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Strange Doctrines of Federal Duty.
Atlanta Constitution.
This coal strike and the exigencies
it has produced have led to some
most curious obsessions of opinions
among public men and newspapers.
Measures heretofore regarded as rev
olutionary, socialistic and destruct
ive of the republican form of gov
ernment ore now proposed and even
urged by those who but recently
stood in solid array against them.
It is not so long ago that those
who advocated government owner
ship of natural monopolies and
great public utilities were looked
ttpou with horror and denouncedas
the leaders of semiarchy, if not an
archy pure and simple. Any propo
sal to give goi eminent the right to
control and manage any form of in
dustry was declared to be the very
aggravation of paternalism and the
opponents of such schemes deliver
ed most eloquent preachments over
the social and industrial advantages
of individualism.
The idea that the general gov
ernment has any right under the
constitution to coerce uses of pri
vate properties, or to confiscate
them under the right of eminent do
main except for purely national
uses, waB pronounced upon as a long
and desperate step toward the worst
form of imperialism. A centralized
government with power to interfere
with the right of the citizen to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
in the lawful possession and uses of
his individual property has always
been abhorrent .to the essential de
mocracy of our people. The strong
slogans of the past' have been for
limitations upon federal authority
and not for its enlargement.
But the ooal strike has revealed
to the people how the liberties of
individuals, of unions and corpora
lions, may become so oonflioting as
to congest their mutual operations,
produoe a vast wastage of the
powers of production, enforce a
famine of public necessaries and es
tablish a reign of actual civil war
m given districts, as is the case to
day in Pennsylvania.
The effect on the public opinion,
we repeat, is most remarkable.
From many quarters heretofore es
teemed the most conservative, from
public men, from newspapers and
h’om political conventions are heard
lemands that the federal authori
ties act upon present conditions
without regard to precedents. It is
urged that the government can
seize the ooal mines as it took ships
during the Spanish-American war,
»b it can take railways when the
public peril may require, or that
congress may take the coal supply
in .Pennsylvania as it has taken con
trol of the water supplies in the
west.
These are bewildering times and
men who feel the wrong and the
* iffering produoed by the coal situ-
4U m are not disposed to parley
ver the remedies they seek for re
lief. As Lincoln took the authority
'U emancipate the slaves of the
south in aid of the preservation of
t he union, so many seem prepared
to see President Roosevelt seize the
«oal mines and save millions from
ihe want that is already pinohing
ihem. What the end may be no
•one seems wise enough to predict
now, but certainly there is a revolu
tion of publio opinion in progress
, i hat may mean some novel and rad-
' il forms of legislation in the fu
ture. . .
Controlling Everything.
Now Orleans 3tates.
The present high cost of
('• in be accounted for by the fact
riiat all the necessaries of life are
u ider the control of the trusts, and
frbis is apparent to aud is admitted
by every citizen of ordinary intelli-
rsnee. For this condition of af-
11 : ”s the republican party is respon-
i- • t», and republicans themselves are
u.-e(jowledging the fact. A Ohica-
^ i Dispatch to The New York Trib
une says: “Shorts made, the un
pleasant disebyery today that the
Armour interests control every spec
ulative article traded in on the board
saccept lard, and the Oudahys ham
mat. It is the most. peculiar cods
dirion known to the trade; every
thing controlled by two men with
money and power enough to have
their own way in the markets to a
great extent.”
Battled at a Turn of Fortune.
St. Louis Republic. . A
What law governs progress and
decline? Does the-man or commu
nity that succeeds do so under an
impetus against which the world,
the flesh and devil cannot avail? Is
there a definite point where acceler
ated speed begins to produce col
lapse? Is success in good or evil a
thing which produces its own an
tithesis of failure?
There have been plenty of notable
instances to illustrate the processes.
Call it fate or destiny, the Divinity
which shapes our ends seems to do
so by a law which varies but little
in its application. Once on the rise,
honors come easy. Let the grip on
things material mental or spiritual
once slip, and only herculean efforts
will Btop descent.
There are men here in Missouri
whose political perspicacity has nev
er been doubted until the despera
tion born of prospective defeat made
them fearful. One man who has
been accounted shrewd has gradu
ally slipped until his every act has
denoted political madness. . Anoth
er has attempted with arts worthy
of a boy to brazen out the criminal
difficulties in which he has found
himself.
The boodling situation in St. Lou
is has illustrated the decline whioh
comes with a break in luck. A ohief
of boodlers has thought to Bave
himself by playing fast and loose
with every person whose aid he ex
pects. On trial for his liberty, he
has gone farther than ever before
in defying publio sentiment, the law
and ordinary common sense.
All of these men have stepped
from one folly to another. Their
ways, deceitful at best, have led
them into indiscretions which would
not have been likely in the days of
their prosperity.
