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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Judge Who Decides Constitutional
Questions, What People Can or Cannot
20, They Should Have Right to Recall.

But there is one kind of recall in
which ] very earnestly believe and the
immediate adoption of which | urge
There are sound reasons for being cau-
tious about the recall of a good judge
who has rendered an unwise and i'm
proper decision. Every public servant,
no matter how valuable, and not omit
ting Washington or Lincoln or
Marshall. at times makes mistakes.
Therefore, we should be cautious
about recalling the judge and we
should be cautions about interfering in
any way with the judge in decisions
which he makes in the ordinary course
as between individuals. But when a
judge decides a constitutional question.
when he decides what the people as a
whole a or canno do, the people
should have the right to recall that de-
cision If they think 1t wrong. = We
should hold the judiciary In all re-
spect; but it is both absurd inc de-
grading to make a fetish of a judge OF
of anyone else.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Says American People Have Shown
Themselves Wiser Than Courts In
Dealing With Vital Questions.

It do not say hat the people are In
fallible. But / do say hat our whole
history shows thai the American peo-
pie are more often sound in their de-
cisions than is the case with any of the
governmental bodies to whom, for their
convenience, they have delegated por-
tons of their power. If this is not so.
then there is no justification for the
existence of our government; and II 1t
is so, then there is no justification for
refusing to give the people the real,
and not merely the nominal, ultimate
decision on questions of constitutional
law. Just as the people, and not the
Supreme Court under Chief Justice
fancy, were wise in their decisions of
the vital questions of their day. SO
1 hold that now the American people
n whole have shown themselves
wiser than the courts In the way they
have approached and denlt with such
vital questions of our day as those
concerning the proper control of big
corporations and of securing their
rights to Industrial workers..
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Referendum and Initiative Should
Not, However, Be the Ordinary Pro.
cedure in Many Cases.

II do not believe that it should be
the easy on ordinary way of TAX
ing action. In the great majority of
cases it is far better that action on
legislative matters should be taken by
those specially delegated to perform
the task; in other words. hat the work
should be don't by the experts chosen to
perform 1t.
"But where the men thus delegated
fail to perform their duty, then II
should he in the power of the people
themselves TO perform the duty.
I'm a recent speech Governor Me-
Govern, of Wisconsin. has described
the plan which has been there adopt
Ell Under this plan the effort to OBJ
tain the law is first to be made through
the Legislature. the bill being pushed
as far as it will go, so that the details
of the proposed measure may be
threshed over in actual legislative de
cate This gives opportunity to per-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
All Business Into Which Monopoly
Enters Should be Supervised and
Controlled by Government.

"All business into which the element
of monopoly in any way OF degree en-
tiers, and where it proves In practise
impossible totally to eliminate this
element of monopoly, should be care
fully supervised, regulated and con-
trolled by governmental authority, and
such control should be exercised by
administrative, rather than by judicial
officers.
mo EFFORT should be made to destroy
n big corporation merely because II is
big. merely because 1t has shown itself
n peculiarly efficient business instru-
meDt.
but we should not fear, if neces-
sary, to bring the regulation of big
corporations to the point of controlling
conditions SO that the wage-worker
shall have q wage more than sufficient
to cover the bare cost of living, n
hours of labor not so excessive as to
wreck his strength by the strain of
amending toll and leave him unfit to
do his duty as a good citizen in the
community. Where regulation by COM
petition (Which is, of course, prefer
able) proves insufficient, we should not
shrink from bringing governmental
regulation to the point of control of
monopoly prices If II should ever be-
come necessary to do so, just as in
exceptional cases railway rates are
now regulated.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Stands For Rights Of Property, But
Even More SO For All the Rights OF
Man.

1--WE stand for the rights of property,
but we stand even more for the rights
of man. We will protect the rights
of the wealthy man, but we maintain
that he holds his wealth subject to the
general right of the community to
regulate its business use as the public
welfare requires.
1--WE also maintain that the nation
and the several States nave the right
to regulate the terms and conditions
of labor. which is the chief element of
wealth, directly in the interest of the
common good. 1t is our prime duty to
shape the Industrial and social forces
so that they may tell for the material
and moral upbuilding of the farmer and
the wage-worker, just as they should
do in the Ease of the business man.
You, trainers of this constitution. be
careful so TO frame it that under it
the people shall leave themselves free
to do whatever is necessary In order
to help the farmers of the State to get
for themselves and their wives and
children not only the benefits of better
farming bu also those better business
methods and better conditions of life
on the farm.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
GRANDMOTHER
USED SAGE TEA
To Darken the Hair and Re-
store Gray and Faded Hair
to Its Natural Color.

