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tu LET PEOPLE RULE, SAYS ROOSEVELT OPPOSES PRESIDENTS ATTITUDE ON POPULAR GOVERNMENT. t People's Votco Must Prevail Cheered (or Cpcech In Opening Active Campaign for Nomination Quotes Taft at Opposed to the Majority. Standi Squarely on Hie Columbus, Ohio, Address. trio down At the Wtom distrust pop ular government and when they must accept It, accept It with roluctnnco and hedge around It with every ape clcs ot restriction and check nnd bnl anco so as to mnko the power ot tho people ns limited and Ineffective ns possible. Mr. Tnft fairly doflneB tho Issuo when ho snys that our govern ment la and should bo i government of nil tho peoplo by n republican pnrt of the people. This Is nn oxcollcnt and moder to description ot nn olig archy. It defines out- government ns a Mvummdnl fAr a fnw nf thn iiennln. I am not speaking crltlcnlly nor do yBlcm of Judicial nullincnttont It I mean to bo unkind, for I believe that w Accurately stated by the court many honorable and well meaning , of PP. Now York. In tho employ men of high character tako this view tn liability case, where It was calmly and have taken It from tho time ot I BnU Judicially declared that tho peo- tho formation ot tho nation. Essen tlally this view Is that tho constltu again earnest workers for toclat Just ice have said to mo that the most ser'l ous obstacles that they have encoun tcred during tho many years that they havo been trying to savo American women nnd children from destruction In American Industry havo been tho courts. That Is tho Judgment ot al most nil tho social workers I know and ot dotens ot parish prlesta and clergymen nnd of every executive and legislator who has been seriously at tempting to uso tho government ns nn ngoucr for social and Industrial bet torment. What Is the result ot Uilo tlon Is n strait Jacket to be used for Km inntnl rt m itHnilw nAllni Iti Tho salient passages In Colonel , pcopie Now i hold thnt UlU T,ow u Roosevelt's forceful campaign speech, nol onjy MWt but mischievous, that delivered In Carnegie Hall. New York, our conatltutlons are Instruments de Wednesday evening, la gtwn bolow: , tCTcd t0 tccur. jUttic, by accurlng The great fundamental Issue now 1 tho dellbdrato but rffortlvo .unrrminn before tho republican party and be- of tha nnmitnr win thnt thn hki ' tolerable, lore our peoplo can be stated briefly, and balances are valuable ns far and Pople, but tuero sham government In It Is, are tho American peoplo fit to only ao far as they accomplish that t wh-lch t will of the people Is con rovern themselves, to rule them- deliberation nnd that it u wnrnmi stoutly defeated. It Is out ot this ex- plo under our republican government are less free to correct the ovlls thnt oppress them than are tho people ot tho monarchies ot Kurope. To any man with vision, to any man with i brond nnd real social sympathies, to any man who believes with all his heart In this great democratic ro public of ours, such a condition Is In- It Is not government by the selves, to control themselvos? I bcllovo thoy are. My opponents do not. I believe In tho right ot tho peoplo to rule. I believe that tho ma jority of tho plain peoplo In tho Unit ed. States will, do, day In and dny out, mnko fewer mistakes In govern ing themselves than nny similar class or body of men. no matter what their training, will make In trying to govern i and unworthy nnd Improper construc tion of our form of government to seo In It only a means ot thwarting Uio popular will and of preventing Justice. Mr. Taft says that "every class" ahould havo a "volco" In tho govern ment. Thnt seems to mo n very ser ious misconception of tho American political situation. The real trouble perlenco thnt my remedy has come, and let It be tried In this field. When ns tho result of years ot edu cation nnd dobato a majority of tho peoplo havo decided upou n remedy for an evil from which they suffer and havo choevn n legislature, a logls Inture pledged to embody that remedy In law, nnd tho law has been finally them. I bcllevo again that tho Amcr- too much