The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-04
@0ug Work is q Work
Of Restoration
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them. with fresh awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Some new things as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
sheir real character. have come to as
eume the aspect OF things long believ-
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions We have been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
we see that IN many things that
life Is very great It is incomparably
great III its material aspects In its
body Of wealth, In the diversity and
sweep Of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
UP by the genius Of individual men
and the limitless enterprise Of groups
Of men II is great also very great.
IN its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy OF sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel IN their efforts
to rectify wrong alleviate suffering,
and set the weak In the way OF
strength and hope We have built up,
moreover, great system Of govern
mc1t which has stood through long
age as in many respects model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
fortultous change against storm and
accident Our life contains every
great thing, and contains It in rich
abundance.
Evils That Have Come.
but the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come IA.
excusable waste. We have squan-
dered great part Of what we might
have used and have not stopped TO
conserve the exceeding bounty OF na-
ture. without which our genius for en-
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful, 4
shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient We have been proud OF
our industrial achievements, but We
have not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost Of lives snuffed out, of ener-
GIGS oyertaxed and broken, the fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden Of
L all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony Of it ,
I'll had not yet reached our ears, the :
solemn, moving undertone Of our life, Z
coming up out Of the mines and fac. :
-ories and out Of every home where 7
he struggle had its intimate and IA.
niliar seat. With the great govern.
nent went many deep secret things I
which we too long delayed to look +
nto and scrutinize with candid. fear
ess eyes. The great government we I
owed has too often been made use Of
or private and selfish purposes. and 7
hose who used It had forgotten the :
,eople. i
At last a vision has been vouch-
afed US Of our life as whole. We n
zee the bad with the good. the de- i,
'ased and decadent with the sound I,
nd vital With tl9 vision we ap. n
roach new affairs Our duty is to h
leanse, to reconsider to restore, to
orrect the evil without impairing the d
.ood to purify and humanize every y
rocess Of our common life without n
geakening or sentimentalizing it q
here has been something crude and 7
eartless and unfeeling in our haste to a
ucceed and be great. Our thought has d
cen Let every man look out for him al
elf, let every generation look out for m
self while we reared giant machin- ri
ry which made it impossible that any Il
ut those who stood at the levers OF q,
ontrol should have chance to look ii