The Washington herald., 1911-11-26

to fail is that the bad interests always at work
and the good interests not. The good people of a
community are busy-busy attending to their own
affairs making their living. The bad people, the
grafers make their living by politics. They are busy
watching for a chance to manipulate things their own
way again.
II believe thoroughly that the great of the
American people good, are honest law seeking
eager to do away with privilege
But they not always attentive.
"They are often under very stupid leadership
They want the good thing when they understand it, but
it takes them long time understand. They have to
be taught
at one of the most hopeful signs of the present
day that the people are becoming so wide awake, so
interested quick understand They waking up
"Of course the good interests are NOT busy.
concentrated the bad. We would have a better
country if they were. But there's trying to
say that they They not.
AT the same time I believe that we have every
reason to feel encouraged. 1t is eternal fight.
Nothing is it ought to be. 1t always has been
fight and always will. But things getting better
haven't the slightest doubt of that.
81 believe, furthermore that courts gen.
orally Trustworthy know that l making
statement to which many people will take exception,
but it is my belief the less I know that the
courts, like everything must be watched. l realize
that there is corruption in the There is
corruption everywhere All human.
The judges freed from temptation just by being
judges.
But I think that the American courts the
whole pretty good, and 1 trust them. The courts
tive and necessarily slow. Hearing all sides they
have TO be-"
There was a mention Of lone law for the rich and
another for the poor, and Miss Tarbel1 smiled again
and then sighed.
1T does look that way sometimes she admitted.
And yeti honestly don't think it is bad that.
1T is undoubtedly true that money helps to smooth
the way. Money is advantage in the eyes of the
Things are uneven. But they are not always so
bad they look. The fact remains that are i'm
proving.
I'VE have put several bankers in Jail lately and
several prominent railroad We have fined cor
porations and made two dissolve We have fled suit
"And we can't get away from the fact that our
big cities full of burglars who have never seen
the inside of JAIL
There is nothing of the stump orator. about Miss
Tarbel wild oucry that all things incurably
wrong that all things trumphantly right. Hers
excitable assertions, sentimental appeals,
She states quite calmly that nothing in America
is it should be- AS calmly she adds her conviction
that the country is the road to better things She
agitates no revolution. She advertises panacea.
She simply says These things, and these, and these
are wrong We the first step toward setting them
right. We must take it."
Government control will not prove wondrous |
rure-a" sh- repeated. But VIXEN the Federal power
can say-as am sure will be able to say in the
near future-This thing is 1t has got to STOP,
we shall have gone long way"
the intimate personal questions of labor and
capital Miss Tarbell much for encourage
ment The relations of employer and workmen are not
all that they should be, she admts-far from it
But able to see quite plainly what an i'm |
mense improvement there has been, how things are !
marching on she continued
I'm the safeguarding of the lives and the health
IF laboring people, in the procuring of sanitary labor