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'The Supremacy of the People Is the Foundation of this gov
ernment. This Principle Is Engraved on All Our Hearts
by the pen of Jefferson, the tongue of Henry and the sword
of Washington." The Life and Martyrdom of the Im
mortal Lincoln Keep this Principle Ever Before Us.
Thnt Potttlon for Perjury" wns
bo subject which Dr. Clnronco True
;ilson selected for tho proludo bo-
jro tho Rortnon on Sunday night nt
lentennry Motnouist upiscopni
litirch. Tho nnnouiicement of thlB
:plc drew n largo number who wIbIi-
k lntif.lin rllurnnulnll (if tllO tllOml
paring of tho attempted repudlutloji
the pledge of Statotnont No. 1 after
iio Indorsement of tho people. Di .
fllson snld In part:
roiindiitlon of (iovernnieiit.
The BUpremncy of tho people Is tin
iundntlon of this government. This
kinnitiin Is cnurnvod on nil our
parte by tho pon of Jcffcrnon, thp
linguo of Henry nna mo sworu or
Washington. No, It wnB Inscribed In
lie soul of man by n grcntor nrtlst,
llod Almighty, when Ho said: "Lot
Is mnko man In our own image; and
Mil mm navu uuiiuuiuu.
When tho Creator thoroforo on-
Bowed rutin with tho tromendoiiH pro-
rogntlvo of freedom, Ho meant that
m should govern himself. And tho
jrentest battle waged since then has
been tho ceaseless struggle between
tho utterly antagonistic forces of
those who would rule men and thoso
Ivno hnvo contouded for tho right of
man to rulo himself. First tho cnuso
h-iiB dofeatod by n potty tyrant assum
ing to himsolf tho rolo of dictator
Mid lording It over God's sonn and
MiiughterH, with the motto, "Might
Mukes right." Then tho Qod-llke
xplrlt ngaln asserted Itsolf and rebel-
Jlon throw off tho yoko, and human
freedom got another chance.
A later stngo la reached when tho
race adopts horldltnry monarchs
hvnlch pass by merit In selecting nil-
th and hlngo It nil on birthright, and
Ignore tho real sovereign, in coro
Dinting some degenorato who ropro-
.ontB tho rotton remnant of n long
pine of petted and pampered aristoc
racy. With tho fiction of tno dlvlno
vluht of kings they hold tho peoplo
down from tholr inallonablo rights
find quote "Tho king's mind is the
only law,"
Hut our fathers, studying tholr
llllblcs and appealing to tho common
instincts of human nnturo turnod
Lway from all theso Biibterfuges and
lictormlned to found a nation on the
lltneBH of mankind for solf-govorn-
Ifent They Intorprotcd this prlnol
pie In theso werds:
' All men nro created omiul. Thoy
Lire endowed by tholr Crontor with
certain innllcnnblo rights. To secure
ihcso rlghtH, governments aro Insti
tuted among mon, deriving tholr JuRt
powers from the. consent of tho gov
erned Whonovor any form of gov
ernment becomes destructive of these
ends, it Is tho right of tho pooplo
to abolish it."
They instituted this now ono in
k "ii form as to them seemed most !
likely to effect tholr Hafoty nnd hap
piness. Listen to them again.. "Ap
pealing to the Supremo Judgo of tho
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RIGHTS
world for tho rectltudo of our lnton
tlona, wo do in tho nnmo and by
tho authority of tho good peoplo of
theso colonies solomnly publish and
declare that theso United Mates nro
and of right ought to bo free nnd
Independent stales." When a con
Htitutlon wns to bo formed, who did
It? "Wo, the pooplo of tho United
States, In order to sccuro tho bless
ings of liberty to ourselves nnd our
posterity, do ordnln and establish.
Prom then till now no executive
officer from president down lias had
a right to move a foot beyond the
limit tho peoplo set for him. No
Judicial officer from tho supremo
Judgo down to Juatlco of tho pence
has any more honor or authority than
tho peoplo confer. No legislator
from tho United States senntor down
over cnBt a voto ob a roprcsontatlvo
of tho people, who elected mm to
act for them, that did not volco their
Bontlment as nearly as ho "could find
it out, without betraying a Bncred
trust, misrepresenting his supreme
sovereign, tho peoplo, and turning
Judas Iscmiot to tho foundation of
his government, namely tho supreme
right of the peoplo to rulo. This Is
tho principle boforo which God nnd
man must bow.
