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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 47
President's Mes
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duct that Is, by his character and
not by his wealth or Intellect. If
ho makes his. fort o honestly, there
is no just cause or quarrel with
him. Indeed, we have .nothing but
the" kindliest feelings of admiration
for the successful business man
who behaves decently, whether
ho has made his success by build-.
ing or managing a railroad or by
shipping goods over that railroad. The
big railroad men and big shippers are
simply Americans of the ordinary type
who have developed to an extraordi
nary degree certain great business
qualities. They are neither better nor
worse than their fellow citizens of
smaller means. They are merely more
able in certain lines and therefore
exposed to certain peculiarly strong
temptations. These temptations have
not sprung newly into being; the ex
ceptionally successful among mankind
have always been exposed to them;
but they have grown amazingly in
power as a result of the extraordinary
development of industrialism among
new lines, and under thcie new con
ditions, which the lawmakers of old
could not foresee and thereto nnni.i
not provide against, they have be
come so serious and menacmr as to
demand entirely new remedies. It is
in the interest of the best type of rail
road man and the " st type of shipper
no less than of the public that there
should be governmental supervision
and regulation of these great business
operations, for the same reason that
it is in the interest of the corporation
which wishes to treat its employees
aright that there shou'J be an effec
tive employers' liability act, or an ef
fective system of factory laws to pre
vent the abuse of women and chil
dren. All such legislation frees the
corporation that wishes to do well
from being driven into doing ill, in
order, to compete with its rival, which
prefers to do ill. We desire to set
up a moral standard. There can be
no delusion more fatal to the nation
than the delusion that the standard of
profits, of business prosperity, is suffi
cient in judging any business or poli
tical question- from rate legislation
to municipal government. Business
success, whether for the individual
or for the nation, is a good thing
only so far as it is accompan. by
and develops a high standard of con
ducthonor, integrity, civic courage.
The kind of business prosperity that
blunts the standard of honor, that puts
an inordinate value on mere wealth,
that makes a man ruthless and con
scienceless in trade and we': and
cowardly in citizenship, Is not a good
Epilepsy
can fco cured.' To those afflicted this con
voys a wonderful message. Though quite
common, it is only a short time since It
was considered incurable The discovery
that it was purely a nervous disorder has
led to the application of the great nerve
restorer,
Dr. Miles'
Restorative Nervine
with the happy result that thousands
have been eorrnlnrnlv numri .,i ,.tr"
are being cured every day. '
"In tho year '92 I was stricken with
epilepsy. Doctors treated me for several
years, but I grow worse. I would have
such awful fits. I cannot toll my awful
Si"?01.1".?8- ,A drufirglst recommended Dr.
Miles' Nervine, and I bought a bottle, and
found It helped mo, and I took three more
and, am cured. I had only ono light snoll
after I commenced taking it. I do hope
tho time will como when oveiybody will
know that your medicine cures thes.
awful fits." JOHN LEWIS, Clarion. Pa
Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold under a guar
antee that your druggist will refund your
money If first bottle does not benefit
thing at all, but a very bad thing
for the nationv This government
stands for manhood hrst and for busi
ness only as an adjunct of manhood.
"The question of transportation
lies at the roo of all industrial suc
cess, and the revolution In transport
ation which has taken place during
the last half century has been the
most important factor in the growth
ui me uuw industrial conditions. Most
emphatically we do not wish tosee
i" jiuau ujl gruui iiueius reiuseu tne
reward for his talents. Still less do
we wish to see him penalized; but
wo desire to see the system of rail
road transportation so handled that
the strong man shall be given no ad
vantage over tho weak man. We wish
to insure as fair treatment for the
small town as for tho big city; for
mo smau snipper as tor the big ship
per. In the old days the highway of
commerce, whether by water or by a
road on land, was open to all- it be
longed to the public and the traffic?
along it was free. At present the
railway is this highway, and we must
do our best to see that It is kept open
to all on equal terms. Unlike the
um uiKuwuy it is a very dicicult and
complex thing to manage, and it is
far better that it should be managed
by private Individuals than by tho
government. But it can only be so
managed on condition that justice be
done the public! It is because, in
my judgment, public ownership of rail
roads is hierhlv nminafmhia . ...ij
probably in this country entail far
reaching disaster, thnr. t tu rn ..
such supervision and regulation of
them in the interest of the public as
will make it evident that there is no
need for public ownership. The oppo
nents of government regulation dwell
upon the difficulties to bo encountered
and the intricate and involved nature
of the problem. Their contention is
true. It is a complicated and delicate
problem, and all kinds of difficulties
are sure to arise in connection with
any plan of solution, while no plan
will bring all the benefits hoped for
by its more optimistic adherents.
Moreover, under any healthy plan,
the benefits will develop gradually
and not rapidly. Finally, we must
clearly understand that the public
servants who are to do this peculiarly
responsible and delicate work must
themselves be of the highest type
both as regards integrity and effi
ciency. They must be well paid, for
otherwise able men nnn -. fii
long run be secured; and they must -
ioouoo u iuuy proDity wni"n will re
volt as quickly at the thought of pand
ering to any gust of popular preju
dice against rich men as- at the
thought of anything eyen remotely re
sembling subserviency, to rich men.
But while I fully admit the difficul
ties in the way, I do not for a mo
ment admit that. thfiRo difflnnlffnc n
rant us in stopping in our effort to
secure a wise and just system. They
should have no other effect than to
spur us on to the exercise of the res
olution, the even-handed justice, and
the fertility of resource, which we like
to think of as typically American, and
which will in the end achieve good
results in this as in other fields of
activity. The task is a great, one and
underlies the tas" of dealing with
tho whole industrial problem. But
the fact that it is a great problem does
not warrant us in shrinKinr from tho
attempt to solve it. At present we face
such utter lack of supervision, such
J..UCUUIU uuui cue restraints or law,
that excellent men have often been
literally forced into doing what they
deplored because otherwise they were
left at the mercy cf tho unscrupulous
competitors. To rail at and assail
the men who have done as they best
could under simli nnnri.Hnna
plishes little. What we need to do,
is to develop an orderly system; and I
0.1, a ayaium cun only come through
the gradually increased exercise of
the right of efficient government control.
BEYOND UNDERSTANDING
The mob assaults on the Jews in
Russia cannot be understood at all
unless some subtle diabolism is at
work lashing blind ignorance into a
bloodthirsty rush upon the Innocent.
When the Russian government and
people learn from the creat suifscrin-
tlons pouring in that the sympathies
of the most enlightened nations is
with the Jews struggling against mob
murder and rapine the undoubted ef
fact will be to succor the downtrodden
race, for tho relief funds show that
the victims are not friendless, and
also amount to a worldwide protest.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
REVEALED AT LAST
James Hazen Hyde testifies that
Senator Depew tried to get him ap
pointed ambassador to France. We
have had confidence all along that
the policyholders or the Equitable
would finally learn why they were
paying Senator Depew a retainer of
$20,000 a year. -Washington Post.
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