Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-16
Mr.. j. p. MCNARNEY, Chairman,

| appreciate the courtesy of my nom.
ination by the Republican Convention
and thank the Republican voters for
their confidence in my ability to repre-
sent Cameron county in the state Legis-
lature.
A representative of the people is sup
posed to use his own judgement in
matters oflegislation as they come be-
fore him with the explanations aud ey-
pressions of opinion by other members
on the floor of the House, but he is also
a messenger for the people of his dis
trict; and decent respect to the opin
ions and judgement of his constituents
demands some statement to them of
his qualifications and intent.
A great many discourteous things
have been said about our legislators,
| both state and national, but after one
term at Harrisburg | am proud of hay
ing been a member of so fair and i'll
| telligent and honorable Il body cf
| men. | am proud because Penn
sylvania and Pennsylvania laws
are second to none for justice,
equity, liberality and progress among
the various states of the Union, and [
am equally proud to he the representa-
tive of Cameron county, which, al
though small, compares favorably in
educational, commercial and financial
activity and progress with neighbor.
! ing sections of the state.
Our forefathers who colonized and
| built up our nation were broad minded,
manly men who came here not seeking
a job or soft snap, but with the intent
of establishing for themselves homes
and businesses better than those which
| they enjoyed in the lands of their birth
And when they had reached fuller
development, and had thrown off the
restraining hand of foreign influence,
they founded our government upon a
basis both equal and fair to all, with
such measures of encouragement to
progress as were consistent with the
safe guarding of individual rights
They early realized that the most es-
sential elements of progress, after es-
tablishing an honest and firm founda-
ton were the cultivation and growth
of intelligence and the provision of
means for free, equal and safe trans,
portation, and for easy and quick
means of communication for both
social and business intercourse.
To carry out this idea they establish
ed fundamental platform known as
our Constitution, and provided that
the people through duly elected repre-
sentatives should have the power of
amending and broadening and main
tanning that fundamental law. To
make sure that this legislation should
be of, by, and for the people, they stip.
ulated that their representatives, both
state and national, should come back
to them for inspection aud approval
every two years. They also provided
! that all legislation passed by these rep.
resentatives should receive mature and
deliberate consideration, a0d arranged
another legislative house with a longer
term of Office, known as tine Senate, to
be cooling off and remodelling place
for supervising legislation passed by
the lower house. Our Constitution
and all laws of government recognize
that the right of ownershipis the funda
mental law of civilization, bSst that such
ownership whether of personal proper
ty, as beast of burden, or OF accumu-
: lated wealth, including the manage
ment of railroads and factories, shall
. be subject to regulation by the Com
monwealth.
| In former times owing to our limited
vision, we knew of nothing bat indi
vi1ual effort and Individual man.
agement of property and affairs
theR came the broader idea of partner.
: ship and cooperation, and we have
, steadily progressed and widened our
, horizon till now it is a recognized fact
that the best and safest and most per.
, manent enterprises must be carried on
by what are known as corporations OF
stock companies 1t is just as neces
sary and great deal more important
! that these stock companies should be
regulated and controlled by law. 1t is
t also just as necessary that these corpo
rations and stock companies should be
made to feel the same sense of respon
sibility to the people and to the com
munity at large as is demanded of the
individual citizen.
That the United States has fairly
well succeeded in establishing this