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THE SCRANTOX TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900.
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IT WAS HER system that made
Mrs. Robinson what she was. If
a Ho Rot loose anywhere near
she was up ami after It with
anything she could lay her
hands on.
She showed you that lying
didn't pay when she was con
cerned. A llo turned Into a serpent as
soon as It got out of your mouth, and
you were ul.nl to got behind another.
Not to say that her system hadn't Its
drawbacks. Kvcry system has. And
the naked truth Is sometimes an awful
thing ten times mora nwful than any
llo you can think of at the time.
When Susan Jones came, however,
Mrs. Robinson had her work' cut out.
The girl lied like an eel there was no
catching hold of her.
At llrst she Just chirped out lies a
light-hearted as a bird. "Pleas'm It
were the cat," or anything that came
uppermost. Hut the cat had a way of
proving nn alibi that astonished Susan.
So Susan got as cautious as charity,
and It would have done your heart
good to see the two at It. For Mrs.
Robinson had no sooner got the ferret
of truth Into one hole than Susan was
out and In at another.
Anyone else would have got sick and
disgusted, but Mrs. lloblnson didn't.
"For," said she, "the girl has her
good points, and I'll make a woman of
her.
And she succeeded, for Susan got
worn out by the sheer usolossncss of
the thing, and at last shut down In
disgust. After that the girl did not
depart from the truth for six months,
and then she let off the awfulest lie
Mrs. lloblnson had ever heard In her
born days. At least Mrs. lloblnson
thought it was.
It happened like this. One morning
when Susan was in the coal ccllnr she
found a lady's ring that dazzled your
eyes and took your breath away.
"It's one of them 6-cent things as
you can buy In any tinker's shop," she
said to herself. "Just a lot o' rubbishy
glass. I don't believe It's worth both
ering abcut."
She took it to her mistress, however.
Mrs. lloblnson gave a cry when she
saw the ring and started up with her
mouth open. "It looks like one of the
rings mentioned in my grandmother'.
Inventory," she said. "I shouldn't
wonder If It belongs to the lost set of
diamonds."
Mrs. Robinson was a widow and lived
with her brother John. Few men could
look wiser than Mr. John when he
tried It. His spectacles made him look
like Solomon. When he came home ha
put them on and raked out the inven
tory and placed his linger on an exnet
description of the ring. It was valued
at $200.
After they had all wondered awhile
they put on last year's clothes, got
candles and went into the cellar, but
though they shifted the coal about for
hours they got nothing but their faces
blacked. Mr. John's was the blackest.
When she had got herself washed
and dusted Mrs. Robinson put the rln'j
on and wore It till night, but before re
tiring to rest she put it on her toilet
tables in case It got lost in bed.
In the morning the ring was gone.
Susan took a red face as soon as her
mistress came downstairs. Mrs. Rob
inson Just stood till and looked at he."
for a moment, and then said:
"Susan, what have you done with
the ring?"
"I never touched It, ma'am," was
Susan's reply, and the girl sat right
down on her chest and burst Into tears,
"Then what are you crying for?" In
quired her mistress.
Hut Susan sobbed on and said noth
ing. "I'll give you nn hour to make up
your mind about It." said .Mrs. Robin
son. "You're not to do nny work for
that time."
Susan snt on the chest the whole
sixty minutes and cried herself out.
Mrs. lloblnson cumo down at the end
of that time and found her still glued
to the lid.
"Now, Susan, I want the solemn
truth."
"Yes'm."
"Where's the ring?"
"Mr. John took It, ma'am."
"My brother?"
"Yes'm."
Wise as he was. Mr. John was struck
In a heap when his sister mentioned the
matter. "What wha what?" hi- gasp
ed. 'The girl Is stone mad. I never
heard such a thing In my life. I never
flld."
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"I guessed ns much," replied his sis
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ing as guilty as a red herring."
"What Is to be done?"
"Wo shan't tall In the police. The
girl has been making progress, nml the
prison would put nn end to all that. I
believe she will clve us the ring yet.
Rut It would lie wrong to keep her
hero. She shall pack up today and
leave tomorrow morning."
