Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-08-08

on every branch of public service. In
der this head Mr.. Roosevelt reiterates
his now well-known views regarding
the courts. 1.-The American people.
and not the courts, are to determine
their own fundamental policies. This
does not mean that the people are to
interfere in eases which involve mere
" questions of justice between indivld-
mails except that smeans should be de-
vised for making it easier than at
present to get rid of an incompetent
Judge But when judicial decision
involves an Interpretation of what the
people mean by the constitutions which
they have framed and laws passed by
the people are nullified because the
courts say those laws are contrary to
the people s will as expressed IN their
constitution, there must be a "refer-
ence to the people of the public effect
of such decisions under forms securing
full deliberation, to the end that the
people may rectify this alleged defect
in their constitution by popular vote
having all the force of constitutional
amendment. ''Our purpose is not to
impngn the courts. but to emancipate
them from position whever they stand
finally in the way of social justice
| am well aware that every
upholder of privilege, that every hired
agent or beneficiary of the special in
terests, including many well-meaning
parlor reformers, will denounce all this
as socialism or anarchy the same
terms they used in the past in denounc
ing the movements to control the rail
ways and to control public utilities. AS
matter of fact, the propositions l
make constitute neither anarchy or So
cialism, but on the contrary, a correct
i've for socialism and an antidote for
anarchy
Constructive Control Of the Trusts.
In addition, to punishment for wrong
doing by the trusts, the imperative de-
mand is effective and complete regula-
ton. The views of President Van
Hise, of the University of Wisconsin,
in his scientific work on trust regula-
ton are in harmony with the program
Of the national progressives. "The
present condition of business cannot
be accepted as satisfactory" The rea-
son for this is explained, in Mr.. Roose-
velt's opinion, by the fact that "those
dealing with the subject have attemp-
ted to divide into two camps, each as
unwise as the other.' One camp has
fixed its attention only on the need
for prosperity" prosperity to the big
men on top, trusting to their mercy to
let something leak through to the mass
of their countrymen below, which, in
effect, means that there should be no
attempt to regulate the ferocious scram-
BILE in which greed and cunning reap
the largest rewards.' The other camp
has so fixed its attention upon the in
justices of distribution of prosperity
emitting all consideration of having
to distribute, and advocates
action which, it is true, would abolish
most of the inequalities of the distri-
button of prosperity, by only the unfor-
tunately simple process of abolishing
the prosperity itself. = The tendency of
those now in control of the republican
party is to give special privileges to
big business and to correct the
evils of such course when thew be-
come crying, by sporadic lawsuits un-
der the antitrust law. The tendency of
the democrats, judged both by their rec
ord in congress and by the democratic
platform, is to abolish all business of
any size or efficiency, on the ground
that all bigness is badness, and little.
ness and weakness sign of vi-tuo.
" What is needed is action directly The
reverse Of that thus confnselly inIi.
cated.' There should be applied to all
Industrial concerns engage! IN inter
state commerce in which there is nei
ther monopoly or control Of the mark
Ut tie principles already adopted in
regulating transportation concerns
engaged in such commerce. The anti.
trust law should be kept ON the statute
book to be invoked against every big
concern tending to monopoly or guilty
of anti-social practices. At the same
time national industrial commission
should be created which would have
complete power to regulate and control
all the great industrial concerns en-.
gagged in interstate commensurate
means all of them in this
country. The commission should exer.
else over these industrial concerns like
powers to those exercised over the rail.