The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-04
purposes, and those who used Il had
forgotten the people.
The Clearer Vision.

!
At last vision has been vouchsafed
us of our life as whole. We see the
bad with the good, the debased and
decadent with the sound and vital.
With this vision We approach new af-
fairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to re-
consider, to restore, to correct the evil
without ImpairIne the good, to purify
and humanIze every process of our
common life without weakening or SEN
tirnentalizlng II. There has been
something crude and heartless and I'M
feeling in our haste to succeed and be
great. Our thought has been Let ev-
cry man look out for himself, let ev-
cry generation look out for ITSELF while |
we reared giant machinery which |
made 1t impossible, that any but those |
who stood at the levers Of control
should have chance to look out for
themselves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough
that we had set up policy which was
meant to serve the humblest as well as
: the most powerful, with an eye single
to the standards Of justice and fair
play, and remembered it with pride.
But we we're very needless and in
hurry to be great
We have come now to the sober Sec
ond thought. The scales Of heedlessness
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 proudly set up at
the beginning and have always car
= rled at our hearts. Our work Is a work
l. Of restoration.
s Things That Ought to Be Altered.
e We have itemized with some degree
g Of particularly the things that ought
v to be altered and here are some OF
r the chief items: A tariff which cuts
us off from our proper part in the
e commerce of the world, violates the
s. just principles Of taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument In
the hands of private interests; bank
ing and currency system based upol
NJ the necessity Of the government to sci
Of its bonds fifty years ago and perfectl
h adapted to concentrating cash and re
q. stricting credits; an Industrial sys
N. tenn which, take 1t on all its sides
= financial as we'll as administrative
~ holds capital in leading strings, r.
:, stricts the liberties and limits the OF
- portunities of labor, and exploits will
out renewing or conserving the ma
ural resources Of the country; a bod
rs of agricultural activities never W
as given the efficiency Of great bushes
Oh undertakings or served as it shoul
OF be through the instrumentality of SC
1o- fence taken directly to the farm, {
In afforded the facilities Of credit bel
let suited to its practical needs; waite
We, courses undeveloped, waste places u
reclaimed, forests INTENDED, fast di
appearing without plan or prospect
renewal, unregarded waste heaps
es- every mine. We have studied as pc
err haps no other nation has the mo
,od effective means of production, but v
vas have not studied cost or economy
Ind we should either as organizers Of |
eet dustry, as statesmen, or as indivi
ok. uals.
ew- Nor have we studied and perfect,
the means by which government m
r. be put at the service of humanity,
on safeguarding the health of the matte
R. the health of It's men and its won
of and its children, as well as their rigt
FUR in the struggle for existence. TT
hrs is no sentimental duty. The firm |