The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-08
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for constructive craftsmanship sucl
as not arisen since the great day
III Wnich her government was set up
Plainly, it is a new age. Tn,
tonic OF such a time is very eXhilarat
ing. IL requires self-restraint not t,
attelhpt too much, and yet it woult
ne cowardly to attempt too little
me path OF duty soberly and bravol,
trod is the way to service and dis
Junction, and many adventurous fee
seek to set out upon it.
Impatience Aroused.
There never was a time when i'm.
patience and suspicion were more
keenly aroused by private power sci.
ilshly employed; when jealousy oil
everything concealed or touched with
any purpose not linked with genera
good, or inconsistent with it, more
sharply or Immediately DISPLAYED
itself.
1T is in the broad light of this
new day that We stand face to face
with whot? Plainly, not with uues
tons of party, not with a contest for
office, not with a petty struggle for
advantage, democrat against repub-
llcan, liberal against conservative.
progressive against r~eactionary. With
great questions of right and of ms
tice, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of national
development, of the development of
character and of standards of action
no less than of a better business svs-
TEN, more free, more equitable. more
open to ordinary men, practicable to
live under, tolerable to worls under.
or a better fiscal system whose taxes
shall not come out of the pockets Of
the many and go into the pockets Of
the few, and within whose intricaciesi
special privilege may not SO easily
find covert. The forces Of the nation
are asserting themselves against eey-
cry form of special privilege and pri-
vate control, and are seeking bigger
things than they have ever hereto
fore achieved They are sweeping
away what is hnrighteous in order to
v1ndicate once more the essential
rights of human life; and, what is
very serious to us, they are looking
to us for guidance, disinterested
guidance, at once honest and fear
less.
Task Summed Up.
What is there to do? 1t is hard
TO sum the great task up. but appar-
ently this is the sun of the matter:
mere are two great things to do. One
IS 10 set up the rule of justice and of
right IN such matters as the tariff.
n regulation of the tMlsts and the
prevention of monopoly, the adoption
or our banking and currency laws
TO The varied uses to which our peo-
PIE must put them, the treatment of
those, who do the daily labor in our
,Iactor1es and mines and throughout
all Il great industrial and CONNER
claaf undertakings, and the political
NE OF the people of the Philippines,
Tor whom we hold governmental pow
er IN trust, for their service not our
n other, the additional duty
is the great task of protecting our
people and our resources and of
Keeping open to the whole people the
aoors OF opportunity through which
they must, generation by generation.
pass ii they are to make conquest of
their fortunes in health, in freedom.
IN peace, and in contentment. In the
performance of this second great
duty We are face to face with uues-
tlons, OF conservation and of deyelop-
ment, questions of forests and water
powers and mines and water ways,
OF the building of an adequate mer-l
chant marine, and the opening of
every highway and facility and the
setting up of every safeguard needed
by a great Industrious, expanding
naion.
Governed by Small Crowd.
These are all prpat rOaftoro ,po
which everybody should be heard.
we have got into throuble in recent
years chiefly because these large
shlngs. which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
arge a number of persons as possible
because they touched every interest
md the life of every class and region
nave in fact been too often handled
n private conference. They have
bee settled by very small and often
lellberatively exclusive, igrollps of
men who undertook to speak for the
yhole nation, or, rather, for them
elves in the terms of the whole Nj
honestly, it may be, Bhtf'
cry ~lgnorantiy sometimes and very
oi'.slghae t9o,na poor isubsti-
1te loEilfmspnej ld9mmoh counsel.
w etos.A tV~tLuiiSct9Fss ..Scp1Omlc OIL
u political can speak for a people.
hey have heitliei salespoint Of view
or the knowledge Our difficulty is
OF that wicked and designing men
ave plotted against us, but that our
ommon offairs have been determin- {
d by too narrow a view, and by too /
rivate an initiative. Our task is /;
ow to effect a readjustment and {
ct the forces of the whole people t
nee o into play. We need no 6
evolution; we need no excited q
lange; we need only a new point of q
lew and a new method and spirit of Y
ounsel. +
Some people only smile when YOU /
OF yourself as a ervan of the t
eople; it seems to them like affecta- C
on or mere demogoguery. They i
what the unthinking crowd t
nows or comprehends of great COM
heated matters of government. n
hey shrug their shoulders and lift II
lelr eyebrows when you speak as n
you really believed in presidential Ii
lmaries, in the direct election. of o
nited States Senators, and in an Mt e.
+ publicity about everything that d