The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-04
WORDS Of WISDOM FROM
NEW RULER Of NATION
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THINGS Nui.l. Me too lonS delayed 10
luan inc a4i scrutinize with candid.
t,a.lt - t!ts. Iir srcat SOY crn-
r.rlI 81. IA i has too often been
made use ui Tor private and selfish
purposes. ana lnose who used ii had
l.4-o, a. the people.
II lat a sion mas been vouch-
- I'd rs - our lie IS a whole. We
s.. the had with tie So1d, the de
based and dccadcnt with the souni
and vital. With lAls vision we ap-
proach new affairs. Our duty is TO
cIcausc, To reconsider, TO restore, to
correct the evil without impairIng
the good TO purify and humanize ev-
cry process OF our cCmOmn life with
Out weakening or sentlmentalizing
il. There has been something crude
and hcartless and unfeeling in our
haste to succeed and be great o ur
thought has been Let every man
look out for himself. let every gem
GRAFTON look out for ITSELF while
we reared giant machinery which
made it impossible that any but
those who stood at the levers of con-
troll should have chance to look
our for themselves. We had not for
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that We had set up a
policy which was meant to serve the
humblest as well as the most power
full, with an eye single to the stand
ards OF justice and fair play. and
remembered it with pride. But We
were very needless and in a hurry
to be great.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lcssness have fallen from our eyes
/ We have made up our minds Ia
square every process of our national
life again with the standards we 50
proudly set up at the BEGINNING and
have always carried at our hearts.
Our work is a work of restoration.
We have itcmized with some de-
gree of particularly the things that
ought to be altered and here are
some of the chief items A tariff
which cuts rs of from our proper
part in the commerce of the world,
violates the Just principles of taxa
ton. and makes the government I,
/ facile instrument in the hands OF
private interests; a banking and
currency system based upon the ne
cessity of the government to sell it,
bonds nifty years ago and perfectly
adapted TO concentrating cash and
! restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all it's sides,
financial as we'll as administrative
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the
opportunities of labor, and exploits
without renewing or conserving the
natural resources OF the country; a
body Of agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency of great bust
ness undertakings or served as it
should be through the instrumental
lily Of science taken directly to the
, farm. or afforded the facilities of
credit best suited to its practical
Leeds; watercOurses undevelopcd
waste places unreclaimed, forests
! INTENDED. fast disappearing without
Plan or prospect of renewal, unrc-
garded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
"i production. but we have not stud
led cost or economy as We should
either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen. or as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government
may be put at the service of human
lily. in safeguarding the health OF
the nation, the health of it's men and
its women and its children, as wei
as their rights in the struggle for
existence This is no sentimental
duty. The firm basis of government
is Justice. not pity These are mat
ters of justice. There can be no
equality or opportunity, the first es
sential OF justice in the body poli-
/ tic. If men and women and childr,,.
he not shielded in their lives. their
very vitality. from the consequence,
OF great industrial and social pro-
cesses which they cannot alter. con
troll, or singly cope with Society
must see TO il that ii does not itsel
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