The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-02-21

tions both inevitable and desirable.
What is needed is, first, the rec
ognition that modern business con-
at least as these conditions mean
that business must be done in larger
units. and then the cool-headed and
resolute determination to Introduce
an effective method of regulating
big corporations SO as to help legit-
innate business as an incident to
Thoroughly and completely safe
guarding the interests of the people
as whole.
1T is imperative to exercise ever
big business a. control and supervis-
lion which is unnecessary as regards
small business / do not believe in
making mere size of and by itself
terminal. The mere fact of size,
however, does unquestionably carr,
the potentiality of such grave wrong
doing that there should be by law
lprovision made for the strict SUPER
vision and regulation of these great
industrial concerns doing an inter-
state business much as we now reg
lulate the transportation agencies
which are engaged in Interstate
business
1.-The antitrust law does good In
SO far as it can be invoked against
combinations which really are mo-
nopolies or which restrict produc-
ton or which artificially raise
prices. But in so far as Its workings
are uncertain, or as it threatens cor
| porations which have not been gull
| ty of antl-social conduct, it does
harm. Moreover, it cannot itself
accomplish more than trifling part
Iof the Governmental regulation of
big business which is needed. the
Nation and the states must coop
crate in this matter.
shape your constitutional action
50 that the people will be able
through their legislative bodies, or,
failing in that. by direct popular
vote, to provide workmen's compen-
sation acts, to regulate the hours
of labor for children and for wo-
men, to provide for their safety
while at work, and to prevent over
work or work under unhygienic or
unsafe conditions. See to it that no
are placed upon legis- !
tive powers that prevent the enact
ment of laws under which your peo-
pie can promote the general well I
fare, the common good.
Il believe in providing for direct
by the people, includ-
ng therein direct preferential pri-
naries for the election of delegates
o the National nominating conven-
ions. believe III the election CT
United States senators by direct
fote. I believe in the initiative and
he referendum, which should be
used not to destroy representative
government, but to correct 1t when
ever it becomes misrepresentation.
81 believe that the initiative and
referendum SHOULD be Used, not as
substitutes for representative gov
eminent, but as methods of making
such government really representa-
tive Action by the initiative or
ought not to be the nor
nal way of legislation; but the pow ,
ar to take it should be provided in /,
he Constitution, So thar if the rep ,
fail truly to represent {
he people on some matter of suf-
icient Importance to rouse popular 6
interest, then the people shall have
n their hands the facilities to make
,ood the failure.
And | urge you not to try to put
letters on the legisia-
ure, as so many consitution-makers
rave recently done Such action on
'our part would invite the courts !
o render nugatory every legislative
act to better social conditions. Give
he legislature an entirely free
hand. and then provide by the ini-
tiative and referendum that the
people shall have power to reverse
or supplement the work of the leg |
islature should it ever become nee
essary.
"As to the recall, I do not believe
that there is any great necessity for
IL
fieers. There remains the question
Of the recall of judges.
"An Independent and upright jul
dietary which fearlessiy stands for
the right, even against popular
elamor, but which also understands
and sympathizes with popular needs,
is a great asset of popular govern
ment. I believe in the necessity for
the courts Interpretation of the
law without the power to change
the law or to substitute some other
thing than law for it. But | agree
with every great jurist, from Mar
shall downwards, when | say that
every Judge is bound to consider
| two separate elements in his decis-
ion of case, one the terms OF the
| law, and the other the conditions OF
actual life to which the law is to be
applied. Only by taking both OF
these elements into account is it pos
\ sihle TO aDply the law as its spirit