Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-08

In this regard we have made greai
progress and reform. as in respect Il
secret rebates in railways. the i'm
proper comforting Of public fran
ehises. end the immunity OF mo
nopclizins trusts and combinations
The nisfortunes Of ordinary business
the division Of the estates Of
wealthy men at their death. the
chances OF speculation which undue
good fortune seems often to stimu'
late, operating as causes through q
generation, will do much to divide up
such large fortunes. II is far better to
await the diminution of this evil by
natural causes than to attempt what
would soon take on the aspect OF con-
nscation or to abolish the principle
n institution of private property and
10 change 10 socialism. Socialism in
wolves the taking away Of the motive
Tor acquisition. saving, energy, and
enterprise. and a futile attempt by
committees to apportion the rewards
due for productive labor. 1t means
stagnftion and retrogression. 1t de-
stroys the handspring of human action
that has carried the world on and up
ward for 1000 years.
Opponents Offer No Remedy.
l do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead, one the Demo
cratic party and the other the former
Republicans who have left their party,
in their attacks upon existing condi-
tons, and in their attempt to satisfy
the popular unrest by promises OF
remedies, are consciously embracing
socialism. The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy By which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about,
but il their promises mean anything,
they lead directly toward the ap-
preparation Of what belongs to n
man by another. The truth is, my
friends, both those who have left the
Republican party under the inspira-
ton of their present leader, and our
old opponents, the Democrats, under
their candidate, are going in a direc-
ton they do not definitely know, to-
ward an end they car not definitely
describe, with but one chief and clear
object, and that is of acquiring power
for their party by popular support
through the promise of a change for
the better. What they clamor for
is a change. They ask for a change in
government so that the government
may be restored to the people, as if
this had not been a peoples govern
ment since the beginning of the con-
stitution. | have the fullest sympathy
with every reform in governmental
and election machinery which shall
facilitate the expression of the popu-
lar will as the short ballot and the
reduction in elective offices will make
1t possible. But these gentlemen pro-
pose to reform the government, whose
present defects, if any, are due to the
Of the people to devote as
much time as is necessary to their
political duties, by requiring a politi-
activity by the people three times
that which thus far the people have
been willing to assume; and thus they
propose remedies which, instead of
exciting the people to further interest
and activity in the government, will
ire them into such an Indifference as
still further to remand control of pub
lie affairs to a minority.
Hostility to Judiciary.
Instead of giving US the benefit of
any specific remedies for the hard
and evAs of society they point
1ut, they follow their urgent appeals
or closer association of the people
legislation by an attempt to cult
pate the hostility of the people to the
courts and to represent that they are
some form unfolding injustice and
Are o~bstructing the popular will. At
are made to take away all
hose safeguards for maintaining the
Independence Of the judiciary which
Ire SO carefully framed in our consti-
These attempts find express
sion in the policy, on the one hand.
If the recall of judges, a system I'M
Ter which a judge whose decision in
me case may temporarily displease
he electorate Is to be deprived at
,nce of his office by a popular vote.
| pernicious system embodied in the
Arizona constitution and which the
of the Louise and senate
'efused to condemn as the initial pol-
cy Of a new state. The same spirit
manifested itself in the vote by Demo
,ratic senators on the proposition.
irst, to abolish the commerce court
Ind, second. to abolish judges by mere
let of repeal, although under the CON.
,titution their terms are for life, on
10 ground except that they did not
ike some Of the courts recent de-
Another form of hostility to the
judiciary is shown In the grotesuue
proposition by the leader of former
Republicans who have left their party
or a recall Of decisions, SO that a de-
,'sion on a point of constitutional law.
laving been rendered by the highest
,ouTt capable Of rendering 1t, shall
hey be submitted to popular vote to
whether it ought to be sus.
Again, the Democratic party In con
and convention shows its desire
o weaken the courts by forbiddina
he use Of the writ of injunction to
a lawful business against the
destructive effect OF q secondary boy