Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-03-06

policy which was meant to serve the
humblest as well as the most power
full, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re-
membered it with pride. But we were
very needless and in a hurry to be
great.
Things to Be Altered.
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 proud
ly 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 in |
the hands OF private interests; bank
ing and currency system based upon |
the necessity OF the government to |
fectly adapted to concentrating cash |
and 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 OPP
portunities 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 IT should be
through the fundamentally of science
taken directly TO the farm, or afforded
the facilities OF credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses I'M
developed. waste places unreclaimed.
forests INTENDED. fast disappearing
without plan or prospect OF renewal.
unregarded 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
men, or 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
! -, ha
first essential OF justice in the body
polite. II 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 II that il 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 init
mate parts OF the very business OF JUS
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some OF the things we
7 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 n nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire OF every
!, mans conscience and vision OF the
] right. II is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans; it is in
conceivable we should do It in ignor.
Q ance of the facts as they are or in
! blind haste We shall restore, not de
+ stroy. We shall deal with our econ
= omic system as 1t is and as 1t may
{ be modified. not as It might be II we
, had a clean sheet of paper to write
= upon; and step by step we shall make
+ 1t what 1t should be. in the spirit Of
s those who question their own wisdom
/. and seek counsel and knowledge, no,
= shallow selfsatisfaction or the excite
I ment of excursions whittier they can
e not tell. Justice. and only justice
+ shall always be our motto.
:. Nation Deeply Stirred.
= And yet It will be no cool process
: OF mere science. The nation has beer
o deeply stirred. stirred by solemn
n passion, stirred by the knowledge Of
Z wrong. of ideals lost. of government
s too often debauched and made an in
{ strument of evil. The feelings with
O which we face this new age of righ
}, and opportunity sweep across oul
y heart-strings like some air out o.
e Gods own presence, where justice ant
l. mercy are reconciled and the judg,
l. and the brother are one. We know
s our task to be no mere task of polite.
k but n task which shall search Il.
r through and through. whether we b,
g able to understand our time and the
" need of our people, whether we be in
d deed their spokesman and interpre
@ tors, whether we have the pure hear
to comprehend and the rectified viii
H. I.