Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-01

panacea.
I'm the ultimate analysis, l fear,
the equal opportunity which those
seek who proclaim the socalled So
cial Justice, involves a forced division
of property, and that means social
ism. 1 venture to say there is no ma
tional administration in which more
real steps of progress have been
taken than in the present one. eBut
as for the millennium, a condition in
which the rich are to be made ga
sonably poor and the poor reasonably
rich by law, we are chasing a phan-
tom: we are holding out to those
whose unrest we fear. a prospect and
a dream. a vision of the impossible.
Criticises Opponents.
II do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead, one the Demo-
| cratic party and thesother the former
Republicans who have left their
party, in their attacks, upon existing
| conditions and in their attempts to
| satisfy the popular unrest by prom
Uses of remedies are consciously en-
bracing Socialism. The truth is that
they do o offer any definite legisla-
| ton or policy by which the happy
conditions they promise are to he
brought about, but IL their promises
mean anything they lead directly to-
ward the appropriation of what be-
longs to one man by another.
THE truth is, my friends, both
those who have left the Republican
party under the inspiration of their
present leader and our old opponents,
fho DnranorafS Tndor thair nan6i-
date, are going In a direction they
do not definitely know, toward an
end they cannot definitely describe,
with but one chief and clear object,
and hat is of acquiring power for
their party by popular support
through the promise of a change for
the better.
These gentlemen propose to reform,
the government, whose present de-
fects, If any. are due to the failure
of the people to devote as much time
as is necessary to their political du-
ties by requiring a political activity
by the people three times that which
thus far the people have been willing
TO assume
But after we hav changed all the
governmental machinery so as to
permit instantaneous expression of
the people in constitutional amend
ments, in statutes and in recall of
public agents, what then?
Votes are not bread, constitu-
tional amendments are not work,
referendums do not pay rent OF fur
nish houses. recalls do not furnish
clothing, initiatives do not supply
ON nlo1sr1 ont nr -nIta1a i,,aana1tioo IF
condition or of opportunity. We still
ought to have set before us the def
mite plans to bring on complete
equality of opportunity and to abol-
ish hardship and evil for humanity.
We listen for them In vain"
The President discussed at some
length the recall of judges and judi
cial decisions and the proposals to
forbid the use of injunctions to pro-
tect property against a secondary
boycott and the use of juries in CON
tempt proceedings brought to en-
force DEGREES or orders. The recall
of decisions he labeled the "grotesuue
proposition by the leader of former
Republicans who have left their
party"
Raps Innovations.
THE Republican party" concluded
the President. Stands for none of
these innovations. It refuses to make
changes simply for the purpose of
making a change and cultivating
popular hope that in the change
something beneficial, underlined. will
take place. We favor the greatest
good to the greatest number. We
believe that we have made progress
from the beginning to now and that
the progress is to continue into the
far future, h a it is BILE prog
ress hat experience has shown to be-
really useful and helpful, and from
which there is no reaction to some
thing worse. 1t is said that this is
an issue in the campaign. 1t
to be it is the supreme issue"