The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-04

0GCaQGnI Wild the SOuuU duQ VICdl.
With this vision we approach new at
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to re-
consider. to restore, to correct the evil
without impairing the good. to purify
and humanize every process OF our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing it There has been
something crude and heartless and IN
feeling In our haste to succeed and be
great Our thought has been. Let ev-
cry man look out for himself; let ev-
cry generation look out for itself"
while we reared giant machinery which
made 1t impossible that any but those
who stood at the levers of control
should have chance to look out for
themselves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remem bered well enough
that we had set up policy which was
meant to serve the hum best as we'll as
the rlost powerful. with an eye single
to the standards OF justice and fair
play. and remembered it with pride.
But we were very needless and In a
hurry to be great.
We have come now to the sober Sec
ond thought The scales Of needless
ness have fallen from our eyes. We
have made up our minds to square ev-
cry process Of our national life again
with the standards we so proudly set
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work is a
work Of restoration
Things to Be Accomplished.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularly the things that ought
to be altered. and here are some of the
chief items: tariff which cuts us of
from our proper part in the commerce
of the world. violates the just princi.
pies of taxation and makes the govern
ment a facie instrument in the hands
Of private interests; a banking and cur
rency system based upon the necessity
of the government to sell its bonds fifty
years ago and perfectly adapted to con.
centrating cash and restricting credits:
an industrial system which. take it on
all its sides. financial as well as ad-
ministrative. holds capital in leading
strings. restricts the liberties and linn.
it's the opportunities of labor and ex-
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the natural resources of the country; a
body of agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency Of great bust
ness undertakings or served as ii
should be through the instrumentality
of science taken directly to the farm
or afforded the facilities of credit best
suited to its practical needs: water
courses undeveIoped. waste places I'M
reclaimed, forests INTENDED. fast dis.
appearing without plan or prospect of
renewal. unregarded waste heaps at
every mine. We have studied as per.
haps no other nation has the most eff.
fective means of production. but we
have not studied cost or economy as
we should either as organizers of in
dustry, as statesmen or as individuals
Society's Duty to Itself.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity in
safeguarding the health Of the nation
the health of its men and its women
and it's children. as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
of government is justice. not pity
These are matters of justice. There can
be no equality or opportunity, the first
essential of justice in the body polite,
If men and women and children be
not shielded in their lives. their very
vitality. from the consequences Of great
industrial and social processes which
tt,Nyy oil civ sr1r
cope with Society must see to it that
it does not itself crush or weaken or
damage it's own constituent parts. The
first duty of law is to keep sound the
society it serves. Sanitary laws. pure
food laws and laws determining con
ditions of labor which individuals are
poweriess to determine for themselves
ness of justice and legal efficiency[
These are some of the things we
ought TO do and not leave the others
undone. the old fashioned. never to be
neglected. fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right.
This is the high enterprise of the new
day: To lift everything that concerns
our life as nation to the light that
shines from the hearth fire of every
mans conscience and vision of the
right 1t is Uncomfortable we should do
this as partisans; ii is inconceivable we
should do it in ignorance of the facts
as they are or in blind haste. We shall
restore. not destroy We shall deal
with our economic system as it is and
as it may be modified, not us it might
be If we had a clean sheet of paper
to write upon. and step by step we
shall make it what 1t should be. in the
spirit of those who question their
own wisdom and seek counsel and
knowledge. not shallow self satisfac-
ton or the excitement of excursions
whittier they cannot tell. Justice. and
only justice, shall always be our motto.
Task Not Merely One Of Politics.
And yet it will be no cool process of
mere science. The nation has been
deeply strred-stirred by solemn pas
sion. stirred by the knowledge of
wrong. of ideals lost, of government
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