The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-04

mempefed 1t with pride. But we werl
Z, very needless and in hurry to bl
z great.
Things to Bc Altered.
we have come now to the sobel
4 second thought The scales OF heed
leasness 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 proud
y set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work IS a work Of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
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 taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument Ia
the hands Of private interests: bank
Ing and currency system based upon
the necessity Of the government to
sell its bonds fifty years agq,and per
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
aad restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the op-
portunitles OF labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources OF the country; a body
OF agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency Of great business
undertakings or served as 1t should be
through the instrumentality Of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
it's practical needs water courses ann-
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests INTENDED, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect Of renewal.
lunregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
Of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers Of industry, as states
HSH, OF as INDIVIDUALS.
Government for Humanity.
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 Its 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 chill
dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality from the conse-
quences of great Industrial 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 themselves are inti-
mate parts Of the very business Of JUS
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some Of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
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 II
shines from the hearthfre Of every
mans conscience and vision of the
right. II is ineonceivable that we
should do this as partisans: 1t is in
we should do it In ignor-
lnce Of the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
'troy. We shall deal with our econ
)mic system as it Is and as it may
De modified, not as it might be if we
lad a clean sheet of paper to write
lpon; and step by step Nue shall make
t what it should be, in the spirit Of
hose who question their own wisdom
nd seek counsel and knowledge, not
hallow selfsatisfaction or the excite
nent Of excursions whittier they can
lot tell Justice, and only justice.
hall always be our motto.
Nation Deeply Stirred.
And yet It win be no cool process
I mere science. The nation has been
eeply stirred, stirred by a solemn
assion, stirred by the knowledge Of
7rong, Of ideals lost Of government
DO often debauched and made an in
trument Of evil The feelings with
ihich we face this new age OF right
nd opportunity sweep across our
eart-strings like some air out Of
Iod's own presence, where justice and
iercy are reconeiled and the judge
nd the brother are one. We know
ur task to be no mere task Of politics
ut a task which shall search US
trough and through, whether we be
BILE to understand our time and the
eed of our people. whether we be in
eed their spokesmen and interpre-
srs, whether we have the pure heart
comprehend and the rectifled will
choose our high course Of action.
This IS not a day Of triumph; It is
day Of dedication. Here muster, not
le forces OF party, but the forces OF
lmanity Mess hearts walt upon US;