The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-07


ont Tor themselves We had not TOT
gotten our morals. We remembered
wen enough that WE had set PIP
policy which was meant TO serve the
humhlest az well as the most power
full, with an eye single TO the stand
ards Of Justice and fair play. ana re-
membered It with pride. But We were
very needless and IN hurry to pc
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 lie
again with the standards we 90 proud
~ set up at the beginning ana nave
always carried at our hearts. Our
work is work OF restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
Of particularity the things that cNignE
to be altered and here are some OF
the chief items: a tariff which cuts
rs of 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
sell its bonds fifty years ago and per-
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits: an industrial
system which, take 1t on all its sides.
financial as well as administrative.
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the op-
portunities Of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources Of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never vet
given the efficiency Of great business
undertakings or served as 1t 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 untended, 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.
Governments for Humanity.
Nor have we studied and perfected
1.-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 industria i social
processes which they cal alter.
control, or singiy cope with. Society
must see to 1t 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 init
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
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 hearthfre Of every
mans conscience and vision Of the
right. It is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans; it is in
we should do 1t III ignor-