New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-02

work under them or OF the publlc
which they serve, but as just recog-
milton Of the fact that their activities
have been to the benefit Of the public
and that the rewards Of these activities
have been, with a measurable approx
nation 10 justice, shared with and
among the people who work for them:
unfortunately there are many OF
our people who have refused 10 con
slider more than one side OF this prob
lem. 1t can never be rightly approached
or satisfactorily solved unless full con
sideration is given both sides, unless
there is O real attempt TO combine com
mon sense with a love OF fair play.
There are some men who talk and act
as II all that is necessary Is that KIND
of efficiency which produces an enor-
nous immediate result and great pros
perty for the few without regard to the
fact that it creates among many others
ranking sense Of injustice which IS
bound in the future TO work harm.
con the other hand there are any
number of Missionaries, and OF dema-
gogues. who take advantage OF vision
aries, and both these classes often talk
and act as II men who did not receive
their fair share of prosperity could
somehow be benefited by having the
prosperity destroyed so that they would
/ receive no share at all. Both types,
/ the type Of prosperous man who gains
his prosperity by exploiting his fellows
and the type of unprosperous man who
seeks to crafty his anger by wrecking
| the prosperity of others, are equally
undesirable from the standpoint OF the
/ Republic as a whole.
Moreover, morally they are really OF
the same type. Each denounces the
/ views Of the other; and yet his own
view is merely that others, changed IN
/ form but identical in essence. The ar
/ rogance OF the rich man who exploits
and Expresses his fellow who is less
we'll off and the malignant. envy and
| hatred with which a certain type OF
/ agtator regards the man who is better
/ Off, although in appearance opposite
views. are fundamentally merely dl-
verse manifestations of the same evil
spirit. The arrogance felt by the un-
scrupulous man of means toward his
{ less favored brother and the envious
| hatred felt by the unscrupulous man Of
/ poverty toward his brother who is bet
I ter off are merely two sides OF the
same evil shield. Arrogance Is painted
{ on one side and envy on the other, but
the shield itself is the shield OF selfish
disregard for a brothers welfare.
Sees Crisis After War.
"After this war we shall face a
/ Europe which has cast off the shackles
of the past and which industrislly will
be as aggressive as any military power
has ever been in a military sense. II
is time for this great country of ours
to be unified in its Americansm. One
phase Of that AmeTicanism must be the
Americanization Of our industries,
With this end in view it is an absolute
necessity that there shall be protection,
that we shall have protective tariff ad-
ministered as ] have elsewhere describ-
ed. But while such tariff is essential 20
our permanent well being and while, II
there is not such tariff, we shall face
the gravest economic disaster after the
close Of the war, we cannot afford to
forget that it is merely the beginning
of securing for our industries the eff
cheney and the justice which are irdis-
pensable. The protective tariff Is the
barrier behind which our industries can