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in the efficacy of those laws
which were communicated to
Moses amid the thunders and
lisrhtnings of Sinai. So do they.
Hisqlicy looks to the enforce-
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THE REASON 'WH Y.
Juch ado is. makin? by the
press over the admirable speech
tv :&ntly made by the President
at Nashville, Tennessee. It is a
ti neiyand brave statement of the
President's purposes, set . forth
in claar, plain, direct and forci
b! ; English. It merits all praise.
It-makes no special appeal to
man to support the presidential
P" tides, yet it is the strongest,
m st effective appeal to all right
minded men to stand by the
President. They are doing so.
T ,ey will continue todos.o.
this speech, possibly more
th in any other public utterance
of .Vlr. Raosevelt, furnishes us
tho key to his wonderful popu
la ricy a popularity equal to, but
hardly exceeded by that of Wash
ington, Jackson or Lincoln. As
the people believed in Washing
ton's patriotism and unbending
integrity so they believe in
Roosevelt's; as they believed in
the courage, patriotism and
honesty of Jackson and of Lin
coln so they believe in Roose
velt's courage, patriotism and
honesty. The simple, rugged,
democratic characteristics of
.Jackson and of Lincoln identified
them with the people and led the
masses to regard them as but
one of themselves.
So it is with Theodore Roose
velt. The people, the plain every
day, common people look on him
as one of themselves. He has
discovered no new law for the
moral government of men. I
Neither have they. He believes
courage
for public men to. ; lake such,' a
stand as the President takes.
Perhaps it does. But why should
it? Leading a regiment into bat
tle' requires "both ' physlcaFand
moral courage,, but when-its conv
manderseesa thousand, glisten
hing bayonets following his lead
he would be a sorry coward if he
faltered. ; ;
The President practically -has
the whole American people at
his back and he cannot falter.
fl to.
ax e .in
oar own life and continually
heedless of that of others.
Whether our objective be sport,
pleasure or business wi
ward-it at a mad pace-wMcn is
ffaqght.jsvith imminent
Ourselves !,and to allA w
ouf path..'itvt 7S'pS
.;. rassmg oy tne long
ly list of fatalities occurring in
the domains of sport and pleas
ure, we find almost every indus
trial pursuit ' is attended . by a
fearful, destructions of " human
life.-.-. -. ,
The. American Institute,. of
Social Service reports that nearly
537,000 people are killed or m&im
ed annually in American indus
trial pursuits. These figures are
annallins-. ' We cannot ' o-rnsn
He is not more courageous than jthern Think of the 0AC cadet
multitudes of his fellow citizens. Lnrns . Em stmrir nno nf
He has no graater reverence for
nor attachment to the require
ments of the decalogue than have
millions of Americans. His ideals
and leading characteristics are
American," democratic, and iden
tify him as one of the people.
He represents and stands for
L those things in which the people
believe and which they desire.
His fidelity to those things ex
plains their attitude toward him
Any other man equally exponen
tial of American ideals, purposes
and conscience would be as popu
lar as he. It is his good fortune
that he, like L'ncoln, sees the
public conscience right, knows
the people and trusts them,
It would be dark a day for the
republic if the mass of the people
should not be found in full ac
cord with whoever stood up to
battle for truth, justice and
righteousness in both social and
civic life.
RECKLESS OF. LIFE.
There is no civlized people on
ear,th so utterly reckless of hu
man life as the American people.
As individuals we are reckless of
them lying on the campus dead
or maimed for life. Now . in
crease this number 1074 times
and we have an annual number of
death-dealing and incacacitating
causalties attending our industri
al pursuits. We could not and
would not long conduct a war
resulting in so great a number of
causalties.
Much has been done by way
of legislation to prevent or to
minimize this waste of life and
energy. Employes and owners
operating mines and mills and
factories have been compelled to
adopt almost every conceivable
safe-guard for the life and limb
of their employes They are
made criminally liable to heavy I
fine or imprisonment or to both '
for their failure or neglect to do
so, beside being liable to civil
action for damages. The courts,
too, by limiting and clearly de
fining contributing negligence on
part of the employe, have aided
to make the self-interests of em
ployers an active agency for pre
venting conditions which menace
the safety of their employes.
More remains to be done. But
when all that, legislation can do
has been done there will yet re
main a long list of fatal or ser
ious "accidents" to deal with.
ese are very largely the result
of ignorance anil- of sheer reek
ppjgsiess on part of employes
themselves. The green hand is
ignorant of tbe datigera; which
silrround hirm "H6 , has tor learn
his duties and his place and the
certain danger to himself and his
fellow workmen if he neglect one
or get out of the other. Rude,
sharp, painful the warnings he
must receive and Che lesson he
must learn before, he movss with
automatic unconcerri and intelli
gence about ... his work" . Some
loose their life, others are maim
ed and but few pass this '-'learning
process" unscathed. .Those
who do escape incapacitating
"accident" have learned to keep
their place and do their work
whoever and whatever may be in
their way. ,
Constant familiarity with dan
ger begets contempt for it,
reckless, heedless exposure to it
and ultimate destruction of him
self and possibly of some of
his fellow workmen. There seems
to be no way to avoid this. The
oldest, most skilled and most
intelligent workmen usually fall
victims to their own negligence.
The disregard for human life
that marks the American people
is, without doubt, a legacy of
our civil war. We have not
emerged yet far enough to for
get that it taught us that "one
man Killed does not count."
Four years passed in killing and
maiming men caused the value
of human life to become a neglig
ible quantity. This sentiment
the survivors of the war carried,
as employers or employes,, into
the pursuits of peace.
Ante-dating this, we began
killing human beings soon after
the" landing of the Mayflower
and have practiced it quite in
dustriously ever since. It is
smal wonder we are careless of
human life.7
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