El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-06
ROOSEVELT OUTLINES PLATFORM To HIS
THIRD PARTY, IN LENGTHY SPEECH
Continued from page One.)

Mr.. Roosevelt urged the adoption of
presidential primaries, popular cleo
ton of senators, the short ballot, an
efficient corrupt practices act, quail
fled use of the initiative, referendum
and recall The recall should be ap-
piled to administrative officers Mr..
Roosevelt asserts that the adoption of
these new methods of political admin
istratiOn is not antagonistlc to repre-
sentative government All L desire to
do by securing more direct control OF
the governmental agents and repreSen-
tatives of the people is to give the
people the chance to make their rep
reSentatives really represent them
whenever the government becomes mis-
representative instead OF representa-
tive. / have not come TO this way OF
thinking from closet study or a.
mere matter OF theory L have been
forced to il by a long experience with
the actual conditions OF our poIltical
The Courts and the People.
Under this head Mr.. Roosevelt
strongly emphasizes the necessity OF
the sovereign people preserving
check on every branch of public ser
vice Under this head Mr. Roosevelt
reiterates his now well known views
regarding the courts. The American
people, and not the courts, are to de-
termine their own fundamental poll
cies" This does not mean that the
people are to interfere in cases which
involve merely questions OF justice be-
should be devised for making 1t easier
than at present to get rid of an in
competent Judge But when judicial
decision involves an Interpretation OF
what the people mean by the constl-
tutious which they have framed and
laws passed by the people are null
fled because the courts say those laws
are contrary TO the people VIII as
expressed in their constitution, there
must be reference to the people or
the public effect of such decisions un-
der forms securing fun elaboration
to the end that the people may rectl1y
this alleged defect in their cOnst1tu-
ton by a popular vote having all the
force of a constitutional amendment
Our purpose is not to impugn the
courts but to emancipate them from
q position whenever they stand finally
ia the way of social justice.
am well aware that every upholder OF
1rixyiIege. every hired agent or bene-
ficiary OF the special interests 1nclud-
ing many Wellmeaning parlor reform
ers, will denounce all this as SoclaI-
ism or 'anarchy-the same terms they |
used in the past in denOuncing the 4
movement to control the railways ana /
to control public utilities. As mat
ter OF fact, the propositions 1 make /
constitute neither anarchy nor Social /
ism. but, on the contrary, a corrective I
for Socialism and an antidote to an !
Constructive Control of the Trusts.
In addition to punishment for wrong /
doing by the trusts, the imperative de- !
mand is effective and complete regu- |
lation- The views of president Van !
Hise, of the university Of Wisconsin, |
in his scientific work on trust regu- /
Iation are in harmony with the pro- /
gram of the National Progressives. |
The present conditions Of business 1
cannot be accepted as satisfactory"
The reason for this IS explained, in /
Mr.. RooseYelts opinion, by the fact I
that those dealing with the subject
have attempted to divide into two
camps, etch as unWise as the other.
One camp has fixed its attention only
on the need for prosperity-'prospe
ity to the big men on top, trusting to
their mercy to let something leak
through to the mass Of their country
men below, which, in effect. means
that there should be no attempt to reg
greed and cunning reap the largest
rewards" The other camp has so fixed
its attention upon the injustices Of the
of prosperity "omitt1ng
all consideration Of having something
TO distribute, and advocates action
which, it is true, would abolish most
OF the inequalities of the distribution I
Of prosperity. by only the unfortunate
ly simple process Of abOlishing the
prosperity itself" The tendency of |
those now in control of the Republi-
can party is to give special privileges
to big business, and TO correct the
evils of such a course when they be- |
come crying, by sporadic lawsuits I'M
Ter the antitrust law. Ine tendency |
II the Democrats, judged both by their
record in congress and by the Demo-
,-atic platform, is to abolish all bust
ness of any size or efficiency, on the
ground that all bigness is badness, and
ittleness and weakness a sign of vir-
ne Nv hat is needed is action direct
V the reverse of that thus confusedly
There should be applied
o all industrial concerns engaged in
interstate commerce in which there is
sither monopoly or control of the
narke the principles already adopted
in regulating transportation concerns
,ngaged in such commerce. The anti
rust law should be kept on the statute
,Ook to be invoked against every big
oncern tending to monopoly or gull
Y of antisocial practices. At the same
ime a national Industrial commission
hould be created which should have 1
power TO regulate and con- /
rol all the great Industrial concerns /
ngaged in interstate business-Which
practically means all of them in this
ountry. This commission should exer- |
Use over these Industrial concerns like
oWers to those exercised over the rail-
rays by the interstate commerce cCm-
mission and over the national banks
" the controller of the currency. and
additional powers II found necessary
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