The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-02-29
CHARTER OF
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.lals C0nSi.iaiilldi C0nsaIliIJn.
FAs}RS RECALL OF JUDGES.


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E.asct Nominations and Toidifr
Election OF Senators.
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s3a and absolutely TO rue them
Selves. W representative poly can
have higher task. 10 carry II through
successfully there IS necd 20 commune
practical common sense OF the most
hard headed KIND Win Il spirit OF ioIty
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l believe III pure democracy. with
Aihcolh iioiu INA, 'iii'' .oul'i!' WIN
us institutions peIohSs 10 Tue people
VINO iIiii"pl H. heiie'er TIE! SA'''i
grow weary OF the existing govern
hienl 'neE can exercise tileir cols'l'u-
tloil;iI fi&Et o. anehdlh& 1t. We pro
ereSsiVeS beheNe tillt the people nave
the li@ht, the power ana the dufE 10
protect themselves ana tLelr own WEI
rare; mat human rights are supreme
over all other rights; that wealth
Should he the servant, not the nastcr,
CT the people We believe that unle5s
representative government does aDSo-
luteiT represent the people 1t Is not
representative government ut all We
test the worth Of all men and all meas
ures by asking how they contribute TO
the welfare of the men, women and
children of whom this nation is COM
posed. We are engaged in one Of the
great battles OF the age long contest
waged against privilege on behalf OF
the common welfare We hold it
prime duty OF the people to free our
government from the control of money
in politics
This country. as Lincoln said, be-
longs 10 the people. so 90 the natural
resources which make it rich. They
supply the basis of our prosperity now
and hereafter. In preserving them,
which is a national duty, we must not
forgef that monopoly Is based on the
control OF Natural resources and nat
lFai adranfages and that 1t Will help
tue people little to conserve our nat
urai weaith unless the Dement'S wnich
can yieiu are secured TO the people.
us remember also tnat conserVa-
tion does not stop WIN the naturai re-
sources DuI tna1 the principle OF max
cures with equal or greater lnsistence
Iaat we shaii stop the waste OF human
ilIe In industry and prevent the waste
OF human welfare which flows from
the UNFAIR use OF concentrated power
ana wealth IN the hands OF men whose
eagerness Tor pront blinds them TO the
cost OF what they 90. we nave no
nigner DUTY than TO promote the en-
caency OF the inoividuai. Inere Is no
Anrcr ROAD TO the emciency OF the ma
sion.
Power 70 the Peoples.
I am emphatically q believer In con-
esitutionaiism, ana because OF this fact
y no less emphaticaily protest against
any theory that would make OF the
constitution means OF thwarting In
stead OF securing the absolute right OF
ene people TO rule themselves and to
provide Tor their own social and In
dustriaI well being. All constitutions,
those OF the states no less than that
or the nation, are designed and must
% interpreted and administered 30 as
to ut human rights. Lincoln 90 In
terpreted and administered the ma
donal constitution. Buchanan at
tempted the reverse. attempted to At
human rights to ana limit them by
the constitution. 1t was Buchanan
who treated the courts as a fetish,
who protested against and condemned
all criticism OF the judges for unjust
and unrighteOus decisions and upheld
the constitution as an instrument for
the protection Of privilege and Of vest
ed wrong. 1t was Lincoln who ap-
pealed to the people against the judges
when the judges went wrong, who ad-