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face roust. Roosevelt Criticises President LET PEOPLE RULE, SAYSJOOSEVELT OPPOSES PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE ON POPULAR GOVERNMENT. People's Voice Must Prevail Cheered for Speech In Opening Active Campaign for Nomination Quotes j Taft aa Opposed to the Majority. J Stand Squarely on Hie Columbus, ' Ohio, Address. The salient passages In Coloiel Roosevelt's forceful campaign speech, leltvered In Carnegie Hall, New York, Wednesday evening, Is given below: The great fundamental Issue now before the republican party and be fore our people can be stated briefly. It la, are the American people (It to govern themselves, to rule them selves, to control themselves? I believe they are. My opponents do not I believe In the light of the people to rule. I believe that the ma jority of the plain people In the Unit ed State will, do, day In and day out, make fewer mistakes In govern Ing themselves than any similar class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make In trying to 'govern them. I believe again that the Amer- I:an people a a whole, are capable of self control and of learning by their mlaiukes. Our opponents pay Hp toy' ally to this doctrine, but they show their real beliefs by the wsy In which they champion every device to make the nominal rule of the people a sham. 1 have scant patience with this talk of the tyranny of the majority, When ever there is tyranny of the majority 1 shall protest against It with all my heart and soul. Hut we are today suffering from the tyranny of the ml norllles. It Is a small minority that Is grabbing our coul deposits, our water powers and our harbor fronts. A small minority Is fattening on the sale of adulterated foods and drugs. It is a small minority that lies behind monopolies and trusts. It Is a small minority that stnnds behind the pres ent law of master and servant, the sweatshops and the whole calmular of social end Industrial Injustice, It Is a small minority that Is today using our convention system to defeat the will of a majority of the people In the choice of delegate to the Chicago convention. , . My opponents charge that two things In my program are wrong be cause they Intrude Into the sanctuary .if the Judiciary. The first Is the recall of Judge and ,he second the review by the people of Judicial decision on certain oxcop- lonnl questions. I have said again And again that I do not advo'cnle the -ecnll of Judges In all slates and In all oommunltleB. The Integrity of our ludges, from Marshall to White and Holmes and to Cullen and many oth era In our state Is a fine page of American history. Hut 1 say it so berly democracy has a right to ap y roach the sanctuary of the courts when a special Interest has corruptly found sanctuary, and this Is exactly what has happened In some of the states where the recall of the Judges Is a living Issue. Is It not equally plain that the question whether a gtv en social policy Is for the publio good Is not of a Judicial nature, but should be aettled by the leglnlature or In the Anal Instance, by the people them selves? The president of the United States, Mr. Taft, devoted most of a recent speech to criticise some of this prop oaltlon. He says that "It Is utterly without merit or utility and, Instead of being In the Interest of all the peo ple and of the stability of popular government, la aowlng the seeds of confusion and tyranny." By this he of course meant the tyranny of the majority that is the tyranny of the American people aa a whole. He alo says that my proposal, (which as he rightly eees it, Is merely proposal to give the people a real Instead of only a nominal chance to construe and amend state legislation with reasonable rapidity) would make eurh amendment and Interpretation "depend on the feverish, uncertain suil unstable determinations of suc cessive vote on different laws by temporary and changing majorities," snd II. "t "It lays the Hie at the foot of the tree of well ordered freedom and subjects the guarantees of lite, liberty and prosperity without remedy, to the fitful Impulse of a temporary majority of an electorate." This orltlclum Is really less a crit icism of my proposal than a criticism of all popular government. It Is whol ly unfounded, unless It Is founded on the belief that the people are funda mentally untrustworthy. This Is the question that I propose to submit to the people. How can the prevailing morality er a preponderant opinion be hotter and more exactly ascer tained than by a vote of (he people? The people must know better than the court what their own morality and their own opinion Is. I auk that you f.re, you and others like you, you, the people, be given the chance to state our own views of Justice and public norallty snd not alt meekly by and fiave your views announced for you by well meaning adherents of outworn iillonopbUs, who exult the pedantry of formulas above the vital needs of tiumsn Hfo. Mr. Tuft's position Is the position that baa been held from the beginning of our government, although not al ways so openly beld, by a large Bum of reputable and, honorable inea Who lown at the bottom distrust pop ular government and when they must accept it, accept It with reluctance