And Susan got notice accordingly.
"I know you wouldn't believe me,"
said the girl, gulping down a sob.
"Then why did you tell mo such a
thing?"
"Because It's true."
"Don't say any more. I don't want
to hear It. I don't suppose you will ex
pect any wages."
Susan turned ghastly white. "I must
have them," she gasped. "My mother
needs the money to pay her rent. If
she doesn't get It they will turn her out
Into the street, and she's not strong."
"She doesn't intend to try to sell the
ring at lenst not yet," thought Mrs.
Robinson. 'If I give her her wages she
won't need to do It, and she'll send It
back."
As the old lady lay awake In the mid
dle of the nlgfit, the door was cautious
ly pushed open and Susan came In
silently.
"Mrs. lloblnson, are you awake?"
The question came In a terrified whis
per. Susan's eyes were starting out of
her head, and her teeth were chatter
ing. "What Is the matter, Susan?"
"Master has gone up to the garret
with a candle. 1 think there Is some
thing wrong."
Mrs. Robinson came hastily over her
bed and followed Susan noiselessly
along the passage. A glimmer of light
shone through the banister above. Mrs.
lloblnson saw that her brother was
coming downstairs, staring straight
ahead with his eyes dilated.
lie approached as stately as a wax
figure, and almost brushed against
them. The light of the candle fell full
on their white, upturned faces as he
passed, but he took no notice of them.
Down the next flight of stnirs he
went, his sister and Susan following,
for they wanted to see what ho was
going to do. They lost sight of him at
the foot of the stairs, but soon heard
the door of the coal cellar creaking on
Its binges. Stealing toward It they
peered through. He was Inside work
ing a stone In the wall, which In a few
moments he dislodged and set down on
the lloor.
He next took nn Iron box olit of the
hole he had made, applied a key to It,
raised the lid and took some small ar
ticle out.
Then lie replaced everything as It
had been before, .and, carefully oblit
erating nll traces of his operations,
left the cellar.
As he passed his sister and Susan
they saw that he carried the lost ring
between the forefinger and thumb of
his left hand.
He then made his way toward his
sister's room, Into which he disap
peared for a few seconds. Coming out
again ho mounted the stairs In the
direction of the garret.
"It's no use following him." said
Mrs. Robinson. "I know the key ho
used and can get It In the morning."
Mr. John was coming down the gar
ret stairs again, and they both held
their breath in anxiety.
Ho caire ail right till he got about
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stairs, missing one step more at every
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With the supernatural dexterity
which characterizes the sonntnbullst,
ho managed to keep the candle In all
the time, and now set it down in the
lobby with a clank right end up.
Mr. John rose with his face quite
serious, and without tubbing himself
or anything, went along the passage
and disappeared Into his own bed
room. It I:l evidently not the first time he
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"There, you see the ring on the toilet
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A HUMAN SLEUTH.
Extraordinary Skill of an Indian
Scout In Trailing a Fugitive.
From St. Nicholas.
Arklchltn, a typical Indian, was chief
scout at Fort Slsscton, Dakota, in 1SS2.
Although ho knew English well, ho
held the old Indian hatred of Its use,
nnd would never speak It except under
extraordinary circumstances. Ho stood
about five feet, nine Inches In height,
was slender, but wiry, nnd was about
St years of nse. Ordinarily he was
slow nnd sedate In his actions very
dignified, but when the necessity arose
ho could bo ns quick ns a Hash, and
had, like every Indian on the north
western plains, a pair of eyes that
could equal uny Held glass.
Ills set vices for ho had been cm-
ployed ns a scout for some years had
been very valuable to the government,
and, In recognition of this fact, tho
olllcer In command had secured author
ity from the war department to pro
mote hlin to the rank of sergeant;
consequently ho went around In a neat
uniform with chevrons and stripes,
very much linpiesscd with his own
importance, which he considered seo
oml only to that of the commanding
ofllcer! and he took enre that every
one else nlso should respect his irank
and dignity.