But Buooees may break down
among the good forces. Only two
years ago the people of St.Louis put
officials in charge of municipal af
fairs whose performances have more
than equaled the expeotatsons of fflgl
voters. The vigor with whioh ttil
have enforced the laws has ou;i.
manded the respect and admiration
of people living outside of the S <. <
Perfection in municipal govoiu-
ment has not been reaohed. It re
mains for the people to see that the
high standard is not lowered. The
ratio of progression must not give
way to the speedy decline which fol
lows a truckling to the vicious ele
ments. Once begun, the decline
will be faster and faster. The cru
cial point seems to have been reaoh
ed. Only the determination of the
people will prevent a relapse to
depths lower than from which the
city was rescued in 1900.
Educational Progress.
Certain northern educational “ex
perts" have been reoently asserting
that education given by public
schools in the south is at a stand
still, or e% en retrogressive, and pro
posed to take it in hand in a patron
izing way. Such persons cannot
but be shocked , with the record of
the last census on this point. The
last census shows that the percent
age of southern children from 10 to
14 who can read and write has in
creased in the last decade by an av
erage advance of 7 per cent, and in
Louisiana, Georgia, North and South
Carolina by nearly 10 per cent
Hence it follows that the public
schools of the south are vastly more
efficient than they have been repre
sented to be—Baltimore Sun.
There is a movement on foot to
erect a monument on the outer
point of Cape Cod to commemorate
the adoption of the pilgrim com
pact of government. The pilgrim
compact was probably the earliest
charter of a democratic government
adopted by the people known to the
world. A rugged obelisk, 200 feet
in height, placed upon Un eminence
on the outermost point of-Cape Cod,
where all pasaing and repassing at
sea may see it, will be, it is thought,
a fitting memorial of such a land
mark of hitory.
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A Growing Problem.
When the president of the United
States finds himself unable, either
by legal power or moral suasion, to
avert a dire coal famine at the
threshold of the coming winter, it
seems to us that the time has about
come when the congress of the
United States should enact legisla
tion to meet such cases.
It is urged that this is a private,
business affair. Is it? If the strike
affected no one except the striking
miners, and the coal operators, it
might be waived aside with the dec
laration that there is nothing to ar
bitrate, and the balance of the
world might sit on the fence and
shout: “Go it, Boots, your daddy’s
riohl” But who is not interested?
Who is it that is not touched?
What business does not touch the
great manufacturing, ralroading and
steamboating interests of the coun
try? How can they do business
without coal? Suppose a great na
tion should declare war against the
United SbateB, how could our navy
turn a wheel without coal? Oould a
petty controversy between the min
ers and the operators be permitted
ty put us at the mercy of our ene
mies? Would we not be forced to
find a way to put an end to the
strike?
That way must be found before
war comes. It should be found be
fore suffering and paralysis to busi
ness comes.
* A court of arbitration could be
safe-guarded as thoroughly as any
other court, and required to hold
the balance even between the em
ployers and the employed, when it
beoame necessary to appeal to it;
and there may be no appeal except
when the general public welfare is
at stake as in the present case.—Ex.
New Name for the O. E’s.
Little Elsie was a faithful attend
ant at Sunday school, and had lis
tened earnestly when plans for a
ootaing Christian Endeavor conven
tion were discussed, her interest in-
<* • using to enthusiasm over the
n serious affair when she learned
1 ‘/it her auntie was to attend as a
• iclegate. Coming into the library
one day, auntie saw the little maid
busily engaged in writing a letter to
a cousin with whom she kept up a
juvenile correspondence, according
to Harper’s Magazine. She scrawl
ed industriously for a moment, then
stopped. There was a puzzled ex
pression on her fat, ink-stained face
as she dangled her short legs and
wiggled uncomfortably on her high
peyoh. “Auntie,” she said, “how do
you spell devil?” “Oh, Elsie!” said
her auntie, “I am shocked. Why
are you using such a word as this in
your letter? Nice little girls never
say such things?” It was Elsie’s
turn to be shocked. “Why, auntie!”
she. oried, “I’m only telling her
about the Christian and devil con
vention,”
A puny child is always an anxiety
to the parents, There seems gener
ally no reason why the little one
should be weak when it is so well
fed. But the fact is that it does
not matter how much food the child
takes if the stomach cannot extract
the nourishment from it. No benefit
can be derived from just eating.
That is the condition of many a
sickly child. The stomach and or
gans of digestion and nutrition are
not doing their work, and the body
is really starving. It is little use to
give fish foods, like cod liver oil and
emulsions, in such case, because
these also have to be digested; they
may lighten the stomach’s labor, but
they don’t strengthen it. Strength
is what the stomach needs. Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
strengthens the stomach, nourishes
the nerves and .increases the action
of the blood-making glands. It is
superior I o every other preparation
for children’s use, on account of its
body building qualities, and also be
cause it is -pleasant to the taste and
contains no alcohol, whisky or other
intoxicant. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
Pellets are a valuable aid when the
bowels are irregular. They are small.
Children take them readily.
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