The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20

condition. But if the people are not con-
WINGED that it is possible to eradicate the
evils and abuses arising from the I'M
scruplous use of wealth and corporate
combination under the system of private
property the movement toward its aboli-
ton and the adoption of socialism in some
form will gain great strength President
Roosevelt would stop this movement by
a demonstration that it is possible under
the system of private property, by eff
cient government regulation, supervision
and prosecution, to stamp cut the evils
which have created our social unrest. He
knows what a futile remedy socialism
will prove to be. Socialism looks to a
dead level of life, to an absence of all
motive for material progress, to stagna-
ton in everything. 1t involves lack of
individual freedom and requires an Off
cial tyranny to carry out its system that
finds no; counterpart in modern govern
ment. It offers no real remedy for the
evils that appear from time to time as
the accompaniment of our progress. And
yet President Roosevelt knows and ev-
cry one must realize the plausible force
with which socialistic doctrines can be
pressed upon a disconnected people who
see real wrongs in the body polite and
social.
For this reason he takes the most con-
sentative course in insisting on adopting
measures entirely consistent with the
means nrovided in the constitution nv
our fathers to remedy the evils that arise
In our material progress.
Mr.. Bryans whole system of remedies,
on the other hand, for the evils that
both Mr.. Roosevelt and he and many
others recognize is based on his distrust
of the honesty courage and innartialitv
of the Individual as an agent on behalf
of the people to carry on any mart of gov
eminent and rests on the proposition that
our present system OF representative gov
eminent Is tallure- He would nave
government ownership OF railways pc
cause ne uoes not peheVe II is possible TO
secure an interstate commerce commits
sion that the money power cannot and
will not Ultimately own, He would have
tne lnluatlVe ana referendum because ne
ulsrusts representative government ana
mas no commence IN the ability OF the
people to ind men who will conscien-
tlously and free from the influence OF
the money power represent them in
preparing ana Young legislation He
would take away from courts because he
ulstrusts the ability OF judges to resist
the mallgn influence OF the money pow
er, the power to enforce their own or
ders until jury is called to tell the
court whether the order has been dlsobey-
ed, and thus IN practice, though not in
/
the correctness and justice OF the courts
order
Mr. Bryan seems TO be seeking some
system OF administering law under which
the rich wrongdoer shall be certainly re-
strained, while the laWless poor shall es-
cape. He would have his Judicial machin-
cry adjusted to restrict the violations of
law by corporation, but would give
freedom of action to the lawless MEM
bers of a labor union.
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ical difference between the two.
Mr.. Roosevelt believes not only in the
people, but also ia the Individual as the
unit who multiplied makes up and gi9es
quality to the people. He thinks that
I there is no royal road to the elevation Of
a people but by the Improvement in the
intelligence and moral character Of the
! individual Ele believes in the possibility
Of the individual being honest. courageous
and just and able to resist the influence