White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-09

chdnce 10 look out fof themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals.
We remember well enough that we
TO serve the humblest as well as the
most powerful, with an eye single to
the standards of justice and fair play
and remembered it with pride. But
We We're very Needless and in a hurry
to be great.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to
square every process of our national
life again with the standards We SO
proudly set up at the beginning and
have always carried in our hearts.
Our work is a work of restoration.
Things to BE Altered.
We have itemized with some de-
gree of Particularly the things that
ought to be altered and here are
some of the chief items: A tariff
which cuts us off from our proper
part in the commerce of the world,
violates the just principles of taxa
ton, and makes the government a
facile instrument in the hands of
private interests; a banking and cur
rency system based upon the neces-
sity of the government to sell its
bonds fifty years ago and perfectly
adapted to concentrating cash and re-
stricting credits; an industrial system
which, take ii on all sides, financial
as well as administrative, holds capt.
tai in leading strings, restricts the
liberties and limits the opportunities
of labor and exploits without renew
ing or conserving the national resour-
ces of the country; a body of agri-
cultural activities never yet given the
efficiency of great business undertake
ings or served as ii should be through
the instrumentality of science taken
directly to the farm, or afforded the
ptol ShiiCd " It's III dCllIdl
needs; water courses ~undeveloped,
waste places unreclaimed, forests un-
tended, fast disappearing without
plan or prospect of renewal; unre-
garded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but We have not stud
led cost or economy, as we should
either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen or as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service oil humanity, in
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of its men and its women
and its children. as we'll as their
rights in the struggle for existence.
This is not sentimental duty. The
firm basis of government is justice.
not pity. These are matters of jus
tice. There can be no equality of
opportunity. the first essential of JUS
tice in the body polite, if mel and
women and children be not shielded
in their lives. their very vitality.
from the consequences of great indus
trial and social processes which they
cannot alter. control or singly cope
with. Society must see to it that it
does not itself crush or weaken or
damage its own constituent parts.
The first duty of law is to keep sound
the society it serves. Sanitary laws.
pure food laws. and laws determining
conditions of labor which individuals
are %powerless to determine for them
selves are intimate parts of the very
business of Justice and legal eff
ficiency.
These are some of the things We
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-
be-neglected, fundamental safeguard
ing of property and of individual
rights. This is the high enterprise
of the new day; to lift everything
that concerns our life as a nation to
the light that shines from the hearth
fire of every mans conscience and
vision OF the right. 1t is inconceiv-
able that we should do this as par
t%isans: it is inconeeivable We should
do it in ignorance of the facts as they
are or in blind haste. We shall re-
store. not destroy. We shall deal
with our economic system as it is and
as it may be modified. not as it might
be If We had a clean sheet of paper
to write upon; and step by step we
shall make ii what it should be in
the spirit of those who question their
own wisdom and seek counsel and
knowledge. not shallow self-satis-
faction or the excitement of excur-