The Cairo bulletin., 1911-03-21
EouR MtiLLIoNa aRoLLAR sTRUc
TuRE AT CLEVELAND FORM
ALLY OPENED.
W|cyERSHAn N SPEECH
Scores Fefe- erdyra and Recall--Pfo
tests hcsirst Overthrow of
Re3resente Gov
crnn1cnt.


cation exercises Of Cleveland's $4,000,
0G9 federal building were concluded
tonight WITH baaquetmdar the aus
rices Of the chamber OF commerce.
! I lie main address Of the evening was
by Attorney General Wickersham,
who spoke On the state and Ma
uoa."
Other speakers were Judge X. N.
Lands OF Chicago, Arnold Brunner
of New York, architect of the new
federal building, and Senator Tneo-
lore L. Burton Of Cleveland.
President Geo. w, Kinney of the
,namber of commerce was toastmas-
ter. Gov. Harmon was to have de-
| livered an address, but was detained
at Columbus by business.
At the afternoon exercises Attorney
| General Wickersham, Senator Alice
Pomerene of Canton, Ohio, and For
| mer Lieutenant Governor Francis w.
rreadway spoke.
Wickersham's Address.
Mr.. Wickersnam made strong plea
for an independent judiciary and
scored the recall as "the latest m
vention of self-characterized progress
sive government"
Representative Republican govern
ment,' said he, "is founded on prac.
| 5ieal recognition of the facts tbat in
busy, prosperous community the
average citizen can give but little
time to the details of his government
He therefore joins with his fellow
electors in selecting representatives
10 frame the laws by which be is to
be governed, and in choosing the prln-
cipal officers who are to execute tie
His life, liberty and property are pro-
tected from undue invasion in either
branch of the government by means
of constitutional restrictions upon
tHSlit puNClS, anu Ny IiHiltliS thS
terms for which they are chosen here
is required of them a periodical ac-
count of the stewardships.
This system secures to the agents
freedom from undue interference dur
ing their terms of office, thus giving
| them time to work out any given
problem, and to submit it to the test
Of experience before it is condemned.
Abuses OF power occur under all
forms of government.
Representatives chosen to make
| laws for state or nation have not al
ways been faithful to their trust, The
greater importance of the national
legislature upon which the eyes OF o
ration are directed has, as a rule
preserved it from the corruption and
he ineficiency of many of the state
legislators. The history of tie latter
has been too often history Of vene-
ality and stupidity.
But is the remedy 10 be found in
the overthrow of the whole system
of representative government Politi
cal and social reformers alike are
prone to advocate the overthrow of
a system rather than the mJ.s diff
Gilt task Of selecting fit agents 10
| conduct the system, au9 OF tho bring
ing Of unjus stewards 10 account.
| "What are judges but impartial ar
bitrators to whom any one OF US may
| be compelled at any moment to tuG
| FOR protection of life, limb "op-
crty? What will become of that pro-
lection If our system of government
should subject him to the dispoiling
rage of the mob, when he asserts the
supremacy of the law in the face Of
| unjust clamor? Who Of US will be
| secure in all that we hold dear If our
judges can only retain their places
by consulting tho passing fever of
| w INV" ti9tSnu VI lne laws VI llle
land?
"a GLIB, cheap answer is made by
the advocates OF purely democratic
government when objection is made
to their schemes: You do not trust
the people, they say. On the con-
trary it is they, who do not trust the
people. Their whole program is
based on the assumption that the
people are unfit or unable to choose
honest and faithful representatives
Under such system, the people
| abandon al self-restraint and the
| necessity of sober second thought,
based on accurate information and
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