and hedge around It with every spe oles of restriction and check and bal ance so aa to make the power of the people aa limited and ineffective a possible. Mr. Taft fairly defines the Issue when be says that our govern ment Is and should be a government of all the people by a republican part of the people. This Is an excellent and moderate description of an olig archy. It defines our government as a government for a few of the people. I am not speaking critically nor do I mean to be unkind, for I believe that many honorable and well meaning men of high character take this view and have' taken It from the time of the formation of the nation. Essen tially this view Is that the constitu tion is a strait Jacket to be used for the control of an unruly patient the people. Now I bold that this view is not only false, but mischievous, that our constitutions are Instruments de signed to secure Justice by securing the deliberate but effective expression of the popular will, that the checks and balancea are valuable aa far and only so far as they accomplish that deliberation and that It Is a warped and unworthy and Improper construc tion of our form of government to see In it only a means of thwarting the popular will and of preventing Justice. Mr. Taft saya that "every class" should have a "voice" In the govern ment. That seems to me a very ser ious misconception of the American political situation. The real trouble with us Is that some classes have bad too much voice. One of the most im portant of all the lessons to be taught and to be learned Is that a man should vote not as a representative of a class, but merely as a good citizen, whose prime Interests are the same as those of all other good citizens. Taft's "Disbelief In the People." Mr. Taft again and again in quota tions I have given and elVewhere In this speech expresses his disbelief in the people when they vote at the polls, In one sentence he says that the proposition gives "powerful effect to the momentary Impulse of a majority of an electorate and prepares the way for the positive exorcise of the gross est tyranny." Elsewhere he speaks of the "fevcrlBh uncertainty" and "un stable determination of laws" by tem porary and changing majorities, and again he says that the system I pro pose, "would result In suspension or application of 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 liupulao of a temporary majority" when applied to a question such ns that I raise and any other question. Iteinembcr that under my proposal to rovlew a rule of decision by popular vote, amending or con struing to that extent the constitu tion could certainly take at least two years from the time of the election of the legislature which pimHod the aot Now, only four months elnpso between the nomination and the elec tion of a mnn as president to fill for four years the most important office In the land. In one of Mr. Taft' speeches he speaks of "the voice of the people us coming next to the voice of Ood." Apparently, then, the de cision of the people about the presi dency, after four more years of delib eration, Is to be treated as "next to the. voloe of Ood," but If after two years of sober thought they decide that women and children shall be protected In Industry, or men protect ed from exceaalv hours of labor un der unhyglonlo condition, or wage workers compensated when they lose life or limb in the service of others, then their decision forthwith becomes a "whim" and feverish "and unstable" and an exercise of the "grossest tyran ny" and the "laying of the axe at the foot of the tree of freedom," That Is the old, old doctrine which bss been acted upon for thouaands of years abroad and which her lu Amer ica has been aoted upon sometimes openly, sometimes secretly, for forty years by mnny men In public and In private life, and I am sorry to say by many Judges, a doctrine which has In fact tended to create a bulwark for privileges, a bulwark unjustly protect ing special Interests against the rights of the people as a whole. This doc trine Is to me a dreadful doctrine, for Its effect Is, and can only be, to make the courts the shield of privilege against popular rights, Naturally, ev ery upholder and beneficiary of crook ed privilege loully applauds the doc trine. It Is behind the shield of tlmt doctrine that crooked clauses cYeep Into laws that wen of wealth control legislation. , itcmcinber, I am not discussing the recall of Judges although 1 wish It distinctly understood that the recall I a mere piece of machinery .o take the place of the unworkable Impeach ment which Mr. Taft In effect defeads and that It the days of Maynard ever came back again In the state of New York 1 should favor It. I have no wish to come to It, but our opponents when they object to all efforts to secure real Justice from the courts are strengthen ing the hand of those who demand the recall, In a great mauy states there has been for many years a real recall of Judges ss regards appoint- Henta, promotions, reappointments ind reflections. And this recall was through the turn of a thumbscrew at the end of a long distance rod In the hand of great Interests. 