The Brinkley argus., 1913-03-07

ture, without which our genius for en. terprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, 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- gies oyertaxed and broken, the fear full physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of 1t all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up cut of the mines and fac tories and out of every home where the struggle had it's intimate and fla miliar seat. With the great govern ment went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fear less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used 1t had forgotten the people.
 At last . vision has been vouch- safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the de- based and decadent with the sound and vital With this vision we ap- proach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore. to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been Let every man look out for him self, let every generation look out for itself while we reared giant machin- cry 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 for gotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up policy which was meant to serve the humblest as we'll as the most power full. with an eye single to the stand ards of justice and fair play, ana re- membered 1t with pride. But we were very needless and in hurry to pc 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 Ire asain with the standards we so proud ly set up at the beginning ana nave always carried at our hearts. our work is a work of restoration.
 We have itemized with some degree of particularity the things that ought to be altered and here are some or the chief items: A tariff which cuts nd of from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the inst principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument Ill the hands of private interests; pahk- ing and currency system based upon the necessity of the government 'o soil it's bonds fifty years ago ana per fectly adapted to concentrating casn ond restricting credits; an industriai system which, take it on all US siues' f,nancial as well as administrative holds capital in leading strings, re- strrcts the liberties and limits the op- nortunities of labor, and exploits wl,h' ont renewing or conserving the nat ural resources of the country Dous of agricultural activities never yet eivep the efficiency of great business or served as it should De throyeh the instrumentality Of science taken directly to the farm, or anordea tha sa oi,tties of credit best suited to lie practical needs; water courses un- developed, waste places unreciaiiheu' forasts intended. fast disappearihs ,;thout plan or prospect of renewal ,nrsyarded waste heaps at every mine. N. have studied as perhaps no other na,,or has the most effective means of nroduction, but we have not stuaieu co.t or economy as we should eitner ss orsanizers of industry, as states- mer Or &s individualss