As his native name Is tho Sioux for
"soldier." It Is easily seen why he was
so named: but ho had still another
name, which the Indians had given
hi in before his entering military cir
cles, and that, translated Into English,
was tho "grass-walker," or "trailer,"
for bis absolutely marvelous ability to
llnd the trail of anything that left oven
the slightest trace on the ground ns It
passed over It.
A desperate soldier named Urlc.i
broke Jail one night, and was pursued
the following morning. The trail led
to tho west for a trifle over n mile;
then It turned north for a quarter of
a mile, and we followed until wo eamo
to a tree nt the edgeof a, slough to tho
northwest of tho fcrt, called the "gar
den bar slough." Here Arklchita
pointed under the tree nnd said rtrlC'j
had lain down there to rest.
The trail herp led Into the slough.
A Dakota "slough" is a shallow lak?,
the water of which is from six Inches
to three feet deep, with a soft, muddy
bottom, but not generally miry. Tho
center of the slough Ir. uiunlly frco
from grasses or weeds, but along the
edges, from twenty to sixty yards out,
long tule-gi'asp grows.
This particular slough was n mile
long, nnd varied from un eighth to a
quarter1 of a mile In width, nnd there
was a foot of water covering ns much
soft mud. Dining tho night tin wind
had rolled the water up considerably.
It seemed hardly possible to track any
thing through it. except where the tule
had been broken down. Where that
was the case even I could follow the
trail; on reaching open water, how
ever, tho case wai dlffeient.
Tho eastern end of the slough reached
to a point near the fort not more than
a hundred nnd fifty yards from n brick
yard, on which was a kiln that had
I been built during the summer. The
' kiln was now ready for firing.
Once I thought Arklchita was bullied,
after all; be had come to n dead stand
still near the tule. Then nn Insplra
I tlon struck me. Perhups by a circle I
, could llnd the trail. Happy thought!
I put It Into Immediate execution, and
found one. Rather elated at my suc
cess, I called: "Come quick: heap
trail!" He came over nnd took one
I look; Just the suggestion of a smile
played on his face as he said "Cow."
I did no more trailing, but under
1 htood what was bothotlng him. The
post herd also had waded through here
since Brlce's escape, and It took nil tho
1 scout's endless patience nnd wonderful
i eyesight to keep tho Hull where the
i cattle had passed through It. The
I grass rt"iii ' is of no i's here.
We had passed over half the slough
In this circuitous route, when suddenly
Arklchita started straight as the crows
, lly for the edge of the slough near tho
brick kiln. Was he following the tiall?
j On he went until he came to the
I shore nearest the kiln; here ho stopped,
! evidently bothered again. There was a
' scarcely dlscerrlble footprint In tho
I mud nnd water right at the edge of tho
slough, apparently tho last step the de
serter hud takeu before reaching hard
ground. This footpilnt showed the
toes, as the deserter was now bare
footed. Another thing about this print
, was Its direction: It stood at right
I angles to the line pievlouly followed.
Either the man had taken u sideward
I spring for the land from his right foot,
or he had turned around and started
back over his own trail.
Arklchita went down on ills knees and
Inspected the grass, blade by blade. I
kept n respectful distance lit one tide,
astonished nt the turn the affair hud
takeu. Now, Inch by inch, on his knees,
he wienched the secret from the ap
parently unwilling surface of tho earth.
Eighty yards from the kiln, he looked
up nnd glanced at It. The same Idea
evidently Instantly occurred to both of
us. The trail was leading to tho kiln!
Then ho arose, and, bending over,
slowly advanced to tho edge or the
brickyard.
After reaching the yard Arklchita
walked slowly around tho outer edge
of it, examining the ground with the
utmost care until he came to the point
from which he started, when he said:
"Trail come In no ko out; man In
there," pointing to the kiln.
And circumstances proved him to bo
light, though It was thirty-six hours
before tho fugitive wus located In the
kiln and captured.
He Io Tamed Now.
About two years ago a fairly well
known young man of this town who, in
tho days of his bachelorhood, was ad
dicted to tho habit of conversing
through his head-covering, wa3 deliv
ering himself oracularly on the sub
ject of the duties of paternity.
