Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-03-07

ation LOOK ont for itself,- Wins -
feared giant machinery which made
1t ieps,s-:aDle that any but these who
stood at the levers of control should
have chance to look out for them-
selves. We had not forgotten curl
morals. We remembered well enough
that we had set up a policy which,
was meant to serve the humblest as|
well as the most powerful, with AMI
eye single to the standards of iusticef
and fair play, and remembered it with
pride. But we were very needless and
in 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
~ set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. 0uH
work is work of restoration.
Things to Be Accomplished. I
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 a facile instrument inE
the hands of private interests; bank
ing and currency system based uponI
the necessity of the government to
sell it's bonds fifty years ago and per-
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrialE
system which, take it on all sides>E
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the OPP
portunities of labor and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the natur-
al resources of the country; a body Of
agricultural activities never yet given
the efficiency of great business under
takings or served as it should be-
through the fundamentally of SCI
ence taken directly to the farm or af-
forded the facilities Of credit best
suited to it's practical needs; water.
courses undeveloped, waste places IN
reclaimed, forests INTENDED, fast dis
appearing without plan or prospect Of
renewal; unregarded waste heaps at
every mine. We have studied as per-
haps no other nation has the most eE
fective means of production, but We.
have not studied cost or economy a.
we should either as organizers of In
dustry, as statesmen or as individuals
society's Duty to Itself.
Nor. have we studied and perfected
the means by which government mayf
be put at the service Of humanity inf
safeguarding the health of the natdon,4
the health of it's men and its womenf
and it's children, as well as their rightst
in the struggle for existence. This isl
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 chill,
dren be not shielded in their hves,;
their very vitality, from the conse-
quences 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 it's own
constituent parts. The first duty OF
law is to keep sound the society it
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food
laws and laws determining conditions
of labor which individuals are power
less to determine for themselves are
intimate parts of the very business of
Justice 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
of property and of Individual right.
This is the high enterprise of the new
day: To lift everything that concerns
our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearth fire of everyt
mans conscience and vision of thef
right. It is inconceivable we should do
this as partisans; it is inconceivable wei
should do it in ignorance of the factsI
as they are or in blind haste. We shall
restore, not destroy. We shall deal
with out economic system as it is andI
as it may be modified, not as it might
be II we had clean sheet of paper
to write upon, and step by step we i
shall make it what it should be, in the
spirit of those who question their
own wisdom and seek counsel and
knowledge, not shallow self satisfac-
ton or the excitement of excursions
whittier they cannot tell. Justice, and
only justice, shall always be our MOTTO
Task Not Merely One of5Poiitics.
And yet will be no cool process Of
mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred-stirred by solemn pas
sion, stirred by the knowledge Of