Evening star., 1913-11-23
Judiciary and Big business.

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Judiciary and Big business.
Col. Roosevelt explained his views re-
garding the judiciary and big business
During the last ehalf OF the nineteenth
century. he asserted the leaders OF re-
action IN the United States. political and
financial alike. gradually grew to recog-
nixe in the Judiciary their most powerful
their trimming ana Aloofness a thsir po-
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The judges, he declared. were in reality
irresponsible lawmakers, with strong
natural bias against every species Of
reform legislation for social and indus
trial relief and fair play"
He repeated his campaign declarations
that big business has come to stay" and
that the problem waS $50 to control ii
and supervise it as to prevent there being
any Improper advantage taken by big
business at the expense of small bust
ness"
Speaking Of the republican party. Col.
Roosevelt said: There was in the United
States historical party. the one to
which then belonged, which IL true to
Its origin would have championed without
exception every single one Of the reforms
which the proeressives have cham
Col. Roosevelt spoke. in part. as fol-
lows:
1t has been suggested to me that when
spoke to this audience I would find
that they would be especially interested
in an account of the political movement
In the United States during the last dozen
years the period since / myself became
President Of the United States.
Principles of Lincoln.
During the last dozen years the politi-
cal movement in the United States has
represented chiefly the effort to put into
actual and concrete performance the prin
ciples which in the abstract all intelli-
gent men admit to be true. 1t has rep
resented the effort to make the great re-
public OF the north genuine democracy.
1t Is the history OF a democratic move
ment In a republic. When twelve years
ago l became President it was as the
representative OF party which when
founded under the lead of abraham Lin
| coin had been the genuine party OF popu-
lar rights. of radical democracy The
rank and file Of the party remained true
| to Lincoln's doctrines; the machine lead
ers. who controlled the organization. had
grown false to them. The movement with
which during the last twelve years |
have been associated has consisted mere
ly In applying to the conditions of the
present day. in actual fact. the principles
| OF the founder OF the republican party.
Abraham Lincoln, and in bringing to the
| task before US the purposes not only of
Abraham Lincoln, but Of Thomas Jeffer-
| son. the founder OF the democratic party.
| The political and financial leaders OF the
| old parties stu paid lip service to these
principles and purposes: but it was lip
| service merely, and these leaders resent
ed as party disloyalty the effort to trans
late into deeds the exact words which
they were only too glad to use as long
as they remained words only: I believe
that the effort TO which 1 and those as
sociated with me are committed is in its
essence chiefly effort to turn words
into deeds, and that IL Is emphaticalIy q
movement In the interest Of the plain
people, in the interest of the rank and
file OF both the old parties, as against
the political and financial machines
which have dominated them
Power Of Names Great.
"The power of names Is great; We OF
the new movement care nothing for them
whereas We care infinitely for the facts
1 which the names synbolize; and one oi
the chief obstacles in our path is the
adroitness with which the leaders of re
action have used loyalty to a dead name
as a fetish wherewith TO keep the ranl
| and file Of their followers in line agains
/ their own living interests.
! "One of the standbys of the reaction
aries was the judiciary. In the day
when the people suffered from the tyran
ny of irresponsible power IL was abso
lutely vital that the courts should be I'm
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that they should possess complete inde
pendence In the exercise OF their judicia
i functions. Accordingly the independence
of the judiciary became one of the vita
features of the democratic program Blu
Touring the last half of the nineteenth
century the leaders of reaction in tn
United States. political and financial alike
gradually grew to recognize In the judi
ciary their most powerful potential ally
There was very little actual corruption ol
the bench; on the contrary, our judge
have been on the whole both able and up
right public servants. standing on q leve