The Washington herald., 1912-04-08
SAYS PUBLIC MEN
LACK CONSCIENCE
Continued from Page One.

injected into our public life and our in
when socialism in this country will gain
the upper hand and will wipe out in
dividualism."
Speaking of the professions OF to-day
as compared with professions In former
days, Gov. Marshall explained that he
left the practice OF law because I want
ed to get into a decent profession or
business. Nowadays people ask them
selves how far they can go and make
money without getting into the peniten-
tiary. The difference between a trade
and a profession has altogether faded
out of American life. The differences are
now determined in the manner by which
a man conducts his business. Boys dom
take OF their hats any more TO the
learned professions as they did in the
olden days when the minister. the doc
tor. and the lawyer were regarded with
the highest esteem by the whole COM
munity.
SHOULD you be suffering from physi-
cal affiiction." continued the governor of
the Hoosier State. and call in a physi-
clan. and that worthy man were to close
ly inspect your paintings and furniture
and ask you whether you owned the
house in which You lived or merely
boarded there and you told him that
you were the owner. and he thereupon
proceeded to cut out your appendix
whether you wanted or not. that doctor
would be following the trade of getting
your purse, not his profession as
physician.
when you are in trouble and go to
a lawyers office and ask his advice as
to how to get out OF trouble, and he ad-
vises you to fight on and thereby gets
ia -. l.
plying his trade to get your pocketbook
and is not following his profession as a
lawyer"
The speaker severely arraigned the
levity with which oaths are made in
courts of law. and deplored the attitude
OF newspapers in what he called their
With regard to the truthful
ness OF the stories published in the daily
press.
Dehnes Honest Man.
Speaking of honesty. the governor said
that the honest man is not he who has
never had a chance TO be dishonest. He
declared that the test Of honesty con-
sists of having the strength to overcome
when II Is at hand. 1T is a
test of honesty" he said. whether you
give up your railroad ticket to the con-
iuctor when he has forgotten TO collect
I from you. or whether you Will sneak
lway with II without giving 1t up
Relating an instance, the Indiana eX-
ecutive said that not long ago a large
Industrial concern in Indiana appropri-
ated a large number OF cars loaded with
,oal. on the ground that they had to
Ieep their plant going. The papers
made jokes about this, and people
hought IL was a pretty good trick"
aid the speaker. II thought quite dif-
erently. Those men were plain thieves
Not long afterward a poor man was ar
'ested for stealing a bushel of coal to
Ieep his family warm. He was convict
d and sentenced to Jail. pardoned
his man, and in the presence of an Of |
icer Of the corporation that stole the |
OF coal, ] said that a large and |
powerful corporation could not steal |
With impunity wnile a poor man must |
70 to the penitentiary."
Gov. Marshall held an informal recep-
ion at the close Of the meeting
The opening prayer was said by Rev |
PAUL Hickok, who also pronounced the |
Rev. DR.. Samuel Woodrow /
cad the lesson. and William Knowles /
,ooper, general secretary Of the 7. NJ |
:. A, introduced the speaker. A musi-
al programme was presented by Mrs.
ielville Lindsay, soprano; Miss Mar
aret Stamford, contralto: William Wall
Vhiddit, tenor; Herbert Lawson, barry
one, and Mrs. William Wall Whiddit,
rganist.