Tho Almighty Creator has always
respected this right In his creatures.
Never compelling submission but ap
pealing to Judgment and conscience.
And when nnclont Israel rebelled
against his plans nnd asked for a
king, Ho warned them against this
course, saying It would mean their
undoing; yet Ho yielded to tho sov
orlogu right of a peoplo ho had cre
ated free and equal, knowing It wus
better for them to err as frco man
governing themsolvos than to bo cor
rectly ruled as slaves. Whonovor tho
dominant Ibhuo Is tho rights of tho
people, they enu mnko no mistake
If thoy hnvo their own way. Whon
ovor tho Issuo Is squaroly Jolnod and
tho peoplo oxpicss thomsolvcs, and
tholr expressed wishes nro known,
thon to every worthy ropresontntlvo,
vox popull, vox Del, tho volco of
thu peoplo Is the voice of God. Or
ols our fnthorB wcio fools and loft
iih a fnko government on our hands.
Tho nnmo old strugglo that bognn
In tho dnrk vortex of history Is on
In Orogon.
In our ropubllc it is not tho petty
tyrant or tho horodltary Bovorolgn,
but tho dirty politician who, tries to
thwart tho peoplo's will. And 'tho
upward trend In Amorlcn Is tho down
ing of tho political boss nnd tho up
rising of tho peapIo'H rights. Our
patriotic fnthors ndoptod tho right
prlnolplo nnd wrotb It Into tholr con
stitution. But It wos new to thorn
and whon thoy canto to apply it thoy
hedged a llttlo. Thoy snld tho peo
ple can bo trusted to elect all but
tho presidents and United Stntos sen
ators. Thoy nro bo Important that
tho pooplo, might mnko n mistake
Wo wlV lot' them elect olec'torswno,
acting for them, shall select a fit
man for presldont. So wo havo in
herited our cumbcrous system of
presidential elections from the fear
ful timidity of our forefnthers.
KlertUe Power.
"Ihr constitution wll wo will hnvo
tho people elect tho, lower house, diut
the senators shall bo selected In the
Btnto legislatures. So wo havo the
Bpcctnclc of rich old Imbeciles buy
tug their way Into tho senate to spend
their Bonllity in weakly Belling out
the people's rights to tho corpora
tions that hnvo tun do them, and In
Oregon the sacred office that was to
be held bnck from the peoplo's touch,
put up and sold to the highest bid
dor until It looked three yearn ago
as If wo would not have a single rep
roaentntlvo In Wnshlnglon unconvict
ed of crime. And tho politicians
through nil these years hnvo Bolected
mn who nelthor morally, socially nor
polltlcully represented tno boat
thoughts or mornls of our people.
it Is Interesting that tho only two
big blunders mndo by tho founders of
our tuition woro the two that woro
to limit tho pcolo'B right of solf-gov-ernment.
Tho first ono has boon
corrected by common consent through
custom, namely, by the practical in
struction of tho presidential doctors
as to whom thoy nro oxpectod to voto
and they would not dnro Ignoro that
Instruction, and over como homo
again.
Oregon to Lend.
And now Orogon proposes to load
tho states In taking, tho election of
senators out of tho filthy polltlca
rings that havo too long controlled,
and lot the sovereign pooplo say who
shall roprcsont them In tho highest
branch of government. Tho peoplo
or Oregon hnvo put their hnnd to this
task, nnd will novor lot go. Thoy
hnvo voted upon about thirty bills
through tho Initiative and referen
dum, and they hnvo neither erred or
blundered yet. They hnvo thrice
mndo cholco of tholr own mnn for
sonntor, and thoy will not nllow tho
polluted hnnds of nny political ma
chinist to touch their Ark of tho Cov
onnnt, tho Integrity of popular gov
ernment. In nn open fight In n freo
flold they turnod down Fulton bo
causo thoy preferred Cako. In the
election thoy defeated Cako because
they )rfoired Cluimbeilnin. And,
inrty or no party, politician or no
politician, tho peoplo proposo to hnvo
tho peoplo's cholco, nnd to deal with
tho mon who dnro to sell thoni out
or betray tholr trusts.
