New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-21
Fast Living to Blame.

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Fast Living to Blame.
The conditions against which we have
had to struggle, the President continued
had been harder on our moral strength
than were the struggles through which
the Puritans had to go.
1--WE have yielded. in a measure" he
said. "and it's true we don't hold the law
as sacred as we should. We don't hold
ANYTHING as sacred as we should.
think it's because we are living fast and
thinking more Of the pleasure of living.
Il have talked of the necessity Of i'm
proving the criminal procedure before
every bar association that gave me a
chance. and I've felt like the woman who
tried to sweep the sea back because.
after all, if you don't have the backing
Of public opinion behind the jury box
and behind the bench, and the readers
Of newspap pers make heroes out of mur-
derers, you're not going to get your i'm
provement.
I'VE ought not 10 he discouraged; it's
the only world we've got. and it's the
only American republic we've got, and
we must do the best we can.
II am profoundly a believer in parties.
Nothing has come in the history Of our
country that cannot be traced to party
activity. I don't say that partie- haven't
outlived their usefulness, but real ef-
fective reform is coming. and must
come, either in the party itself or in the
breaking Of a party and the forming of
a new one.
The question each one must decide for
himself is whether in one party or i'm the
other, or in a new body in the form Of a
party, he will be able to work out the
reform in which he is interested.
Il believe you believe that there is still
hope and redemption for the Republican
party; that the way to do, if there is
anything the matter with the party, is
10 eliminate what is the matter and ge:
10 work and show our real strength"
Wants Issues To Be Clear.
The President said that what he de-
sired above everything else was that
when the issues come before the people
next year they shall be clear issues be
tween the two PARTIES, so that they may
be understood.
Il desire clearness Of the atmosphere,
so that demagogy may disappear, so
that the people may know and under
stand the issues clearly" he ended.
Senator Borahs grafton, which fur
nished the inspiration for the Presidents S
remarks, was built almost entirely on
the one string, and he ran the entire
gamut on his chief thought from argu-
ment. through appeal, to poetry.
enforcement of law, obedience from
every one because ii is the law, said the
Senator, was the keynote of what we
must have 10 better conditions What
shall it profit, he asked, to devise plans
and enact statutes if every man is to be
law unto himself?
"A few weeks ago the country was
surprised and shocked by the confession
Of two labor leaders" he said. In order
t0 save their own worthless lives, which
they lad so often declared they would
gladly sacrifice for labor they entered
their pleas Of guilty. insisting that they
did all for principle, and seemed 10 cx-
meet an astonishcd world to accept their
whining apologies"
That affair left the country stirred
with unrest and suspicion because those
men insisted 50 strongly on the state
nent that they did it all for labor. and
because they were able for so long TO
command the support of so many good
labor men. the Senator said
Oil and Tobacco Cases.
The plea OF Justification" he said.
referring to the oil and tobacco cases.
"is not unlike the plea of the planters
of dynamite for though the acts were
clearly and manifcstly In defiance Of law
and the rights Of the public. II IS claimed
that II was all done in the intertat of
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