THE GORVALLIS GAZETTE
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NOT BACKSLID.
WEN.
Dr. Emil G. Hirsh, a Jewish
rabbi of Chicago, in a sermon to
his congregation last Sunday,
declared the world, including
this nation, has lapsed or deter
iorated in morals. The ultimate
result of thi3 would be bloody
.revolution and a worse condition
for America than prevails in Rus
sia. ,
We carelittleaboutDr. Hirsh's
conclusions, but his premise is
rather startling. Confining our
inquiry to this Nation, is it true
that we, as a people, have had
a moral back-sliding? To acept
this as true it must appear that
a greater ratio than ever before
of our people are actuated by im
moral incentives to thought, pur
pose and actions.
That crime is on the increase
in some localities may be admit
ted, but that an increasing per
centage of our people are crimi
inals or in danger of becoming
such is not true, inere is - no
real evidence it is true. Those
who think it true are simply mis
led by the quick and wide pub
licity now given to the commis
sion of any sort of crime. The
telegraph, the telephone, the
press transmit and record the
commission of crime occurring
in the remotest section of the
counFry and the aggregate de
ceives us into believing crime is
on the increase.
For the same reasons we are
prone to conclude that civic
crimes, corruption, bribery, im-
bezzlement of public moneys and
official mal-feasance are on the
increase. This is not true. We
are simply dragging a greater
number of such criminals and
crimes into the light and expos
ing them to public view.
The accumulation of immense
wealth by immoral methods is
confined to the few. Their
methods are now made known
and meet with public condem
nation while those who practice
such methods are held up to.
general execration. Ill-gotte
wealth never had. so 'little real
influence for good or evil as is
now fallen to its lot.
Extravagance, private and
public, largely disappears when
we compare our present ability
tdmake large' expenditures with
former inability to do so. The
immorality of extravagance is in
living beyond one's ability. Liv
ing up to one's income is usually
unnecessary and very foolish but
can scarcely be stigmatized as
immoral.
Complete analysis of the whole
subject constrains us to believe
that never before have the
masses of the' American people
been actuated by so' high mora1
purposes. Never before have
they been so earnest and unani
mous in their determination that
all immorality shall be destroyed,
The growth of the temperance
reform is alone irrefutable evi
dence that we are not moral
back-sliders.
Clergymen, school-men and all
whose occupation and habits
keep from association with the
masses are easily deceived by the
flotsam and ietsam of the!con-
flict. To know how the battle is
going we need to know the
strength and earnest courage of
the firing line.
We are not slipping backward.
Like an army, which has long
lain quietly in one position,
moves forward and onward to
conflict and victorysoourpeople
are marching forward to the con
quest of all forms of immorality.
There will be no turning back,
no compromise, no truce, because
never heretofore have so ... many
of our people accepted as eter
nally true that ' 'Righteousness
exalteth a nation but sin is a re
proach to any people."
MOST ACCEPTABLE.
A banquet of commercial or
ganizations was recently held in
Vbicago. A number ot promi
nent railroad presidents and
general managers discussed the
question of legislation for the
'; regulation and control of rail
roads. The presidents of the
Rock Island, the Santa Fe, the
Illinois Central, the Chicago and
Alton and of the Monon railways
expressed their view3 clearly
and forcibly. They were agreed
on every essential point.
It was freely admitted that the
people are determined to effect
the control of the roads, and that
such control would be benefical
to all concerned.
They agreed that federal con
trol is greatly more efficient and
desirable than state control . be
cause federal makes the roads
responsible to but one controll
ing power and gives them unity
of law and regulation in all the
states.
Mr. Ripley, president of the
Santa Fe road said his road ran
through fourteen states and ter
ritories all having different rules
and regulations. What was law
ful in one state was illegal in an
other. All this forced his road
to operate under tremendous
difficulties.
The president of the Illinois
Central road said he did not know
of any concerted movement on
part of the railway companies
looking to the federal control,
but that the present conditions,
growing out of attempted state
control, are almost intolerable he
was well aware, and central, or
federal control seemed to offer
the only solution to the untoward
conditions now prevailing. r .
There is little question that for
the greater part attempted rail
way regulation by the state has
worked little if any good for the
people and none whatever for
the roads. It has done little
more than saddle the roads with
onerous and vexatious conditions
under which they must operate
. The Federal government can,
as between the people , and the
railroads, administer equity
and compel equity more certainly
than any other instrumentality
can. For this reason federal
control ; should commend itself
to all the people.
Let us not became too greatly
impatient. The attempt to con
trol these corporations is of com
paratively recent date. Our leg
islation has been largely tenta
tive, experimental and neces
sarily so, but we are rapidly ap
proaching the positive and staple
forms of legislation on this vex
atious subject.
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