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mighty blow for the right-make a long stride in advance along the path of justice and of orderly liberty. But normally we must be content if each of us can do something—not all that we wish, but somethingfor the advancement of those principles of righteousness which underlie all real national greatness, all true civilization and freedom.

Ibid.

No Panacea for the

Cure of

Trust Ills

While making it clear that we do not intend to allow wrong-doing by one of the captains of industry any more than by the humblest private in the industrial ranks, we must also in the interests of all of us avoid cramping a strength which, if beneficently used, will be for the good of all of us. The marvellous prosperity we have been enjoying for the past few years has been due primarily to the high average of honesty, thrift, and business capacity among our people as a whole; but some of it has also been due to the ability of the men who are the industrial leaders of the nation. In securing just and fair dealing by these men let us remember to do them justice in return, and this not only because it is our duty, but because it is our interest; not only for their sakes, but for We are neither the friend of the rich

ours.

A Square
Deal for

Capital

A Square

Deal for
Capital

Curb the

Greed of Capital and the Greed of Labor

man as such nor the friend of the poor man as such; we are the friend of the honest man, rich or poor; and we intend that all men, rich and poor alike, shall obey the law alike and receive its protection alike.—Ibid.

In our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations. There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships.-University of Berlin Address.

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VIII

Populism and Other "Isms"

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

EDMUND Burke.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

Populism and Other "Isms"

THE a

HE average Populist does not draw fine
distinctions. There are in New York,

The Populist Sees all

with the same Eyes

as in other large cities, scoundrels of great Rich Men wealth who have made their money by means skilfully calculated to come just outside the line of criminality. There are other men who have made their money exactly as the successful miner or farmer makes his,that is, by the exercise of shrewdness, business daring, energy, and thrift. But the Populist draws no line of division between these two classes. They have made money, and that is enough.-American Ideals.

Suspicious of Men who

Wear Evening

They [the Populists] distrust anything they Populists cannot understand; and as they understand but little this opens a very wide field for Bathe and distrust. They are apt to be emotionally religious. If not, they are then at least atheists of an archaic type. Refinement and comfort they are apt to consider quite

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