The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-07-29
sen. SUTHERLAND'S.
GREAT SPEECH

Mr. President, am not one of those
who have become impatient at the re-
straints and checks and safeguards
of the representative form of govern.
ment and the written Constitution. |
am not one of those who would
launch the ship of state. with every
sail set, upon the wide sea of tossing
waters--with all its unsounded depths
and unknown shadows, with here
whirlpool and there half-submerged
rock-without chart or a compass
or a rudder or an anchor, trusting
alone to the merciful chance of wind
and wave and the tumultuous efforts
of an unexplained crew to preserve It
from disaster. | disagree utterly with
the distinguished Senator from Okla.
homa (Mr. owen, who told us a few
days ago in that calm, judicial way of
his, that the Constitution of the Unit
ed States-for which some of us had
conceived a rather high opinion--was
all wrong; that 1t was not sufficiently
democratic that 1t was so drawn by
Madison and those who we're in the
Constitutional Convention as to vest
unfair power in the hands of the min
GRITTY, and that this principle shows
from one end of It to the other: that,
among other things, to his deep re-
greet, he had been unable to discover in
that worn and anitouated document
any provision for the recall of the SUI
preme Court of the United States.
There are some individuals in this
country who ought to be prosecuted
for monopollzing so much OF the wis
dom that discriminating Providence
intended should be distributed In mod
est proportions among a somewhat
extended number OF people. | do not
mean to say that the Senator from
Oklahoma is one of these. but feel
sure that It was distinct misfortune
that he did not make his appearance
at a date sufficiently early to give the
fathers who framed the Constitution
the benefit of his counsel and advice.
am not certain that in that event
the Constitution would have been bet
ter. but ! am sure II would have been
longer than 1t is. At any rate, II is a
great pity that the Senator from Ok
lahoma could not have been priviledg.
ed to point out at that time the high
handed disregard OF its trainers for
the rights of the people which he
points out with such conclusive final
ity now.
For a century and quarter tie
great names of Washington, who was
the president of the convention OF
Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamll.
ton. Robert Morris, James Madison,
James Wilson, Charles Pinckney Ru-
fus King, and all the others Of the
immortal list, have occupied a shrine
of glory In the hearts of the msbuid-
ed multitude as the trainers of con.
stitution which, instead of being un.
democratic from one end OF 1t to
the other" is inspired from one end
of ii to the other" with the thought
that the day when the king commands
and the people obey has gone, and
that the new day has risen when the
people shall command and the king
obey.
But We have all been mistaken The
fathers. in framing the Constitution,
were unpatriotic and undemocratic.
They We're engaged in turning over an
amiable majority to the mercy OF a
ferocious minority; in setting up a
government that could not be over
turned by every breath of popular
emotion; in creating responsible anu
independent judiciary and in other
similar unholy and reprehenslble en-.