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probably higher than that of any other
civil servants of the government AS long
as they confine themselves to the exercise
of judicial functions they perform their
duties at least as well as. probably bet
ter than, other public servants perform
theirs. But their whole training and the
aloofness Of their position on the bench
prevent their having. as rule any real
knowledge of. or understanding sympathy
with. the lives and needs of the ordinary
hardworking toiler. There are many hon.
| orable exceptions; but this is the rule.
The Privileged Interests.
THE great privileged interests work
| through combination Of politics and
| business. They were favored by the ac-
tions of many men who had no intention
| of favoring them. AS everywhere, and
| throughout all history. the foolish ultra
radicals and the apostles OF a mock radi-
calism showed themselves to be the most
efficient tools and instruments of reaction.
Many Of the so-called radicals who may
sincerely have thought themselves such
were in reality nothing whatever but we'll
meaning foolish reactionaries who either
advocated impossible remedies or sought
relief from present-day evils by the vain
effort to go back to conditions that were
so dead that they could not by any possi-
bility be revived. Others attempted to
| meet real evils without taking the trou-
BILE to diagnose what those evils were.
For example, the conditions Of mod
ern life make it essential that men
should work with concentrated capital
| There must be big business in this era
| of world business, in this era of steam
and electricity. Yet very great evils
| have come through permitting the un-
controlled concentration of big business
in the hands of a few men. whose enor-
nous wealth became formidable to the
| body polite because ii was in entirely
| irresponsible hands. The mock radicals
both the sincere. usually the rural. tory.
and the man who wanted to make be-
lieve that he was a radical without ac-
| complishing anything. attempted to meet
this situation by breaking up all big
business units. This was attempted not
/ merely as regards monopolies, but as re-
CARDS every great corporation Of such
size as to get the maximum Of efficiency.
Effort Has Proved Futile.
THE effort has. of course. proved
futile. If not futile it would prove mis-
chievous. There is no use in trying TO
| reverse the wheels of economic develop
ment What is necessary is to recognize
| the fact that big business has come to
| stay, and 50 to control it and supervise
it as to prevent there being any improp-
| er advantage taken by big business at
4 the expense of small business. More
over, we must insist upon the principle
of cooperation, of profit sharing and
| partnership as regards employer and
| employe. so that the prosperity coming
| to the big business organization shall In
| measurable degree and with some ap-
Proclamation to justice be divided with
the ordinary wage workers in the busi-
ness.
There are crises in human affairs
when the only safe man to follow is the
extremist. But under normal conditions
the leaders of a great movement have
far in front exactly they whip for
ward those who desire to lag too far
in the rear. The great permanent sue
cess In the forward movements of man
kind have always been achieved by men
whose sane idealism was both inspired
by lofty devotion and guided by robust
common sense. In my own land II was
this combination which pre-eminently
marked both Washington and Lincoln.
Probably in any such movement it is
| inevitable that the pioneers should at
first meet defeat. We Of the United
| States who are the pioneers in this
movement shared the common lot. But
We have nothing to regret, for In our
| case we have driven even our bitterest
opponents TO a frantic lip loyalty toward
the very principles which they started
| by condemning.
Are Not Socialists.
| We are not socialists, for we do not
| believe in class consciousness. and we
as little believe In mere doctrinaire dog
! matism about collectiveism as We be-
lieve in mere doctrinaire dosmatism
about individualism. But We do believe
that the only way to prevent the growth
I of a party founded on class consciousness
| is TO secure the triumph in the COM
munity of a party founded on the ideal
| Of social consciousness.
| Such a party must in good faith as
| sumo that each man is in very truth
| his brothers keeper. 1t must act in no
| spirit OF vindictive hostility even toward
| wrongdoers. When necessary 1t must
punish them. But where this can be
avoided it must be avoided. and the end
| sought for obtained by changing the
| conditions which have brought about the
| wrongdong. We believe in property
rights as indispensable 10 the advance
| ment of human rights. but where they
are twisted into an obstacle to the ad-
vancement OF human. rights, then We are
Il for human rights As against fhem''