Bisbee daily review., 1913-01-19
SENATOR BAILEY ON
THE RULe oF Ttg pEoPLE

THE RULE or THE PEOPLE.
 In his retiring speech in the Unite, States senate aeliyeIed on January Senator Bailey of Texas spok, plainly h.s thoughts on the questior og direct legislation by the people The Review offers no apology for pre- sen,ing the sabjoined extract iron the speech ofs sir. Bailey
 No man 1T bis day, and no man since his day conaded more obso iutely in the capacity of the people fo. selfgoYernment than Thomas Jetfer sol.. and he did not mean to impeaelr either their intelligence CT patriotism when he declared that they are no, Gualiaet to tegislats. He simply rec osnized. as do, that legislation for 2 great country and free people re quirss q study which the occupations Of the people viii never allow them to bestow npon il. 1T you tell ne that what Jefferson said mighe have beer entirely right in his day, but entirely wrong in this day, my answer is tina; every man who knows the conditions  which existed then and the conditions which now exist understands that the people of Chat cay were better qusl- flied so leg,slaie tran the people Of this day. That is true. in the first place. because there was much less legislation then than now aud all legislation was much simpler; and fl is true. in the second place; because the average Intelligence of the people who were then permitted to vote was greater than it is today When Jeffer- son wrote that letter our country was not menaeed by the mass of black ic- norance. which the Fifteenth amend ment injected into our body polite. or by an enormous immigration Of men wholly Incapable of understand ing cur institutions
 Mr. President. # doss urt reflecs upon the intelligence of any man to say that he IS not competent to do a work to which be has not given any special attention. Nobody thinks that it impeaehes lawyers ability to say that he can not practice medi- cine. When one of my fam'y falls sick I call a doctor, and ! do not con. siaer that thus acknowledge that he has more sense than I hare. or tha5 he is more interested in restoring th-- sick member of my family 10 health than I am. I send for him because be has devoted himself to the study Of medicine. and therefore iato his keep ing i commit the very lives Of my loved ones. Sir ] haze seen my older boy waseriag between life and death, and by his bedside sat through ths long watches of the night suf5erins an agony grsaser than his, bat not once did l venture to eouaternfaaa the physicians orders Did ! thas imply ths superior ability of the doctoF oi his greater interest in my boys No sir; I simply acknowledged thst i; uas safer to follow me directions oi a man xao had studied medielge than it was to have those directions varied b the lathsr. pho had studied law. we viii not permit a man to nanag' a bank or to sapofiatend farm or to conduct mercantile enterprise without some previous eSperienee. re enforced by a constant and persona. attention to tnc business. The bes' engineer on g Failr2ggi seldom ha' more aense ,fsa ihit president oi the general attorney .of that road. bp' ] ride Withoal any thoqsht that aia fncurras 8 rss apcu a railroad tran drawn 5y an ensino at whose throttle stands a study and experienced en sxeeg shAs l would not ride be