"A man who'll wheel a baby car
riage," ho perorated, loftily, "is a
triple-plated, quadruplo-expanslon nss.
On Sunday afternoon last ho was ob
servedall of tho customary earmarks
of sartorial economy distinguishing his
muke-up placidly trundling a peram
bulator through Lafayette park. A
huge, fat baby goo-gooed in tho per
ambulator, and n little lady with a
bulgy, home-made bonnet walked at
his side.
Silence Is ready money, nnd there's
a lot of pathos In the spectacle of a
I tamed sssust.
NEED OP A HIGHbR
ETHICALjSTANDARD
THE SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR
PUBLIC ILLS.
Read This Striking Address by
President Hndley, of Yale, Deliv
ered on Tuesday Before tho Con
vocation of tho University of Chi
cago. "An unusually well Informed foreign
critic, Mr. Mulrhend, has recently pub
lished tho opinion that the standard of
personal morality In America Is de
cidedly higher than In England, that
of commercial morality probably a llttlj
lower, nnd that of political morality
quite distinctly lower. There Is reason
to think that In this view ho represent!!
tho consensus of opinion of well In
formed observers on both sides of the
Atlantic.
"The causes for this condition of
things demand serious attention. A
failure to carry Into politics the same
kind of ethical standard which Is np
plled In matters of personal morals im
plies, as a rule, that there Is something
In n people's political oondltlon to
whose understanding It has not fully
grown up. Such a failure implies n de
fect In public Judgment rather lliun In
Individual character. It Indicates thnt
wo do not know what virtues must be
exercised for tho maintenance of or
ganized society as well as we know
what virtues are necessary to tho har
monious living of individuals among
their neighbors.
STANDARDS OP POLITICAL MOR
ALITY. "The difference between standards of
political morality and of personal mor
ality attracted attention as long ago
as the days of the Oreek philosophers.
From that time onward every moralist
who has really studied the subject has
realized that there wero certain dis
tinctive political virtues, lemeiiN
imperial Ivoly necessary In the conduct
of a good ruler or member of the rul
ing class, which might bo relatively
less Important In matters outside of
politics. What is to bo regarded as
par excellence the virtue of tho ruler
and tho freeman Is a question which
Is answered differently in different
stages of society.
"In the earliest developments of civil
ization, stress Is chiefly laid on cour
age to maintain nuthorlty; in a later
stage greater Importance Is attached to
the virtue of self-restraint, to submit
In person to the nuthorlty Imposed on
others; while In n still later develop
ment at least equal prominence must
bo given to public spirit, to use for a
collective or unselfish end the meas
ure of authority bestowed on each in
dividual. American society lias wit
nessed tho parsage from tho llrst stage
to the second; much must be done be
fore we have attained to the third.
VIRTUE OK COURAGE REQUIRED.
"In the beginning of civilization tho
virtue of courage Is a necessary pre
requisite for any and all governments.
When people to far emerge from super
stition that they begin to distrust the
authority of tho priest, a strong and
fearless hand is needed to create an
organized police authority which can
repress license and disorder. Whoever
has this courage will have authority,
for without It there Is no nuthorlty at
all. If It Is possessed but by few we
shall have an oligarchy: tho more
widely Is It diffused tho more nearly
shall bo approach democracy. We can
have no social order, oligarchic or dem
ocratic, without the personal courage
and physical force to maintain It. So
fundamental arc these things thnt
there Is n disposition In certain stages
of society to condone In the possessors
of courage and lighting efficiency tho
want of many other virtues; to let
them vindicate the majesty of the law
by hanging tho wrong man If tho
right man Is not to be found; to let
them assert their authority to make
laws by an assumption of nn author
ity In their own person to break tho
laws which they have made: to despise
and suppress the 'base mechanical'
who would protest against this arbi
trary Infraction of legal principle.
