Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-03-07

decadent with the sound and vital
With this vision we approach new ar
fairs. Our duty is TO cleanse, TO re-
consider. to restore, to correct the evil
without impairing the good, to purify
and humanize every process OF our
common life without weakening or
sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste
to succeed and be great. Our thought
has been, Let every man look out Tor
himself, let every generation look out
for ITSELF" while we reared giant ma
chinery which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
of control should have chance TO
look out for themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals.
We remembered we'll enough that we
had set up a policy which was meant
to serve the humblest as well as the
most powerful, with an eye single to
the standards of justice and fair play
and remembered it with pride.
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 proudly set
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work is a
work of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularly the things that ought
to be altered and here are some of
the chief items:
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
facile instrument in the hands of pri-
vate interests; banking and currency
system based upon the necessity of
the government to sell it's bonds so
years ago and perfectly adapted to con-
centrating cash and restricting cred
it's; an industrial system which, take
it on all it's sides, financial as well as
administrative holds capital in leading
strings, restricts the liberties and linn
its the opportunities of labor, and ex-
ploits without renewing or conserving
the natural resources of the country;
body of agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency of great bust
ness undertakings or served as it
should be through the instrumentality
of science taken directly to the farm,
or afforded the facilities of credit best
suited to its practical needs; water
courses undeveloped, waste places I'M
reclaimed, forests INTENDED, fast dis
appearing without plan or prospect of
renewal, unregarded waste heaps at
every mine.
Should Study Economy.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should, either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity, in
safeguarding the health of the nation
the health of its men and it's women
and its children, as well as their rights
III INC oil uSSlS lOI SAlSlenCe. inns lis
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 children
g be not shielded in their lives, their
d very vitality, from the consequences
e of great industrial and social processes
/. which they cannot alter control, OF
y singly cope with. Society must see tc
g it that it does not itself crush OF
e weaken or damage it's own constituent
t parts. The first duty of law is to keer
n sound the society it serves.
/ Sanitary laws, pure food laws. and
It laws determining conditions of labor
which individuals are powerless to de
termine for themselves are intimate
parts of the very business of Justice
d and legal efficiency.
e These are some of the things We
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