1t is easier to preserve the color of
the hair than to restore It, although it
is possible to do both. Our grand
other understood the secret. They
a sage tea and their dark,
glossy hair long after middle life was
due 70 this fact. Our mothers have
gray hairs before they are fifty, but
they are beginning to appreciate the
wisdom of our grandmothers in using
Sage tea for their hair and are fast
following suit.
The present generation has the ad-
vantage of the past in that 1t can get
a ready-to-use preparation called
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Rem
edy. AS a scalp tonic and color re-
storer this preparation is vastly supe-
rior to the ordinary sage tea made
by our grandmothers.
The growth and beauty of the hair
depends on a healthy condition OF the
scalp. wyeth's Sage and sulphur Hair
Remedy quickly kills the, dandruff
germs which rob the hair of its life,
color and lustre, makes the scalp clean
and healthy. gives the hair strength,
color and beauty. and makes it grow
Get a so cent bottle from yourAdrug-
gist today. He will give your MONEY
back if you are not satisfied after a
fair trial. Special agent. Charles w
Menk, los Merket street.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
FIintIock Legislation That Seeks
To Prohibit All Combinations, Good
or Bad. Is Bound TO Fail.

The effort to restore such conditions,
and to trust for Justice solely to such
proposed restoration, is as foolish as IL
we should attempt 70 arm our troops
with the fintlocks of Washington
Continentals instead of with modern
Weapons of precision. Fllntlock legis-
lation, of The kin that seeks to pro-
hibit all combinations. good or bad, is
bound to fail. and the effort, in so far
as il acoomplishes anything at all,
merely means that come of the worst
combinations are not checked, and that
honest business is checked.
What Is needed IS. first, the r~ecogni-
ton that modern business conditions
have come 70 stay. in so far at least
as these conditions mean that bust
ness must be done in larger units, and
then the ~cooi-heaGed ant resolute de-
ter~nainat,on to introduce an effective
method Of regulating big corporations
so as to help legitimate business as an
incident te thoroughly n completely
safeguarding the interests Of the people
as a whole.
'eThe tillers of the soil, the age
workers, the business men--these are
the three big and vitality important
divisions of our population. The well
fare of each division is vitality neces-
sary to the welfare of the people as a
whole. The great mass of business is,
of course, lone by men whose business
is either small or of moderate size,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Ii People Feel Decision Unjust,
They Should Be Given Right to Bring
II Before Voters, He Says.

"when the Supreme Court of the state
declares a given statute unconstitu-
tional, because In conflict with the
state or the National Constitution, IT'D
opinion should be subject to revision
by the people themselves.
Such an opinion ought always to be
treated with great respect by the peo-
pie, and unqucstionably in the majority
of cases would be accepted and followed
by them. But actual experience has
shown the vital need of the people re-
serving to themselves the right to pass
upon such opinion. II I'M consider
able number of the people feel that
the decision is in defiance Of justice,
they should be given, the right by petit
ton to bring before the voters at some
subsequent elections special or other
wise. as might be decided, and after
the fullest opportunity for deliberaticu
and debate. the question whether OF
not the Judges Interpretation Of the
Constitution Is to be sustained II Il
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Believes in Direct Nominations by
People and Right to Express Choice
of Candidates at Primaries.

Il believe in providing for direct
nominations by the people, including
therein direct preferential primaries
for the election of delegates to the ma
tional nominating conventions. Not
as a matter of theory but a matter of
pain and proved experience, we find
that the convention system, while it
often records the popular will, is also
often used by adroit politicians as a
method OF thwarting the popular will.
II believe in the election of United
States Senators by direct vote. Just as
actual experience convinced our people
that Presidents should be elected tas
they rp@ are in practise. although not
in The 3 by direct vote of the people
instea ny indirect vote through an
untranlnieled electoral college, SO
actual experience has convinced us
that Senators should be elected by
direct vote of the people instead of in
directly through the various legisla-
lures.
Il believe in the initiative and the
which should be used not
to destroy representative government,
but to correct it whenever it becomes
misrepresentation. Here again | am
concerned not with theories, but with
actual facts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Would Not Vote For Recall of
Judges Who Rendered Decision Which
lie Thought Unjust.

