The Springdale news., 1913-03-14

cleanse, to re ons.der, 10 Ie7to '' correct the evil without impaifihg the good. to purify and humanze every process of our common ne without weakening or santlmehtai.%- ing it. There has been sometAlns crude and heartless and unfeelins li our haste to succeed and be great 1 Our thought has been Let every man look out fer himself, let ey- cry generation look out for itseif
 while We reared giant machinery which made il imro -sible that any but those who steed at inc levers of control should have chance 10 look out for themselves We had not forgotten our morals We ie- membered well efeHgh that we had set up q policy which wa meant 10 serve the humblest as well as the most powerful. with an eve s'nsie to the standards of jnsfiCe and fair play. and remembered it With pride But we were needless and in hurry to be great
 We have come now to the sober second thought. The ales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every progess of our na- tional life again with the standards We so proudly set HR a The begin hing and have always carried tn our hearts Our work is work of restoration.
 We have itemized with some de- gree of particularly the things that ought to be altered and here are some Of tie chief items X tariff which cuts us from our proper part in the commerce of The world, yto= lates the just principles of taxa ton, and makes the government q facile instrument in tHe hands of private interests; banking and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell it's bonds fifty years ago and per fectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take 1t on all sides. financial as well as ad- ministratiye, holds capital in lead ing strings. restricts the liberties and limits the opportunities of la Dor, and exploits without renewing or conserving tie natural resourg ges of the country, body of agrfeul= tural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business under i takings or served as it should be through the instrumentality of sci ence taken directly to the farm. or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to it's practical needs watercourses undeyeloped waste places unreelaimed. forests unteHd ed, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of ZreneWel. unregarded waste heaps at every mine We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but We have uoJ studied cost or economy as Ue should either as organizers of jn- dustry, as statesmen. or as iadyid- uals
 Nor have We studied and per fected the means by which govern ment may be put al the service oi humanity, in safe guarding the health of the nation, the health of its men and it's women and it's child ren, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is nc sentimental duty The firm basis oi government is justice. not pity i 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 children be not shielded in their lives, their vitality, from the con sequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with Society must see to 1t that t does not itself crush or weaken or dam age it's own constituent parts TEe first dutY of law is 10 keep sound the society it serves Sanitary laws pure food laws, and laws determu- ing conditions of labor which n8t- viduals are poWerless 10 deteemtns for themselves are intimate part, of the very business of justice and legal efficiency.
 These are some of the things Ne ought to do, and not leave the otls= CTS undone, the old fashioned, nos- er-to-be-negleeted fundamental safe. guarding of pfoI erty and of inIiv- idual right. This is the high enter prise of the new day; 10 lift every. thing that concerns our life as 2 nation to the light that shines from the hearthfre Of every mans con science and vision of the right | 1 is inconceivable that We should ao