Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-02
OEMAGOCUES CAUSE OF THE UNREST
President Taft Drives Truth Home in Speech Accepting No- nation For the Presidency-Other Parties Offer No
 Definite Policy Remedy Present Conditions But Seek Support Through Promise of Change For the Better.

of profound gratitude at the victory for the right won at Chicago. By that victory the republican party was saved for future usefulness"
 Demaqogues lnflaming Public Mind.
 After reviewing the legislative en- actments of the republican party the president launched into bitter attack upon those responsible for the popular unrest" of the present day.
 Started by sensational journalism and unjust and unprincipled mhckrak- ing" he said, "demagogues have seized the opportunity to inflame the public mind that they might turn peculiar conditions to their own advantage" In the formation of new parties, the pres ident said, these men have promised the satisfaction of unrest by the appli- cation of a panacea.
 K It Means Socialism.
 '-The ultimate anolysis," I fear, the equal opportunity which those seek who proclaim the so- called social jus tice, involves a forced division of property and that means socialism. venture to say there is no national ad- mtnistration in which more real steps of progress have been taken then in the present one But as for the millen-
 
 are to be made reasonably poor and the poor reasonably rich by law we are chasing a phantom; we are holding out to those whose unrest ave fear a prospect and dream 8 vi4on of the impossible.
 Offer No Definite Policy.
 T do not say that the two gentle men who now lead, one the democratic TrQ "a nf na h hcans who have left their party, in their attacks upon existing conditions, and in their attempts to satisfy the popular unrest by promises of reme- 1 dies are consciously embracing social ism. 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 If their promises mean anything they lead directly toward the appropriation of what belongs to one man to an- other.
 ''The truth is, my friends, both those who have left the republican party under the inspiration of thei1 present leader, and our old opponents, the democrats, under their candidate, | are going in a direction they do not definitely know, toward an end they cannot 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 @ change for the better. People Lax in Political Duties. ] These gentlemen propose to reform the government, whose present defects, if any. are due to the failure of the l people to devote as much time as is necessary to their political duties, by requiring political activity by the people three times that which thus far the people have been willing to as- sume
 But after we have changed all the governmental machinery so as to per-
 init instantaneous expression of the 1 people in constitutional amendments in statutes and in recall of public agents, what then?''
 Favor Greatest Good to Greatest Num- l her.
 The president discussed at some length the recall of judges and judi 1 c1al decisions and the proposals to for bid the use of injunctions or protect property against a secondary boycott and the use of turies in contempt pro- ceed1ngs brought to enforce decrees o1 orders. The recall of decisions he la- \ Deled the 'grotesque proposition by the leader of former republicans who have left their party."
 The republican party" concluded the president, stands for none of these : innovations. It refuses to make changes simply for the purpose of ! making change and cultivating pop ular hope that in the change some thing beneficial, underlined, will take place. We favor the greatest good to the greatest number We believe that we have made progress from the be- g1nning to now and that the progress IS to continue into the far future; that 1t is reasonable progress that exneri- ence has shown to be really useful and helpful, and from which there is no re- action to something worse. It is said that this is not an issue in the cam paign. It seems to me it is the su- preme issue"