The
way in which minorities are treated il
that country, Not only should there
ligion and opinion, but complete liberty
for each man to lead his life as he de
sires provided only that IN SO doing
secution is bad because it is persecu
ton. and without reference to which
side happens at the moment to be TIL!
prosecutor and which the prosecuted
Glass hatred is bad in just the same
way, and without any. regard to the If!
dividual who, at given time, snbsti
the nation, or substitutes hatre'
of man because they happen to como il
a certain social category, for judge
ment awarded them according to thei
conduct. Remember always that tn
same measure of condemnation shoult
be extended to the arrogance which
| look down upon or crush any man be
cause he is poor, and to the envy ant
looks down upon or brushes a man be
ne is i Wea1thy Of The 9Xerne1rns
er and the envous and hateful malice
DIRECTED against wealth Or power, arr
rcally at root merely different mani
| fcstations of the same quality, merel,
the two sides of the same. shield. The
man who, if born to wealth and power
exploits and ruins ms - MS less tortnn IT.
greedy and violent damagague who i,
cites those who have not property t
Rnaer those Wno have OF ese
citizens of republic should beware
and that is of the man who appeals t.
them to support him on the groun
that he is hostile to other citizens o
the republic that he will secure 70
those who elect him in one shape 0
another. profit at the expense of othe
difference whether he appeals to elias
hatred or class interest. to religion
Who maes zaes n "ppss zhod ma
ways be presumed to make it for tn
The very thing that an intelligent an
self respecting member Of democrati
community should not do is to rewar
any public man because that public ma
says he will get the private citize
something which this private ctZe
ought not to posses. Let me fllustrat
this by one anecdote from my own cX
perience:
A Anecd0te of the West.
A number of years ago | was on
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