The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-02-23

and financial and economic evils. II VIII
be well for us to call 10 mind the strik
ing contrast between the moderate vol
ume and temperate character OF laws
enacted during his Presidency and so
much of our present day legislation OF
the experimental sort. rejecting often
merely a view OF today that IL likely
TO be the hcresy OF tomorrow, and at
tempting to deal with the Objectionable
tendency before Il In seen that 1; viii
not be arrested Of itself, or before we
have sufficient understanding of 1t 10
he In a position 10 know or apply the
appropriate remedy. Accordingly the
recommendations and the legislation of
Washington's administration were not
along guess work lines; but the ele-
ments of soberness patience and Wis
dom which he So invariably manifest
ed were typical of the plans he ia
vored and adopted to bring order out OF
financial and industrial chaos. promote
industry among the people and restore
their energies by opening ZIP new
sources of revenue and prosperity, and
by assuring men that they should
gather and be secure in the possession
Of the harvest Of their labor.
His Course a Model One.
There is great need too for US
in this day when constitutional re-
straint has become irksome t. many,
never to turn n deaf car to the stirring
appeal of Washington to his people
that the departments into which cur
government is constitutionally divided
shall be kept with determined hand
within their respective boundaries.
Speaking here not as a party. man but
as citizen of the Republic. my OBJ
how treacherously easy is the transi.
ton from Capitalization Of government
which those of the Republican Party
set so much store by and which a good
many OF us Democrats are inclined to
acquiesce into n decentralization Of
government. Washington in all mis-
career uttered no greater truth than
when he declared that "A constitutional
government. under such circumstances,
becomes almost. as a matter OF course
a despotism. For a long time, fortu-
nately. this was the view of the Amer
lean people: and when they have de-
parted from ii long and ominous step
has been taken, not only in the COM
mission OF error. but towards estab-
fishing evil precedent
1--WE have. however problems of 4
serious nature confronting us for SO
luton and doubtless they will Increase
as time goes on.
New Problems Face Us.
I'VE. as people, nave tolerated the
doing of things which must be undone
or made right and not condoned; we
have at times set too much store by
mere material success and judged as
of minor consequence things which
broaden and elevate and ennoble ma
tion; we have made compromise with
things of evil import We have. ut
times. been unmindful of the rights of
others as we have hurried on to the
realization of ambitious plans. anu. in
our indifference TO the demands of good
citizenship, we have been guilty OF or
.acquiesced IN q course OF conduct that
has given rise to sullen expressions
of an unrest TO which we cannot afford
to be unconcerned listeners; for UNI
checked unrest is likely 20 breed dis
order. And unless we frankly recogn-
ize this, we shall have no reasonable
hope of correcting the conditions which
arouse. If they do not altogether justi-
~, those expressions, and which are
a menace not only to our continuing
prosperity but to our self-respect and