Evening star., 1923-06-24
ny THOMAS n. MARsnALL.

ny THOMAS n. MARSHALL.
Former Vice President Of the Un1tea
States.
No one on earth has a finer sense
OF intellectual and moral honesty
than the average American. This ap-
plies equally to the native born or
naturalixed citizen. Give him q thor
ough understanding of any subject
and he will reach q correct conclusion
and have the courage to put his con-
clusion into concrete conduct Our
troubles do not arise from inherently
bad heads ,or bad hearts, but from
bad digestion. They come from TAX
ing into the system too many calories,
from overlooking ourselves with too
much of the same kind Of food. Inn
pulse takes the place of deliberate
Judgment, and, strangely enough. the
impulse usually arises over a wrong.
An evil once detected must be recti-
fed, although the remedy may be
only q partial cure, or in the end may
breed new diseases worse than the
one to be eradicated.
Dawning Day Inevitable.
1t sometimes takes US quite a while
to orient ourselves. but we face the
dawning day sooner or later. i well
remember the long. long struggle to
educate the American people up to an
understanding of the fact that be-
yond temporary relief to poverty, ad-
ditional relief was but contributing &
to delinquency. / recall our village
pauper and how profoundly We were
impressed with the idea that when
we had contributed to his needs we
had done God a service. He was far
stouter than / am or ever was, but
having gotten into the attitude Of
receiving public benefactions, he had
lost all sense of personal response
bility and lived. not because he loved
life or hoped to do anything in It,
but because benefactions enabled him
to live without any EFFORT on his part.
we were not doing the right thing by
him or by the community. We in
sisted that he go to work. and we got
him a job. In a short time his self
respect was restored. and thereafter
ne was a self-sustaining and useful
In its long fight for a square deal.
labor has constantly sought to pass
from the strike to Legislation, but
sometimes wonder whether in its
charity methods and insisted upon
supporting fellow-workers whether
they worked or not. OF course, the
wrongs of the past have made many
of the demands Of the present, but
II Is we'll to question whether all Of
these demands are justified, whether
some of them, if acceded to, may not
result in common evil rather than in
common good. Viewing one segment
of subject in the light Of proposed
legislation is unsafe. No one has
ever dared to advance the doctrine
that soecial privileges are 10 be
interests. although mo denial Is
entered that special privileges have
been granted. Always 1t has been
claimed that they were really to the
benefit of the people at large.
Right to Living Wage.
l do not wish to put myself on
record as believing that there In no
difference between an individual, ex-
crcising his rights and his judgment
TO satisfy himself, and those crea-
lures which, either by charter or
consent, are purely the product of
the law. I make no argument op-
posed to the principle that every man
who is willing to render a good days
work ought, in this God-b1essed re-
lublic, to have an opportunity to
make a wage that will enable him
to support himself and family in a
manner beftting the self-respecting
American. ! am not at all sure that
such a provision should not be in