Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-07
COLONEL AMPLlFIEs HIS Posi-.
TON ENuNcIATED IN SPEECH
AT COLUMBUS.
COURTS OFTEN OVERRIDE
PUBLIC RULE AND DESIRE
Roosevelt Points to Lincoln .s Grss:
Exponent Of Rishts-Judses Servants
and Not Masters-Arsument That
Mob Would Rule" Held as Silly
Other News.

/! New York, March Col. Iheodo:,
I! Roosevelt has an article entitled dc
| You Believe in the Rule Of the
/ People," in the current issue III The
| outlook. The article in full is as fol-
F.! lows:
There has been much effort made 70
fog the issue raised in my Columbus
Speech. in reality, the issue is perfectly
slnple: DO you believe i'll the rule OF
| the people. If you 40, yoHr are with
us. II you do not, you are against US.
| Many good and honorable persons
do not believe in the rule of the people,
and openly say SO. We disagree with
these persons. but we can respect them.
There are other persons, however, who
do not believe In the rule of the people.
but who dare not say SO, and who en-
deavor by trickery. by chicanery. by
fraud, to seem to give the people the
RICH, to rule and at the same time to
deprive them OF that right. These per
sons we do not respect.
Points to Lincoln.
Let the men OF little faith who fear
the people keep steadily in mind that
Abraham Lincoln and of those who
worked with him for the preservation
of this nation. Abraham Lincoln did
not try to trick or defraud the people
into freeing the slave and restoring the
union; he appealed to them in the name
of duty, In the name of honor and self
sa crif1ce TO risk all, including life itself,
for high ideal; and the people ce-
hoy
justified and the slave was freed and
the union preserved. Those who stan'l
for the cause of social and industrial
Justice to be obtained thru the genuine
rule Of the people. are but carrying
forward the work which dropped from
Abraham LincolEs hands when the pa
tent, tired, kindly eyes were closed
forever. He strove against intrenched
wrong, against privilege in the most
hateful form of his day. We. in our
day, strive against hateful forms IT IN
trenched wrong and privilege. We are
not striving in bitterness OF spirit, or
with anger and hatred; as far as in us
lies. we seek to emulate Abraham Lin
coins charity and kindness in dealing
with those who. as we believe, THINK
enormously: but we also endeavor to
emulate the unfiinching resolution. the
unsw CRYING purpose with which he
fought for the great cause OF right
eousnese.
Judges Servants. Not Masters.
abraham Lincoln believed In tire
liberty and the power OF the. people,
achieved in law abiding and orderly
fashion. He believed in that liberty OF
the people which has law and order as
its twin handmaidens. He respected
the judges. But he regarded them as
the servants and not the masters OK
the people, and he believed that the
people had the right to decide 1or
themselves the great fundamental
questions Of public policy, upon the
proper solution Of which 1t depends
whether there shall or shall not be true
social justice in the land.
Therefore we hold that, as regards
these questions Of public policy, courts.
like executives and legislatures. must
bow to the sober and well-thought- out
judgment Of the people.
Laws Of Human Rights.
Let me repeat once more what
have 80 often said-that am not now
speaking Of ordinary cases Of justice
between man and man. such as must
be decided by judges here in America
as they are decided by Judges in all
other lands. l shall speak Of these
cases In some subsequent articles, in
which shall ask the people soberly to
consider such facts as those set forth
by Mr.. C.. p. Connolly in his recent
articles in Everybody's Magazine. In
this article I speak purely Of the kind
of decision which only American courts
are entitled to make-the kind Of de-
cision which no judge in our neighbor
Canada in Australia. in England. in
Germany, or in France has the right
to make. or would for one moment be
permitted to make. Nor, at the mo-
ment, am treating Of the action Of
the national courts, because the fed
eral form of our government makes It
more difficult to propose working
remedy in the case Of the nation than
in the cases of the several states. I
am speaking Of the action Of the court
| of a state when it declares that a law
| passed In the collective interest Of the
whole community Is unconstitutional;
and l have especially in view the laws
affecting human rights from most
vital standpoint-the laws affecting the
terms and conditions Of life and en-
ployment among the wage workers.
Methods Are immatsriaI.
n am not primarily concerned with
methods: my aim 10 to secure the right
Of the people to decide for themselves.
according to the principles of common
sense and justice. what the public poll
icy shall be in these matters. I am
concerned with the end, not the means.
II In any state the constitution 30 clear
ly defined the power Of the legislature
TO act for the general welfare as to pro-
hibit the courts from multiplying any