The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-09

upon ihemseives as the necessary. ANA
veii-ius.ided restraints upon apneli.
ana passion The man who would
destroy lhs Independent judiciary b..
cause he dislikes of diners from soiat
specIac indicia nding KS MAD as
MIN ho WoaId bis oa Sd
flre n order u improve As entila5
Hon.
sElth allstiIis the Republican pstty
must BE eveflastingiy ID war. We
are mot vet ready to substitute g69.
ernment BY men Of presumably gcod
intentions for government 81 law,
This contest within the party. and
this presidential election, mag decide
whether ourq government is to Be re-
publican Or cOssacR.
''But, II IFS said, the conatitat lon IS
made hi the eighteenth century by
men who lived under conditions long
since passed away. Therefore the
constitution IS outworn.e II must be
adjusted: the phrase now runs, 10
human rights. s3
What about the mpltiplieatioR
table! What about the Rule 81
Three? What about the law Of gray
itationa 2 Some Of these come down
to US from hoary antiquity Surely
they cannot be allowed to, pass nm
amended IN the. face ofsuch changed
conditions as now surround US. why
should the dead hand Of the Greeks
and Of the Arabs and Of Sir Isaac
Newton control our life and thought2
Let us be free and independent and
adjust our modes Of counting and Of
computation to the new economic
needs that surround usl Perhaps
those who invented the multiplication
table and the Rule OF Three never
heard Of a corporation with a thous-
and millions of capital! How could
the multiplication table and the Rule
of Three be expected to deal with a
lcondition such as that?
'The fact is that in the history 81
mankind some things, after long toll
and tdbulation, are settled once fol
all. They neither invite nor permit
amendment and Improvement. These
achievements taken together are
progress; they constitute progress;
they are the evidences of progress;
they are what the word progress.
means. To attack, to undermine, Of
to oyerturn them is not progress, bu
reaction.
"The fundamental principles which
underlie the constitution of the Uni
ted States are no straight-ja6ket init
which IA growing people is forced Il
its distress and harm. They ar,
rather a chart by which the ship .
state may sail safely out on new am
untried seas, certain that the danger
spots, are clearly marked and tn,
heavens accurately Indicated. Ties,
principles can never grow old; the,
are eserlastinly young and new ant
true. 2Al4
I'VE are today infested with polti
cal patent medicine men. tgnoffsaSnIt
of ordinary laws of political and 50.
eial growth, or defying them, theS
press upon US the odd and curious
nostrums of their own making which
are to cure our evils, to abolish poy.
erty, to do away with injustice, and
to bring about that happy and bliss.
full Utopia of which certain types Of
men with nothing useful to do ha-
bitually dream.
"Pious and oracular aphorisms arc
the stock in trade of the political pat
ent medicine man whose pursuit Of a
higher Office is SO compelling that he
cannot find time to attend to the dut-
les of the office which he already
holds. The plain discharge ofpresen,
duty does not seem likely to com
mend him sufficiently to larger and
more important constituency. Neither
the Senate of the United States nor
the governship of a sovereign state
offers adequate scope for his acti-
vitles and his genius. He must hurry
of, while public business waits, in
order that he may sound his own
praises and recite his own phrases to
the open-mouthed thousands who as
semple to greet so great man.
ut may perhaps be said that, how
ever misleading these political patent
medicine men may be. however igno-
rantsand however selfish the popular
demagagues of the day, yet they have
gained so large following that we
must listen to them and buy their
political patent medicine or else we
shall fail to carry the next presiden-
al ~. :