Whenever an Amorlcnn oltlzan vol
untarily goes boforo his follow citi
zens nnd nskB for tholr suifrngo on
n conditional promise that If elected
ho will do cortnln things, that prom
(so Is as sucred and Important to tho
Intogrlty of government nn compul
sory oath administered In a court.
To botmy tho trust Imposed In ono
who Is thus elected Is perjury of tho
blnckOBt typo, It Ib securing votoa
(moro sacred than monoy) under
fnl80 pretenses; It Is treason to tho
vory heart of our form of govern
ment. I Bhnll pity tho poor woakllng
who sells himsolf to go bnck on his
constituents. Ho Is a moro shadow
too frnll to boar tho Btraln of carry
ing through n snored trust. Innu
pablo of bolng trueunder temptation
Out those who resort to political com
binations and clrculnto petitions and
sign them calculated to mako tho
people's representatives botray them.
lo procure perjury from them by,
mnklng it easy for them to violate
tholr pro-election promises, to entice
iiiom nt this Into dny after being
elected on Statement No. 1, to put
tho short-sighted Interest of their
party ahead of their word of honor
and tho rights of tho peoplo, thoso
aro tho corrupters of mankind.
Against them nro pulpits should thun
der, tho press should sound tho alarm
and overy true-honrted mnn should
denounce this open effort to prosti
tute freo government to treason nnd
dirty politics.
No Apology.
I mako no npology for touching
this 'subject In tho pulpit, for tho
morality of tho whole state Is In
volved In tho open nttompt to In
duco honorable mon to' vlolnto boI
onm pledges openly mndo to us as
votors. And na ono of thoso who
wns Induced to voto for tho State
ment No. 1 momJiecnuso of tho prin
ciple for which thoy stood, I main
tain that all tho peoplo of Oregon
cannot olcnso them from tholr
plndgo to mo or to nny other votor.
It Ib a personal ngrecmont with ench
Individual votor; nnd thoro Is but
ono way to' got discharged from tho
solemnity or that pledge, nnd that Is
to do what was ngrecd.
And I think I know ns much
about commo nmornllty as a friend
of mtno learned In California. Ho
inquired of nn old German, "Whoro
Ib tho lino of demarcation botwoon an
occasional falstflor and a perpetual
liar?" Tho Gorman replied, "Von a
man can't never toll tho truth about
notlngs, ho 1st tho worst ovor, ain't
it?"
All I claim Is that legislators
oloctcd on ono specific promlso
should mako good on that. Wo can
havo no othor opinion of tho moral
ity of tho repudiation of n solemn
plcdgo upon tho basis of which ft
majority of our state legislature wns
elected.
Doc Not Imply.
Of course I do not Imply that ono
mnn who took Statement No. 1 Ib
weakening or IiIb voto In doubt. I
nm' sure overy mnn will mnko good.
Hut I blush for our state that ono
prominent politician can bo round
who would daro advlso nny ono tnk
tng such n plcdgo to fall down nfter
mining hla election thoroby. Ana
it should bo romorborcd that tho poo-
not only voted for Chamberlain
thoy elected Stntomont No. 1 mon, bo
cause of tholr plcdgo, and thoy wont
fnr beyond that.
Thoy passed an act by n voto of
three to ono majority, Instructing
tholr representatives to voto for tho
poople's cholco, whether thoy had
tnkon tho pledge or not. Thoy
ought to do what tho governor of
this state roqiiostod two yours ago
In tho case of .lohniithan liourno nnd
also of Mr. Mulkoy. In vlow of tho
fact that tho peoplo had chosen theso
gentlomon Instead or tholr Democra
tic rivals, tho govornor, n Democrat,
rocommondod that tho voto bo unan
imous In both sennto and house. And
It waa nlmoat unanimous nnd ovory
Democrat votod for thoso Republi
cans, becnuso tho people had spoken
tholr mind nnd tho legislature was
thoro to roprcsont thoin.
I Am fllwl to 8fo You.
Thoro Is not a man in Amorlcn
who embodies mora of present-day
Americanism public spirit or patri
otism thnn Theodore Roosevelt At
a .ppjgrpss' of nntlonnl nnd Btnto
There's a fnll In storo for tho man
who Is nbovo hla work.
