The Washington herald., 1913-08-03
As President Colonel Received Support Of Famous Penns
vania Senator on Almost Every Question IN Which
Executive Was Interested

sailed me for sending my messages to
the dead mans wife. i knew the sdi-
tors Of this paper, and the editor who
was their predecessor. They had led lives
of bodily ease and the avoidance Of bodily
risk: they earned their livelihood by the
practice Of mendacity for profit; and they
delivered malignant judgment on . dead
man who, whatever his faults. had In
his youth freely risked his life for a
great ideal. and who when death was
already clutching his breast had spent al
most his last breath on behalf Of humble
and friendless people whom he had served
with disinterested loyalty.
BY the time rnat 1 was ending my
career as Civil Service Commissioner I
was already growing TO understand that
mere Improvement in political conditions
by itself was not enough / dimly realized
that an even greater fight must be waged
to improve economic conditions. and to
secure social and industrial justice. Jus
tice as between individuals and justice
as between classes. / began to see that
political effort was largely valuable as 1t
found expression and resulted in such
social and industrial betterment. ! was
gradually puzzling out, or trying to puz-
zle out the answers TO various questions
| some as yet unsolvable to any of US. but
| for the solution of which II Is the bounden
duty of all OF US to work. / had grown
/ TO realize very keenly that the duty II
the government to protect women and
| children must be extended to include the
protection Of all the crushable elements
of labor. 1 saw that II was the affair
of all our people to see that justice OBJ
1 tained between the big corporation and
its employees. and between the big cor
poration and its smaller rivals. as well az
its customers and the general public. l
saw that 1t was the affair Of all Of US.
and not only Of the employer. II divi-
dends went up and wages went down:
| that II was to the interest of all Of US
that a full share of the benefit of i'm
proved machinery sholud go TO the work.
man who used the machinery; and also
that it was TO the interest Of all Of US
that each man. whether brain worker or
hand worker, should do the best work Of
which he was capable, and that there
should be some correspondence between
the value Of the work and the value Of
the reward. 1t is these and many similar
lQuestions which in their sum make up the
great social and industrial problems Of
today. the most interesting and important
Of the problems with which our public
life must deal
Public Opinion.
II handling these problems I believe
that much can be done by the govern
lment. Furthermore. / believe that. after
all that the government can do has been
Idone, there will remain as the most vital
of all factors the Individual character Of
1.-THE average man and the average woman.
No governmental action can do more than
supplement Individual action Moreover.
there must be collective action of kinds
distinct from governmental action. A
body of public opinion must be formed.
must make itself felt. and in the end
transform. and be transformed by, the
gradual raising Of individual standards OF
conduct.