1 believe that a Juki Judge would feel fur safer In the hands of the people than In the hands of thou lutereu. My remedy la not the result of a library study of constitutional law. but of actual and long continued experience la the ue of governmental power to redress social aud InduitrtiJ !). Again and again earnest workers for social Just Ice have said to me that the most seri tus obstacles that they have encoun tered during the many years that they have been trying to save American women and children from destruction In American Industry have been the Dourts. That is the Judgment of al most all the social workers I know and of dozens of parish priests and elergymen and of every executive and legislator who has been seriously at tempting to use the government aa an agency for social and Industrial bet terment What la the result of this system of Judicial nullification? It was accurately stated by the court of appeals. New York, in the employ ers' liability case, where it was calmly and Judicially declared that the peo ple under our republican government are less free to correct the evils that oppress them than are the people of the monarchlea of Europe. To any man with vision, to any man with broad and real social sympathies, to any man who believes with all bis heart In this great democratic re public of oura, such a condition i in tolerable. It la not government by the people, but mere sham government In which the will of the people la con itantly defeated. It Is out of this ex perience that my remedy has come, and let it be tried in this field. Wben a the result of years of edu cation and debate a majority of the people have decided upon a remedy for an evil from which they Buffer and have chosen a legislature, a legis lature pledged to embody that remedy In law, and the law has been finally passed and approved, I regard It as monstrous that a bench of Judges shall then say to the people: "You must begin all over again. First, amend your constitution (which will take four years); second, secure the passage of a new law (which will take two years more); third, carry that new law over Its weary course of liti gation, which will take no human be ing knows how long; fourth, submit the whole matter over again to the very sume Judges who have rendered the decision to which you object. Then, If your patience holds out and you finally prevail, the will of the ma jority of the people may have its way," Such a system is not popular govern ment, but a mere mockery of popular government. The decisions of which we complain are, as a rule, baaed upon the con stitutional provision that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, The terms "life, liberty and property," have been imed In the constitutions of the English speaking people since Magna Charta. Until within the lust sixty years they were treuted as hav ing specific meanings "property" means tangible property; "Liberty" meant freedom from personul re straint, or In other words, from im prisonment in its largest definition. About 1870 our courts began to attach to these terms new meaning. Now "property" has come to mean evory right of value which a peraon could enjoy, and "liberty" has been made to include the right to muke contracts. As a result, when the state limits the hours for which women may labor, It Is told by the courts that, this law de prives them of tholr "liberty," and when It restricts the manufacture of tobacco In a tenement It Is told that the law deprives the landlord of his property. Now, I do not believe that any people, and especially our free American people, will lonf. consent that the term "liberty" ahull be de fined for them by a bench of Judges. Every people haa defined that term for Itself In the course of Its develop ment. The Tsk Is Te Strive For Justice. Friends, our task aa Americans Is to strive for social and Industrial Just Ice, achieved through the genuine rule of the people. Thla la our end, our purpose. The method for achieving the end are merely expedients to be finally accepted or rejected according as actual experience shows that they work well or 111. But, lu our hearts we must have thla lofty purpose, and we must strive for It In all earned ness snd sincerity or our work will Come to nothing. In order to succeed we need leadera of Inspired Idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly nnd strive to make their dreams come true, who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. Tho leader, for the tlmo being, whoever he may be, la but an Instrument to be used until broken and then to be ci:it aside, and If he Is worth his salt ho will care no more when he Is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life Is forfeited In order that the victory may be won. In tha long fight for righteousness the watch word for all of us Is spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether auy one man falls or succeeds, but the cause shall nut fall, for It is the cause of mankind. We, here In Amer ica, hold In our hands the hope of the world, the fnte of the coming year, and hame and disgrace will be eur If. In our eye, the light of high re Solve Is dimmed. If we trail In the du-it the gulden hopes of men. If, on tins new contlwnt, w merely build su other country of great but unj istly llvlded muterlal prosperity, we shall I have done nothing, and we shall do aa little If we