Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-21

people: 'You must begin oil over again.
Such a system Is not popular govern
ment. but a mere mockery OF popular
government. 1t is q system framed to
maintain and perpetuate social injustice,
and it can be defended only by those who
d tha@ ave in the ag people sfqa,d Th %u do a n95 t Wbd
have no real and living sympathy, with
them as they struggle for better things.
the th n will O. of - a mRa rSpHss Of the People, when
they have determined upon a remedy,
shall. II their will persists for a minimum
until it becomes a ruling force of life.
To propose as an alternative remedy
slight notifications of impeachment pro-
ceedings is to propose no remedy at all
it is to bid US be content with chaff when
we demand bread.
!, OF curse curse I Is plain Psa n epGGsh to lister. ZEE that 81
man may be. grouped about these fnree
terms. life, liberty and property" There
Is hro mo act within Fl Eoy tSeir eefn Wi1sh e eadn Il the be
courts are to cease to treat them as
words having a limited. specific meaning.
then our aha whole government 10 irrasnnns Il er supnr.
vision of judges. As against that kind or
a government 1 insist that the people
eovern me the rrget an' T San our os ' opponents Is
deny, and the Issue Is sharply drawn
between Us.
Not Leading Fight for Pleasure.
I am not leading this fight as q matter
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cause somebody must lead. or else the
fight would not be made at all.
I prefer TO work with moderate, with
rational conservatives, provided only that
they do in good faith strive forward 70,
ward the light. But when. they halt ana
turn their backs to the light and sit WIZ
the scorners on the seats of reaction, then
I must part company. with them. we, the
people, cannot turn back. Our aim must
be steady, wise progress 81 rsvo,ut,o, in
this country. but there is a grave discon-
tent and unrest. and in order to remove
and probity and deep-seated faith in and
purpose to uplift humanity we rave at
our command.
the hope of the world. the fate Of the
coming years; and shame and disgrace will
be ours II IN our eyes the light OF high
the golden hopes of men. II on this
new continent we merely build another
country of great but untustly divided ma
t9rial prosperity, we shall have done moth
ing, and we shall do as little If we merely
set the greed of envy against the greed
of arrogance., and thereby destroy the ma.
government either into government by a
plutocracy or government by a mob would
be to repeat on a larger scale the lamenta-
Bile failures of the world that Is dead.
Opposes all Tyranny.
We stand against all tyranny by the
few or by the many, We stand for the
rule of the many in the interest of all of
US, for a rule Of the many in a spirit Of
pose, above all in a spirit of kindly JUS
tice toward every man and every woman.
We not merely admit, but insist, that
there must be self-control on the part of
the people: that they must keenly per-
ceive their own duties, as well as the
rights Of others; but we also insist that
the people can do nothing unless they
not merely have, but exercise to the full,
their own rights.
The worth OF our great experiment de-
ponds upon it's being In good faith an
experiment-the first that has ever been
tried-in true. democracy on the scale of
a continent, on a scale as vast as that
of the mightiest empires of the old world.
Surely this is a noble ideal, an Ideal for
which it is worth while to strive, an ideal
for which at need it is worth while to
sacrifice much, for our ideal is the rule
of all the people in a spirit OF friendiiest
of the people.