The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-17

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of President Roosevelt that he with
draw his support from that measure.
Not actually, but constructively.
Henry Rogers was thrown out Of the
White House, and the publicity given
to his attempted domination of the
U. S. senate resulted in the defeat of
his effort to stem the tide of seno-
ment which was compelling the con-
gress to pass that BILL Mr.. Rogers
concept of politics is one which has
been held by many of the great cor
porationS of this country, and is one
which in part is held to-day by GER
who have not yet awakened to the
fact that new order of things in the
relationship between politics and
business has come into existence, and
that the old order of things has pass
ed away never to return.
''There was a member of the u S.
senate from western state who liv-
ed, but not alone, as an example of
self sacrifice and honest effort in
politics. A hater of hypocrisy,
straightforward, earnest and indefa-
tigable. the hours which he gave to
were taken from that recreation
necessary to renew strength and
vitality, and he died as much a sacri-
fee to duty upon the altar of his
country and for his country's institu-
tions as any man who ever fell upon
the field of battle, Jonathan Dolliver,
of Iowa. His was a concept of poll
ties which very well serves as an ex-
ample to future generations.
Parues Are Born.
Political parties are born, not
made. They are self created through
the force of that attraction quality
which men imbued with a common
nj nv
sentiment have for, one another. They
exist as a compact, virile organiza-
ton so long as they are engaged in a
work of construction in the meeting
of any great n3tiona1 issue. So long
as the sentiment which compelled
republican party as the outcome of
an intolerable social condition was
potential, just so long the republican
party existed as a dominant organiza-
ton, united and with common pur-
pose. But, after the issces of the
years had been m>t. after construc-
tive craftsmanship had done its
work. when no longer society as a ma
ton was menaced by common
danger, then the party divided along
the lines of self interest and into
groups controlled by a man or CO.
terie of men. With the disappear
ance of great national menaces men
began to give concern to their own
home affairs, with the result that the
parties were broken up into factions,
each faction relating to some local
division of sentiment over some state
or local matter. In consequence. a
great political house cleaning began;
stories of rOtteness were forced from
the unwilling lips of witnesses who
bore relation to some of the great
deeds of the past, regulations care
fully builded and erected seemingly
dot af hi x---
selfish interest in the country's af-
fairs, were destroyed as with blast
of dynamite; the whole under world
with its incredible system and VILE
ness was disclosed to the astonsihed
vision of the American public.
Pendulum Swings Swiftly.
1.-THE pendulum swung swiftly from
an extreme of selfish interest and al
most criminal purpose to the other
extreme of super and impracticable|
goodness; a virtue clothed with high
purpose but without political con-
structive ability, political experience
or with the result that even that
remnant of party organization left
after the disclosures of public fnveSti-
cation was further rent and torn.
Until last year, for reasons which had
been in the making since 1884, the
republican party was rebuked by the
righteous indignation of an offended
people. It is time that politicians
and corporations learned that never
yet has natural law been suspended
with relation to the activities of any
man or any set of men, and that eff
feet follows cause, reaction follows
action and punishment guilt as nat
urally and inevitably as the night fol-
lows day. & 1t is high time that we
look to ourselves. No man because
he has been long an incumbent in
political office or in control of party
or how gained a
popular following should think for a
that this has given to him
rights which other men do not
possess. The course of the country
has been and is to-day the strife for
special privilege. 1t is high time, !
Mr.. Chairman anc gentlemen, that
there should be, aye, there must and
there will be written into the Con-
stitution of the United States the
spirit of that sentiment, the letter
which is already embodied there !
nobly expressed by our of the fathers |
in these words-'Equa1 rights to all; |
special privilege for none Equal |
rights for everybody and all interest |
they be railroads, or wheth-
er they be manufacturers, or whether |
they be labor unions, and special |
privilege for none whether they be |
la Dor bodies, manufacturers, or |
railroads, or individuals, |
men in politics or men out of politics. |