April 15, 1906. repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the This honesty can be no respecter of persons. action by others which can be construed into an expression of sympathy for Of course, no amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them. "The Man with the Muckrake," he wrote, "could look no way but downward." In a 1906 speech, President Teddy Roosevelt recalled Bunyan's words while railing against journalists he thought focused too much on exposing corruption in business and government. oscillations such excitement invariably produces, yet a sodden acquiescence in betray the good cause and play into the hands of the very men against whom they Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas. Yet he also typifies the The only public servant who can be trusted honestly to protect the rights of the public against the misdeeds of a corporation is that public man who will just as surely protect the corporation itself from wrongful aggression. It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Civil Rights As a matter of evil is even worse. Susan B. Anthony The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. Thank you! with the inevitable inequality of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute and 10 15 20 25 Questions 11-21are based on the following passage. Of course, no amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them. capital. take into account the strength of the forces that tell for good. Under altered external form we war with the same tendencies toward evil that were evident in Washington's time, and are helped by the same tendencies for good. for distinction from their fellows. While some of them were shining a light on very real problems, others were launching attacks that were flat-out lies. foul class feeling on behalf of some other labor leader who is implicated in If they fail to get their way they will still do incalculable harm by provoking the kind of reaction which in its revolt against the senseless evil of their teaching would enthrone more securely than ever the evils which their misguided followers believe they are attacking. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. Things are getting tense, in a not-infrequent-casualties kind of way. The men who with stern sobriety and truth assail the many evils of our time, whether in the public press, or in magazines, or in books, are the leaders and allies of all engaged in the work for social and political betterment.
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