The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-31

K 81, 1912.
envy to run unchecked its evil course.
II we do so then some day shoulder
ing hatred will suddenly kindle into
u children will be called on to
face q crisis as grim as any which
this republic has ever seen.
ut is Jul business to show that
nine-tenths Of wisdom consists in be-
ing wise on time. Woe to our ma
tion II we let matters drift. II in our
industrial and political life we let
an unchecked and utterly selfish in
d%ividualistic materialism riot to its ap-
pointed end. That end would be
widespread disaster. for it would
dered by those dreadful lines Of di-
vision which are drawn when the sell.
fish greed Of the HAYES is set up
against the selfish greed of the have
nots. There is but one way to pre-
vent such a division. n hat Is to
forestall 1t by the kind OF a movement
in which We are now engaged.
Insistance Upon Right.
Our movement is one OF ~resolute
insistance upon the rights. and full
acknowledgement Of the duties OF
every man and every oma within
this great land Of ours. We war
weapons We use are the weapons Of
right. We do not set greed against
greed, or hatred against hatred. Our
creed is n that bids US be Just to all,
to feel sympathy for all and to strive
for understanding OF the needs Of all.
Our purpose Is to srite down wrong.
But toward those who have done the
wrong we feel only the kindliest char
ity that is compatible with causing the
wrong to cease. We preach hatred to
no nan and the spirit in which We
tiveness as from weakness. We are
resolute to do away with the evil. and
We intend to proceed with such wise
and cautious sanity as will aus the
very minimum of disturbance that Is
compatible with achieving our pur-
pose.
DO not forget. friends. that We
are not proposing to substitute law
for character. We are merely pro.
posing to buttress character by law.
We fully recognize that. as has been
and ever will be true, that the prime
factor in each man or won1an's sue
cess must normally be that man or
wonan's own character-character Is
the sum of many qualities. but above
all OF the qualities OF honesty. OF
courage n Of common sense. MOTH
ing will avail a nation II there is not
the right type of character among the
average men and women, the plain
people. the hardworking d%ecent-liv-
ing. right-thinsing people who make
I know my countrymen; I know that
they are Of this type. But 1t is in
civil life as it IS in a In war 1t
is the mar behind the gun that counts
most. and yet he cannot do his work
unless he has the right kind of a
gun. In civil life. in the everyday
life of our nation. it is individual
character which counts most: and yet
the individual character cannot avail.
unless in addition thereto there lie
ready to hand the social weapons
by public opinion operating through
and operated upon by law.
Proposing No New Principles.
again. friends. do not forget that
We are Proposing no new principles.
The doctrines we preach reach back
to h Golden Rule and the Sermon
on the Mount. They reach back to
the Commandments delivered at ST.
mai. All that we are doing is to ap-
ply those doctrines in the shape ne
cessary to make them available for
meeting the living issues Of our own
day. We decline to be bound by the
empty-little cut-and-dried formulas Of
by-gone PHILOSOPHERS. useful once
perhaps, but useless now. Our pur-
pose is to shackle greedy cunning as
not to be diverted from this purpose
by the appeal to the dead dogmas Of
a vanished past. We propose to lift
the burdens Of the lowly and the
YEARLY. from the poor and the OPP
pressed. We propose to stand for the
sacred rights Of childhood and wo-
manhood. Nay. more. we propose to
see that manhood Is not crushed out
Of the men who toll. by excessive
hours Of labor. by under-payment. by
purpose can only be secured by the
collective action Of our people
through their governmental agencies.
We propose so to secure 1t. We brush
aside the arguments Of those who
seek to bar action by the repetition
Of some formula about states rights
Or about the history Of liberty be-
ing the history Of the Limitation of
governmental power or about the du-
ty Of the courts finally to determine
AS 3ISd11116 VI IIlS SOuSIlLutlON. we
are for human rights. and we intend
to work for them in efficient fashion.
Where they can be best obtained by
the application Of the doctrines Of
states rights. then we are for states
rights. Where. in order to obtain
them it is necessary to invoke the
power of the nation, then we shall
invoke to its uttermost limits that
mighty power. We are for liberty.
But we are for the liberty Of the OPP
pressed not for the liberty Of the OPP
pressor to Cypress the weak and to
bind burdens on the shoulders Of the
heavy-laden. It is idle to ask US not
to exercise the power of the govern
ment when only by the power Of the
government can we curb the greed
that sits in high places. when only by
the exercise Of government can we
exalt h lowly and give heart to the
humble and the down-trodden.