Arizona republican., 1910-04-24

"noSe speech does not make for cour-
 age. sobriety, and right understanding
 IS simply noxious element in the i body polite, and it speaks i'll for the | public if he has influence over them
 To admire the gift of oratory without ' regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to do wrong to the re- ] public
 oRATORY AND JOURNALISM. Of course. all that 1 say of the ora tor applies with even greater force
 to the orators latter-day and more
 influential brother. the journalis. The l power of the journalist is great. but
 he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power un- less it Is used arigh; He can do. and he often does. grea; good. He can dn,
 and he often docs, infinite mischief All journalists. all writers. for the very reason that they appreciate the vast possibilities of their profession should bear testimony against those who deeply discredit it. Offcnses against taste ana morals. which arc bad enough in private citizen. are
 infinitely worse if made into instru- incDts fol debauching tho community through newspaper Mendacit
 siand'r, scnsGtIonalism. inanity. Vdpi1
 tItv iality, all arc Ir,tent fa,t.rs for
 ihc 'lebauci:'rr pc the pUi'lic mind aid
 consciecc The excuse advanced foi
 vicious wri-' .. that thu public .ie-
 hands it Sni tIi; ilc dcni;'nd rlust
 he supplied. c3n no mor" be admitted
 than if they were ldvanre:, by the
 nllrNaNnFS nf fnnd coll
 adultera tions.
 In short, the good citizen in ! re-
 public must realize thathe ought to
 possess two sets of qualities. and that
 neither avails without the other. He
 must have those qualities which make
 for efficiency; and he must also have
 thoes qualities which direct the ef
 ficiency into channels for the public
 good. He is useless if he is ineffi-
 cient. There is nothing to be done
 with that type of citizen of whom all
 that can be said Is that he Is harm
 less. Virtue. which is dependent upon d sluggish circulation is not impress sive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man. The man
 who is saved by weakness from robust wickedness is likewise rendered i'm mune from the robuster virtues The good citizen in a republic must first of all be able to hold his own. He
 is no good citizen unless he has the ability which will make him work hard and which at need will make him fight hard. The good citizen is not a good citizen unless he is an cf- ficient citizen.
 pt.t fffs te aa.f guided and regulated by moral. sense. then the more efficient he is. the more dangerous to the body poli- tic. Courage. intellect all the mas terful qualities, serve but to make a man more evil if they are used merely for that mans own advancement, with brutal indifference to the rights of others. It speaks i'll for the commu- nifty if the community worships these qualities and treats their posseSSorS as heroes, regardless of whether the qualities are used rightly or wrongly. 1t makes no difference as to the pre- else way in which this sinister effic- iency Is shown. It makes no differ ence whether this mans force and ability betray themselves in the career of money maker or politician, soldier or orator, journalist or popular leader. If the man works for evil, then the more successful he is the more he should be despised and condemned by | all upright and far-seeing men. To | judge a man merely by success is an l abhorrent wrong: and if the people at large habitually so judge men. if they | grow to condone wickedne5s because the wicked the wicked man triumphs ! they show their inability to under stand that in the last analysis free | institutions rest upon the character of | and that by such admira- ion of evil they prove themselves un- it for liberty
 The homely virtues of the house lold. the ordinary workaday virtues which make the woman a good house wife and house mother. which make he man hard worker. 8 good hus- ,and and father, good soldier ct leed. stand at the bottom of charsc- CT. But of course many others must ,e added thereto if state is to he lot only free but great. Good citizcn-s' hip is not good citizenship if exhibit d only in the home. There remain he duties of the individual in rela ion to the state. and these duties are one too easy under the conditions which exist where the effort is made D carry on free government in omplex. industrial civilization. Per- aps the most important thing the rdinary citizen. and. above all. the eader of ordinary citizens. has to re- lembsr in political life is that he lust not be sheer doctrinaire. The loset philosopher. the refined and ultivated individual who. from his brary tells how men ought to be overned under ideal conditions. is of Q use in actual governmental work. nd the one sided fanatic. and still lore the mob leader. and the insin- \ ere man who to achieve power prom es what by no possibility can be are not merely useless, but \