The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-03-06

upon the necessity OF the govern
n1ent to sell its bonds SO years ago
n perfectly adapted TO concen-
trating cash and restricting cred
take it on all its sides, financial
as we'll as administrative, holds
capital in leading strings, restricts
the liberties and limits the oppor-
tunities Of labor and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the
a body Of agricultural activities
never yet given the efficiency of
great business Undertakings or
served as it should be through the
instrunnentality of science taken
directly to the farm, or afforded the
practical needs; water courses un-
developed, waste places unre-
claimed, forests INTENDED, fast dis
Appearing without plan Of prospect
OF renewal, ~unregarded waste heaps
at every mine. W. have studied as
most effective means of produc-
ton, but we have not studied cost
or economy al we should either as
organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Governing for Humanity.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
NC P0l dI lHS service OF humanity, IN
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of it's men and its women
and Its children, as well as their rights
IN the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
OF government is Justice, not pity.
Ihese are matters of justice. There
can be no equality of opportunity, the
first essential of justice in the body
polite, If men and women and chill
dren be not shielded in their lives,
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 1t 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 la
Dor which individuals are powerless 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 hearthfire of every
mans SoiScleHce ana VISION OF the
right. 1t is Uncomfortable that we
should do this as p%artisans; it is in
conceivable we should do it in igno-
rance of the facts as they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our eco
nomic system as it is and as it may
be modified. not as it might be if we
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
1t what 1T should be, in the spirit Of
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self satisfaction or the excite
ment or excursions whittier they can
not tell. Justice and only justice, shall
always be our motto.
Not Political Task.
And yet it will be no cool process
of mere science The nation has been
deeply stirred by a solemn passion.
stirred by the knowledge of wrong.
OF Ideals lost, OF government too often
debauched and make an instrument of
evil. The feelings with which we face
this new age of right and opportunity
sweep across our heart strings ike
some air out of Gods own presence,
where justice and mercy are recon
ciled and the judge and the brother
are one. We know our task to be no
mere task of politics, but a task which
shall search US through and through,
whether we be able to understand our
time and the need of our people,
whether we be indeed their spokes-
men and interpreters. whether we have
the pure heart to comprehend and the
rectified will to choose our high course
of action.
"This is not a day of triumph; it i.
a day of dedication. Here muster, no.
the forces Of party, but the forces o
humanity. Mems hearts wait upon us
mems lives hang in the balance; mon.
hopes call upon US to say what we will
do. Who shall live up to the area
trust? Who dares fail to try? | sum
mon all honest men, all patriotic, al
forward-Iooking men, to my side. Coz
helping me, ! will not fail them, if the,
will but counsel and sustain mel"
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