Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-06

~FA &S D " A W - - istratiye control Ii properly regu- lated and devised it is a means Of restoring to administrative officials what the initiative and referendum restore 10 legislators-na a sense of direct responsibility to tho people who choose them.
 Against Recall of Judges.
 The recall of judges is another matter. Judges are not lawmakers. They are not administrators. Their duty is not to determine what tho law shall be. but to determine what the law is. Their independence. their sense of dignity and of freedom, is ol the first consequence to the stability Of the state. To apply to them the principle of the recall is to set mp the idea that determinations of what the law is must respond to popular impulse and to popular judg. ment
 1t is sufficient that the people should have the power to change the law when they will It is not nee essary that they should directly in fluence by threat ot recall those who merely interpret the law already es- tablished The importance and de sirability of the recall as a means ol administrative control ought not 70 be obscured by drawing it into this other and very different field.
 The second power we fear is the control of our fife through the vasi privileges of corporations which use the wealth of masses of men to sus- tain their enterprise. It is in con. nection with this stanger that it is necessary 10 do some of our clear est and frankest thinking. 1t is a Fundamental mistake to speak Ci thc privileges of these great corpor- ations as ff they fell within the class Of private right and of private prop erty. Those who administer the af- i fairs of great joint stock companies are really administering the property of communities. the property of the whole mass and miscellany Oi men who have bought the stock or the ! bonds that sustain the enterprise | The stocks and the bonds are con siantIv changing hands. There is no | fixed partnership. Moreover. mana | gers of such corporations aie the ! trustees Of moneys which they them ] selves never accumulated. but whicE have been drawn together out of pri vate savings here, there and every | whore.
 Point of View Wrong
 1 What is necessary in order to rec ] rifv the whole mass of business o <. this kind is that those who contrO ! 1t should entirely change their poin of view. They are trustees. not mas ters. of private property. not Onll because their power is derived iron a multitude of men, but also because in it's investments it affects a mui litude of men. IL determines the de velopment or decay of communities It is the means of lifting or depress ing the life of the whole country They must regard themselves as rep i resentatives of a public power. Ther,
 can be no reasonable jealousy Q
 public regulation in such matters because the opportunities of all mel are affected. Their property is every ! where touched, their savings art ! every where absorbed. their employ Iuent is everywhere determined b'
 these great agencies. What we need
 therefore is to come to 9 common
 view which will not bring anfas
 Onisms, but accommodation. I'm
 program of parties must now b' programs of enlightment and read Justmcnt. not revolutionary, but re storative. The processes of change arc largely processes of thought, bu
 unhappiiy they cannot be effected without becoming political process
 es also, and that is the deep respon sibility of public men. What,we need therefore in our politics is an iu
 stsnt alignment of all men free anC
 willing t0 think and to act withou
 fear upon their thought.
 A Constructive Age.
 This is just as much a constructive age in politics therefore, as was th' great age in which our federal gov
 ernment was set up. and the ma who does not awake to the ODporul
 nity. the man who does not sacrifice
 private and exceptional interests ii
 order to serve the common and pub lie interest, is declining to take par
 ir the business of a heroic age.
 am sorry for the man who is s'
 blind that he does not see the op
 portunity. and I am happy in tn' confidence that in this era men O
 strength and of principle will SCI