Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-06


 long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against fortutous change, against storm and accident Our life contains every great thing. and contains it in rich abundance.
 But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded With riches has come in eXcusable waste. We have squander- ed great part of what. we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of na- ture, without which our genius for en- terprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as we'll as admir- ably efficient We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thought fully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener-
 
 physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon l whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years l through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, 1 nuf of 10 tories and out of every home where the struggle had it's intimate and fam iliar seat With the great government went many deep secret things which | we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid. fearless eyes The great government we loved has too often been made use of for pri- vate and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the peo- pie.
 At last d vision has been vouchsaf- ed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the de- based and decadent with the sound and vital With this vision We ap- proach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse. to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanze every processs@ s@ our common life without weaspyA or scn'imen'a''zing it. Thers/has been something crude and heaftless and unfeeling in our haste ttsucceed and be great. Our thought has been Let every man look out for for itself while we reared giant ma chinery which made it possible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have q chance to | look out for themselves. We had not forgotten our morals We remember ed well enough that we had set up the humblest as well as the most powerful, with an eye single to the 1 standards of justice and fair play, and remembered it with pride. But we were very needless and in hurry to be great.
 We have come now to the sober sec ond thought The scales of needless ness 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 l 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 particularity the things that ought l to be altered and here are some of the chief items A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the com merce of the world violates the just principles of taxation. and makes the government a facile instrument in the 1 hands of private interests; a banking and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell it's bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to concentrating cash and re- stricting credits. an industrial system which. take it on all sides, finan- eal as we'll as administrative, holds capital in leading strings. restricts the liberties and limits the opportuni- ties of labor, and exploits without re- newing or conserving the natural re- sources of the country; body of az ricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business un- dertakings 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 it's practical needs; watercourses undeyeloped. waste places unreclaim- ed. forests intended fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effec@