Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-08-09

secret rebates in railways. the i'm
proper comforting of public fran
Chlses, and the immunity OF mo-
nopclizlng trusts and combinations.
The misfortunes of ordinary business,
the division OF the estates of
wealthy men at their death, the
chances of speculation which undue
good fortune seems often to stimu-
late, operating as causes through a
generation, will do much to divide up
such large fortunes. 1t is far better to
await tho diminution Of this evil by
natural causes than to attempt what
would Q take on the aspect of con-
~f1scation or to abolish the principle
and institution Of private property and
to change to socialism. Socialism In
wolves the taking away Of the motive
for acquisition, saving, energy, and
enterprise. and a futile attempt by
committees to apportion the rewards
due for productive labor. 1t means
stagnetion and retrogression. 1t de-
stroys the handspring of human action
that has carried the world on and up
ward for 1000 years.
SPPOhSuSo OHST w nStuSNy
do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead. n the Demo
cratic party and the other the former
Republicans who have left their party,
In their attacks upon existing condf-
tions, and in their attempt to satisfy
the popular unrest by promises OF
remedies. are consciously embracing
socialism. The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy by which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about,
but If their promises mean anything,
they lead directly toward the ap-
preparation Of what belongs to one
nan by another. The truth Is, my
friends, both those who have left the
Republican party under the tnsptra-
ton Of their present leader. and our
old opponents, the Democrats, under
their candidate, T going In q direc-
ton they do not definitely know, to-
ward an end they can not definitely
describe, with but one chief and clear
object, and hat is Of acquiring power
for their party by popular support
through the promise OF a change for
the better. What they clamor for
is a change. They ask for a change In
government so hat the government
may be restored to the people, as II
| this had not been q peoples govern
ment since the beginning OF the con-
stitution. l have the fullest sympathy
with every reform In governmental
and election machinery which shall
facilitate the expression of the popu-
lar will as the short ballot and the
reduction in elective offices will make
1t possible. But these gentlemen pro-
present defects, If any, are due to the
failure of the people to devote as
much time as is necessary to their
political duties, by requiring a politi-
cal activity by the people three times
that which thus far the people have
been willing to assume; and thus they
propose remedies which, instead OF
exciting the people to further interest
and activity in the government. will
tire them into such an Indifference az
still further to remand control Of pub.
lie affairs to a minority.
Hostility to judiciary.
Instead Of giving US the benefit Of
any specific remedies for the hard
ships and evils Of society they point
out. they follow their urgent appeals
for closer association of the people
in legislation by an attempt to cult.
vate the hostility of the people to the
in some form unfolding injustice and
are obstructing the popular will. At
tempts are made to take away all
those safeguards for maintaining the
independence of the judiciary which
are so carefully framed In our consti.
tuition. These attempts find express
sion in the policy, on the one hand,
of the recall Of Judges, q system un'
der which a Judge whose decision in
one Ease may temporarily displease
the electorate Is to be deprived at
once Of his Office by a popular vote.
a pernic1ous system embodied in the
Arizona constitution and which the
Democrats Of the Louise and senate
refused to condemn as the initial pol.
icy of a new state. The same spirit
manifested itself In the vote by Demo.
cratic senators IN the proposition,
first, to aDOllsn ne m court,
and, second, to abolish judges by mere
act of repeal, although under the con.
s~titution their terms are for life, on
no ground except hat they did not
like some of the courts recent de-
c!sions.
Another form OF hostility to the
judiciary Is shown in the grotesque
proposition by the leader Of former
Republicans who have left their party
for a recall Of decisions, SO that a de-
Gallon on a point of constitutional law,
having been rendered by the highest
court capable Of rendering 1t, shall
they be submitted to popular vote to
determine whether it ought to be sus-
tanned.
Again, the Democratic party In con.
gress and convention shows It's desire
to weaken the courts by forbiddinA
the use Of the writ of injunction to
protect a lawful business against the
destructive effect of a secondary boy.
| colt and Of tnterposing a jury in con