The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-23

! place In the temple of liberty and in
! which lawlessness and might shall
! come In Its stead, in the fearful strug-
gle to follow, the first man to go to the
bottom to remain there will be the
man who tolls. The rich have other
} means OF protection, but his protection
rests alone in the perfection and en-
| forcement Of our laws and in the main
tenance mistaken of the integrity OF
our institutions.
) But how shall we excuse or long
sympathize with the man of influ.
ence and position, of wealth and pres
tige, with the worlds comforts and its
luxuries about him, who still by word
! and deed teaches disrespect for or de-
} fIance of the law? He has no possible
} excuse for SO doing. While the bless
ings which he has so abundantly gath
cred in this goodly land which the sac
rifice Of our fathers gave us ought to
inspire him with veneration for its in
situations and obedience to it's laws
Does he not know that it is useless to
long expect law and order in the COM
mon walks of life when lawlessness
reigns supreme in the upper air? Will
not these men sometime learn that as
We sow that shall We also reap-that
this spirit of lawlessness fattens by
what it feeds upon?
The danger lies in representation
We learned once at tremendous cost
of life and blood that you may have
your fugitive slave law, your Missouri
compromise, your bred Scott decision
your fiat of government, your compro-
mise with wrong, your barter with JUS
| tice, but the hour of reckoning and
| REIMBURSEMENT cOmes-tardy, but mex
| orable. 1t is possible, my friends, to
| go until men of great fortunes, wheth-
er justly or unjustly earned, will stand
stripped like the slave master of the
south not alone of his slaves, but
stripped of his wealth earned through
two centuries of "unrequited toll" Let
us not trifle too long with that wide
spread passionate sense of wrong,
even among the more conservative,
arising out Of the belief that large for
tunes have been built up at the ex-
pense of the poor, and that men, wo-
men, and children go hungry while
others revel in waste and luxury. 1t is
possible to go on until the soldier
called into the street to protect prop
erty will fraternize with the mob
The tendencies of today become the
fixed and all but Interchangeable prac-
tees of tomorrow. The seed which
ripens into the harvest of turmoil and
dissolution may lie buried for decades
among the habits, practises, and Gus
toms of people. The generation
whose tendency is to ignore the law
and disregard the mandates of govern
ment will be followed in time, unless |
the tendency is arrested by exception
al effort, by generation of utter mis-
rule and lawlessness. That "leprous |
distilment" holds enmity to the life |
OF free institutions, and wise and faith |
full men will guard early and vigilant-
ly against its encroachment. A poll |
teal party can have no higher purpose
and no nObler PLATFORM and heroic |
men cannot be better engaged than in
restoring the faith which animated
and directed those of old.
You will hear often in these days
that certain men are engaged in ex-
perlmentlng with new plans of gov
eminent and dangerous expedients.
But If | mistake not the controlling
purpose is not that of new expert
ments, but to bring this old govern
ment back to where the fathers left it
to the people. The things done in these
efforts may not always be wise and
may not ultimately be accepted. but
all these strivings are but the efforts
OF our great democracy to find and get
hold of itself under our new indus
trial conditions. Changes in details
and REIMBURSEMENT or redistribution
OF powers may be necessary, but the
principles are to be pre-
served, not destroyed. We do not need
new faith; we need the simplicity,
the directness and self-surrender of
dn |
pei; we need rather to preach the
creed of Washington and Jefferson and
Jackson and Lincoln with tongue of
fire throughout the land We need to
have constitutional morality declared
as was the gospel of old to the rich
and the poor, for against this neither
Things present nor things to come"
shall prevail. You can no more leave
behlnd the fundamental principles of
right and justice, of equity, of old-time
deVotlon TO our government and ODE
dlence to our laws, without paying the
frlghtful penalty, than a people, how
ever complex and high their civiliza-
ton, can abandon the simple pro-
of Sinai without sinking
into utter and hopeless degradation.
Choose We this day whom you will
serve, the few, the selfish, the lawless.
ana see our party continue broken in
faction and deserted by thousands of
the rank and file, or the interests of
the countless thousands, whose hopes
and happiness lie in the direction of
equal opportunities, of just and equal
laws, and see our party take on the
of the days when it defied the ::
arrogant power of slavery and appeal
ed to mems common sense of Justice
now AS then, however, to deal not in
malice and renvenge, in hatred or des- 7.
lruction. but in equity and justice, in
protection and security alike for all
Mr.. President, few days ago I Wis
tied the place where Nancy Hanks,
prematurely old and broken, nursed ,
and nurtured and cared for the rarest
SOuI vet horn undQr tho ANA