merely set the greed of envy against the greed of arrogance and thereby destroy the material well being of all of ua. To turn this gov ernment either Into government by plutocracy or government by a met would be to repest on a larger scale (he lamentable failure of a world that 1 dead. We stand against all tyranny, by the few or by the many. We stand for the rule of the many In the Interest of all of us, for the rule of the ninny In a spirit of coursge, e( common aeuse, of high purpose, above all In a spirit of kindly Justice tewara very maa aad avert woman. ' DIM CAPITAL J0CBX1L. UU.TL ORECO. BIG SHIP FOR COAST SERVICE UNrrED rssss LiAsin win San Francisco, April 4. In pursu ance of a building scheme to keep abreast of the rapid development of the shipping traffic on the western coast, the Pacific Coast Steamship company Is today planning the con struction of a coasting liner, to be the finest operating between the Golden Gate, Southern California ports and Puget Sound. The new vessel will be 440 feet long with a displacement of 10,000 ; 7000 horse power, and a regular speed of 16 knots. She will have accomoda tions for 400 first-class, 100 second class and 100 third-class pasengers, and will be ready for service in 10 months. o OPERATORS OSE SLY METHODS TO GET LABOR rOXITID PRKSS LSiRtD WIB1. Seattle, April 4. Agents, believed to be In the employ of the mill owners of Hoqulam and Aberdeen, ore In the city today In an attempt to get men to go to Cosmopolls, which Is three miles from Aberdeen. They repre tcnted to President Robert n. Hes keth, of the city council, a labor man himself, to whose attention the mat ter was cnlled, that there was no strike at CoBmopoIls, and that they are acting on behalf of the Cosmop olls commercial club. They are credit ed, however, with a scheme of getting a lot of laborers into the Grays har bor country, and then giving them the choice of becoming strike-breakers or getting stranded. GIRLS ARE AFRAID OF BEAR TRAP Declaring that two girl friends of Ills hnve ncarl ybeen caught upon sev eral occasions In bear traps set out In the Tillamook country by a trap per, where they have claims, Arthur Ward wants to know of the attorney generul If he can be prosecuted for mnltitalnlng them. The first time they came nearly walking Into the traps, he asserts, was when they were building a road. They removed them, he snj'B, and now the trapper threatens to prosecute them, and he wants to know if he can The traps were strung for miles throughout the country, he says, and he desires to know If Oregon, with Its abundance of legislation, has not Borne statute which will protect the "fair ones" from being caught In bear traps. i WILL BEGIN TO DO TIME NEXT WEEK (UNiTsn rar.H utiwtD wins.) Seattle, April 4. Clarence I). 11111- nmn, the convicted millionaire) real estato man, will not begin his term of two years and a half at McNeil's Island on the federal charge of using the mall for fraudulent purposes, un til sonio tlmo next week. Tho writ of mandate from the circuit court, which was expected here either today or to morrow, has been delayed, according to advices received by District Attor ney Todd, from tho department of Justice at Washington, D, C, and will not nrrlvo until next week. Heal Futnle Transfers. Phrene Strong to Oregon Electric Hallway company, Innd In block 4S, Salem; w d, $10. Anglo I,. Ford-Warren to Oregon Klectrlc Railway company, 7. 56 acres In t 8 nnd 9 s. r 3 w; w d, $10, 1'. nnd 8. I,. Hammer to I. Martin, 10 acres In I 7 nnd 8 s, r 1 e; w d, $10. 1 T. and K. Howe to Mrs. A. Man tling lots 4, i, $ and 7. block 5 nnd lots 1. 3, S and 4, block t. Palmer's Second Addition to Mt. Angel; w d, 1. Mrs. Z. Miller to R. J. Hendricks, part of block 4il, Salem; w d. $!!300. K, nnd M. Pnnlfold to P. Wilson, lot 6. Klmendotf acres; w d, $1. F. Hlld M. Paalfeld to S. P. Wilson, lot 8. Klmendorf Acres; w d, $1. J. 1 Jones to Charles McKee, lot 8 block . Jefferson; w d, $1. Lenta, I. Weslaeott to Oregon Electrlo Railway company, part of THrRSPAY, APRII i, 1918. DON'T CELtBHAitU C STOMACH 0 BITTERS FEEL WELL (his Spring? Take the Bitters. It pretenta 4. Spring FcTer Stomach Ills nnd Malaria. lot I, block 43 Salem; w d, $10. A. A. and E. I. Llvesley to Oregon Electric Railway company, 4.67 acres In t 7 and 8 s, r 3 w; w d, $10. A. and S. Schnuelle to R. F. Whlt cher, 31.75 acres In t 7 s, r 2 w; w d, J63G0. J. C. McBroora to W. F. Drager, lot 1, Sunnyside Fruit Farms No. 12; w d $10. P. G. McBroom, executor to W. F. Drager, lot 2, Sunnyside Fruit Farms No. 12; w d, $2000. Grace G. and E. A. Pierce to Josle L. Stewart, part of Oak's add to Sa lem; w d, $1. Alda Pettyjohn to W. E. Johnson, lot 8, block 4, Pleasant Home add to Salem; w d, $200. G. A. and A. Cone to MayB-Goode company, lot 27 and south half of lot 28, Donald Fruit Tracts; w d, $100. J. and N. A. Graham to M, O. Bur en, south 57 feet of lot 5 block 34, Salem; w d, $10. Josle L. and F. S. Stewart to Grace G. Pierce, part of Oak's add to Sa lem; w d, $1. Frank W. and Jessie N. Waters to E. Horton, 1 to 31, Grabenhorst Fruit FarniH; w d, $10. H. M. and L. R. Hasteltine to J. J. Turner, part of lots 1, 2 and 3, block 2, Central add to Salem; w d, $100. 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