CAPE MAY HERALD THURSDAY APRIL IQ 1906.

The Mao With the Muck Rake President Roosevelt Tells In Ringing Words How He Can Work Good or Evil

Qeaa LM** ud Bljfct TUafciat Mnt Be Bronthi About Spiritually cud Ettkuity—Wtr ou Force* •( CtO Stroudy Urjed U Conducted With Saulty, Hoaetty tad Sell Kntralat — Protrusive Tax on Vaat Fortuae* Adracatod to Prercat Their laheritaace or Traas- *loa la Eatlrety

I N in nddrraa nt tbe rpcaot lay In* of the ct>ru«?r*tone of the office buildin* of the bouae of repreaentattre* l*rv»ldeut Rooaevelt aald In part: The material problems that face oa today are not such as In Washington's time, but the underlying facta of human nature are the same now aa they were then. Coder altered external form we war with the same tend-i-udos toward evil that were evident In Washington's time and are helped by the same tendencies for good. It la about some of these that I wlab to say a word today. In Banyan's " Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the man with the mock rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the mock rake In his hand; who was offered e celestial crows for bis mock rake, but who would neither look op nor regard the crown be was offered, bat continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor. A Potent Force For Erh. In “Pilgrim's Progress" the man with the mack rake la set forth as the example of him whose rtsloo Is fixed on carnal Instead of on spiritual things. Yet be also typifies the man who In this life cocaUtently refuses to ass aught that la lofty and fixes his eyes with solemn Inteutneas only on that which la rile and debasing. Now. it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what la Tils sad debasing. There Is filth on the floor, and It most be scraped up with the muck rake, and there are times and places where this service Is the most needed of all the serrtecs that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or write* save of bis feats with the mock rake, speedily becomes not a help to society, not an Incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil. * There are tn the body politic, economic and social, many and grave erlls. and there Is argent necessity for the sternest war upon them. Thera should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man. whether politician or business man; every evil practice, whether In politics. In boslness or to social life. I ball as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who on the platform or to book. newspaper with merci-

man out of the position be baa disgraced. Expo*- the crime and bant down the criminal, but remember that even In the case of crime. If It U attacked tn sensational, lurid and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime Itself. It Is because I feel that there should be no rest In the endless war against the forces of evil that

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sanity aa well men with the l dispensable to ety. but only stop raklug tin

a with resolution. The tick rakes sre often tobe well being of sodf they know when to muck and to look npcelestlal crown above

them, to the crown of worthy endeavor. There arc beautiful things above and round about them, and tf they gradually grew to fed that the whole world la nothing but muck their power of usefulness Is gone. If the whole picture Is painted black there remains no hoe whereby to stogie out the rascals for distinction from their fellows. Such painting finally Induce* a kind of moral color blindness, and people affected by It come to the cooclnalon that Dfi man la really black and no man really white.' bat they are all gray. In other words, they neither believe to the troth of the attack nor In the honesty of the man who la attacked. They grow aa suspicions of the accusation as of the offense. It becomes well nigh hopeless to stir them either to wrath against wrongdoing or to enthusiasm for what Is right, and such a mental attltn ~ the public give* hope to every k and la the despair of honest men. Forces For Truth Stronger Thau Em. There Is any amount of good tn tbs world, and there never was a time

Tided always that be to his turn re-1 members that the attack ts of use only | If tt Is absolutely truthful The liar ts no whit better than the thief, and If his mendacity takes the form of slander be may be worse than most thieves. truthfully to attack ai even with hysterical exaggeration to assail s bad man with untruth.

Now. tt Is easy to twist out of shape what I hare just said, easy to affect to misunderstand It. and If It ts slurred over to repetition not difficult really to mis understand it. Some persons are sincerely Incapable of understanding that to denounce mod sltogtng does not mean the Indorsement of white's ashing, and both the Interested Individ nn Is who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas. One of* the chief counts against those who make Indiscriminate assault upon men in business or men to public life Is that they invite a real tl on which ts sure to tell powerfully to favor of the unscrupulous scoundrel wao really ought to be attacked, who ought to be exposed, who ought If possible, to be put to the penitentiary. If Arts tides Is praised overmuch as Just, people get tired of hearing It sad over censure of the unjust finally and from similar resaeus results to their favor. Any excess Is almost sure to tnvtte a reaction, and unfortunately the rear tloc. Instead of taking the form ot punishment of those guilty of the ex■cose. Is very apt to take the form el-

tbey win be exposed both without and. I aa sorry to say, sometlaas within 1 to utterly reeklaaa aosolts

