The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-03-07

ITSELF while we reared giant machtn-
cry which made it impossible that any
but those who stood at the levers OF
control should have a chance to look
out for themselves. We had not for
gotten 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 power
full, with an eye single to the stand
ards Of justice and fair play, and re-
membered 1t with pride. But we were
| very needless and in a hurry to be
great.
Chief Items In Program.
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 proud
ly 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: A 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 a facile instrument in
the hands of private interests; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity Of the government to
sell its bonds fifty years ago and per
/ fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
. system which, take it on all its sides.
: financial as well as administrative.
holds capital in leading strings. re-
t stricts the liberties and limits the OPP
portunities Of labor, and exploits with
8 out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources Of the country; a body
8 Of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should be
through the instrumentality Of sciences
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
, the facilities of credit best suited I'd
- it's practical needs; water courses I'M
- developed, waste places unreclaimed
forests INTENDED, fast disappearing
- without plan or prospect of renewal
~unregarded waste heaps at every mine
= We have studied as perhaps no othei
:. nation has the most. effective mean;
= of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as We should eithe'
- as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
1T Matters of Justice.
We Nor nave we studied and perfecte'
the means by which government ma
be put at the service of humanity, l
nd safeguarding the health Of the nation
ar. the health of it's men and its wome
ly and its children, as we'll as their right
nd in the struggle for existence. This
as no sentimental duty. The firm basi
,v- of government is justice, not pit,
xn These are matters of justice. Their
ed can be no equality or opportunity, tn
.. first essential of justice in the bod
lat polite, if men and women and chi
bly, dren be not shielded in their live
its their very vitality, from the cons
md quences Of great industrial and soci
les processes which they cannot alte
tilt control or singly cope with. Socie
len must see to it that it does not itse
Ups crush or weaken or damage its ov
lat, constituent parts. The first duty
in law is to keep sound the society
serves. Sanitary laws. pure food Law
the and laws determining conditions
and labor which individuals are powerle
,rts to determine for themselves are in
ing, mate parts of the very business OF j
of tico and legal efficiency.
up These are some of the things
srn ought to do, and not leave the othe
ons undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-l
lot neglected, fundamental safeguard
pom Of property and of individual rig
INST This is the high enterprise of h Z
anu day; to lift everything that oncer
cry our life as a nation to the light Il
rlcn shines from the hearth1re of eve
mans conscience and vision of
right. 1t is inconceivable that
should do this as partisans; 1t is
A conceivable we should do 1t In ign
ance of the facts as they are or
" blind haste. We shall restore. not
o n stroy. We shall deal with u &c
% omic system as 1t is and as 1t II
: " be modified. not as 1t might be If
10 had a clean sheet of paper to WI
Gu upon; and step by step We shall mi
eful. 49, n,ho onos,ion the,r own wisd
mir O"s $50, and Lnowladge
~ vi shallow self-satisfaction or the ex'
We ment of excursions whittier they
not tell. Justice, and only just
sner- "
fear Task Not One OF Po'ltieS
the And yet it WIN be no cool proc
upon of mere science. THE nation has b
n of deeply stirred. stirred by a sole
,ears passion. stirred by the knowledge
of It wrong, of ideals lost. Of governu
the too often debauched and made an
life, strument OF evil. The feelings
S -Ai.h LILO fano this nav are of T