The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-03-06

gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up q
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 1t 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 tho standards we 30 proud
ly set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work Is n 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 of from our proper part In tho
commerce OF the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
tho government 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 10 concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take 1t on all ita Sdea'
financial as well rs administrative
holds CaDital in loading gtringg re-
strtcts the liberties and limits the op.
| portunities OF labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources OF the country; body
! OF agricultural activities never yet
/ given the efficiency Of great business
Undertakings or served as 1t should DO
through the fundamentally Of science
taken directly TO the farm, or Afforded
the facilities Of credit best suited TO
It's practical needs; water courses IN
/ developed, waste places unreclaimed'
forests INTENDED last disappearing
| without plan or prospect or renewal
| unregardcd waste heaps at every nine.
We hay" studied as perhaps 10 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 It's mon and It's women
and It's children, az Wen as their rights
in the struggle Tor existence. TINS IL
no sentimental duty. Tho firm basis
/ OF government Is justice, not pity.
. These arc matters OF justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity, tho
first essential Of justice in the body
I. polite. II men and women and chill
drcn be not shielded in their lives.
their very vitality from tho conse-
Qucnce5 OF great industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control, or singly cope with. Society
must see to II that 1t 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
10 determine for themselves arc init
mate parts Of the very business OF JUS
uco and legal efficiency.
These are some Of tho things we
ought to do. and not leave the others
undonc the oldfashioncd. never-to-bc-
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 hearthtire Of every
mans conscience and vision OF tho
right II Is uncomfortable that we
should do this as partlsans; 1t Ia In
conceivable We should do 1t in ignor-
ance or the facts as they are or IN
blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omic system as It is and as 1t may
be modified. not as It might be II We
had n Clnnn gnppt Df tO WFitO