The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-23

"A great u|tInOCTdCy mas got 10 De
progressive, or it will soon cease to
be either great or a democracy"
THE important thing is geuel ally
the next STEP We ought not to take
ii unless we are sure that it IS az
yisable: but we should not hesitate
to take ii when once we are sdss."
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"0ur country-this great republic
means nothing unless it means the
triumph of a real democracy, the
triumph of popular government, and,
in the long run, of an economic sys-
tenn under which each man shall be
guaranteed the opportunity to show
the best that there is in him. That
is why the history of America is
now the central feature of the history
of the world; for the world has set
its face hopeful toward our democ-
racy; and oh, my fellow citizens,
each one of you carries on your
shoulders not only the burden of doing
well for the sake of your own country
but the burden of doing well and of
seeing that this nation does well for
the sake of mankind"
Our effort should be to raise the
level of self respect, self-control.
sense of duty in both sexes, and not
TO push them down to an evil equality
of moral turpitude by doing away
with the self-restraint and sense OF
obligation which have been slowly
built up through the ages. We must
bring them to a moral level by rails
pressing the high"
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There is terrible evil in our social
and industrial conditions today, and
unless we recognize this fact and try
resolutely to do what We can to
remedy the evil, we run great risk of
seeing men in their misery turn to the
false teachers whose doctrines would
indeed lead them TO greater misery,
but who do at least recognize the
fact that they are now miserable"
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I'VE Americans are only on the
threshold of the campaign for a bet
ter national life. We have only begun
to consider our duty toward the child;
to realize that the child-drudge is apt
to turn into the shiftless grown-up:
to realize that the child growing up
in the streets has flrst-class oppor-
tunities for tending toward criminal
ity; and. therefore. that Fairgrounds
may be as necessary as schools. We
have only begun TO realize hat the
child's mother, If wise and duty-per-
forming. is the only citizen who de-
serves even more from the state than
does the soldier; and that, if in need.
so that she may rear and care for her
children at home"
Not so much as the first step
toward real civilization can be taken
until there arises some development
of the right Of private property; that
is. until men pass out of the stage
OF savage socialism in which the yio-
lent and the thriftless forcibly con-
stitute themselves co-heirs with tic
industrious and the intelligent ia what
the labor of the latter produces. But
it is equally true that every step
toward civilization is marked by a
check on individualism."
1--WE stand for equality o. oppor-
tunity, but not for equality IT reward
unless there is also equality cf
service. If the service is equal. let
the reward be equal; but let the re-
ward depend on the service; and.
mankind being composed as 1t is.
there will be inequality of service for
a long time to come, no matter how
great the equality of opportunity may
be; and lust so long as there is in
equality of service IL is eminent'y de-
sirable that there should be %inequal-
ity of reward"