Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-04

e-+et "a hitNa4a nave q CAa4ce TO look
ont for themselves We had not for.
= gotten our morals. We remembered
wen enough that we had set I'D a
/ policy which vas meant TO serve the
humblest as well as the most power
tul, with an eye single to the stand
I ards Of justice and fair play, and re-
4 membered it with pride. But we were
very needless and In a hurry TO be
! great.
/ 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
y set up at the beginSng and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work is q 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
as 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; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity OF the government 10
sell its bonds fifty years ago and per
lectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all it's sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings. re-
ftricts the liberties and limits the OPP
portunities of labor and exploits with.
out renewing or conserving the nat
uraI 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 instrumentality Of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
it's practical needs; water courses uu-
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
Nor have we studied aud 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 men and its women
and ita children, as we'll 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, lf men and women and chill
dren he not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality from the conse-
Quences Of great industrial and socl2l
processes which they cannot alter,
control or singly cope with. Society
must see to It 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 ii
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 I
ice 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
cf 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 hearthfire of every
mans conscience and vision Of the
right it is inconceivable that We
should DO this rs partisans; it is in.
conceivable We should do it in ignor
blind haste. We shall restore not oe-
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omie system as it is and as it may
be modi6ed, not as it might be il we
had 2 clean sheet Of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
it what it should be, in the spirit a
these who question their own wisdom
ana seek counsel ard knowledge, not
shallow self-satisfaetion or the excite.
ment Of excursions whittier they can
not tell Justice, and only justice,
shall always be cur motto
and vet ft viii be no cool process
81 mere science The nation has been
deaDlv stirred, stirred by solemn
passion. stirred by the knowledge OF
wrong oil ideals lest, of government |
too often debauched and made ar I'M
strument of evil. The feelings vita
which we faee this new age Of r!sht
and opportunitv sweep across cur
bearf.sfrines like some air oar Of
co.'s own presence. where justice and
,,erev are reeonciled and The Judge
a-s fhe brother are one. We know
our fash. 10 be no mere task Of politics
bnt task which shah search Us
throrrb and through whether we %
ab1a Il understand our time and the
500 of our pseple. whether we be n
sss6 their spokesmen and interpre-
trs whether we have the pure healt
Il aomnrehend and the rectiiied vii
S loose orr hieh course Of action
This Is not a day Of triumph i =
n dav Of dedicafion. Here muster nes
ne forces Of party but the forces p
1rnanifv Mems hearts wait upon Us
r9sr,s lives hang in the balance men
homes cali upon Us to say "ha' W