The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-17

permit such a law. This method can
not apply to questions as to the fed
eral constitution; I have made this
distinction clear in my Columbus
speech. The Jurisdiction of the United
States supreme court concerning the
federal constitution must remain su-
preme over the whole people. The
constitutions of the separate states
are in daily process of making by the
people of those states, and l would
therefore vest in the people of each
state the final authority as to what
their state constitution should be.
would not make the people the final
judge in legal questions between in
divfduals, but L would make the peo-
pie the final umpire in such a con-
f1ict as that above outlined between
the legislature and the judiciary in
any given state.
The personal differences between
only incidents of a fundamental diff
ference of view. My opponents be-
lieve, as many of the founders of our
government believed, that people as
whole have neither the capacity nor
the training to decide questions of
broad governmental policy Many of
our fathers thought that the people
could not be trusted to elect presi-
dents or senator's and therefore de-
vised the electoral college, which we
have abandoned, and the legislative
method of electing senators, which We
are abandoning. My opponents think
that special class, the legal class, is
the proper one finally to determine
questions of basic political philosophy;
believe that the ultimate authority
rests in the people and must be ex-
ercised by the people. This course
does not mean that the people should
not employ experts to do their work
for them. For instance, having Sc
lected the president, the voters should
give him full executive power; but If
the voters decide that they want
parcels post they should expect him
to make, with loyalty to their decls-
ion, the best parcels post that can be
made; and they will not expect him to
decide for them as to whether they
are to have a parcels post or not. In
law, having framed the constitution
and the statutes, they should choose
the best judge that they can to carry
out the provisions of the constitution
and the statutes; but If they decide
that they want a workmen's compen-
sation act, they ought to expect the
judge to administer such an act, and
not to determine whether work.
mems compensation act is good for
them or not. 1t is none of the judges
business to say whether the people
ought to wish and to have such an
act; it is the peoples business, and
only theirs. If the people decide Gas
the Canadians have decidedly that it
is true function of government to
formulate and regulate the relations
of organized capital and organized la
Dor, including wages, hourse and con-
ditions of work, they will not expect
the judges-and the judges must not
expect---to decide that this is not a
true function of government; and if
the judges endeavor to assist their
view as opposed to the peoples view,
tell them they are mistaken, and if
the judges persist, remove them and
get judges who will administer the
law based upon the theory of govern
ment which the people in the eXer-
else of their sober and deliberate
judgment have decided to be good
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