The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-31


forged only by law and by public opin
! ion operating through and operated upol
by law"
proposing No New Principles"
again, friends, do not forget tina
We are proposing no new principles, Thu
doctrines we preach reach back TO tn
golden rule and the sermon on thu
mount They reach back TO the com
mandments delivered at Sinai. All that
we are doing is 10 apply those doctrines
in the shape necessary TO make then
available for meeting the living issues
of our own day. We decline to be bound
by the empty little cut .and-dried formu.
las of by.gone philosophers, useful once
perhaps, but useless now. Our purpose
is 10 shackle greedy cunning as we
shackle brute force, and we are not to
be diverted from this purpose by the
past, We propose TO lift the burdens
from the lowly and the weary, from the
poor and the oppressed. We propose to
stand for the sacred rights of childhood
and womanhood. Nay, more, we propose
TO see that manhood is not crushed out
of the men who toll, by excessive hours
of labor, by under payment by injus-
tiee and oppression.
when this purpose can only be Sc
cured by the collective action Of our
people thpugh their governmental agen-
cies, we propose so to secure it. We
brush aside the arguments of those who
seek to bar action by the repetition of
some formula about states rights or
about the history of liberty being the
history of the limitation of government
al power or about the duty of the
courts finally to determine the meaning
OF the constitution. We are for human
rights, and we intend to work for them
in efficient fashion. Where they can
be best obtained by the application of
the doctrines of states rights, then we
are for states rights Where, in order
to obtain them, it is necessary to in
woke the power of the nation, then we
shall invoke to its uttermost limits that
mighty power. We are for liberty. But
we are for the liberty of the oppressed
and not for the liberty of the oppressor
to Cypress the weak and to bind bur
dens on the shoulders Of the heavy
laden 1t is idle to ask us not to exer-
else the power of the government, when
can we curb the greed that sits in high
places, when only by the exercise of the
government can we exalt the lowly and
give heart 10 the humble and the down
trodden.
"For Deeds, Not Words"
I'VE care for facts and not for formu-
las. We care for deeds and not for
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Of oppression. We recognize no divine !
right to work injustice. We stand for
the constitution. We recognize that one
OF its most useful functions is the pro-
lection of property. But We win not
consent to make of the constitution a
fetish for the protection of fossilized |
wrong We call the attention OF those
who thus interpret it to the fact that
IN that great instrument of justice, life
and liberty are put on a full level with
property, indeed are enumerated ahead
II il in the order of their importance.
1--WE stand for an upright judiciary 4
But where the judges claim the right
% make our laws by finally interpret
ny them, by finally deciding whether or
rot we have the power to make them,
hen We claim the right ourselves to ex-
rcise that power. We forbid any men,
10 matter what their official position
nay be, to usurp the right which il ours.
he right which is the peoples. We ,
ecognize in neither court nor Congress {
or president any divine right to over {
ide the win of the people expressed j
With due deliberation in orderly fashion a
nd through the forms of law. We Pro- i
ressiyes hold that the words OF the ,
eelaration of independence, as given eff :
ect by Washington, and as construed d
nd applied by Abraham Lincoln, are I
D be accepted as real and not as empty i
hrases. We believe that in very truth a
MS is government by the people them v
alves, that the constitution is theirs, I
nat the courts are theirs, that all the 1
DETRIMENTAL agents and agencies are
heirs. We believe that all true leaders f
the people must fearlessly stand for "
ghteousness and honesty, must fear u
ssly tell the people what justice and n
)nor demand But we no less strongly n
sist that it is for the people them n
Ives finally to decide all questions of o.
lblic policy and TO have their decision II
AIDE effective. t,
Can Keep All Promises. q
"In the platform formulated by tho -
rogressive party, we have set forth -
early and specifically our faith in every : !
tai point at issue before this people. :,
e have declared our position on the =,
usts and on the tariff, on the machin =,
Y for securing genuine popular gov =,
nment: on the method of meeting the i