The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-29
ROOSEVELT is GIVEN OVATION
,Contir.ued from First page.)

against men who had been guilty of
high treason against the republic;
high treason against the nation and
the American people by practic1ng
corruption in it's grossest and most
scandalous form. Convictions were
obtained and have yet to meet the
Intelligent man who does not believe
that those convictions were Justly OBJ
tanned. On what am obliged to stig-
Matte as the merest technicalities'
the Judges of the highest court up
set the convictions thus obtained in
the lower courts, and the result was
heralded as a defeat Of Mr.. Folk
and a condemnation Of what he had
done.
Gross Miscarriage Of Justice
"In my judgment it was not con-
demnation of Mr.. Folk, 1t was not a
vindication Of the men; it was a gross
miscarriage of justice at the fountain
head, it was miscarriage of Justice
for which the responsibility rested
upon the men of all others to whom
all others upon whom the republic
should be able to rely with most con-
fidence, the judges high up. In such
a case l would have advocated any
method necessary for giving the peo-
pie absolute control over the public
officials who had so acted so that at
least it should lie with the people
themselves to decide whether or not
they were willing to let their public
representatives which had so behaved
remain in office.
Legislature Should Act
Normally and under most con-
ditions, I do not believe in the recall
as generally understood, and as it has
been proposed for adoption by your
legislature. I should have preferred
to see your legislature act in the mat
ter of the recall of the judges by pro-
viding for the removal of any unfit
Judge by majority vote of each house
without trial but on the assignment of
reasons; and then instantly removing
any Judge who ought to be removed.
Must Be Careful
eff you use the recall or for that
matter the referendum or the initia-
tive with levity or recklessly you
which you have escaped. If you, DIS
citizens fail to show practical sense
in the achievement of high ideals, no
governmental machinery which the
wit of man can devise will save the
community from disaster. If you do
not yourselves, you individual private
citizens, show your practical devotion
to honesty and decency, If you don't
show self mastery and self-control you
will be badly served by your servants
in any event, and no matter what
your laws may be. You have suffered
in California because of the corrupt
and oppressive action of corporations
toward the public. Rightfully you
have determined to obtain complete
popular control over those corpora
tions. Remember that the fact that
you have obtained such control rend-
ers it matter of vital and imperative
necessity that you exercise 1t in q
spirit of absolute honesty and fairness
and with the purpose to do full and
complete justice to the corporations.
Faith in the People
"lf our government Is permanently
to succeed it must be by a resolute
insistence that it is never to be turned
into either the government of a plu-
tocracy or the government of a mob.
One would be just as fatal to our lib
critics, to our future well-being as
the other My belief in the future of
the American republic is based upon
my conviction that in the long run
our citizens will insist upon judging
each man on his worth as a man,
neither condemning nor praising him
because he is either rich or poor, but
placing judgment on him only in &C
cordance with the way his conduct
squares with the immutable laws Of
righteousness"