The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-01

ident launched into bitter attack upoi
those responsible for the popular un
rest of the present day.
'.Started by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muckrak
ing he said, "demagogues have seize'
the opportunity to inhame the publi
mind that they might turn peculiar con
ditions to their own advantage" In tn,
| formation of new parties, the presiden
said, these men have promised the salts
faction of unrest by the application o
. panacea.
The ultimate analysis, | fear, the equa
opportunity which those seek who pro
claim the so-called social justice, in
wolves forced division of property, ant
that means socialism. | venture to say
there is no national administration il
which more real steps of progress have
been taken than in the present one. But
as for the millennium, a condition in
| which the rich are to be made reasonably
poor and the poor reasonably rich by
law, we are chasing a phantom; we are
| holding out to those whose unrest we
| fear a prospect and dream, vision
OF the impossible.
II do not say that the two gentlemen
who now lead one the Democratic party
and the other the former Republicans
who have left their party, in their at
taeks upon existing conditions, and in
their attempts TO satisfy the popular
unrest by promises of remedies, are con-
sciously embracing socialism. The truth
is that they do not offer any definite
legislation or policy by which the happy
conditions they promise are TO be
brought about, but if their promises
mean anything, they lead directly
toward the appropriation of what be-
longs to one man, to another,
''The truth is, my friends, both those
who have left the Republican leader
under the inspiration of their present
leader, and our old opponents, the Demo
Gratis, under their candidate, are going
in direction they do not definitely
know, toward an end they cannot def
nitely describe, with but one chief and
clear object and that is cf acquiring
power for their party by popular sup
port through the promise of a change for
the better.
These gentlemen propose to reform
the government, whose present defects,
II any, are due to the failure of the
people to devote as. much time as is
necessary to their political duties, by re-
quiring a political activity by the people
three times that which thus far the peo-
pie have been willing to assume.
But after we have changed all the
governmental machinery so as to permit
expression of the people
in constitutional amendments, in stat
'ltes and in recall OF public agents, what
then?
Votes are not bread, constitutional
amendments are not work, referendums
do not pay rent or furnish houses, re.
calls do not furnish clothing, initiatives
10 not supply employment or relieve
OF condition or of opportun.
ity. We still ought to have set before
us the definite plans to bring on com
plete equality Of opportunity and to
abolish hardship and evil for humanity.
We listen for them in vain"
The president discussed at some length |
the recall of judges and judicial deci- |
'ions and the proposals to forbid the
Use of injunctions to protect property |
against a secondary boycott and the use |
# juries in contempt proceedings /
brought TO enforce DEGREES or orders. The
'ecall Of decisions he labeled the gro.
esque proposition by the leader of for
ner Republicans who have left their
,arty."
THE Republican party" concluded the
PRESIDENT, Stands for none Of these inno-
'ations. II refuses to make changes sim
'ly for the purpose of making change
nd cultivating popular hope that in the
hange something beneficial, underlined.
will take place. We favor the greatest
'ood to the greatest number We be-
ieve that we have made progress from
he beginning to now and that the prog
ess is to continue into the far future;
hat it is reasonable progress that ex-
erience has shown TO be really useful
nd helpful. and from which there is no
eaction to something worse. 1t is said
hat this is not an issue in the cam
aign 1t seems to me it is the supreme
ssue."