voice. Ono ot tho most Im lean people as a. whole, are capable of portant of nil the lessons to be tnught sen control ana ot learning oy tncir mistakes. Our opponents pay lip loy alty to this doctrine, but they show their real beliefs by the way In which they champion every dovlce to malie I tho nominal rule of tho people n sham, j I have scent pntlenco with this talk , of tho tyranny of the majority. When-: ever there Is tyranny of the majority with us Is that somo classes havo had PnMcd anJ approved, I regard It as monstrous Hint n uencn ot juuge shall then sny to tho peoplo: "You and to bo learned Is that a man should I mu" ueKn n" over again, i-irsi. voto not ns a renresentntlvo of n rlnm. ' amend your constitution (which will but merely as a good citizen, whoso i ,nko (our )'cr) ' ond. sreuro tho prime Interest aro tho samo ns thoso I Pesage of n new law (which will talco of all other good cltlxens. ' wo 'c nr luoro lhlrJ Cftrry ' T.ff. ni.h.n. t .. o.i.n new law over Its weary course of lltl- I millnn wtilfK wltl tMl nes ruimnri Im. Ing knows how long; fourth, submit , tho wholo matter over ngaln to the ?VnheI,Omt0 "nd Ptr0par,PMh Wn ' Such a system Is not popular govern-l . L X'SZSZfl !.SK! nt. but a mere mockery of popular aarf uww H IIVI W UU BlFViinS) I fc )W vs iiimviim I rTr.M .; "C as a rule, based upon the ton-, rva aaaaaa ataaaaufjaaao aaajwa aaaarf aaaa Af fth. Hf..n.l.l. .. .-. ! a t v. uv iiuiiBii uucuruumr una un. -. . . .ut-u . mt.i II lin ITI't'lHIIIIIV III WIllITll 17 IU11IUIUI1I . Mr. Tnft again nnd ngnln In quota tions I hnve given and clsowhcre In vuLbu rk'iisu tm uicvVMVi ill s.. ...- t . 1 shall protest against It with all my tho people when they voto at tho polls.; "rjr ;?., . Zn v, ZZ, ' V....J .i i .., .j... , . t- .l: .l- i tho decision to which you object. water powers and our harbor fronts. A small minority is fattening on tho solo of adulterated foods and drugs, , i! is ft ifnall minority that lies behind monopolies and trusts. It Is a small minority that stands behind the pres ent law ot master and servant, the jweaUhops and the whole calendar of social and Industrial injustice. It Is a small minority that is today using our convention system to defeat the will ot a majority of the people in the choice ot delegates to the Chicago i contention, I My opponents charge that two ! things In my program are wrong bo-' cause they Intrude into tho sanctuary "of the Judiciary. , question. Itemember that under my mo 0Uf coim b glUch' t . The first is the recall of Judges and , proposal to review a rule of decision ,hMfl ,crm8 n4V mMnnt Now he Sfcoad the review by the people ty popular vpte, nwendlns or con-. ..nroCf r.y has come to mean ! of Judicial decisions on certain excep- strong to that extent the const!tu f r,lht 0f raiU0 wnlcb a person could i tlonal questions. I have said again tlon could certainly take at least two . . ..ihcrty" hna been made , and again that I do not advocate the , years from tho time of the election j Vclude the right to make contracts. , recall of Judges in all states and in nil of tho legislature which passed the A, tt regulti wnwn the ,utM mts ;be -?6mmud!tlt-s. The Integrity of our act. Now, only four months elapse J fc fof whch women mny ,nt)or u Judges, from Marshall to White nnd , between the nomlnrtlon and the olec-; ,, toM by the courta that this law do-' Holmes and to Cullen and many oth-, tlon of a man a president to Cll for nrjvcl tnem ot their "liberty," and ert in our eUIS-i nne paBo o. i9ur yeers me sm r.r"nnni onico , when ,. rM,rlM, the manufacture ot .U 1.1... ffl.. f .mm I, mm-. I kL. I...l Tm m.ia nr if- rpnttm . . ..... I k ... again he says that the system I pro pose, "would result In suspension or application ot constitutional guaran tees according to popular whim," which would destroy "all possible con sistency" In constitutional interpreta tion. I should much like to know the exact distinction that Is to be made between what Mr. Taft calls "the fitful impulse of a temporary stltuttonal provision that no person shnll be deprived of life, liberty or, property