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other because he chooses a different part of the field 

 and different implements. It is inexcusable to refuse 

 to work, to work slackly or perversely, or to mar 

 the work of others. 



No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of 

 expediency. He is bound to do all the good possible. 

 Yet he must consider the question of expediency, in 

 order that he may do all the good possible, for other 

 wise he will do none. As soon as a politician gets 

 to the point of thinking that in order to be "p ract i- 

 cal" he has got to be base, he has become a noxious 

 member of the body politic. That species of practi 

 cability eats into the moral .sense of the people like a 

 cancer, and he who practices it can no more be ex 

 cused than an editor who debauches public decency 

 in order to sell his paper. 



We need the worker in the fields of social and 

 civic reform.; the man who is keenly interested in 

 some university settlement, some civic club or citi 

 zens' association which is striving to elevate the 

 standard of life. We need clean, healthy newspa 

 pers, with clean, healthy criticism which shall be fear 

 less and truthful. We need upright politicians, who 

 will take the time and trouble, and who possess the 

 capacity, to manage caucuses, conventions, and pub 

 lic assemblies. We need men who try to be their 

 poorer brothers' keepers to the extent of befriending 

 them and working with them so far as they are 



