Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — ABIDING FAITH IN ALL MEN [ARTICLE]

ABIDING FAITH IN ALL MEN

Broadmindedness of Governor Marshall |« Shown in Recent Interview With Him. j “I believe in a tariff for revenue only, i believe we should not turn to something else before we have taken care of that. The initiative and referendum can wait. I am sometime* tempted to think that the malign side of big business is stirring up these new issues in order that the tariff question may be snowed under and forgotten. But It ought not to be forgotten. 1 have heard about these Infant industries that need protection and I have seen them; seen them taking advantage of one dollar of protection to take three dollars more out of our pockets, out of your pockets and mine But I do not believe in nouncing and condemning them. They are men, our brothers. This thing cannot be solved by hatred; it can only be solved by brotherly love. Put It to them as men, put it to their sense of honor and generosity, put it to the spirit -of idealism in their hearts and they will respond. I have no use for the man who makes his pile by crooked means and low tricks and then, when he has made his pile, turns round and tries to. buy public opinion by gifts and benefactions. Let him begin right now. and cut out the crooked ways and mean tricks. Appeal to him as a man, appeal to what is generous in him, and he will do it. He is only the victim of a low general standard of success. Draw- on what is noble in him, for much in him is noble, and he will turn on himself and deal generously.”—Governor Marshall Interviewed by Charles Johnston, In Harper’s Weekly.