The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-21

him, unwarned, win IL be defense for
his lawyer to say to the court that
his client has always had difficulty IN
distinguishing between voluntary and in
voluntary manslaughterf
'It is not only of the things con-
demned by the rule OF reason, but by
the dictates of conscience and common
honesty that the public complains. l
do not enter defense of our antitrust
law; ! am frank to say / doubt both
its efficiency and completeness. But II
is the law and if half the energy and
ingenuity of our business men had been
put forth to perfect 1t, that has been
expended TO successfully violate it and
make IL worthless, we would long ago
have had law which would protect all
legitimate business and make all bus
mess legitimate
81 sympathize sincerely with the man
who in his hunger or his disappointment,
in discouragement or despair, thinks he
can better conditions by taking the law
into his own hands. In the hour in
which order shall be driven from its
high place in the temple Of liberty and
in which lawlessness and might shall
come in It's stead, in the fearful strug-
gle to follow, the first man to go to
the bottom to remain there will be the
man who tolls.
"But how shall we excuse or long
sympathize with the man of influence
and position, of wealth and prestige who
still by word and deed teaches disre-
speet for or defiance of the lawf Does
he not know that it is useless to long
expect law and order in the common
walks of life when lawlessness reigns
supreme in the upper air!
"The danger lies in procrastination.
We learned once at tremendous cost of
life and blood that you may have your
fugitive slave law, your Missouri com
promise, your Dred Scott decision, your
fiat of government, your compromise
with wrong, your barter with justice,
but the hour of reckoning and readjust-
ment omes--tardy, but inexorable. II
ia possible, my friends, TO 60 on until
men OF great fortune, whether Justly
or uniustly earned. will stand stripped
like the slave master of the South not
alone of his slaves, but stripped Of his
wealth, earned through two centuries OF
'unrequitted toll
Let us not trihe too long with that
widespread passionate sense of wrong
even among the more conservative; aris'
ing out Of the belief that large for
tunes have been built up at the expense
of the poor, and that men, women, and
children 90 hungry while others reYel
in waste and luxury. II Is possible 10
90 on until the soldier called into the
street to property will fraternize with
the mob.
"You win hear often in these days
that certain men are engaged in expert
menting with new plans of government
and dangerous expedients.
"We do not need a new faith; we
reed the completely. the directness and
self-surrender Of the old. We do not
need new gospel; we need rather to
preach the creed of Washington and
Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln with
a tongue Of fire throughout the land.
We need to have constitutional moral
ity declared as was the gospel of old
to the rich and the poor,
"Choose We this day whom you viii
serve, the few, the selfish, the lawless,
and see our party continue broken in
faction and deserted by thousands of
the rank and fle or the interests of
the countless thousands whose hopes
and happiness lie in the direction of
equal opportunities, of just and equal
laws, and see our party take on strength
Of the days when it defied the arrogant
power of slavery and appealed to mems
common sense of justice-now as then,
however, to deal not in malice and re-
vengez in hatred or destruction, but in
equitp and justice, in protection and Sc
curity alike for all, rich and poor"