The sun., 1907-08-20

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Roosevelt has -out-Bryaned" Mr.. Bryan
Ia his policies and MIR. Bryan has lent color
to this saying by the claim that he was theig
original inventor. No one who has given
the slightest attention to the attitude Of
MIR. Roosevelt and Mr.. Bryan upon the
social and political questions Of the day can
for moment mics the radical difference
between the two.
MR.. RoosBvELr's TRUST IN BOTH PEOPLE
AND INDIVIDUALS.
MIR. Roosevelt believes not only In the
people but also IN the individual as the
unit who, multiplied, makes up and gives
quality to the people. He thinks that
there is no royal road to the elevation OF
reople but by the Improvement in the in
telligence and moral character OF the in
dlvidual lie believes in the possibility
OF the individuals being honest, courageous
and just and able to resist the influence
OF the money power" TO wean him from
the path OF duty. He believes that the
people can select individuals who may be
lative and Judicial. to WELD, without abuse
and in the interest OF the people. the powers
needed 10 conduct an efficient govern
ment. He has faith in the maintenance
OF an honest courageous and efficient
representative popular Legislature that
will give the rich and poor equal protection
and opportunity before the law.
MR.. ROosEvELT's BELIEF IN STRONG AND
EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. Roosevelt believes in the necessity
for a strong government that can and will
make both rich and poor obey the law,
and he would have the officers charged
with it's maintenance render due account
Of their stewardship to their masters. the
people. Mr.. Roosevelt knows no favorite
in matters Of lawlessness, be he rich or
poor, corporation president or member
Of a labor union. The courts must be
at annnUh n ranfrain fhopn ALL Mr.
Roosevelus believes our present govern
ment the best one possible for us and in
every way adapted to the genius OF our
people. He has the utmost confidence in
representatives, and by the means provided
in the Constitution by our fathers to remedy
the evils that arise in our material progress
MR.. BRyAN's THEORIES BASED ON DrsrRUsT
OF INDIVIDUAL AND FAILURE OF REPRE-
SENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Bryan's 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 impartiality OF the
individual as an agent on behah OF the
people to carry on any part Of government,
system of representative government ia
failure. He would have Government owner
ship of railways because he does not believe
il il possible to secure an interstate COM
merce commission that the money power
cannot and will not ultimately own. He
would have the initiative and referendum
because he distrlsts representative govern
ment and has no confidence in the ability
Of the people TO find men who will con-
scientiously and free from the influence OF
the money power" represent them in pro-
paring and voting legislation. he would
take away from courts, because he distrusts
the ability of Judges to resist the malign
influence Of the money power, the power
to enforce their own orders until a jury Is
called 10 tell the court whether the order
has been disobeyed, and thus in practice.
though not in theory, the jury would come
to pass on the correctness and justice OF the
courts order.
MR.. BRYAN SEEKS JUDICIAL PROCEDURE THAT
WILL RESTRAIN WEALTHY wRoN0DoER
But WILL GIVE FREEDOM OF ACTION
TO LAwLESS POOR-INsTANCE
OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTION.
MIR. 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 escape.
He would have his judiciaf machinery ad-
iusted to restrict the violations OF law Ivy
a corporation, but would give freedom oil
action to the lawless members OF labor
union. Indeed in the Constitution OF
Oklahoma, which he says is the greatest
Constitution ever written, this anomaly
prevails. No one can be punished for
violating an order OF injunction or restraint
except after a verdict of a jury deciding
that the violation was committed, and yet
in the same Constitution corporation COM
mission Of an executive and administrative
character, a body Of laymen, authorized to
make orders against railroads and other
corporations is empowered, IL its orders
are not obeyed TO change itself into court
and after giving due process OF law by
hearing to enforce its own orders by tine
of $500 day until the order is performed.
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IMMUNITY TO RICH.
Such a discrimination in practical legisla-
tion cannot be maintained for a moment.
Courts and judicial procedure are made
for all and must operate equally Tor and
against all. The only method by which
wealthy and powerful malefactors can
he restrained is by maintaining the power
Of the courts, and the minute the power
of the court is weakened in the supposed
interest Of the lowly and unfortunate ac-
cused OF wrongdoing. the lawiess rich are
furnished the immunity they seek. The
wealthy wrongdoers could easily escape
the restraint OF the law through the rents
in it's meshes MIR. Bryan would make
for the benefit OF those with less influence
and means.
Mr. BRYAN's WEAK AND NERvELEss
GOVERNMENT
In all his proposed reforms Mr. Bryan
seems TO give little attention to securing
the evils he recognizes may be suppressed.
The government which his system OF
remedies would tend to produce would be
nerveless Estopped by his own expressed
fear of power put in the hands Of any in
diyiduaI, he would find difficulty in WELD
ing il when most needed.
ABsURDIrY OF NATIONAL REFERENDUM.
Tn, representative government that has
served us well for 1870 years has not been
for Mr.. Bryan sufficiently expressive of
the will Of the people. Election of Senators
by the people is not enough for him. We
must call upon fourteen million electors
70 leQislate directly. Could any more
burdensome or inefficient method be de-
yised than this? believe that a referen
dunn under certain conditions and limita
tions in the subdivisions Of a State on GER
tain issues may be healthful and useful.
but as applied to our national Government
il ia entirely impracticable IL 1t is diff
ficult for the people to use proper judg-
ment in the concrete question OF the per-
sonality Of the representatives they are TO
select to carry on their national govern
ment, as Mr.. Bryan's theory assumes.
how much more difficult for them to give
sufficient attention to the settlement OF
the many questions OF policy and pro-
cedure in complicated statutes which the
naopIe have always been willing to leave