"Hut the 'base mechanicals, ' how
ever unjustly despised In n nation's
beginning, prove n necessity for It
progress beyond those beginnings. The
state, ns Aristotle says, having begun
as a means of making life possible,
continues as a means of making life
prosperous. When once tho necessary
basis of authority Is established that
authoiity becomes, with eacli genera
tion, the more Impartial and more ab
solute, protecting the laborer ns well
as the soldier or politician. Tho bravo
citizen cnn in these latter gsnerations
best serve the cause of his country
not by nn excess of persona! zeal In
behalf of his nation, but by a readi
ness to submit his rluhsis to the arbi
trament of tribunals which have been
established for the dt termination of
Justice.
FROM ONE VIRTUE TO ANOTHER.
"The change from tho virtue of fo--tltude
to that of temp' initio is mani
fest In every department of liuni'in rc
tlvlty. aH soon ns It advancs be.mrt
a certain indltrentniy Ftnge. Fighting
ceases to be n matter of personal cour
age and becoir,' s a matter of discip
line. S' that tho Meal soldier Is no
longer tho lender of a cavalry charge,
but the organizer of victory, who can
give nnd take orders ns part of a
larger whole. Succors In business Is i ers. to his v orklngmen. and to the con
no longer the perquisite of the ven- suniers that purchase his goods or his
turesome trader who stnrts on a voy- J fv-rvlces. In the absence of such an
ago of exploration, but tho palnstnk-
Ing merchant who understands the
laws of supply nml demand and can
regulate his conduct by Hump laws.
In short, the whole feudal organlzi
tlon of society, where authority rests
on courage and services given in iv.
turn for peisonal protection, gives
place to a newer and larger order,
where tho authority of personal prin
ciples is recognized as superior to that
of any person, nnd whose that man
serves tho world best who can best
take his share both In v leldlng and In
recognizing tills authority.
"Through these two steges.whlch j
has taken Europe centuries to accom
pllsh. America has been passing In
comparatively brief period. First w.
hnvo the lawless frontier community,
where snen have such sights ns they
can defend with their own revolvers;
where In enso of emergency tho vigi
lante who takes the law Into his own
hands Is tho most necessary of citi
zens; wheto the necessity for the pres
ence of Judge Lynch W so sharply rcc.
ognlzed that his occasional tnlstiikis
nre condoned; assd whero absence of
power to Insist on on's own rights Is
almost as bad tis having no lights at
all. With tho necessity for nihre reg
ular Investment nnd employment of
capital and tho eiitabllrliiiicnt of police
authority, which is CO' Incident with
that employment, the virtues and vices
of tho frontlersmnn pnss out of politi
cal prominence, nnd we reach th stags
where the standard of social success
Is found In plaving with keoness the
games of commerce nnd of politics
where every man Is expected to submit
to the law, of which ho heroines a
part, but where, ns long as he keeps
within tho rulrf? set by that law. nil
things are condoned which do not pass
tho line of meanness or violent Immor
ality which disqualifies a tnnn from
associating petsonally with his fellow
men.
SUDDEN SOCIAL CHANOE.
"Tho suddenness of the change has
been attended with nil the exagger
ation to which sudden social move
ments are liable. In Europe tho men
who exercised nuthorlty In virtue of
their courngo were only gradually dis
placed by those who did so In virtue:
of their astuteness. Tho earlier stand
ard of military virtue ns a qualifica
tion for social distinction persisted
long after It had ceased to bo the main
requisite for success In business and In
politics, or even In war Itself. Tradi
tions ns to the us? of wenlth which
had survived from earlier times exer
cised a potent liultience even upon thosfs
who hnd amassed that wenlth by tho
methods peculiar to later ones. A man
who would have that standing In tho
community which for most men Is the
chief object of ambition was compelled
to pay his respects to the past no less
than to tho future.
"In America the case was different.
Tho flood of Industrial settlement swept
so rapidly Into the districts which but
a short time before had boon tho habi
tat of tho miner or tho ranchman that
It obliterated, as with a sponge, the
traces of the social order of a ruder
time. Unhampered by precedent, each
set out to make his fortune In a world
where all were from one standpoint
peaceful citizens und from another ab
solute adventurers. Life In the half
settled communities of the United
States became a game In a sense which
It porhnps never had been before; a
game played by a series of accepted
rules, and where no tradition or code
of etiquette not Incorporated In the
rules counted for anything at all. Tho
result has been n:i exaltation of the
principles peculiar to one stage of the
world's history to an eminence of un
questioned supremacy which they have
elsewhere sought in vain.