without due process ot law, ; Tho terms "life, liberty and property," have been used In the constitutions , of the Kngllsh spenktng peoplo slnco j Magna Charta. Until within the last ' sixty years they were treated as bav- ' Ing specific moanlngs "property" i means tangible property: "Liberty" I i meant freedom from personal re-J n"lrUr, B.f,ied.tS .T t"". w in other words, from Im-' such a. that I raise and any other DrUonm.nt ln , ,ftrg.lt definition. tho In speec 6 land. In ono of Mr. Tatfs , lob6e40 n a tenement It Is told that; hes ho speaks ot "the volco of, ,,, .... .inri n. landlord of hla , the People ns comlnfc next to the voice propcrty. Now, 1 do nol believe that bt oV. ArWently. then, Ihe do-, any pcopic nd espMlully our frco j cisiun oi wm ijWo uuuui mc Vnn-, American people, will lOitg consent dency, after four more years 6f dcllb- ,bat th term "liberty" .hall be do-, eratlon. Is to be treated as "next to : flned for thcm by a bench of Judge, i the voice of God." but If Otter two r. ...nn hn, rioflnnl ihnt torm I tilaln Ihal Ihe question whether a glv- years ot sober thought they decide . ,taoU n tao C0Urse of Its Uevelop- ., .li ,- .. !.. miKII. trnArt ,k.. .mm... anit Villiln tthftll lA tn WXIBI POHCy l II" "" iu..v d- , iuhv "Uiuvu .. ... ........ ., menL 1 Americad history. Hut I say it so berly democracy has a right to ap- Jjrpach the sanctuary of tho courts when n special Interest has corruptly found sanctuary, and this Is exnetly what has happened In some ot the slates whre tho recall "1 this Judges ""TS U HVlnj; Issii 1. U not equally s not of Judicial nature, but ahould protected In laduttry, or men protect- . . k . strive for iutxict. i nettled bv the legislature or In the ed from excessive hoUra M labor un- '., . .. x.t.. I. ' ,nal Insunce. by the people them- der unhygienic tondltlohs, or wnW, "." .., jt. I of o3rth Ice. achieved through he gsnulne rule I Slol lh people. TbM i our end. our 1 nnal selvesT I workers compnsated when The tiresldent of the United States, if or llWo In the service Mr. Taft, devoted most of a recent then thtetr decision forthwith becomes speech to criticise somo of this prop-1 a "wWin" sjtd feverish "and unstnblo" osltlon. He says that "11 is utterly and nn Mtfcrcise or tne -grossest xyran-1 without merit or utility nnd, Instead j Cy" 'and tho "laying of the axo at the I of being In the Interest ot all the peo-, foot ot the trco ot freedom. ! pie and of tho suability of popular ; That Is the old, old doctrino which government, Is sowing the seeds ot ' has been acted upon for thousands of j contusion nnd tyranny." Dy this be j years abroad and which here In Amer- of course mbant the tyranny of me ( ca has been acted upon sometimes majority that Is tho tyranny of the openly, sometimes secretly, for forty American people as a whole. years by many men In public and In He also says that my proposal, private llfo, and I am sorry to say by (which as he rightly sees it, Is merely many Judges, a doctrine which haa In a proposal to give the peoplo a real fact tended to crento a bulwark for instead of only a nominal chance to I privileges, a bulwark unjustly protect construe and amend state legislation ng special interests against the rights with reasonable rapidity) would make cf the people as a whole. This doc such amendment and interpretation , trine Is to me dreadful doctrine, for "depend on tho feverish, uncertain i its effect Is, and can only be, to make nd unstable determinations of sue- the courts the shield of privilege cessive votes on different laws by against popular rights. Naturally, ev temporary nnd changing majorities," ery upholder and beneficiary of crook and that "it lays the axe at the foot ed privilege loudly applauds the doc of the tree ot well ordered freedom trine. It Is behind the bhleld of that and subjects the guarantees of lite, , doctrine that crooked clauses creep liberty and prosperity without remedy, into laws that men ot wealth control to the fitful Impulse ot a temporary , legislation, majority ot an electorate." Keracmbor, I nm not discussing the This