The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-10-01
EDISON STRONG
FOR RO0SEvEST
Wizard Tells why He Be-
Iieves In The Progressive
Party's Doctrine
FAyORs VOTES FOR wOMfN
Initiative, Referendum, Review
Of Judicial Proceeding Al
so Backed By Him

reason and this Is a young man
movement" says Thomas Edison.
There are lot of people who die
in the head after they're fifty. They
are the ones who get shocked if you
propose anything that wasn't going
when they were boys. It's the way
the world goes-the young push
ahead and do things. and the old
stand back. / hope I'll always be
with the young.
you see. getting down to the
bottom Of things, this is pretty
raw, crude civilization of ours
pretty wasteful, pretty cruel, which
often comes to the same thing. And
in a lot of respects We Americans
are the rawest and crudest of all.
Many Things Are Wrong
"Our production, our factory laws,
our charities. our relations between
capital and labor. our distribution
all wrong, out of gear. We've
stumbled along for while, trying
to run new civilization in old ways,
and we've got to start to make this
world over.
so I'd naturally be for the party
which comes nearest to promising a
change going to the bottom of
things and setting them right.
don't need to say, | guess, that it's
the Progressive party. The Pro-
gressive party and Roosevelt.
We're coming to a new era
We've got to transform everything.
And we've got to have big, strong,
honest man at the head. Teddy
that man. go the whole way with
him.
You Never Know Till You Try
"Anexperiment? Yes. Ofcourse
How can YOU get new thing with.
out experiment? You never know
until you try in government or in
mechanics. And if you don't ex-
pertinent you don't get anywhere,
What do ! do when ! get an idea?
Well. if | think it is sound enough,
| take the time and money and en-
ergy to work it out.
Sometimes it fails, and some
times it succeeds generally it sue
ceeds. after I've tried it enoughways.
Suppose | was afraid totry? Would
! ever get anywhere? But even if
we should make terrible mistake,
what then? We have the power to
correct it every four years-yes,
every two, because the President
isn't all there is to the government.
Used To Be An Old Liner
I'VE can just forget the Republi-
can party here and | was an old
line Republican before l woke up, at
that. And nearly all the Democrats
offer is honest application of the old
stuff. I've heard that before, cam
paign after campaign, until I'm sick
of it. Wen tinker the tariff here,
put in a few fancy frills there, and
everything will be all right. But
we go on just the same, somehow,
wasting our resources. widening the
gap between work and pay. our gov.
eminent regulator g enera,
tions behind our industries, our in,
vention everything.
There's the initiative and refer
endum and all that. It's another
line where | go the whoIeway. The
Democrats are for it-yes. I don't
object to the Democratic party when
it agrees with me.
Courts Govern Us
Certainly I'm for the review of
judicial decisions. Do you know
who governs US? The Supreme
Courts of the.United States and the
various states. They're the power
above the President and Congress.
They've put the constitution where
it is. We've got to have the consti-
tuition amendable there's another
good Progressive plank but the
trouble isn't so much theconstitution
as what they've built up around it.
Precedent, all precedent! Thespirit
of the law isn't anything. Common
sense isn't anything. No. it's what
some old judge thought before.
Likely as notgsome judge away back
in theeighteenth century who hanged
men for stealing six shillings and be-
lieved that live toads rained from