Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — Rising Moral Standards. [ARTICLE]

Rising Moral Standards.

In the stimulating little volume, “The Moral and Religious Challenge of Our Time's,” President H. C. King of Oberlin college discusses as* one of the significant national changes, “the rapidly rising moral standards of the United States in business, industrial and political life.” There can be no doubt, he says, that the business world now repudiates methods that would have been accepted as a matter of course twenty-five years ago, and that in politics there is “a growing responsibility to the whole people.” He continues: “The significant element in the revolt against ‘Cannonism’ lies just here. It is the repudiation of the old theory that legislation is to be the outcome of a compromise of various corporate or local interests, instead of being detenhined by a clear view of the interests of the people as a whole.” That is why the people revolted against the manner in which the Payne-Aldrich tariff act was framed, and it explains the uprising which has so bewildered the old school of politicians who could see nothing out of the way in legislating for the special interests.