Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-15

depend on the momentary passions =
people necessarily indifferently In
formed as to the Issues presented, and
Without the opportunity for time and
study and that elaboration that gives
security and common sense to govern
fnent Of the people. such extremists
would hurry us into a condition which
could find no parallel except in the
French revolution. or in that bubbling
anarchy that once characterized the
South American republics.
POLITICAL EMor1oNALIsTs
"such extremists are not progressives,
they are political emotionaiists or
neuro tics. who have lost that sense OF
proportion, that clear and candid con-
sderation Of their own weakness as
whole. and that clear perception Of the
necessity for checks upon hasty popular
action which made our people, VINO
| fought the revolution and who drafted
the federal constitution. the greatest
self governing people that the world ever
knew.
"A review of the history OF this coun-
try, with the mutations In the personal
| fortunes of tho individuals that have
gone to make UP the people. Will show
! that never in the history of the world
has there been such equality of oppor-
tunity as in these United States, and
| IL has been secured by upholding nb
sacred the rights OF individual liberty
and the rights Of private property In
the guarantees OF the federal and State
constitutions.
at has been said, and II Is a common
platform expression, that It Is we'll to
prefer the man above the dollar as
| If the preservation of property rights
had some other purpose than the assist
ance To-, and the uplifting of, human
rights. Private property was not estab-
lshed in order to crafty the love OF
some for material wealth or capital It
was established as an instrumentalits
in the progress of civilization and the
uplifting OF man. and 1t Is equality of
opportunity that private property pro-
notes by assuring to man the results
of his own labor, thrift and self-re-
straint.
when. therefore, the demagogue
mounts the platform and announces
that he prefers the man above the dol
what he means thereby. whether he Is
institution of private property and OF
taking away from the poor man the
opportunity to become wealthy by the
use Of the abilities that God has given
him, the cultivation OF the virtues with
which practice of self-restraint ant
the exercise Of moral courage will for
tify him.
I'VE have permitted the establish
ment of corporations and the acquisi.
PARTY CORRECTING ABUSES.
ton of power through the corruptine
use Of money in politics, so as at times
to give to a few, dangerous control
in legislation and government; but dur.
ing the last 10 years much progress
against such abuses has been made in
this regard Statutes have been passed
notably the antitrust statute and the
interstate commerce law and its amend
ments. to restrain q misuse OF the privi-
Ieses conferred by charter The Repub-
tican party am very certain, as a nat
tional party. respecting as 1t does the
| constitution of the United States and
| the care with which the judicial clauses
OF that fundamental instrument were
urawn to secure the independence of
the judiciary. will never consent to an
statement Of that independence in the
slightest degree.
Inc Republican party has come to
recognize that high tariff duties en-
courage combinations Of capital by
suppressing competition to take adj
vantage in the domestic prices Charged
or the excessive rates OF duty. and
that there is much safer system
which limits the duties to the meas
ure OF the difference between the cost
OF production here and the cost of
production abroad than to the whole
saie system OF imposing high rates in
order to secure protection at the ex-
pense or everything else
The democrats" said Mr.. Taft in
conclusion. speak Of spirit Of IN.
rest everywhere: they don't describe
what that unrest depends upon. and
II they do, they don't tell how IL Is to
ne remedied or what legislation will
accomplish It," He declared that he
confidently relied upon an ultimate
verdict by the people in favor of the
OLD Republican party"