The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-21
LET PEOPLE RULE,
 SAYS ROOSEVELT
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fESflE'S VOICE MUST PREVAIL

The salient passages in Colonel EooSevelt's forceful campaign speech delivered in Carnegie hall. New York. "Wednesday evening. are given below:
 The great fundamental issue now be fore the Republican party and before our people can be stated briefly. 1t is Are the American people it to govern themselves. to rule themselves. to con trol thernsejves: 1 believe they are My opponents do not. believe in the right of the people to rule. 1 believe that the majority of. the plain people of the United >s:.:teS will. cay in and day out. nlIka fewer mistakes in gov e-n.ng themselves than any smaller class or boy of men. no matter what their training. will make in trying to govern them. l believe again that the American people are as whole capa- bie of self control and of learning by their mistakes. Our opponents pay lip loyilty to this doctrine. but they show their real beliefs by the way in winch they champion every device to make the nominal rule of the people a sham
 l have Scant patience with this ta :k of the tyranny of the majority. When ever there is tyranny of the majority shllleisrote~t against it with all my heart and soul. But we are today sui: fe-ing from the tyranny of the minor itieS- It is small minority that is grabbing our coal deposits. our water powers and our hirbor fronts \ small minority is fattening on the sale of ndulterated foods and drugs. It is small minority that lies behind monup plies and trusts It iS d small minority that stands behind the present law Uf uiaster and servant. the SweatShOpS and the whole calendar of social and industrial injustice It is a small mi nority that is today using our eonveu- ton system to defeat the will uf a ma jrity of the leo.'le Ill the clluIce ut deiegates to the Chicago convention.
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 My opponents charge that two things in my program are wrong because, the, hHrnie into the saL>tuary of the, judi ciary. The first is the recall of judges n:.d the Sctond the rPview by the pee pc uf judicial tie, isiUlis on certain con si;.iIfi0n:iI questions. l have S:id again ard again that ' dn not advocate the res-ail nf judges iIi all Stares aIid in al ro-l.hunities. The Integrity of ouI j.dstS. from Marshall to White anc Holiness -;,nd 10 cuiien and many nther> iii our owI. stait-i is fine page O American history But-f say it Subel iy demucracy has right 10 approa,t the sanctuary of the courts when II si,r ial interest has cU.rui'tiy fOune sanctuary there. and tbis is exactl! what has harpeEeu in some of tl, stages where the :e, all of the judges | living issue. Is it I.ot equally piaii that the question wheeler q given so ci::l l,oli,-y is for the public good is nd of a Judicial nature. but should le SC l..-d by the legislature or ill ile fli; Instance by the people themselves:
 The president of the CLitel State> Mr. Taft. devoted most of ret.pn speech to criticism uf this pro. enSitioL He says that 1t ''is utterly withou merit or utility. and instead of bein: = in tie iE:erpst of all the pee pie and of the stability of popular 20, V -AAhCAt. Ia ~ "iiis, tht >etNN VII SoL1Ar sion and tyranny" (By this ne. c course. Ieans the tyranny of the rla jority-that is. the tyranny or n American people as a whuIe.l He ais. says that ny proposal twhich, as l. rightly sees. is merely q proposal l. give the people real instead of only nominal chance to cOns,fGe and a1ncns a state constitution with reasonable rapi;,ity, would make such ;inendmen and Interpretation depend on the fe verish. uncertain and unstable deter EiiIatiou Ot successive votes on differ ent laws by temporary and changiil: i1ajorit.es" and that it lays the ax ;t the foot of lhe tree of well order' freedom and subjects the guarantees lie. liberty anl property without ren' edy to the itfu: iI-pulse of tempe rary nlajcri1y If an electorate"
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