"As long ns the conditions remained
which gave birth to this state of things
free land, nbundance of opportuni
ties, a body of men possessed of phy
sical and mental soundness, and start
ing to play the game with approxi
mately equal chances so long did the
moral and political standards which
were based upon these conditions prove
themselves tolerably adequate for the
purpose In hand. They might be ob
jected to by outside observers as In
complete, wanting In background,
crude, repulsive If you like: but they
nt least enabled a vast social machine
to bo run with a great deal of aggre
gate happiness and with less glaring
violation of Justice than had been ex
emplified In nny other machine ;o
which tho critics could point. Rut
with a change In conditions this de
gree of success was less fully assured.
And this change has already coma
ubout.
"Organization In business, In local
politics and In national politics has
brought with It an Inequality of op
portunity and an unfairness of condi
tions In which the game of life Is
played. Competitive business Is giving
place to trusts. The town meeting has
been supplanted by the organized mu
nicipality. The old federation of states
with strong traditions of home rule
has become n centralized nation
reaching out beyond Its old borders to
rule over nations less civilized than
Itself.
ONCE A GAME; NOW A TRUST.
"Under these circumstances it be
comes Impossible for the community
to rest complacently In that egoistic
morality which seemed sulllcient for
the needs of a generation earlier. We
can no longer rely upon competition
to protect the consumers against
abuse when Industry has become so
highly organized that all production
Is centralized in the control jf a single
body. It Is no longer true, In the sense
that It was fifty years ago, that each
man may he left free to manage his
own business and that the eommunlt
will find Its work best done as a conse
quence of such freedom. Commerce
and Industry are no longer to be re
garded as games where we have noth
ing to but to applaud the most skill
ful player when ho wins and rest In
the assurance that his triumph Is In
line with the best Interests of the com
munity as a whole.
"What once was regaided as n gamo
has now become a trust, not merely in
the ruperfliinl and accidental sense In
which the name 'trust' is now applied
to all largo combinations ,,f capital,
but In a profound-jr sense, as a trust
exercised on behalf of the public,
which It is in the power of those who
control this capita' to use well or in at
their pleasure, without ndequato re
straint from nny quarter. Whore
lompitltion Is thus become a remote
coin 'ngeuey, nnd where law Is almost
necessarily inadequate unless It be
made co strli t as to foibld the good
no less than the evil in private busi
ness ontorprNe. a new system of eth
ics is a mntter of Vila! necessity fur
the Ani'Tlcan people a system which
Flmll treat the tllroeto" no longer ns
an Individual pursuing piivate busi
ness of his own and wl'ii tho right to
resent the suggestion that In should
conduct It unselfishly, but as having
moral responsibilities to his stockhold
ethical advance, no political or legal
solution of the so-called trust problem
Is likely to bo eoffctlvi.
PRUH1RITIONS DO NOT PROHIBIT
"Deinngn.tues will continue to meet
It with prohibitions which fin not pro
hlblt. Visionaries will attempt to
limit Its abuses by seml-sorlnllstln
nuns-tires that are readily evivled. Rut
each of these classes will tend to per
petuate tho evils which It Is trying to
check. They are nltempttng to reform
by Improved legal machinery matters
for 'hlch there can be no real remedy
without Improved commercial moral
ity. Nor ns-o wo better protected
against tho abuse of public trusts than
against those of private ones. Our old
fashioned methods of representative
government have not proved, adtquato
to guard us against the evils Incident
to the working of administrative ma
ehlnery In our cities and our states.
