Arizona republican., 1912-02-22
ROOSEVELT |S STILL
 "AGIH' BIG BUSINESS
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 in public or in private life hohs position of leadership in thought or action. to arnestly and fearlcssly en- deavor to guide his fellow country men to right decisions; hut I emphat- ically dissent from the view that it is either wise or necessary to try to de- wise methods which under the consti- tuition will automatically prevent the people from deciding for themselves what governmental action they deem just and proper.
 It is impossible to invent cOnstitu
 tiOnal devices which will prevent the popular will 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 But it is a false constitu
 tionalism. a false statesmanship. to. endeavor by the exercise of a pervert- ed ingenuity to seem to give the peo- pie full power and at the same time to trick them out of it.
 Yet this is precisely what is done in every case where the state permits it's representatives whether on the bnch or in the legislature or in exec utive office to declare that it has not the power to right grave social wrongs. or that any of the officers created by the people, ana rightfully
 the servants of the people, can set themselves up to be the masters of he people. Constitution makers should make it clear beyond the shad-
 ow of a doubt that the people in their legislative capacity have the power to enact into law any measure they deem necessary for the betterment of social and industrial conditions.
 T hold that he is the real progress sive that he is the genuine champion | of the people, who enieavors to shape ! the policy alike of the nation and of ! the several states so as to encourage legitimate and honest business at the | same time that he wars against all crookedness and injustice and unfair ness and tyranny in the business world This is the reason why l have | for so many years insisted as regards | our national government. that it is | both futile and mischievOus to endeaV- ] or to correct the evils of big business | by an attempt to restore business con- | iitions as they were in the middle of | the last century. before railways and l telegraphs had rendered larger busi- | ness organizations both inevitable and | desirable.
 The effort to restore such condi- I
 to such proposed restoration, is as l foolish as if We should attempt to arm | our troops with the flintlOcks of l WashingtOns continentals instead of | modern weapons of precision. Flint | lock legislation, of the kind that seeks | to prohibit all combinations, good or | bad. is bound to fail, and the effort. in | so far as it accomplishes anything at | all merely means that some of the 1 worst combinations are not checked l and that honest business is checked.
 What is needed is first, the recog- | nition that modern business condi-
 tions have come to stay, in so far at | least, as these conditions mean that 1 business must be done in larger units, 1 and then the cOol-headed and resolute | determination to introduce an effec- | tive method of regulating big cOrpo-
 rations so as to help legitimate busi-
 ness as an incident to thoroughly and
 completely safeguarding the interests
 of the people as a whole.
 50 much for the ends of govern
 ment and I have. of course, merely | sketched in outline what the ends 1 should be- Now, for the machinery | bv which these ends are to be | achieved: and here again remember l
 only sketch in outline and do not for
 a moment pretend to work out in de | tail the methods of achieving your
 purposes.
 Tn the first place, I believe in the
 short ballot. You cannot get good service from the public servant If
 you cannot see him, and there is no i more effective way of hiding him than by mixing him up with multitude
 of others so that they are none Of
 them important enough to catch the
 eye of the average, work day citi-
 zen. The crook in public fife is not
 ordinarily the man whom the people themselves elect directly to a highly important and responsible position The professional politician and the ; professional lobbyist thrive most
 rankly under a system which pro- vide,S multitude of elective offices ot } such divided responsibility and of sucl