The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-11
President breaches to Throng at Fresno, Ex-
pounding Doctrine of Popular Government.
ENTIRE POPULATION GREtTS EXECUTIVE TOURIST
From Snow Of Serras Nations Chief Punges Into Tropical
Heat Of San Joaquin Valley, With Thermometer Near
the Nneties, and Is Greeted by Cos
mopoan Crowd.

/ 1T is the conduct of the husband
i as he comes home in trying to re-
strain himself when he is met by his
eager. curious wife. who wants to
know how he has been living during
the day and what has happened. Per-
/ haps something has happened that
does not please him and he does not
like to refer to 1t and he cuts her
off with a short answer. | know It
and so do you. You have done il.
So have l. Now. it is the overcoming
of that disposition. the keeping con-
stantly i'm your mind and heart her
happiness and not your comfort ana
your disposition. That is what makes
you greater than taking city.
Government.
But / am supposed to look at
things from Il political and govern
mental standpoint. and the text APP
peals to me more strongly in that re-
gard. possibly than in any other, be-
cause of some very acute experiences
l have had in political matters.
Popular government we all ap-
prove of. though sometimes / don't
think we know exactly why we do
approve it. / think we mistake fire.
quently ends for means. We think of
popular government as something to
be accomplished as an end. Well,
neither Is true. Liberty is a means in
the pursuit of happiness. Popular
government we have because we be-
lieye in the long run that it Is the
best government. that it is the gov
ernment that makes most people hap
py.
But You cannot run popular gov
ernment by merely calling it SO. You
have got to have some means of de
termining what shall be the course
of government: what shall decide.
That is the majority. do not know
any other method in popular govern
ment. We do have checks. We do
have Indirect means of government
expression to that vote from ma
jority. but when you get down to the
basis, it is the control of the ma
jority.
Now, you cannot have a decent
popular government unless that ma
jority can conquer itself. that is. un-
less that majority exercises the self
ought to exercise. And why? | am
not going into the various parts of
the world. but | can call your at
tention-if 1t We're not that / am in
responsible position now, with respect
to foreign countries. and l have got
to speak with care-I could call your
attention to a good many instances
where those who arr in favor of pop
ular government and who, If | may
use the expression. pull tho tail
feathers out of the eagle in demanding
liberty and apostrophizing everything
that we think dear. and yet just as
soon as they become a majority they
think that gives them the right To
control the minority absolutely and If
the minority show any disposition to
question it, they send them to Jail.
The Effect.
What is the effect of thato They
say this is popular rule; this is the
rule of the majority. So what does
the minority doa Why. the minority
says. We will take to the woods and
they do take To the woods. And so
we have that system that alternates
between an election and a revolution
and a revolution and an election. and
you call that popular government.
Now. why is 1T that that works
that way? 1t is because the majority
and the minority do not govern them !
selves and do not exercise more self !.
restraint without which popular gov
ernment is absolutely impossible. And
that Is the application of the text that
comes home to me in thinking and
dealing with these countries that are
struggling for popular government. \
cannot stand the defeat. 1t
has To go to the woods They are
not good losers and the majority are /
not good winners. /
Popular government is a most diff /
cult thing To establish. We have had .
to hammer it out in a thousand years
of Angia-Saxon suffering and contro-
serss and contest. And now it rests /
and the self-rsstraint Of the American
people. 1t rests In the knowledge of .
the majority that il has got to keep
within the checks Of the law and the
if the government lis to
be preserved. And ii must rest in
the view of the minority that IL is +
much more important that the govern
should. for the time being,
have control of. or a voice in, the
IL rests i'm the knowl-
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