criticism is reauy less a cru- recall ot juuges aunougn wih lclsra of my proposal than a criticism of all popular government. It Is whol ly unfounded, unless It is founded on tho belief that the people aro funda mentally untrustworthy. This is the question that I propose to submit to tho people. How can the prevailing morality or a preponderant opinion be better and more exactly ascer tained than by a voto of the peoploT The people must know better than tho court whnt their own morality nnd their own opinion Is. I ask that you here, you nnd others like you, you, tho peop'le, bo given the chance to state your own views of Justice and public morality nnd not sit meekly by and have your views announced for you by well meaning adherents of outworn philosophies, who exalt the pedantry of formulas above the vital needs of human life. Mr. Taffe position is the position that has been held from the beginning of our government, although not al ways o openly held, by a large num ber of reputable and honorable men distinctly understood that the recall is a mere piece of machinery to take tho place of the unworkable Impeach ment which Mr. Taft In effect defonds and that If the days of Maynard over came back again In the stnto of New York I should favor It. I have no wish to come to It, but our opponents when thoy object to all efforts to secure real justice from the courts aro strengthen 1 g tho hands of thoso who domnnd the recall. In a great many states thore has beon for many years a real feoull of Judges as regards appoint ments, promotions, reappolntinonta and ro-electlons. Arid this recall was through tho turn of a thumbBcrow at the fcsid ot a long distance rod In the bands of groat interests. I bcllovo that a Just Judge would feel far silfor in tho hands of tho people than In tho bands of those Interests. My remedy is not the result ot a library study of constitutional law, but of actual 'and long continued experience ln the 'use of governmental power to redress social and induutrlnl e lis. Again and nurMic. Tne mcinous lor bcuictuih the end aro mrrvly expedients to bo j finally accept! or rejected nccoruing , as actual cxptrlciico shows that thoy work well r III. Uut, In our hearts ' we must Wn this lofty purpose, and wo musX trlve for it In all earnest- j ness and sincerity or our worV will j como to nothing. In order to succeed we need leaders of Inspired Idcrllim, ! leaders to whom are granted great vlolons, who dream greatly nnd strive j to moke their dreams come tru, who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. Tho leader, for tho time being, whoever he may be, Is but an Instrument to be used until broken and then to be cast aside, and if he is worth bis salt bo will caro no more when he Is brokon than a soldier cares when he Is scut where bis life Is forfeited In order that tho victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watch word for all of us Is spend and bo spont. It 1b of little matter whether any one man falls or succeeds, hut the causo shall not foil, tor It Is tho cause of mankind. We, here In Amer ica, hold In our hands the hope of tho world, tho fate of the coming years, and shame and disgrace will be ours If, In our eyes, tho light of high re solve Is dimmed, if wo trail In tho dust tbo golden hopes of men. If, on this now continent, we morely build an othor country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity, wo shall havo douo nothing, nnd we shnll do as little If wo morely net tho i;reod of envy against tho greed of arroganco and thereby destroy the material well being of all of us. To turn this gov ernment either Into government by plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repoat on a larger scale the lamcntablo failures of a world that Is dead. Wo stand against all tyranny, by tho fow or by tho many. We stand for tho rule ot the many in tho interest of all of us, for the rulo of tho many In a spirit of courage, of common sense, of high purpose, ubovo all In a spirit of kindly Justice toward tvery man and every woman. 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