The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-29
PEOPLES WILL LAW
LaFoIIette Says 1t Is Above Courts
and Constitution.

/ Toledo, o., Dec. Ex-senator LaFOl-
! lette, in his campaign through Ohio for
progressive Republicanism, talked to
| another large audience here last night.
| The hall which had been engaged was
| inadequate for those who Came to hear
and before the senator's arrival the po-
lice refused to admit any more to the
! hall as q matter of safety. The sena-
tor on his arrival was met by May
! progresSiveS of Lucas county and he
! was asked TO speak on SO many topics
that he felt impelled to touch upon as
many as time would permit.
| Self government and the trusts, the
| initiative. referendum and recall, the
| primary ballot law and direct vote for
| United states seHa tors, he discussed at
length, hut devoted more attention to
the trusts than at any previous meet
ing The senator declared that the Will
of the people is higher than the courts
saying:
'.The will OF the people shall be the
law Of the land. Constitution. statutes,
courts and all the complex details of
government are but instruments to car
ry out the will Of the people and when
they fail=when constitutions and stat
utes and all of the agencies employed
to execute constitutions and statutes
fail-they must be changed SO as II
carry out and express the well formula
ted judgment and the win of the peo-
pie
And it's going to be changed" de-
clared the speaker. "Oh, you stand
patters take notice, you are curiosity
in Wisconsin. The people have never
failed in any crisis; you haven't got a
representative government in state or
nation today"
Morgan and Standard Oil.
Charging that self government was
being jeopardized by the trusts, Sena-
tor LaF'ollette asserted a crisis was at
hand. He declared that so powerful
had two names become that they
derr.inated al business, they are
Morgan and Standard Oil, and every
banker in the hall knows it.
Mr.. LaFollette declared he found SO
men on all the directorates of all the
trusts "Chauncey M. DepeW, he SAID,
was on ~ and 1 found that he had
no money invested-he was only
many dummies there were, and then
/ found that only IA men controlled
and were back of all these SO names
And back of all of this I found
Standard Oil and Morgan, and put all
this information in the Congressional
Record Do you think I could stand |
here and say this if there wasn't bed
rock fact for it?
looked the newspapers Their organs |
are poisoning the public mind-they |
are not serving your interests when
they declare me to be a menace to
business.
In closing, Senator LaFollette turned |
his attention again to his home state
and how it's government is run. giving
stress to its regulation OF rallroad
rates, "a thing that Wisconsin does to
the benefit of the people and the rail-
roads, The federal government has
been trying to find a feasible way to
do this for 40 years, and hasn't done
it yet" he said.
No Politics in Taft Visit.
Columbus, O., Dec. 29.-That Presi-
dent Tafts visit to Ohio the last week
in January will be in the nature of a
and will not be for the
purpose of following in the trail Of
either Senator LaFollette or anyone
else opposing his denomination, is the
statement of men who are active in the
interest of Mr.. Taft in his home state
Both National Committeeman A I.
vorys and L. c. Laylin, chairman of
the Republican state executive com
made the declaration that Mr.
Taft's prospective visit had been
planned and would be carried out
any reference whatever to poll
tics or his own political interests.
Both men refused to concede that
there was such opposition to the presi-
dent in Ohio as would necessitate his
doing any personal campaigning.