Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-28

Foreign representatives: Cone, Lor-
Chicago; 225 Fifth Ave-, New YORK
City.
RECALL As A MENACE.
DIR. John Wesley Hill, the eminent
New York pulpit orator, made telling
argument in an address at Chicago last
night against the recall of judges and
the initiative and referendum as pro.
posed by Colonel Roosevelt. OF the
recall DR.. Hill said: 3
II an oface-holder is not acceptable
to al the people Is per cent of the
voters may institute a proceeding Tor
the recall, and when it Is invoked the
man whom they have elected to an Of
ficei Is permitted either to resign in five
days or to defend himself in 200 words
upon q proceeding which involves his
character and reputation for all time
to come. 1t rarely happens that there
is an election in which the defeated
candidate does not receive rs per cent
of the vote and often nearly one-half
OF it.. Therefore. it would not be diff
flcult for him to initiate recall and
practically procure another election.
The constitution has provided for the
recall of every unworthy public SER
want, and this in the rotation of Office.
The power Of recall is thus lodged in
the hands Of the people, but 1t cannot
be constantly employed. It can only
be brought into requisition at the ex-
piration of the Official term. 1t is not
dif1cult to see what would have hap
pened had the principle of the recall
prevailed throughout our national his
tory. George Washington would have
been recalled during the = Genet
episode; James Madison would have
been recalled in the midst of the agita-
ton that led to the war of 1872; Abra-
ham Lincoln would certainly have been
recalled during those dark days from
1862 to 1863, and with that recall the
union would have been irreparably de-
stroyed. *.
Some OF you older men remember
the abuse hurled in the face of that
quiet, patient and unpretentious man.
you remember how he was cartooned
a. & gorilla and caricatured as buff
foon.t Yes, and you remember how he
{. took up his one day and wrote, III u
were to read, much less answer all
the charges against me, this shop
would be permanently closed Grover
Cleveland would have been recalled by
an overwhelming vote in the summer
of 1893 when he was fighting for a
sound financial policy; William Nc
Kinley probably would have been re-
called at the outbreak of the Spanish
American war when he was accused
OF subserviency to Wall street. The
trainers ~ the constitution recognized
that tire should be no, power capable
Of swerving Judge from the delibera-
ton Of his honest convictions, no
threat OF personal loss, no promise Of
reward, which could be held over him,
either as bride or bludgeon to influence
his opinion"
The initiative and referendum was
characterized by DR.. Hill as an effort
to put into the form Of law a remedy
OF the moment, to substitute lawmak-
ing by impulse for lawmaking by
Judgment, to set up govern
ment by first thought for government
by second thought, to enthrone passion
and to dethrone consideration and
deliberate judgment. He continued:
Factories cannot be built upon a
thirty day basis; railroads cannot be
conducted upon the initiative, refer
endum and recall program; vast bust
ness undertakings are impossible in
the absence of knowledge of the i'm
mediate future The business men of
this country cannot adopt the French
milliner as a model. That creative
genius devotes her time to the styles
of the seasons. She goes into seclu-
sion. and by some process of integral
calculus or special spectrum analysis
she discovers that the plume that
pointed toward the horizon in winter
should point toward the zenith in the
spring, and as the result, our Ameri-
can women are paying hundreds of
thousands of dollars for the attitude
OF feather. That ,moled, however,
will not do for the substantial busi-
ness interests of the country.
'The campaign Of business is not
bounded by the changing seasons. It
is year in and year out, but the decade
and the century. The same principle
is applicable to the interests of the
workingman. What affects the en-
ployer affects the employee. The in
.erests Of capital and labor are iden-
Acal. What the toilers of this coun-
cry need most of all is the assurance
OF work. This can only be by freedom
from disturbance by special class legis-
lation. What the country needs is less
and not more, legislation.
1.-THE toilers of this country cannot
afford to be experimental upon. The
workingman has not as many lives as
q cat. He has but one life, and he can
not change it at the bidding Of re-
publican, democrat or socialist. He
cannot master trade through the
stimulating effect Of one law, and
abandon it through the paralyzing
operation of another. He wants uni
formity Of legislation and permanence
of policy in the administration of the
government and the business condi-
tions Of the country; and then, with
aaprana indnctrx ecnnomy and hirh