Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-09

departments OF the government are
controlled by special and material In
terests: and mat the people. whose
government L n. have no longer any
voice In its Management. ~ these
statements we're made Of the govern
ment Of Russia In the seventeenth
century, or Of the government Of
china under the Manchu kings, or Of
the government OF an unreformcd
Turkey. they would neither surprise
nor alarm us. hut they are made
Of the government OF the United
States. These sinteinents are 20 pre-
posterous 80 contrary 20 recorded
and demonstrated fact. and Intrinsic
ally so absurd. that unless we were
constantIy hearing and reading them
we might have difficulty In persuade
Ing ourselves that they are really
made.
These extraordinary statements
appear 60 mean. 80 far as they mean
anything intolligible. either that the
American people are incompetent for
asif-Eovernmcnt. or that they have
created a governmental machinery
which. while IN form under popular
control. Is really managed by private
and special interests. Examine for q
moment these alternatives. n the
American people are Incompetent for
self. government. then Il can make
little difference what program we
propose or what candidates we adopt.
sooner or later a people incompetent
for self-gOyernment will pass under
the heel Of n despot. where they be-
long.
p"It appears. on farther Inquiry.
that what Is really meant IN that
representative government and rep
resentative institutions are failure,
and that they must be swept aside 90
make way for direct democracy.
In particular. Il appears that the
most characteristic and beneflcent ct
American Institutions. the independ-
cnt judiciary charged with the inter-
probation OF the law and with the
safeguarding OF constitutional limlta-
tous Is now regarded as a harmful
check upon The peoples VIII and a.
an obstacle Co. tbs. free dnd pro-
sressive social and political develop
ment.
~ this vehement denunclatiOn Of
our government and OF our courts Is
one-half true, then the Republican
party should get down on It's knees
and apologize to the people OF this
country FOR having three times de-
feated SO far-slghted a man as Mr..
Bryan for the presidency OF the
United states.
What these revolutionary elements
OF the population most dislike Is the
L. ~
government IL sort OF glorified
lynching. before which the achieve
ments at Springfield. H., or at
Coatesyille. Pa. would fade into In
significance. Any judicial officer
who. In obedience to his oath. ven
lures 20 declare the law to be some
thing which In out OF agreement with
their preHent-day prepossessions, pref
udices. emotions or desires. becomes
tyrant who should be dashed from
his place on the bench by the pro-
fouudly wicked fundamentally of the
recall OF judges.
1T is forgotten, apparently, that q
Judge declares the law. but does not
make q. and that In declaring the
law he iE executing the peoples high
lost and most mature Will. In SO
doing he l. not imposing anything
upon the people save what they have
imposed upon themselves as the nee
essary and well-justlfied restraint
upon appetite ana passion. The man
who would destroy the Independent
! judiciary because he disllkes or diff
fcrs from some specific judicial find
! ing ls as mad as q man who would
set his house on fire In order 10 inn
prove SIS ventilation.
with all this The Republican party
must be everlastlngly at war. We
are not yet ready to substitute gov-
ornment By men OF presumably good
intentions for government by law,
This contest within the party. and
this presidential election, may decide
whether our government Is to be re-
publican OF Cossack.
but, II Is said. the constitution was
made IN the eighteenth century by
men who lived under conditions Ions
since passed away. Therefore. the
constitution Is outWOrn. II must be-
adjusted. the phrase now runs. 10
human rights.
what about the multiplication
table? What about ihe Rule OF
Throeg What about the law OF gray
itati0nG Somo OF these come dowr
To us from hoary antiquity. surely
they cannot be allowed 20 pass I'M
amended IN the face OF such changed
conditions as now surround usl Whs
should the dead hand of the Greeks
and OF the Arabs and OF Sir Isaac
Newton control our life and thought
Let us be free and independent and
adjust our modes OF counting and Of
computation 20 the new economic
needs that surround u.s. Perhap'
those who invented the multiplication
table and the Rule OF Three newell
heard of n corporation with thou
sand millions Of eapitnli How couie
the multiplication table and the knl'
OF Three be expected 20 deal with
condition such as hiatt
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