The Calumet news., 1912-08-06

I but their rank dishonesty OF action az
I the Chicago convention makes their
every promise worthless" II Is hope
/ less 10 turn 10 the Democratic party
for relief. because, first. the Democrat
ic party Affects 20 find the entire
high cost Of living I'm the tariff" ig-
roring the patent fact that the prob
lem is world wide. equally pressing In
iIee- trade England and In highly pro-
tccted Germany Moreover. II the
Democgats are sincere. they must take
all duties off the products OF the farm
er. and we certainly cannot afford 10
have the farmer struck down" Vari-
Gus elements. economic. political and
social, are pointed out by Mr.. Roose-
Welt as contributing TO the high cost
of living. But effective legislation re-
garding II can only be framed on a
comprehensive scale after thorough.
scientific, and PROMPT inquiry
In Conclusion.
I'm summing up the specific politics
expounded in his address Mr.. Roose-
Welt spoke as follows:
'Now. frIends. this Is my confession
of faith. ! have made IL rather long
because / wish you 10 know just what
my deepest convictions are on the
great questions OF today. so that II
you choose To make me your stand
ard-bearer IN the fight, you shall make
your choice understanding exactly how
! feel-and IT, after hearing me- You
think you ought 10 choose some one
else. shall Loyalty abide your choice.
The convictions TO which ! have come
have not been arrived at as the result
of study I'm the closet or the library,
hut from the knowledge I have gained
through hard experience during the
many years in which,. under many and
varied conditions, I have striven and
toiled with men. ] believe I'm a larger
use of the governmental power 10 help
remedy industrial wrongs. because II
has been borne i'm on me by actual ex-
perience that without the exercise OF
such power many of the wrongs will
go unremedied / believe I'm q larger
opportunity for the people themselves
directly TO participate in government
and to control their governmental
agents. because long experience has
taught me that without such control
many Of their agents will represent
them badly. BY actual experience I'm
Office I have found that. as rule.
could secure the triumph OF the causes
r which I most believed. not from
the politicians and the men who claim
an exceptional right TO speak in busi-
ness and government. but by going
over their heads and appealing direct
~ 10 the people themselves. am not
under the slightest delusion as TO any
power that during my political career
I have at any time possessed. What
ever Of power ] at any time had.
obtained from the people. I could ex-
ercise IL only so long as. and TO the ex-
tent that, the people not merely be-
lieved in me- but heartily backed me
up. Whatever I did as president was
able 70 do only because ] had the
backing of the people When on any
point / did not have that backing.
when on any point differed from the
people II mattered not whether / was
right or whether was wrong, my
power vanished. I tried my best 10
lead the people. TO advise them. 10
tell them what | thought was right; II
necessary. I never hesitated To tell
them what I thought they ought To
hear. oven though ! thought II would
be unpleasant for them to hear 1t;
but / recognized that my task was to
try 10 lead them and not to drive
them. to take them into my confidence.
Ia try to show them that / was right.
and then Loyalty and in good faith TO
accept their decision. will do any
thing for the people except what my
conscience tells me is wrong. and that
can 90 for no man and no set OF
men: I hold that man cannot serve
the people well unless he serves his
conscience: but hold also that where
his conscience bids him refuse TO do
what the people desire. he should not
try to continue in Office against their
will. our government system should
be so shaped that the public servant.
when he cannot conscientiously carry
out the wishes of the people shall at
their desire leave his office and not
misrepresent them I'm office; and l hold
that the public servant can by SO do
ing. better than in any other way,
serve both them and his conscience.
"Surely there never was a fight bet
ter worth making than the one i'm
which We are engaged. 1t little mat
ters what befalls any one of us who
for the time being stand in the fore
front Of the battle. I hope we shall
win, and / bleve that if we can wake
the people to what the fight really
means we shall win. But win or lose,
we shall not falter. Whatever fate may
at the moment overtake any of us.
the movement itself will not stop. our
cause is based on the eternal prinoi-
pies of righteousness; and even though
we who now lead may for the time
fail, In the end the cause itself shall
triumph. six weeks ago. here in Chi
cago, I spoke To the honest representa-
tives of convention which was not
nominated by honest men; a conven-
tion wherein sat. alas, n majority of
men who, with sneering indifference
to every principle Of right, so acted