The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-03-07

work is a 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 off from our proper part IN the
commerce of the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
the government facile instrument IN
the hands Of private interests; bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity OF the government TO
sell it's bonds fifty years ago and per-
fectly adapted TO concentrating casn
and restricting credits; an lndustrlai
system which, take ii on all its sides,
financial as we'll as administrative, |
holds capital in leading strings, re-
strcts 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 it should be
| through the instrumentality of science
|
the facilities Of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un-
developed. waste places unreclaimed'
| forests INTENDED, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect OF renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every nine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studled
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
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 its men and Its women
anc it's 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, if men and women and chll-
!, dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality, from the conse-
!; ouences of great industrial and social
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 or
law is to keep sound the society II
: serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
t and laws determining conditions OF
} labor which individuals are powerless
: to determine for themselves are mt
= mate parts of the very business OF JUS
s tice and legal efficiency.
, These are some of the things we
: ought to do. and not leave the others
I undone. the old-fashioned, never-to-De
e neglected, fundamental safeguarding
: OF property and of individual right
/, This is the high enterprise OF the ne"
: day: to lift everything that concerns
: our life as a nation to the light tha
e shines from the hearthfire of every
n mans conscience and vision OF th'
Il right. 1t is incOnceivable that w
s should do this as partisans; 1t is IN
It conceivable We should do it in ignor
g ance of the facts as they are or II
2, blind haste We shall restore, not de
G. stroy. We shall deal with our econ
e omic system as it is and as 1t ma
a. be modified, not as it might be If W.
A. had a clean sheet of paper to writ
IS upon; and step by step we shall max
k it what it should be, in the spirit @
r those who question their own Wisdor
e and seek counsel and knowledge, no
)f shallow self-satisfaction or the excite
ID ment of excursions whittier they cal
le not tell Justice, and only justice
shall always be our motto.
h And yet it will be no cool process
'e Of mere science. The nation has bee
e. deeply stirred, stirred by solem
i'd passion, stirred by the knowledge
D. wrong. of ideals lost, of governmer
to too often debauched and made an il
to strument Of evil The feelings wit
he which We face this new age of rigf
ry and opportunity sweep across on
ut heart-strings like some air out {
il. God S own presence, where justice an
I'd mercy are reconciled and the jude
to and the brother are one. We kno
as our task to be no mere task of polite
n but a task which shall search l
Or through and through. whether we
n able to understand our time and tf
ly need of our people, whether we be i
Of deed their spokesmen and interpr
ok ters, whether we have the pure hea
,r to comprehend and the rectified wi
ed TO choose our high course OF action.
a This is not a day OF triumph; 1t
he a day of dedication. Here muster. N
er- the forces of party, but the forces
ID humanity. Mems hearts wait upon III
re- mems lives hang in the balance; men
re hopes call upon us to say what v
at will do Who shall live up to Il
er great trust? Who dares fail to tr.
ID | summon all honest men, all patriot
IS. all forwardlooking men, to my sid
re God helping men, I will not fail thel
fe if they will but counsel and susta
i'd me!
clean house and buy autos and ch;
lots"