In effect, their decision was that
we could not remedy these wrongs
unless we amended the Constitution,
mot the Constitution of the State, but
the Constitution of the nation by
saying hat property could be taken
without due process of law! 1t seems
incredible that any one should be will
ing to take such a position. 1t is a
position that has been condemned over
and oyer again by the wisest and most
f~ar-seeing courts. In its essence it was
reversed by the decision of State
courts in States like Washington and
Iowa, and by the Supreme Court of the
nation in a case but a few weeks old.
Il call this decision tt the attention
of those who shake their heads at the
proposal to trust the people to decide
for themselves what their own gov-
ernmental policy shall be in these mat
State OF the Union more fragrant in
it's defiance of right and justice, more
short-sighted in it's inability to face
the changed needs of our civilization,
han this decision by the highest court
of the State of New York. Many of
the judges of that court J. know per-
sonally, and for them | have a pro-
found regard.
Gwen for as Hng rant n decision ar
this ] would moi vote for their recall.
for ! have no doubt the decision was
rendered in accordance with their ideas
of duty.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Absurd TO Endeavor to Regulate
Business by Means OF L0ng'drawn
Law Suits Without Administrative
Control.

III IL absurd to cndeavor to regulate
business In the interest of the public
by means of lOng-drawn lawsuits with
out any accompaniment Of administrn-
tive control and regulation, and with
out any attempt TO discriminate be-
tween the honest man who has sue
ceeded in business because of render
Ing n service TO the public md the dis
honest man who has succeeded In busi-
ness by cheating the public.
so much for the mall business man
and the middle-sized business a
Now for big business. 1t is imperative
to exercise over big business a con-
troll and supervision which is unnec-
essary as regards small business. All
business men, big or little, must act
Justly. But u wicked big interest Is
necessarily more dangerous to the COM
munity than a wicked little interest.
Big business in the past has been
responsible for much of the special
privilege which must be unsparingly
cut out of our national life. | do not
believe in making more size OF n by
| itself criminal. The mere fact of size,
however, does unquestionably carry
the potentiality of such grave wrong
doing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Good Laws Necessary But ALI
important Question Is to Have Right
Kind of Man Behind Them.

II hope that not only you and | but
all our people may ever remember that
while good laws are necessary, while
it is necessary to have the right kim
of governmental machinery, wet that
the all-important matter is to hav
the right kind of man behind the law.
A State cannot rise without proper
laws, but the best laws that the wit OF
man can devise will amount to moth
ing if the State does not contain the
right kind of man, the right kind OF
woman. A good Constitution, and good
laws under the Constitution, and fear
less and upright officials to administer
the 1aws-all these are necessary; but
the prime requisite in our national life
is, and must always be. the possession
by the average citizen of the right
kind of character.
Our aim must be the mora1ization
of the individual. of the government.
of the people as a whole. We desire
the moraliZation not only of political
conditions. but of industrial conditions.
so that every force in the community.
individual and collective. may be di-
rected towards securing for the aver
age man and average woman Il higher
and better and fuller life in the things
Of the body no less than those of the
mind and the soul"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
CONTINUED from, First Pase.1

establish Justice that is. to secure
Justice as between man md man by
means Of genuine popular s~eif-gosern-
menf.
IF the Constitution is successfully
invoked to nullify the effort to remedy
Injustice. it is proof positive either
thai the Constitution needs immediate
amendment or else that 1t is being
wrongfully and improperly construed.
| therefore very earnestly ask you
clearly to provide in this Constitution
means which will enable the people
readily to amend il If at II point 1t
works injustice, and also means which
will permit the people themselves by
popular vote. after due elaboration
and discussion, but finally and with
out appeal. to settle the proper
construction of any constitutional
point is.
at is often said that ours rs a gov
nme of checks and balances. But
this should only mean that these
checks and balances obtain as among
the several different kinds Of repre-
sentatives of the people-judicial, X
ecutive and legislative-to whom the
people have delegated certain portions
Of their power.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
QU|N|AE WILL
NOT BREAK 4 GOLD.
How to Cure the Most Severe
Cold and End All Grippe Mis-
cry in Just a Few Hours.

You will distinctly feel your colo
breaking and all the Grippe mpto
leaving after taking the very hrst dose.
1t is a positive fact that Pape's Cold
Compound, taken every two hours, un-
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1t promptly relieves the most mis-
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nose stuffed up, feverishness, sneez-
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mucous catarrhal discharges,
and rheumatic twinges.
Pape's Cold Compound is the result
of three years research at a cost OF
more than fifty thousand dollars and
contains no quinine, which we have
conclusively demonstrated is not Ell
fective in the treatment of colds or
grippe.
Take this harmless compound as d.
rected, with the knowledge that there
is no other medicine made anywhere
else in the world which will cure your
cold or end grippe misery as promptly
and without any other assistance or
bad after-effects as a 25-cent package
of Pape's Cold Compound, which any
druggist in the world a supply.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Should Be Fixed Government Policy
To Clearly Define What a Man Can
and Cannot Do in Business.

