Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-29
ASHURST WILL
 BE PROGRESSIVE
Talks of Modern Issues Before People and Is Deeply Grateful
 for Honor
LONG BATTLE WON

Henry Ashurst spoke as follows: Mir President, Mr. Speaker. Gentle
 men Of the Legislature, Ladies
 and Fellow Citizens:
 thank the people of Arizona for this high mark of their confidence and esteem. and l congraJulate your hon orabie body upon the fidelity with which you have obeyed the mandaJe oC the people
 do noJ subscribe to the political philosophy Of the celebrated Mir. Doc ley. who said
 "A genuine statesman must be on
 his guard.
 If he must. have beliefs. not believe
 them too hard
 For myself l believe in popular gov eminent The remedy for a halfway popular government is to give inc people more rower A celebrated statesman once said to the Right Hon. William Gladstone
 The people are not always right %
 No replied MT Gladstone. but they are very rarely wrong"
 Thomas Jefferson once said:
 EhlNete o U boi tue D1OIl'.
 Henry VIII, the most cruel tyrant that ever sat upon the English throne, once said: Always watch the people !"
 It would be tiresome, were 10 de scribe within the limits of this ad- dress, the details of the reforms that must come and that will come in the nation, and in securing reforms would especially urge that nothing be done in haste or in anger. We must remember that no wound ever healed except by slow degrees
 The Senate
 The United States senate is ire quently referred 10 as the Million aires club Bankers Syndicate anI American House of Lords-and there is a widespread belief throughout the country that the senate IS q forum wherein monopoly and special priv Mege sit brazenly enthroned. There is, of course, a reason for this belief. and if such belief be we'll founded the time has arrived to apply a rem edy. Ia considering this question f. will be Illuminating to advert to reasons for the creation of the sen ate as given by some of the members of the Federal Constitutional conven- tion.
 This convention which wrote the Constitution of the United States, sat with closed doors; the votes were taken by states instead of by indi- viduals, in order 70 prevent the peO- ple from charging the individual mem hers with responsibility. No delegate was allowed to take notes, but fortu- nately for posterity James Madison (afterWards president )kept copious notes in a system of his own short hand which were published after his death and the death of every member Of the convention
 Governor Morris. a member of this Constitutional convention said:
 The senate ought to be composed Of men of great anu established prop erty IL should be composed of an aristocracy to keep down a turbulent democracy"
 And Governor Morris was the very man, who, as member of the com mittee on style and revision cunninglv inserted weasel words in the Consti- tutioh to curb the power of the people
 Tn the same convention Eldridge Gerry. said:
 The senate ought to De cOnsti- tuted as to provide a check in favor Of the commercial interests.
 This same Gerry, in speaking oi the people, once said:
 The Fcople-why, the people is great beast
 Tn this tsame Constitutional con vention MT Dickerson said:
 The senate should consist of char acters distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property. and it should bear a strong likeness to the British House Of Lords.
 In the same oonve ention Alr. Roger sherman said:
 The people immediately should have as little 10 do as may be about the government
 In the same convention Mir. Mason said.
 The one important object in con stituting the senate is to secure the