Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-10-27

ullona. Inc AIltuOe OF the nunll
ought to be most anxious to do so.
But in doing our work nothing is
more important than TO preserve the
principle Of protection, to give our
people the advantage of the difference
between the cost of production here
and elsewhere. If we should, in Grad
icaung its abuses, destroy the whole
system there would be three million
wOrkmen in the streets asking for
work within six months. The mildew
of stagnatiOn would whiten the indus
trial life of the country and while
prices would be lower there would
be no consolation in that fact to
the workmen who would have nothing
with which to buy. Let it be under
stood that those of us who favor the
making of such changes as new con-
ditions demand, still believe in the
great economic system which has
helped to make us a rich and power
full nation, a doctrine now accepted by
every great nation save one and 1t
/ gives evidence that it will accept 1t
/ before another decade.
L agree entirely with those who
think the last tariff bill was not al
/ together what it should have been and
that many duties were left too high.
have no doubt it was the best pos
sible bill to be had at that session !
and that il was much better than the |
tariff bill which it supplanted. Many |
/ VINO voted TOT the DILL uiu 81 DCSou9S
il was a step in the right direction /
and all that could be had. But little |
can be gained now by reverting TO |
that matter II is rather our cFty 10 |
get the facts which we did not at that
time have and could not get and to,
as scientifically as we can, adjust the
schedules in accordance with the tacts
and in accordance with the rules an
nounced in our platform.
Government and Corporations.
The most important question of this
hour the one upon which turns very
largely the future of the republic, Is
the relation Of our government TO
combined and centralized wealth
those powerful and Indispensable
agencies of industry created by the
State-the corporations. 1t is well TO
understand in the beginning that this
problem can not be solved by denun-
citation. There is no possible room
. here for the demagOgue. The whole
business world is involved, the wages
of millions of workmen, the savings
of tens of thousands of people of or
binary means are involved. The far-
reaching results for good to be at
tanned through wise action and the
fearful results, the misery to follow
J from unwise action ought to sober all
4 men into a determination to be just,
to be tolerant. to be above all things
I COURAGEOUS, courageous not only 10
do the right but courageous 10 pre-
vent the wrong.
8 There seems to be class Of honest
t we'll meaning men who start all dis
- cussion upon this subject by denounc-
4 ing property and assailing property
e rights-by seeking to array what they
choose to call the rights of men
q against the rights of property mere
= Isl no such issue in this controversy.
y There have been no rights OF men
II f,f a rights OI0cl
than tormenting delusions where
nroDertv has been unprotected ana
= property rights worthless. Inc gun
y lotine follows in quick succession the
e destruction of all title deeds. A gov
a eminent which does not furnish pro-
e faction for the honest gatherings Of
n frugality and industry, which does not
= safeguard the Accommodations or hOneSl
n foil would be a miserable delusion
l. There can be no rights under such q
e government save the rights when Ies'
II in suDeriOr physical strength, tne
J. lights of a savage. The weak would
l. be the miserable playthings OF the
)s strong There is no man in TINS lane
J. 90 humble but is interested IN the
IT stability of our property rights Jus
81 The same as the man who directs th'
" operations of a great railway system
s. Remedy Is at Hand.
is Equally misled are those wh'
think that IL IS nl1l "a eAA AN~~-~e--
ty to change or ignore the Fundamental
l. principles of our government ana o
i mr. institutions. We do not need
to change nearly so much as we nee'
lie me faithful and intelligent use OF tn
st novers we have. The old charter o
or government is to me sacred lnstru
OF ment. 1 would only touch II TOT
ny change when necessity should aDso
ut lntelV command and when changed
IL would do 1t in the manner polnle
of out by the instrument itself. Wour
ur neither invoke unnatural constructlo
Id, nor ignore its plain terms. Inc I'M
he mortal Washington said: -
'ty ssIf in the opinion of the people, Tn
ng 7ietrihution or modification Of Tn
of eonstitutional powers be in any par
g- tioular wrong let it be corrected %
is an amendment in the way IN whic
or, The constitution designates. But if
srs here be no change by usurpauon' 10
nd though this in one instance may 3
lst fba instrunent Of good, il is the Gus
Ids -onnarv weapon by which free govern
CT ments are destroyed. The precedel
TO must always greatly overoalance
permanent evil any partial or traI
sient benefit which the use at al
ro- lime can yield"
lii That is as sound a piece of politics
es- nhilosoDhv as ever came from huma
EN- Iips concerning free institutions.
AN is the gospel of orderly liberty an
III. willingly OF unWllNiA6A9 AAo
of pies foe who does not walk In l
the light. ~.
to I believe If we could administer tn
il government in full faith, exercisir
eft the powers which are ours, doing
can things with a reverent respect TOT q
her Greatest governmental instrument ev
to conceived by the wit of man,
vas would be the happiest, the most pro
to perous. the best governed people
inn the face of the earth, and we Won
i've have the most stable and be the me
ire powerful government known to ma
ace All discussions of these question
hat therefore, should have beginning
hat a profound respect for those rights
ion property upon which rests this civil
zation of ours; a profound reveren
in for the great charter under which
law have grown to greatness; a profou
lich reverence for those institutions CT