''They are satisfied with a legitimate
profit that will pay their expenses of
living and lay by something for those
who come after. and the additional
amount necessary for the betterment
and Improvement of their plan. His
life hbers are intertwined with the life
fibers of his fellow citizens. Yet now
adays many men of this kind, when
they come to make necessary trade
agreements with one another, n
themselves in danger of becoming I'M
whiting transgressors of the law, n
are at a loss to know what the law
forbids, and What it permits. This is
all wrong.
There should be a fixed govern
mental policy, a policy which shall
clearly define and punish wrong-doing,
and shall give in advance full infornla-
ton TO any man as to just what he can
n just what he cannot legally and
properly do.
at is absurd and wicked to trent the
deliberate Iaw-breaker ms on an exact
par with the man eager to obey the
law, whose only desire is 10 And out
from some competent governmental au-
thority what the law Is and then live
UP to IL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Holds II Duty of Every Public Ser.
want and Every Man to Fearlessly
Guide Others to Reach Right Decisions.

81 hold II to be the duty of every
public servant. and of every man who
IN public or In private life holds n
position of leadership in thought or ac-
tton, to endeavor honestly and fearless
IN 10 smide his fellow countrymen I"
right decisions; bu. ! enrhaticaily dis
sent from the view that II Is either
wise or necessary TO try 10 devise
methods which under the constitution
VIII automatically prevent the people
from deciding for themselves what gov
ern,nentaI action they deem Just and
proper.
at is impossible TO invent constitu-
tional devices which will prevent the
popular viii from being effective for
wrong without also preventing it from
being effective for right. The only safe
course to follow in this great American
democracy is to provide for making
the popular judgment really effective.
When this is done, then it is our duty
To see that the people, having the full
POWER. realize their heavy response
bility for exercising that power Alright.
..But IL IL a false constitutionalism.
u false stntesmansiiip, TO endcavOr by
the exercise of a perverted ingenuity
10 seem 10 give the people full power
and at the same time to trick them
out of II. Vet this is precisely what Is
lone In every ease where the state per-
mits IFS representatives. whether ON
the bench or In the legislature or In
executive Office. TO declare that Ii has
not the power 10 right grave social
wrongs, or fhnt any of the officers
created by the people, and rightfuiiy
the servants of the people, can set
themselves mp tn be the masters of the
people. Constitution makers should
make il clear beyond shadow of doubt
that the people In their legislative ca
pncity have the power to enact Into
i~v any measure they deem necessary
fpr the betterment of social and Indus
~ l.,i' conditions
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21

threatens corporations which have not
been guilty of anti-social conduct, il
does harm.
"Moreover, II cannot by itself accom-
piish more than a trifing part of the
governmental regulation OF big bust
ness which Ii needed. n nation and
the states must cooperate In this mat
ter.
Among the states that have entered
this field, Wisconsin has X a lead
ing place. Following Senator La Fol
lette, a number of practical workers
and thinkers In Wisconsin have urn
that State into an experimental labor
atory of wise governmental action in
aid of social and industrial justice.
They have initiated the kind of pro-
gressive government which means not
merely the preservation of true de-
mocracy, but the extension of Sthe
principle of true democracy into IN
dustrialism as we'll as into politics.
One prime reason why the State has
been so successful in this policy lies
In the fact that it has done justice to
corporations precisely as it has *
acted justice from them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21

Feet il in form and invites public scru-
tiny. Then. if the Legislature fails to
enact il, it can be enacted by the peo-
pie on their own initiative. taken at
least four months before election.
Moreover, where possible, the question
actually to be voted on by the people
slpuld be made as simple as possible
"In short, l believe that the initiative
and referendum should be used, not as
substitutes for representative govern
ment, but as methods of making such
government really representative.
Action by the Initiative or referen-
dum ought not to be the normal way
of legislation; but the power to take
IL should be provided in the Constitu-
ton. so that If the representatives fail
truly to represent h people on some
matter of sufficient Importance to u
popular interest. then the people shall
rave in their hands the facilities to
make good the failure.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21
Says Shape Constitution so That
People Will be Able to Provide Com
pensation for Workingmen.

Moreover, shape your constitutional
action SO hat the people will be able
through their legislative bodies, or. fall
ing that, by direct popular vote. to
provide worlunen's compensation acts,
to regulate the hours of b for
children n for women, to provide for
their safety while at work, and TO pre-
vent overwork or work under unhy-
gienic or unsafe conditions. See to 1t
that no restrictions are placed upon
Legislative powers that viii prevent the
enactment of laws under which your
people can promote the general welfare,
the common good. Thus only will the
general welfare" clause OF our con-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-21

whole body is improperly and Insult
ficiently nourished.
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