Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-08-03

truth. But the recall Institutes tr1.
bunaI where everybody decides and no
body is responsible; where at least
Is Per cent. of the membership have
already, as the judges accusers, pre-
judged his case, and from whose arbi-
trary and unjust findings there is no
appeal. In such a forum idle gossip
and village scandal stand in the place
Of evidence; assertion takes the place
Ct sworn testimony; and the foulest lie
goes unchallenged by the touchstone
Of cross-examinati The voter will
make up his We diet OF vindication I'M
der the Illuminating radiance Of the
torchlight procession, in the calm, jul
dicial atmosphere of the brass band
G1d the drum corps, and upon the log
zeal summing up of the spellbinder and
paign quartette
Sir, hope l am not given to over
extravagant statement, but l declare
my solemn conviction that the moment
a provision for the recall of the judges
of the Supreme court shall be written
into the Federal Constitution, that mo-
ment will mark the beginning of the
downfall of the republic and the de-
struction of the free institutions of
the American people.
EXPERIENCE SAFER THAN EXPER-
IMENT.
Mr.. President, in the main and in
the long run changes which come by
the gradual and orderly processes of
evolution are better and far more en-
during than those brought about by
the spasmodoic methods of revolution.
Experience is safer guide than pre-
diction The tree is known by its
fruits rather than by it's blossoms, for
sometimes the fairest blooms, like the
fairest promises, produce no fruit at
all. The rules of government that
have been tried, that have been round.
ed into shape by years of practical
use. that have stood the strain and
pressure from every direction, are not
to be lightly cast aside in order that
we may put high sounding experiment
in their place. The strength and the
glory of the common law, which is but
the crystallized common sense of the
clear.thinking English race expressed
in definite form, is that it has been
gradually developed by hundreds of
slow years of application to the d.
verse and changing needs of society,
until it has become fitted and nodded
and adjusted to all the conditions of
life. And so, sir, with the great prin-
ciples of our government Like the
common law, they are a growth, not
an invention. Year by year they have
developed in enduring strength, strik
ing their roots deeper and deeper into
the intimate life of the people. They
have withstood the specious opposi-
ton of the doctrinaire and the theor.
list, as we'll as the open shock of arm
ed conflict The preservation, the re-
newal, the strengthening of the old
| faith in their efficiency and virtue / re-
gard as essential to our continued de
/ velopment along sane and symmetri.
cal lines
If the visionary and the dreamer.
the agitator and the demagogue. could
! succeed in tearing them from the state
| IL edifice of constitutional government,
which. builded by the wise and loving
/ hands of the fathers and cemented by
/ the blood of the Civil war, has proven
/ the sure refuge and shelter of all our
/ people throughout the years In time
/ of stress and trial, no man can
foresee what miserable and made
/ quate makeshifts might be set in their
| place. Mr.. President, I look with
J S1aNS app ChC1o1Oh upOh ASAAS ~ >eN-e
/ day tendency to overturn, uproot and
destro~ these vital and fundamental
/ principles Of representative govern
ment. under which we have made and
are makiac tie most wonderful moral
social and material advancement man.
i kind has ever beheld. But, Sir,
| preach no gospel of despair. My sure
i confidence rests in the saving grace
of the sober second thought of the
American people, for, in the last analy
sis, we are practical and conserva
tive people, sometimes. 1t is true
4 dreaming with our heads in the clouds
4 but always waking to the realizing
4 sense that we must walk with our feet
upon the earth. Sometimes the haunt
ing spell of the darkness is upon us
b but in the end the night goes, "the
dawn comes, the cock crows, the ghost
vanishes;" we open our eyes and al
the uneasy and terrifying visions dis
4 appear in the light which fills the east
with the glowing promise of another
n morning.