Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-28
PINCHOT TALKS
At DETROIT
He Dilates on Coast of Liv-
ing ond Other Up-To-
Date Topics
HEARS VOICE or THE PEOPLE
He Believes That the People
Have Lost Confidence
in Congress.

June ! nave been travelling almost
. continuously. and have had fair
chance to come in contact with and
estimate public sentiment in all the
great divisions OF our country Using
! the information thus secured from
contact with men OF many occupa-
tions and varieties of political belief
in many localities. have tried to
write down an estimate of the compo-
site opinion of the voters of all par-
ties in the east, the south. the Missis-
sippi valley, and the Pacific coast on
/ certain public questions. What
nave written makes no pretense to
/ be complete. And the task is not
without difficulty. Opinions fiercely
held in some parts of the country. in
others have not yet risen to the sur
face as publicc issues. The underIy-
ing fact as found it everywhere. was
/ deep-seated powerful Indignation over
the inequality of opportunity every
/ where known to exist, and the firm de-
termination to put an end to it some
how, and that soon.
II we could hear the voice of all the
people upon some current issues. il
would, | think declare itself in sub.
stance as follows:
| believe the people should directly
nominate, elect, control, and recall
thelr own legislative representatives.
believe in publicity of campaign
i ipn0tri bitinnG
fore and after election, and in strictly
limiting by law the amount that NAV
be spent and the manner of spending
lit.
| believe that it should be unlawful
for any lawmaker or other public
servant to be employed by or to re.
ceive compensation from any inter
state or public service corporation or
Tor any public servant appointed and
not elected to office to be an officer
in any political party or organization
or to attend any political convention.
| believe it should be unlawful for
any lobbyist or other representative
Of any interest TO advocate or oppose
any measure to any legislator or leg
islative committee without first pub
licly registering his name, the nature
OF his compensation, and the name of
his employer.
| believe that the most pressing
patriotic duty of today is to revive
popular government by driving the
special interests out of politics, and
that complete publicity of all the af-
fairs of every interstate and public
service corporation is necessary to
that end.
believe that corporations have Ger.
tam rights that should be respected,
but they have no political rights, pow.
ers, or duties, and they should have
no representatives in Congress, in
the cabinet, or on the bench.
| believe that the special interests,
through their control of politics and
business, and principally by means of
the tariff, are mainly responsible for
the exorbitant cost of living.
| believe that the Payne-Aldrich
tariff was made by the servants of
special privilege for the benefit and
according to the orders of their mas
ters, and that when Congress and the
President enacted and approved it, ov-
er the just protest of the Progressives
they broke faith with the people.
| | believe that the credit for good
laws recently passed in Congress be-
longs TO the Progressives of both par
ties, who amended bad bills in the pub
lie interest, rather than to the ad-
ministration, which drafted and advo
Gated the bad bills.
I believe that the old party ties are
slipping off; that the Progressives in
both parties are the true representa-
ttives of their parties and of the peo-
pie: and that the public welfare has
become stronger motive with the
people than partizan success
| | believe that the people have lost
confidence in Congress, because Con
gress as whole no longer represents
the people who elect it, but the spe-
cial interests who control it.
| believe that Cannon and Aldrich
and all they represent, are passing
rapidly away, and that a better time
is coming, when the people will con-
| troll.
| l believe the people must protect
themselves against the special inter
/ ests in state and nation alike; that
they can best protect themselves by
the power of the nation against cor
porations operating across state lines;
and that the great special interests
must not be permitted to take refuge
from all control by speciously raising
the issue of states rights.
/ | believe that our laws and institu
tons should be planned, made and
changed solely as the necessities, ad
vantages. and difficulties of the peo
pie require, and not for the benefit of
the special interests.
i I believe that presidents, cabinets,
I lawmakers, officials. and judges are
all servants of the people; that they
hold Office for the benefit of no special
class of political party, but solely for
the benefit of the people; and that
they may justly be held responsible
by the people for what they do.
( | believe that our local, state, and
national governments can and should