The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-03-29

Gus obstacles that they have encoun-
tered during the many years that they
have been trying to save American
women and children from destruction
In American industry have been tho
courts. That is the judgment OF al
most all the social workers l know
and OF dozens OF parish priests and
clergymen and OF every executive and
legislator who has been seriously at
tempting to use the government as an
agency for social and Industrial bet
terment What Is the result of this
system OF judicial notification? 1t
was accurately stated by the court
Of appeals, New York, in the employ
ers' liability case, where it was calmly
and judicially declared that the peo-
pie under our republican government
are less free to correct the evils that
Cypress them than are the people OF
the monarchies of Europe. To any
man with vision, to any man with
broad and real social sympathies, to
any man who believes with all his
heart in this great democratic re-
public OF ours, such condition is in
tolerable. 1t is not government by the
people, but mere sham government in
which the will of the people is con-
stantly defeated. 1t is out of this ex-
perience that my remedy has come.
and let 1t be tried In this field.
When as the result of years of edu-
cation and debate a majority of the
people have decided upon a remedy
for an evil from which they suffer
and have chosen legislature, legis-
lature pledged to embody that remedy
in law, and the law has been finally
passed and approved, | regard it as
monstrous that a bench of judges
shall then say to the people: you
must begin all over again. First,
amend your constitution (Which will
take four years.; second, secure the
passage of a new law (Which will take
| two years more); third, carry that
new law over its weary course OF liti.
cation, which will take no human be-
/ ing knows how long; fourth, submit
| the whole matter over again to the
| very same judges who have rendered
! the decision to which you object.
| Then, if your patience holds out and
yOu Audlly pISNdll, lHS Will VI lie Ild-
| jority of the people may have its way"
Such system is not popular govern.
ment, but mere mockery Of popular
| government.
The decisions OF which we complain
are, as rule, based upon the con-
stitutional provision that no person
shall be deprived of life, liberty or
property without due process of law.
The terms life. liberty and property"
have been used in the constitutions
| of the English speaking people since
Magma Charta. Until within the last
| sixty years they were treated as hav-
| ing specific meanings" property
means tangible property; Liberty
meant freedom from personal re-
straint, or in other words, from i'm
| prisonment in it's largest definition.
| About 1870 our courts began to attach
| to these terms new meaning. Now
property, has come to mean every
right OF value which person could
enjoy, and liberty has been made
| to include the right to make contracts.
AS result, when the state limits the
hours for which women may labor, 1t
| is told by the courts that this law de-
prives them of their liberty" and
| when it restricts the manufacture of
tobacco in a tenement it is told that
the law deprives the landlord of his
property. Now, do not believe that
any people. and especially our free
American people, will long consent
that the term liberty" shall be de-
| e. ~ -
Every people has defined that term
for itself in the course of its develop
ment.
The Task 10 To Strive For Justice.
Friends, our task as Americans is
to strive for social and industrial just
ice, achieved through. the genuine rule
of the people. This is our end, our
purpose The methods for achieving
! the end are merely expedients to be
finally accepted or rejected according
| as actual experience shows that they
work well or i'll. But, in our hearts
we must have this lofty purpose, and
we must strive for 1t in all earnest
ness and sincerity or our work will
come to nothing. In order to succeed
we need leaders of inspired idealism,
leaders to whom are granted great
visions, who dream greatly and strive
to make their dreams come true, who
| can kindle the people with the fire
from their own burning souls The
leader, for the time being, whoever
he may be. is but an instrument to be
used until broken and then to be cast
aside, and il he is worth his salt he
will care no moro when he is broken
than a soldier cares when he 10 sent
where his life IL forfeited in order
that the victory may be won. In the
long fight for righteousness the watch
word for all of us is spend and be
spent 1t is of little matter whether
any one man fails or succeeds, but
the cause shall not fail, for 1t is the
cause OF mankind. We, here in Amer
lea. hold in our hands the hope OF the
World the fate OF the coming years,