The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

most powerful, with an eye single 10
the standards OF Justice and fair play.
and remembered il with pride. But
We were very needless and in a hurry
10 be great.
We have now come to the sober
L second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our ewes.
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.
Itemizes Needed Changes.
we have itemized with some de-
gree of particularity 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 taxa
ton, and makes the government a
facile instrument in the hands of pri-
Eate interests; a banking and cur
rency system based upon the necess-
ity Of the government to sell its
bonds fifty years ago and perfectly
adapted TO concentrating cash and re-
stricting credits: an Industrial sys-
TEN which, take it on all its sides.
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the OPP
portunities of labor, and exploits
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 Instrumental
ity of science taken directly to the
farm. or afforded the facilities of
credit best suited to its practical
needs; watercourses undeveloped.
waste places unreclaimed. forests un-
tended. fast disappearing without
plan or prospect of renewal, unre-
garded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of 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 perfect
ed the means by which government
may be put at the service of human
ity. in safeguarding the health of the
nation, the health of its men and its
women and its children, as well as
'iNii iibhiS Aht LOT tNlSl-
ence. This is no sentimental duty
The firm basis of government is JUS
opportunity, the first essential of JUS
tice, not pity. These are matters of
Justice. There can be no equality or
tice in the body polite, if men and
women and children be not shielded
in their lives, their very vitality,
from the consequences of great in
dustrial and social processes which
they cannot alter, control, or singly
cope with. Society must see to IL
that it does not itself crush or weak
EN- or damage its own constituent
parts. The first duty of law is to
keep sound the society 1t serves.
Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and
laws determining conditions of labor
which individuals are powerless to
determine for themselves are init
mate parts of the very business of
Justice and legal efficiency.
Age of Restoration.
These are some of the things we
ought to do. and not leave the 9TH
ers undone, the old-fashioned, never
to-be-neglected, fundamental safe
guarding of property and of indivi-
dual right. This is the high enter
/ prise OF the new day; to lift every
thing that concerns our life as a ma
tion to the light that shines from
the hearthfire of every mans con-
science and vision of the right. 1t
is inconceivable that we should do
this as partisans; 1t is inconceivable
We should do il in ignorance of the
facts as they are or in blind haste.
We shall restore, not destroy. We
shall deal with our economic system
as 1t is and as it may be modified, not
as 1t might be If we had clean sheet
OF paper TO write upon; and step by
step we shall make it what 1t should
be, in the spirit of those who ques-
tion their own wisdom and seek
counsel and knowledge, not shallow
self-satisfaction or the excitement of
excursions whittier they cannot tell.
Justice, and only justice, shall always
be our motto.
And yet 1t will be no cool process
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred. stirred by a solemn
passion, stirred by the knowledge of
wrong, of ideals lost, of government
too often debauched and made an in
strument of evil. The feelings with
which We face this new age of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart-strings like some air out of
GODS own presence. where justice
and mercy are reconciled and the
judge and the brother are one. We
know our task to be no mere task of
politics but 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
/ Dy nd tha H..