The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-09
GOVERNOR WILSON'S
STATE IS INVADED

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seals broken and the history OF their
proceedings made public.
81 sometimes wonder IL the distin-
| guished gentlemen who are SO insist.
ent today upon overturning the re-
preventative Government which these
great statesmen gave us. and who
cry aloud so persistently for a re-
storation of popular government,
would be willing to undertake that
responsibility with the activities Of
the press agent similarly restricted
and the fascinating prospect of the
headlines entirely removed.
Did they do well-else why do We
celebrate? ! am one of hose who le.
lieve that from that good day until
now the flag whose birth we glorify
today has been the symbol of right
eousness, and never more so than on
this good day, February %, 1912.
But times have changed we are told,
and in the process of the suns we
have outgrown the ancient instru-
ment. We have progressed, and may
the Lord have mercy on his political
soul who is not Progressive. | be-
lieve few men in or out of politics
would be willing to admit they are
opposed to progress, but do believe
that 1t is a saying worthy Of prayer
full consideration that all change is
not progress.
81 am one of those who entertain
the belief. whether that faith be a
manifestation Of spirit progressive
or reactionary, that the people of this
Republic have not lost their capacity
for self.government, and that there
fore the men whom they have chosen
to places of high honor and great
responsibility in their Government
are honest, high purposed and patri-
otto. have been in public life long
time, and ! have been thrown in in
innate and constant association with
men of all parties and in all branches
Of the public service, and II is my de-
liberate judgment that the man who
is charged with the responsibility Of
office. and who, for sinister purposes
betrays his trust, Is one of the rare
products of our civilization ! say this
because thereby ! wish to express the
conviction which is in my heart that
representative government as estab-
lshed by the fathers and which has
stood the test of time and the shock
of war has not proven failure. II
we are to abandon this system now
and set up in its stead another, let
those who champion the change at
least cite us to the page of this wide
worlds history which tells the story
they would have us emulate AS for
my single self. | shall refuse to pre-
/ fer any system of government which
had been put to the test of time be.
fore this more perfect union was
formed, because there are no states
men of my generation who have had
better opportunities to study those
systems than had the farmers of our
Constitution. and there are none now
in whose judgment in matters have
greater faith than | have in Madison
and Hamilton and their fellows. The
citation must be to a page of the
history of the century just closed
page written side by side with the
history of our own national life, a
page which must crowd into 1870
years more that has made for human
liberty and human happiness than is
told in our own story.
"A few years ago one of the most
distinguished men of our time-at
that time President of the United
States-lamenting the hard conditions
of these times and casting about for
a prescription which would revitalize
the body polite, declared that what
we need is through Executive action,
through, legislation, and through
judicial Interpretation and construc-
ton of law, to increase the power OF
the Federal Government Not, you
will observe, by the orderly process
es pointed out by the Constitution,
which we are all sworn to support
and refend,, but by Executive action,
by legislation, and by judicial con.
struction' to increase the power of the
Federal Government. A short while
after this another distinguished gent.
leman-then the Secretary of State
announced that unless the States ex-
ercised the powers which were theirs