The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-26
Dangers Of Recall.

ment in the form Of referendum and
recall He sees all manner Of evil signs
developing from the recall OF judges,
ESPECIALLY when he is banqueting with
members OF the bar The President is
stirred up over the subject. His very
soul rccoils at the pitfalls and iniquities
Of she recall He is virtuously indig.
nant at such demagogy The SENSIBLE
tiles Of Pecksniff were never 50 offended
at such Ala outrage. The people Of the
United States. the greatest civilized
nation on earth, are not capable OF self.
government. That is what the Presi-
dent says 0nr boosted American free
dom Is asaaistake. GU President las
come to this conclusion
Shades Of Concord aud Bunker Hill,
are We going back To Cesar President
Taft; whose salary Is Si00, 600 switii
perquisites Of $500. 600 more and travel
ing expenses of $25, 900. year; Champ
Clark voting to increase the pension
roll with All additional expenditure 81
$50, 0O0, 900 year; Democrats and
Republicans alike voting to increase
appropriations, TO enlarge the pork
barrel the Executive Department en-
tertaining the public with burIesque
on trust busting; and last but not least
Postmaster General Hitchcock recon-
mending to Congress The purchase OF
81 telegraph and telephone lines.
All Of these things when an appeal
has been made in lie name Of economy
and intelligence lin the interest Of the
people and in the name Of justice for
reduction Of tariff duties on the me-
cesslties Of lifean appeal for relief
from the tariff-protected trusts
What an anomaly
II the people Of the United States are
not capable Of seli-goyernment who are
these critics that they should sit in
Judgment upon the wisdom OF the peo-
pie. Are they capable Of filling the
office Of beadle. A reduction OF the
tariff demanded by the people Of the
United States and Congress multiplying
expenditures hundred fold. An addi-
tional expenditure Of $75, GOO, 000 a year
iorpensions fifty years after the war; half
Il million year for Presidents serv-
ices; $4,000, 0oO, 600 for the ownership
Of telegraph and telephone lines. Who
is capable Of popular government the
President, Congress Or The people.
Nobody ready 20 reduce expenses,
yet the very air will seeth with cauldron
il the name Of tariff reform in the
campaign next summer and fall.
Can blood be extracted from tur-
nip? II the Government must be bled
for more pensions, military and civil;
II Congress must take over the telegraph
and telephone lines az the expense OF
hundreds Of millions. with the hundreds
of other unreasonable and uniustiiable
demands upon the public treasury, how
in the name Of common sense can there
be q reduction OF the tariff. There
must be some source Of revenue to
meet these demands.
oh, the Inconsistencies and insinceri-
ties Of these self-imposed statesmen.
AS far as al appearances and practices
are concerned. what care the President
for The people except for votes, what
care Congress except to extend its
tenure, salaries and perquisites.
A fine example Is President Taft com
menting upon the deIinquencies 81 the
people. A fine Judge he is TO pass upon
their qualifications for governing them
selves
The trouble does not lie 10 the fact
that the people are making any DEM
onstrations. They areexercised precious
little about the recall. They arc think
ng very little about IL The people are !
DOT the offenders. II Is such selscon- !
'tituted leaders as President Taft, who
IRE not capable Of making a success Of
private business II thrown On their own
II :
.esonfees X i such men as these who
eek @ Do servants Of the people and /
when entrusted with Office assume the !
preo0asiyes Of supreme rule and ccn-
iorsnip,
Such men as sahesc want stronger 4
government. more Capitalization, more I
,owef Such men care nothing for !
,9pulat rights and il il such men as
hose who become unduly alarmed when
suggestion IS made that the people 1
3me into their own political rights IS
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