Qlrls with protty necks dlsllko high
collars.
Whisky by nny other nnmo would
tnuglc men's foot JuBt tho saino.
A Billy woman tries to drive a
man; a wlso ono lends him.
You can't always Judgo tho show
by the prlco of admission.
commissions on tho conservation of
national resources, hold In Washing
ton, D. C on Tuesday, Dcconibor 8,
thoro woro three speakors tho pres
ident, Governor Chamborlnln of Or
egon and tho Presldont-olect, Wll-
Jlam II. Taft. When tho throo mot,
Mr. R'oosovolt addressed Mr. Chnni
berlnln In tho presence of sovornl
senators, In thoso werds: "I am glnd
to sco you, Governor Chamborlaln,
and Bonntor to bo. -I would havo pre
ferred to have a Republican como
from Oregon but I stand for tho
right of tho peoplo to rulo, nnd thoro
foro I wnnt you to bo elected senn
tor." How dlfforently thnt sounds
from tho small politician who la now
trying to scheme out n plot to do
ront tho poople's will!
Whon Congressman Hawloy re
turned to Orogon rrom Washington
Inst summer ho was asked whnt ho
thought or tho Bonntorlal prospects?
Ho showod his high moral chnrnctor
ns woll ns political Insight In tho
answer ho gavo : "Why, I havo noth
ing to say about that. I thought
that was tho mattor tho peoplo Bot
tled at tho Juno election."
Let mo recall somo mnttorH of
history. In 1824 thoro woro rour
presidential candidates, Wllllma H.
Crawford, Atidrow Jackson, Honry
Clay and John Qulucy Adams'. Jack
son received tho vast majority of tho
popular voto and n majority of tho
olcctornl voto, but not huvliig tho
constitutional majority ovor all tho
candidates, there wns no olectlon nnd
tho selection wns thrown Into con
gross. Clny, who had rocolved tho
smallest number or votai, withdrew
nnd throw his InMuonco for Adnms,
nnd the Crnwford following went to
Adnms, nnd In thin unclean combine
tho people's choice wus defeated.
Adams mndo Clay hla secretary, of
state nB a roward. Hut tho peoplo
repudiated the whole thing, dofeated
nonrly overy ropresontntlvo who bo
trnyed thorn nnd In rour yenrs trl
umphuntly elected Androw Jnckson
ub the people's mnn by a majority
larger thnn any other caudldato has
slnco had, Bnvo Lincoln on hln sec
ond torm. Jncksou'tt slogan was,
"Shnll tho peoplo rulo?" Tho Iioiibo
or roprcsentntlves had made bold to
tramplo tho will or tho peoplo undor
foot. Thoy had a constitutional right
to do it, but no morn! right. And
I protost thnt our legislature has no
moral right to 'elect any othor thnn
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tho people's cholco for our senator.
And If thoro Is n man In our legis
lature who tries to uso his voto In
tho old way for party purposo or for
a machine candidate, lot us say to
him: "St. ., sir, that voto In your
hand is not yours to give. It be
longs to tho peoplo of this state, and
thoy told you ror whom thoy wish
it cast. I protest against your In
tention and deny your moral right to
bestow It against their will."
Another lesson from history. la
tho cnmnplgn of 1870 James Russell
Lowell was elected presidential elec
tor from Massachusetts, no wns a
Republican nnd was for Hayes, llut
boforo tho meeting of tho electoral
collego ttowoll became convinced that
Tildon was elected by tho peoplo and
contemplated casting his electoral
voto for him. Rut finally decided
that it was not his to cast, but right
or wrong, it belonged to tho peoplo
who elected him, nnu thoroforo ho
must cast It as thoy oxpectod him to
and as their votes instructed him.
Every man In tho Oregon legisla
ture had hotter stand with tho poo
plo. Thoy will bo hero doing busi
ness nt tho old stand, whon tho cor
ruptlonlsts who seek to ontlco thorn
to botmy tholr trusts only to forsake
you In tholr weakness nnd folly nnd
shamo aro all forgotton. It Is safe
to go up or down with tho pooplo" In
this country. I know tho voice wo
hoar pleading ror a partisan voto Is
tho volco of Jacob, but tho hnnd Is
tho hand or Esau.
Too Much Face.
Yod reel ns If you had ono face
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