The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

means simply government by the
bosses. This is what government OF
Americans by representative Grass as
of Americans means. Thanks to the
very bosses in question. thanks TO the
REPRESENTATIVES of political and finan-
cial privilege and even, l am sorry 70
say. to a proportion OF Judiciai oI1esI 3,
we have in actual experience had TINS
kind of government which the presl-
dent upho1ds in many parts OF our
country and it has not been saels-
factory experiment
president, gentlement like senator
Penrose, Senator Ballinger, MT.
Barnes, Mr.. Mckinley, Mr- Islw. -, ,
and their associates are preciseay liz ,,
men who under the presidents theory
would he. as they to a certain degree
already are the representative parL y
the people which governs sne os1i,,
the people-and which does not Lee..lS
represent them at all, put Inisl ,. Pr
senfs them. The presidents scneme
would be q government of the peopiee..
for the people by the posses an ~ a
would make little difference 70 tn
people whether the bosses $3.50
through boss controlled legislatures
or through boss nominated ana pIlVl-
1ege ridden courts.
stands by Lincoln.
LAS against this theory OF gose e,.4n
ment we adhere to the theory So ~ -
Nv lincoln. We hold that all the PEG
Me are to govern themselves by cnoos-
ing some of their number, not 20 So
err them in the sense of ruling them,
but to manage their government Ao-
them as they themselves decree. h,.n
sThis is a fundamental difference when
exnlains why in so many matleFs liso
urogressives do not feel fnat tilo y 80,
dent, however good ms lh Ignr., f,,n5a-
properly represent them. HOW Luiiu ~
mental the difference is was snow 2a,,s.s
the presidents selection OF -,.elras
birthday as an occasion 1or crltlS .1,.t nc
did-the men who proclaim the SnippoiSIn
of the man before the dollar. rms cLaet
cism was peculiarly infelicitous on SUI -,
an occasion for it was Lincoln WIZ -
Apr. g. 1859 wrote to the Jefferson dlnner
committee of Boston saying thaL tne oe
tenders of slavery hold the hDelty =.
one man to be absolutely nothing when IN
conflict with another mans right or prop
erty: Republicans on the contrary, as lo1
both for the man and the dollar, put III
case of conflict the man before the uoi-
lar was Lincoln demagogue? In TINS
country conflicts between human llEnsS
and the rights of privilege masqueraoils
as property rights do frequently a1. 1
and such conflicts are occurring at the
present time. In these conflicts we put
the man above the dollar and we are IN
affected by the position OF those VINO, as
we think unwisely sheer at us for tax
ing such a position. We hear much tax
today among the defenders OF privilege or
fear lest there shall be confiscat1on or
property, meaning thereby confscatlon OF
private property to public use.
There Is No Danger.
'.As matter of fact there is no danger
of such confiscation.
'eThe danger is the appropriation OF
public property to private use with the
connivance of the lax or unfa1thful trus-
tees whom the people elect to protect
their interest-these trustees being that
representative part of the people whom
the president says should by right gov
ern the rest of the people.
''State-made titles to public property
filched with the ignorant or corrupt
acquiescence of the trustees in question
are made the instruments by which real
man-made property is taken from those
people may be permitted to use for their
exclusive benefit property which of right
should be used for the benefit of ALL We
have seen the wrong in this
and have pledged ourselves to its undo
ing''
Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his now well
known arguments of the right of the peo-
pie to recall decisions of the state courts, |
declaring that in no other English speak |
ing country or in France and Germany |
were Judges given such power as in the |
American state courts. 1t is idle folly to |
say that this is an attack on our consti- |
tuition, he declared ION the contrary, |
it is a proposal to save our constitutional |
system. The people of this country Will |
not remain attached to the government |
and the laws unless they are taken into |
the confidence of the man to whom they |
have delegated the management of the |
government and unless they know that |
they themselves ultimately decided how |
they themselves are to be governed.
Remember always that 1 am not |
speaking of ordinary cases of justice be- |
tween man and man. 1 am not asking |
that the remedy be applied to the federal |
courts. I am speaking only to the pow |
ers that within the last century have |
been assumed by American state COURTS