The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-03-29

Inc e&l0nS poOSA8oU IN NOIOAoA
Roosevelt's forceful campaign speech.
delivered In Carnegie Hall. New York.
Wednesday evening. 10 given below:
The great fundamental issue now
before the republican party and BE-
fore our people can be stated briefly.
1t 10, are the American people ut to
govern themselves, to rule them
selves, to control themselves?
1 believe they are. My opponents
do not. l believe in the right Of the
people to rule. I believe that the ma
jority Of the plain people in the Unit
ed States will, do, day in and day
out, make fewer mistakes in govern.
ing themselves than any similar class
or body of men, no matter what their
training, will make IL trying to govern
them. l believe again that the Amer
lean people as q whole, are capable of
self control and Of learning by their
mistakes. Our opponents pay lip 10y
atty to this doctrine, but they show
their real beliefs by the way in which
they champion every device to make
the nominal rule of the people a sham.
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Of the tyranny of the majority. When
ever there is tyranny of the majority
I shall protest against it with all my
heart and soul. But we are today
suffering from the tyranny Of the mi
norities. 1t is q small minority that
is grabbing our coal deposits, our
water powers and our harbor fronts.
A small minority is f~attening on the
sale Of adulterated foods and drugs.
1t is a small minority that lies behind
monopolies. and trusts. 1t is a small
minority that stands behind the pres
ent law Of master and servant, the
sweatshops and the whole calendar of
social and industrial injustice. It is
. small minority. that is today using
II convention system to defeat the
will of a majority Of the people In the
choice of delegates to the Chicago
convention.
My opponents charge that two
things In my program are wrong be-
cause they intrude into the sanctuary
Of the judiciary.
The FIRST 10 the recall Of Judges and
the second the review by the people
of judicial decisions On certain excep-
tional questions. l have said again
and again that ! do not advocate the
recall OF judges IN all states and in all
communities. The integrity Of our
judges. from Marshall to White and
Holmes-and to. Cullen and many 9TH
ers in our state-is . fine page Of
American history. Butt say 1t DO
berly-democracy has right to ap-
proach the sanctuary of the courts
when . special interest has corruptly
found sanctuary. and this 10 exactly
what has happened In some Of the
states who're the recall Of the Judges
10 q living issue. ID 1t not equally
plain that the question whether . CIV
On social policy 10 for the public good
ID not Of . judicial nature, but should
be settled by the Legislature OF in the
ANAL instance, By the people them
selves?
Tho president Of the United ststes,
Mr.. Tart devoted most Of q recent
speech to erittciss some Of this prop
ositioRs Hs says that 1T ID utterly
without nsz& e utility and, instead
Of being N Is interest OF ali the bs6-
PIE and q the stability Of popular
sova9@sat h sewins the reeds Of
eonfuSIos sa1 tS7sAny.- ~ thss he
q cearss meant IN tyranny q the
nasoNty-<ha4 y tAs tyranny q he
American psspss - . whole.
He aaso eAys tha& my propooaA
(which - ~ hshtiy ~ Il u merely
. proposal . give the people . real
instead q eaty . nominal chance to
eonstrue anA a@snd state Legislation
With rsassaabls rApidity) would make
SUCH amsnAmen4 and Interpretation
depend - the fsvsrish. uncertain
and unstable determinations Of sue.
eessivs votes so different laws BY
temporary and changing -majorities."
and that 1T lays the Z at the foot
OF the tree Of we'll ordered freedom
and SUBJECTS the guarantees Of lite.
liberty ana prosperity without remedy.
to the ftful impulse Of . temporary
majority of an electorate"
This criticism ID. really less . crit.
icism Of my proposal than a criticism
Of all popular government. 1t is Who'll.
ly unfounded, unless 1t is founded on
the belief that the people are funda-
mentally untrustworthy. This is the
question that l propose to submit to
the people. How al the prevailing
morality or q preponderant opinion
be better and more exactly ascer-
tanned than by a vote Of the people?
The people must know better than
the court what their own morality and