"To govern properly In old times I;
was chielly necessury to see that a
sound publlo opinion should be forme 1
by debate between tho champions nf
the different Interests. A representa
tive assembly, whoao members eamo
from different districts, was adinlr
nbly adapted to secure this end. Tho
presence of members from every lo
cality Involved was u sufllclent pro
tection against tho adoption of mens
ures through Ignorance of the needs
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of the several sections. Rut with tho
substitution of the work of actual gov
ernment for that of diseusMon, the
representative assembly no longer
proves equally well adapted for our
purposes. It becomes nn arena for
contests between conflicting claims,
rather than for the Interchange and
reconcllation of differing views. It be
comes a field whero p.uty organiza
tion can exercise its fullest sway, an 1
where the self-interest of the several
pasts Instead of becoming a means for
the promotion of tho welfare of the
whole becomes too often a means tow
ard Its spoliation.
POWER IS .MORE CENTRALIZED.
"With tho Increasing scale on whlcii
public business Is conducted, It has un
dergone a change analogous to that
which we see In private business, It
has become a trust In a deeper sense
than It was a generation or two ago.
A wider discretionary power for good
or HI Is placed In the hands of those
by whom the publlo affairs of the city
or state are conducted. Thcso affairs
will not bo safe when politics Is re
garded as a game. Nor can they be
made so by any constitutional machin
ery. "A moderate degree of reform Is In
deed possible by fixing the responsi
bility In the hands of a single person
Instead of dividing It among so snuny
as to neutralize at once the power for
good und the accountability for evil.
Hut this change, however salutary and
even neccssasy In tho conduct of muni
cipal or state business, is far from
meeting the whnlo evil, Until there
Is u fundamental reform In the code
of political ethics, which tho commu
nity isnposes upon Its members, publls
trusts will be no snore adequately con
trolled than private ones. Nay, they
are likely to bo even less adequately
controlled, because a public ofllclai,
holding his power as a tool of a ring,
und acknowledging no allegiance to
standards higher than those whlc.i
have made his organization successful,
Is as a rulo more firmly entrenched In
authority than the representative .if
any private corporation, however ex
tensive or powerful. Until such
change Is made the socialistic. Ideal ot
reforming the abuse of private trust
by tho substitution of publlo trust will
be but the substitution of one set Jf
masters for another.
"If this difficulty is felt in Internal
affairs, where those who suffer are at
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an" rate citizens and men of action,
with th'i power to make their protests
heaul, even whore they cannot make
their resistance successful, much worse
will it b3 In dealing with colonies nnd
dependencies. The history of our In
dian affairs has proved how much real
immoinlity may characterize tho pub
llo dealings of a peaplo who In their
pilvato dealings with one another are
characterized by honesty nnd straight
forwardness. Whenever we govern a
sace so inferior that It is not, and In
tho nature of things ennnot be, ade
quately represented In our councils, 0112
of two things must happen either It
will be left a victim of the most un
scrupulous officeholders, us In tho case
alluded to, or It will be championed by
disinterested men. not a means for
their own political success, but as a
duty which they owe to their own
moral natures.
"Under nsi imperialistic policy our
government cannot remain what It was.
It must grow cither worse or bptter. It
cannot lemnln u game In which the
struggle for success is as far as pos
sible disassociated from tho moral
sense of the participants. It will in
volve elthef a direct breach of trust pr
a direct acceptance of trust.
"Our owsi experience with problems
other than these, and the experience of
England with this particular problem,
both warrant us In the belief that wo
shall move toward a bottler solution
rather than toward n worse. Eng
land's first political dealing? lis India
wero characterized by methods totally
indefensible. The career of Wurren
Hustings Is an example of how n really
great in. in may be Infected by a dis
ordered public morality. Rut the very
powerles-sness of Englsnd to protect
Itself against o'llclal abuse brought
home to tho English ivlnd, ns the con
ditions In England or In America hud
failed to Jo, the fact that public un
11101 nMt.v meant public Immorality.
Without going ro far as to aFBf.rt that
the i-cform of tho English civil servica
and tho purification of English poll
tic weie tho results of experiences In
India nnd the colonics for this Is a
disputed point we can at any rale see
that th very weakness of England's
dependencies has compelled tho young
men of England, as they go out Into
ollleial duties In these lassds. to adopt
tho position of proteetnis, quickened
by the rerponslblllty which attaches
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