Weekly journal-miner., 1912-08-14

to it by long experience with the actual conditions of our political fife"
 The Courts and the People.
 Under this head MT. Roosevelt, strongly emphasizes the necessity of the sovereign people preserving a check on every branch of public service. Under this head Mir. Roose- welt reiterates his now well-known views regarding the courts. "Thc American people, and not the courts.
 are 10 determine their own funda-
 mental policies" This does rot
 mean that the people are to inter
 fere in cases which involve merely
 questions of justice between indi- yiduals except that means should
 be devised for making it easier than al present 10 get rid of an incom- potent judge" But when a judicial decision involves an interpretation of what the people mean by the consti
 tutions which they have framed and
 laws passed by the people are nulli-
 fed because the courts say those
 laws are contrary to the peoples
 will as expressed in their Constitu-
 ton, there must be a reference to
 the people of the public effect of
 such decisions under forms securing
 full dclibcration," to the end that
 the people may rectify this alleged
 defect in their Constitution by a pop
 ular vote having all the force of a
 Constitutional amendment Our
 purpose IS not to impugn the courts.
 but to emancipate them from posi-
 ton whenever they stand finally in
 the way of social justice. I
 am well aware that every upbolder
 of privilege, every hired agent or
 beneficiary of the special interests.
 including many well-meaning parlor
 reformcrs. will dcnouncc all this as | Socialism or 'anarchy'-the same
 terms they used in the past in de-
 nouncing the movements to control
 the railways and to control public propositions l make constitute ncith- CT anarchy nor Socialism. but, on the contrary. q corrective for So- cialism and an an,idote to anarchy
 Constructive Control of the Trusts In addition to punishment for
 wrong doing by the trusts, the i'm
 perative demand is effective and
 complete regulation. The views oI
 President Van Hise. of the Univer'
 siiy of Wisconsin. in his scientific
 work on trust regulation are in har mony with the program of the Ma tional Progressivcs "Thc prcsen conditions of business cannot be ae cepted as satisfactory" The reason for this is explained. in Mir. Roose
 velt's opinion. by the competition fol
 the commerce of the world. II should be remembered that they arr doing this on national scale ant with large units of business, whil' the Democrats would have us be ? ilicvc that we should do it with smal units of business, which would b. controlled, not by the National Gov , crnment. but by forty-ninc conflict i inc State sovereignties Such a pol f icy is utterly out oi keeping wit . the progress of the times and give i our great commercial rivals II Europe hungry for internationa v markets-golden opportunities q i which they are rapidly taking ad r vantage.
 . Social and Industrial Justice . to the Waoe-W Workers.
 . Referring to the opening sentenc i, of his address, namely. that we ar ' now in the midst of a great cco . homie revolution" Mir Rooseve
 presents an advanced and conpr' hepsive plan to insure the rights an f better conditions for labor II d gives it the paramount place in h 'i speech. "The first charge upon tf r industrial statesmanship. oi the day V he said, "is to prevent human wast < The dead weight of orphanagc an ii depleted craftsmanship, of cripple !" workers and workers suffering fro'
 trade diseases, of casual labor, insecure old age, and of househo :. depletion due to industrial condition ~ are. like our depleted soils. o' ls gashed mountain sides and foodt ', river bottoms, so many strains upc ~ ,be National structure. draining Il 'S reserve strength of all industrie ]. and showing beyond all peradventu :. inc public element and public CO N, cern in industrial health He pr ,,e posed several specihc methods U l, ii preserving and improving our n A. man resources, and therefore o II, labor power" Wage scales al ,'s other labor data should be ma' 9. public: all deaths. injuries, and ( a seases due to industrial operat'' 7. should be reported to the. autho .. ,;cs. wage commissions should ~ cs,abl;shcd in the Nation and Sta ts ,o dctermine the minimum wa s scale in different industries: the Fe 70 s,ai Government should invcstiga ny .,i industries with a view to esta " fishing standards of sanitation a 'e. safetv: there should be mine a ve factory inspection according ns standards fixed by inter state agr' ..dd ment or by the Federal Governme'