Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-01
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.& fcontin,,oa ,,nro ,or.
and nothing can concern me as an
more deeply than the
health, the happiness and the enlight-
enment of every fellow-American.
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s' . nav a" Alnrieaa's o"ic
pelleVe mat none OF us a De
49, -. nnu ,iappS or ieaen our niest
to e hat all Americans are safe.
believe that If a wise COD notes "a
sparrow's fall. M. life can he so ob-
cure and hnmhIe that IL shall 6e.
Only nv reason of the denth and
permananca ~ spch holief car he
rounded onr FRA ve du+v and our SOL
emn obligation 10 consider the subject
Of social iusticc witho1t mere emo
ron Wit ho,t nnore insniro tiona, words
without mere ~entrancing phrases
h more s,opans INF with that
wisdom which 10 needed whom the de-
sire If omr ha, re- and heads must he
translated into terms NJ living action
ana act,,al achie,ament
The sncial instice that T conceive is
not pa~ternalism. Il would be easy to
make 4 so. and danperou. indeed to
me hest shirt that Americans can
haye-the shirt of expressing by the
indiv;dna1 free will one,s own merits.
canncitv and worth We do not want
government To mr. that expres-
aion of fraa will even nv henevolence
but we do mean to preserve in Amer
100 on onnal onnort,,nitv and a pre-
n-aredness for self .exnression therein.
even +honph we I,se the government
Il 40 IT
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MI a mero sentiment To nv mini a
social iustice nolicy in government
can not and shoulh NOT he confined to
n n-oorann for tha f1ow If henefits
from some uncertain and magic source
at he seat ~ 7 could not
even consider q nolicy of social Justice
which 10 cnnce;ved as 81 many vision
aries conserve it.. as a right of man
lind r viii onlv consider # as an Oh
ligation of mankind.
r refuse to subscribe TO the doctrine
wbich haa eona 81 far to de,nde the
word that even citizcnshin is based
anon riphts 7 he,;ove and have re-
neatad,v 60 I'D that citizenshin is based
nnan nb,iration.
T%u;il not aven annroach the CON
sheraton of a no1icv of social Justice
,,nlas. II !. fo,,ndad nm the stnlwart
American doctrine Of the duties of
e~vervone of rs tn all Of us. The first
measure of social Justice to which
Anasn;aa ~,,se oIu,.ys 5o1,o+a herrelf
10 ne dn+v ~ ~citizenshin tn vote with
Coincidence ~ nreaar,a aus and IN do
n,and thair enforcement II is the oh-
iip.tion ~ all true Americans to live
cleon lives ana to engage with head
and hand in honest rsefnl n%roduction
and toll
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hess soc'a1 "c'Aare "orAer'
The best social welfare worker in
: the world Is the man or woman VINO
lives r~ighteously and does the a
well which he or h is mos capable
Of doing. thereby adding to the sum
total Of human accomplishment.
Civilization, however. has recognize
ed, and sound administration OF pub
lie affairs will recognize with increas-
ing conviction. hat individualism and
the free-wIled self-expresston OF the
individual, even the safety and the
prosperity of all OF us may not be
maintained If we do not act together
to maintain them. Such maintenance,
wisely, undertaken, is directed either
to the task OF upholdinE the standards
Of all of us, such as the standards OF
public sanitation and education. or n
is directed toward the few who have
not had enough Of equal opportunity
10 guarantee ineln p"dEuClpdaIOH III
equal opportunity.
The task before us--to build high
standards OF social justice in America
lis sometimes badly defined, and ]
think we all regret that the methods
TO be pursued have been allowed to fly
without definite understanding of their
landing places. Social justice. like the
phrase '.self- determination of free
people, is a slogan which sounds Sc
well that the world is beguiled away
from deciding what wise things may
be really done, about it.
For my part. I have no taste and
no conscience which will allow ms to
talk to Americans with phrases which
I myself can not define and with a
program which is not practical and
capable Of f%u]fllment.
Let US be practical in our idealisn
Let US plan the things we can wisely
do. and then do them.
I believe that there is no step more
practical, no step which will near
more to the growth Of Americas So
cial welfare; no step which will guar
antee better Americas social justice
than one which I now propose to you
than by adaOtinE the machinery of our