Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-08-09

CiSloH Oh ~ punt vi COuSIlJuIlOudl law
having been rendered by the highest
court capable of rendering 1t, shall
then be submitted to popular vote to
determine whether 1t ought to be sus-
tanned.
Again, the Democratic party in con-
gress and convention shows its desire
to weaken the courts by forbidding
the use Of the writ OF injunction
to protect a lawful business against
the destructive effect of secondary
boycott and by interposing jury In
contempt proceedings brought to en-.
force its order and DEGREES. These
provisions are really class legislation
designed to secure immunity for law
lessness in labor disputes on the part
Of the laborers, but operating much
more widely to paralyze the arm of
the court in cases which do not in
volve labor disputes at all. The hos
tility to the judiciary and the meas
ures to take away Its power and its
independence constitute the chief def
mite policy that can be fairly attribut-
ed to that class Of statesmen and re-
formers whose absorption and control
the Republican party escaped at Chi
cago and the Democratic party yield
ed to at Baltimore.
Such Innovations Rejected.
The Republican party, Mr.. Taft con-
tinued, stands for none of these in
novations. 1t refuses to make changes
simply for the purpose of making q
oh a nd
that in the change something benefi-
cial, underlined, will take place. The
Republican party believes in progress
along the lines upon which we have at
tained progress already.
The president then devoted some
time to a review of what has been ac-
complished during his administration,
including warm defense of the Payne
tariff bill. In conclusion he said:
l can not think that the American
people, after the scrutiny and educs-
tion of three-months' campaign, dur
ing which they will be able to see
through the fog of misrepresentation
and demagoguery, will fail to recog-
pize that the two great issues which
are here presented to them are, first.
whether we shall retain, on a sound
and permanent basis, our popular con-
stitutional representative form of gov
ernment, with the independence of
the judiciary as necessary key to the
preservation of those liberties that
are the inheritance of 1000 years, and,
second, whether we shall welcome
prosperity which is just at our door by
maintaining our present economic
business basis and by the encourage
ment of business expansion and prog
ress through legitimate use of cap
ital
Appeal to All Conservatives.
I know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
Democrats, who view, with the same
aversion that we Republicans do, the
radical propositions of change in our
form of government that are reckless
ly advanced to satisfy what Is sup
posed to be popular clamor. They are
men who revere the constitution and
the institutions of their government
with all the love and respect that we
could possibly have, men who depre-
cate disturbance in business condi-
tions, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which Is
essential to the enjoyment by the
whole people of the great prosperity
which the good crops and the present
conditions ought to bring to us. To
them l appeal, as to all Republicans,
to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic rev
olution and business paralysis which
Republican defeat will bring about.
Such misfortune will fall most heav.
lily on the wage Garner. May we not
hope that he will see what his real in
terest is, understand the shallowness
of attacks upon existing institutions
and deceitful promises of underlined
benefits by underlined changes?
May we not hope that the great ma.
jority of voters will be able to dis
tinguish between the substance of
performance and the fustian of prom
Use; that they may be able to see that
those who would deliberately stir up
Glscontent and create hostility toward
those who are conducting legitimate
business enterprises, and who repre-
sent the business progress of the coun-
try, are sowing dragons teeth? Who
are the people? They are not alone
the unfortunate and the weak they
are the weak and the strong, the poor
and the rich, and the many who are
neither, the wage Garner and the cap
Dlist, the farmer and the professional
fnan, the merchant and the manufac-
turer, the storekeeper and the clerk,
the railroad manager and the employe
they all make up the people and
they all contribute to the running OF
the government, and they have not
any of them given into the hands of
anyone the mandate to speak for them
as peculiarly the peoples representa-
tive. Especially does not he represent
them who, assuming that the people
are the unfortunate and discontented,
would stir them up against the re-
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