Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-05

cost or economy as we should either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Matters of Justice.
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 its woaen
and its children, as well as their rigntss
in the struggle for existence. This 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 chill
dren be not shielded in their lives.
their very vitality, from the conse-
quences of great industrial and social
processes which they cannot aIterss
control or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself
| crush or weaken or damage it's own
constituent parts. The first duty of
law is to keep sound the society It'll
| serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws.
! and laws determining conditions OIL
labor which individuals are powerlessl
to determine for themselves are inti-I
mate parts of the very business Of jus
tice and legal efficiency
These are some Of the things wei
ought to do and not leave the othersl
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be-
neglected, fundamental safeguarding
of property and OF individual right
This is the high enterprise of the new
day; to lift everything that concerns
| our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire of every
mans conscience and vision of theI
right 1t is inconceivable that vel
| should do this as partisans; it is in-s
! conceivable we should do 1t in ignor-s
ance of the facts as they are or ia
| blind haste We shall restore, not de-
! stroy. We shall deal with our econ
! omic system as it is and as it mayI
be modified not as it might be IL vel
had clean sheet of paper to writeI
upon; and step by step we shall makel
| it what 1t should be, in the spirit OF
those who question their own wisdomE
| and seek counsel and knowledge, mott
| shallow dissatisfaction or the excitet
ment of excursions whittier they cant
not tell Justice. and only justice-s
shall always be our motto.
Task Not One of Politics.
And yet it 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-I
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 owl 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 a task which shall search usI
through and through, whether we bel
able to understand our time and the
/ need of our people, whether we be in-
deed their spokesman and interpre
tiers, whether we have the pure heart
to comprehend and the rectified will
to choose our high course of action.
This is not day of triumph; it is
day of dedication. Here muster, not
the .orces of party, but the forces OF
humanity. Mems hearts wait upon u.s.
mems lives hang in the balance; mems
hopes call upon us to say what We
will do. Who shall live up to the
great trust? Who dares fail to try
summon all honest men, all patriotic,
all forwardlooking men, to my side
God helping me, ] will not fail them.
IL they will but counsel and sustain
me!