The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-09
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they are the evidences of progress;
they are what the word progress
means. To attack, to undermine, or
to overturn them is not progress, but
reaction.
No Straight Jacket.
The fundamental principles which
underlie the constitution of the Unit
ed States are nc straight jacket into
which a growing people is forced to
Its distress and harm. They are rather
u chart by which the ship Of state
may sail safely out on new and I'M
tried seas, certain that the danger
spots are clearly marked and the
heavens accurately Indicated. These
principles can never grow old; they
are everlastingly young and new and
true.
I'VE are today infested with politi-
cal patent medicine men. Ignorant
of ordinar. laws Of political and So
cial growth, or defying them, they
press upon us the odd and curious
nostrums of their own making which
are to cure u evils. to abolish pov-
erty. to do away with injustice, and to
bring about that happy II blissful
Utopia OF which certain types OF men
with nothing useful to do habitually
dream.
"Pious and oracular aphorisms are
the stock in trade of the political pat
emit medicine man Whose pursuit Of a
higher office is SO compelling. that he
cannot find time to attend to the
duties of the office which he already
holds. The plain discharge of present
duty does not seem likely to COM
mend him sufficiently to, a larger and
more important constituency. Neither
the senate of the United States nor
the governorship of a sovereign state
nffarG ni1any,tn c,ona Gov Ito ,-x:-.
ties inc his genius. He must hurry
off. while public business waits, in
order that he may sound his own
praises and recite his w phrases to
the open-mouthed thousands who as
semble to greet SO great a man.
1t may perhaps be said that, how.
ever misleading these political patent
medicine men may be. however dema-
gogues of the day. yet they have gain
ed so large a following that we must
listen to them n buy their political
patent medicine or else we shall fail
to carry the next presidential election.
L deny absolutely 1 deny that the
republican party and its principles are
for sale. l deny that a political party
exists only to win elections at any
cost. If it sells its principles. it is
no longer a political party, but only
an organized appetite.
Why should we hesitate to follow
precisely the same course in 1912 that
served us so we'll in 1896? Let us
stand up before all the people of the
United States and say that we pro-
pose to go forward with policies Of
true, not false. progress; that we pro-
pose to protect and care for human
rights, whether of person or of pro-
pcrty, without privilege and without
monopoly; but that we propose to do
this under the fundamental guaran-
tees Of our constitutional government
and in accordance with its represen-
tative forms. Let us make the MAIN
tenance of u republican form Of
government the leading and controls.
ing political question.
so far as one member of the party
may make his voice heard, I wish to-
declare myself for brief, simple, d.
rect, and unequivocal declarations on
the chief matters which are now
awaiting solution as national ques-
tons. OF these I name those which
are of most importance.
u b opinion is asking that great
er protection be given to the life and
health of h community; that work.
ingmen's compensation legislation be
enacted; and that there be larger and
more prompt recognition of the social
problem of Its many phases. In so
far as the congress has authority,
however, the republican party should
pledge itself to use that authority
to the utmost in order that these
beneficient ends may be promoted in
the highest public interest and with
out INDUCING in economic orgies.
Monetary Commission.
Legislation should speedily be en-
acted, substantially as recommended
by the national monetary commission
to provide the people Of the United
States with an adequate, modern and
scientific banking system.
THE just expectation Of the people
that the duties imposed on imports
should be revised and reduced ought
to be met without delay. There are
three ways Of fixing rates OF duty on
imported merchandise. These rates of
duty may be fixed. first, without any
knowledge Of manufacturing and COM
mercial conditions whatsoever. This
Is not a good thing to do. These rates
of duty ma be fixed, second, on the
basis Of statements made by interest
ed persons only. whether importers,
manufacturers, or wage earners. This
is not a good thing to do. These rates
of duty may be fixed. third. on the
basis Of Information as to manufac-
turing and trade conditions obtained
acting solely in the public interest and
with a view to doing justice to manu-
facturer. wage Garner. importer. and
the people as a whole. The last lie
the only way in which the republican
party can afford to undertake revision
and reduction of the tariff.
During the past twelve years the
meaning and application Of the So
called Sherman antitrust law have