work for the betterment of mankind was being done than now. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible. but the forces of troth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy ore also stronger than ever before. It la a foolish and Umld. no less than s wicked thing, blink the fact that the forces of evil are strong, but It Is even worse tc to take into account the strength of the forces that tell for good. In his ecclesiastical polity that fine Old Elizabethan divine. Bishop Hooks wrote: “He that goeth about to persuade multitude that they are not so well governed aa they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable bearers. Because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind ot regimen la subject, but the secret and difficulties, which In public proceedings are Innumerable and Inevitable. they have not ordinarily the Judgment to consider." This troth should be kept constantly In mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise Indispensable to the permanent succm self government. Yet. on the other hand. It ts vital not to permit this spirit of sanity and self command to

tlon. Bad though a state of hysterical excitement Is. and evil though tbs results are which come from the violent oscillations such excitement Invariably produces, yet a sodden acquiescence to evil Is even worse. At this moment ws are passing through a period of great unrest—social, political and Industrial unrest It Is. of the utmost Importance foe our future that this should provs to be not the unrest of life, of

tlon to secure the betterment of the Individual and the nation. Bo tar aa this movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce discontent with evil, of a determination to punish the author* of evO. whether to Industry or politic*, tbs feeling Is to be heartily welcomed sign of healthy life. If. ou the other band. It turns Into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite. of a contest between the brutal greed of the "have Dots" and the brutal greed of the “barea." then tt baa

to condone evil In the man of than evil to Om man ot do capital. The wealthy man wbc. exults because (bars is a failure ot Jostle* to the effort to bring souse trust magnate to on

toted into action and the action Anil be marked by honesty, -unity and self restraint. There to mighty little good to s mere spasm of rofurm. The reform tb.it counts to that which comes through steady, continuous growth. YWIcut emotionalism lends to exhaustion. Taxctioa el Vast Fortune*. It to important to this people to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes and the use of those fortunes, both con>orate and Individual, to bustsens, We should discriminate-tn the iharpest way between fortunes well sou and fortunes 111 won: between those gained as on Incident tc performing great services to the community as a whole and those gained to evil fashion by keeping Just within tbs limits of mere law honesty. Of course no amount of charity to spending such fortunes to any way compensates for misconduct to making them. A matter of personal conviction and without pretending to discuss the details or formulate the system I feet that we shall ultimately have to consider the adoption of some such schema as that of a progressive tax on all fortunes beyond a certain amount either given In life or devised or bequeathed upon death to any Individual—a tax so framed as to put It out of the power of the owner of one of these enormous fortunes to band on more than a certain amount to any one individual, the tax of course to be Imposed by tbs national and not the state government ,ucb taxation should of course be rimed merely at the Inheritance or transmission In their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits. Again, the national government must to Mme form exercise supervision over corporations engaged to Interstate ness and all large corporations engaged to Inters tats business whether by license or otherwise, so as to permit us to deal with (be far reacHlUg evils of overcapitalisation.

n the direction of serious effort to *

by the railway rats legislation. Such legislation. If so framed, as I am sure tt win be. as to secure definite and tangible results, will amount to something of Itself, and it will amount to a great deal more In so far as tt Is taken aa a first step tn the direction of a policy of sapcrlntendeoce and control over corporate wealth engaged In Interstate commerce, this superintendence and control not to be exercised to a spirit of malevolence toward the men who have created the wealth, but with the firm purpose both to do Justice to them and to see that they to their turn do JustIc«do the public. The first requisite to the public i ants who are to deal to this Shape with corporations, whether as legislators or as executives, is honesty. Thu honesty can be no reapeetar of persons. There can be no such thing as unilateral honest y. The danger Is not really from corrupt corporaUous. It springs from the corruption Itself, whether exercised for or against corporations. Bat In addition to honesty we need sanity. No honesty will make a public man useful If that man Is timid foolish. If be Is a hot heeded xealot an Impracticable visionary. As we strive for reform we find that tt to not st all merely the case of a long npblU poll On the contrary, there Is almost as mnch of breerblng work as of col-lar-work. To depend only ou U means that there will soon be a away and an upset. Hu met wealth who today sre Try tug to prevent the regulation and control of their business In the Interest of the pi by the proper government authorities will not succeed, to my Judgment, In checking the progress of the movement Bnt If they did succeed would find that they bad sown wind and would surely reap tbs whirlwind. for they, would ultimately provoke the violent axceam which company s reform coming by coovulsion Instead of by steady and natural Daagermn Oppoaeati ot Beal Befona. On the other hand, the wild preachers of Barest and discontent the wild agitators against tbs entire existing order, the men who set crookedly, whether because of sinister design or from mere pnxxle beadedness, the men

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