The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-05

'AuteileCt WHeI SE0fNr SOrQ1QneSS
doth corrupt no,s Dr.. popular
cry maketh afraid. Stefss
ut Is hardly fair to say Iaf
who has a profound regard .,2efr
Judgment of the people is a cowal
Weriell Phillips was not coward.
and yet he said, and it was his faith,
That the accumulated intellect of the
masses is greater than the heaviest
brain God ever gave to single in
dividual.'
Nov. have profound respect for
Mr.. Shaw. He was a great man. and
afterward he was secretary Of the
treasury; and yet II knew the judg-
ment Of the majority of S0,OOO,00O OF
our people, comprised as it would be
of the opinions of the laborer, the
banker, the lawyer, the merchant, and
l should conclude to follow that rath-
er than the judgment Of Mr.. Shaw,
think 1t would not be cowardice, but
good judgment; and II 1t happened to
be against my individual interest to do
so, 1t might be courage.
Lincoln's Faith.
''Was there ever a man on this
earth who had such sublime faith
in the soundness of the peoples judg-
ment as Mr.. Lincoln? He was neither
demagogue nor a coward, and yet
with almost inspired power he read
the hearts OF the people, and with q
faith that vas never shaken he re-
garded It as safer guide than all the
counsel Of the wise mon about him.
There are lots Of things in these
days which ought to he done, and the
people knnw 1t. Not radical things,
but things necessary to preserve our
government just as it was made. The
people are not excited. but remark
ably we'll informed. They are not 60
Ing to get excited under any reason
able conditions. Neither are they go.
Ing to disrupt our well-established
forms and accepted precedents of gov
ernment
There is not a government on the
face of the earth today where the peu-
pie have any voice at all where there
is such conservatism, such absence of
passion and mob spirit on the ques-
cera as here in the United States.
challenge any aae to cite wherein
there is an exception. ::
"Now, with all due respect to Mr..
Shaw, the menace to this government
is not the demands of the people, nor
the so-called towards who seek to
know those demands and do them, but
that lndescribable and almost omni.
potent power which thwarts those de-
mands and apparently intends to con-
tinue to thwart them until patience
may be no more and the orderly pc
titiohs to their public service give way
to less wholesome methods. The true
conservative Of today is the man who
seeks to secure the realization OF
those demands in legal and orderly
way"
Dollivef Has Own Troubles.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa refused to
discuss the speech. "Shaw is an old
time neighbor and constituent OF
mine" he said, "and you must ex-
cuse me. I cannot discuss the pro.
found problems involved in his state
rents. have troubles of my own just
now."
Senator Cummins, also Of Iowa, did
not want to engage in any controver-
sy with former Secretary Shaw, but
giving his general views, spoke as fol-
lows:
II do not regard the people Of this
country as radical. They are rather
conservative. Understand. l am not
clear as to just what Is meant by rad
icalism and conservatism. It Is diff
cult to determine where the line Is to
be intelligently drawn between them.
But we, as nation. are not the
first to take the progressive steps in
government such as develop with the
onward march OF civilization. Yet,
after all, don't think we are going
too slow, nor are we going too fast.
The body polite Of this country is the
most intelligent history has ever seen,
and believe we are progressing In
governmental development. generally
speaking, on safe. well-thought- out,
and satisfactory lines. fail to see
any mob destruction before us.
"The American people are in no fa-
natical mood. On tho contrary they
are very sane. They are intell:gently
comprehending their ills and carefully
and wisely dealing with them
''NOr is there reason whatever, SO
far as can see. for alarm abou! any
alleged tendency toward centraliza.
tion of government. II there has been
any such trend, 1t has been of the
necessary character. There are abso-
lutely no elements of danger in what
ever tendency there Is.
"As to usurpation of legislative pow
er by the executive branch, that has
always been chiefly matter of person.
ality or the man in the white house.
Congress is human, the president ia
human. and the perfect balance be-
tween them is not easily attained.
But any such domination never has
been and never can be of alarming or
disastrous consequence.
Public opinion is sure to rule, and
our public opinion is the best devel-
oped and inspired with the highest Inn
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