The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-21
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isn't man who serves his own cont
science"
Judges. the speaker asserted. know
law and not life. He drew great
applause whc nht said that last Year
forty thousand employees were killed
or manned IN industrial lines OF ern-
fiovfnent-~~a greater number AnPh
We're killed or wounded during the
Spanish American war
Evils in present laws, tho speaker
laid upon minority rule placing eln-
phasis upon the pure food law. the
sweat shop system and the tenement
houses.
Speaking OF the Influences welded
hy privileged interests in securing
legislation the colonel said:
Nobody helps the knave as much
as the honest fool.
The speech.
In his set speech Colonel Roosevelt
said IN part
The great fundamental issue now
before the Republican party and be-
fore our people can be stated briefly
I il f., Are the American people fit To
govern themselves? / believe they
are. My opponents do not. be-
Iieve ia the right of the people to
rule. 1 eelieva that the majority of
! the plain people OF the United States
| WILL day in and day out. make fewer
| mistakes In governing themselves
1 than any smaller class or body OF
| men. no matter what their training,
/ will make in trying to govern them.
| I believe again. that the American
I people are. NV a whole. capable Of
self-control and OF learning by their
! mistakes. Our opponents pay lip
! loyalty to this doctrine: bat they show
their real beliefs by the way in which
| they champion every device to make
| the nominal rule Of the people Il
| sham.
! Ny opponents charge that two
! things la my program are wrong be-
cause they intrude into the sanctuary
/ of the judiciary. The first lis the re-
| call OF Judges; and the second. the
review by the people OF judicial de-
! ctstons on certain constitutional ques-
tions. have said again and again
| that / do not advocate the recall Of
Judges ia all States and in all COM
! munities. In my own State do not
| odyocate It or beloeve 1t to be need
| ed. for In this State our trouble lies
! not with corruption on the bench. but
| with the effort by the honest but
/ wrongheaded Judges to thwart tho
1 people in their struggle for social
| Justice and fair-dealing. The integ-
rity OF our judges from Marshall to
| White and Hoimes--and to Cullen
! and many others In our own State
| IL fine page of American history.
! Butt say 1t soberly--democracy has
| IA right to approach the sanctuary OF
! the courts when special interest
has corruptiy found sanctuary there
and this Is exactly what has happen
! ed In some Of the States where the
! recall Of the judges IL IA living issue.
! l would far more willingly trust the
whole people to judge such case
/. than seEla. sp@sktl tribunal per haps
| appointed by the same power that
chose the judge-if that tribunal is
/ not itself really responsible to the
| people and Ia hanpered and clogged
by the tcehnicaiities OF impeachment
! proceedings
'Due Process"
| have stated that the courts of
! tho several States--not always but
often--have construed the due pro-
! cess clause OF the State constitu-
] tons as II II prohibited the whole
| people OF the State from adopting
methods Of regulating the use of pro-
! perry so that human life, particularly
! the lives OF the workingmen. shall
! be- safer. freer and happier. No one
| can successfully impeach this state
ment. l have insisted that the true
| construction Of due process liz that
pronounced by Justice Holmes in de-
/ hvering the unanimous opinion of the
Supreme Court OF the United States
! when he said:
The police power extends to ali the
great public needs 1t may be nut
| forth In aid OF what is sanctioned by
usage, or held by the prevailing mo-
rality or strong and preponderant
opinion to be greatly and Immediately
necessary to the public welfare.
] Insist that the decision of the New
York Court OF Apnea1s in the Ives
case, which set aside the VIII of the
! majority OF the people as to the COM
! pensation Of injured workmen is dan
| gcrous trades, was intolerable and
based on a wrong political philosophy.
i urge that In such cases where the
| courts construe the due process clause
| as IL property rights, to the exclusion
| OF human rights. had a first mortgage
! on the Constitution. the people may,