The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-11
Col. Roosevelt Delivers His Ar
ticles Of Faith
To an Audience of Argentenians
at Buenos Aires.
RECALLING JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Forms the Cardinal Feature OF
His Doctrine.
The People to Have the Last
Word i'm All Cases.


Word in All Cases.
Ruenos Aires. Nov. 11.-Theodore
Roosevelt recited his political creed
before an audience Of Argentinos here
today and outlined, in a speech last
ing more than an hour. the work that
he and his followers had set them
selves to accomplish in the United
States.
I'VE do not see all the steps that it
will be necessary to take in the future
in order to realize our IDEALS" he
said. But we do see the six or eight
or a dozen steps which it is now nee
essary to take; and then the further
steps will become clearer to us. We
welcome the aid of all those who be-
lieve in our taking these first steps,
even though it may be that our ways
shall be sundered from their ways
in the remote future"
Colonel Roosevelt spoke at length
on the topic of recalling judicial de-
cisions. In the United States, he said.
certain great privileged interests had
sought for two generations to rob the
people Of their sovereignty by divid-
ing 1t between courts and legislatures
and finally by placing it in the courts
| through giving the courts political
and non-judicial power. This was one
of the grave evils which he and his
followers sought to wipe out. Among
the many reforms written on their
program, he said, were these:
I'VE propose to make the process
| of constitutional amendment far cas-
Ter, speedier and simpler than at pres
ent.
I'VE wish to make the people the
F., supreme arbiters between their ser
MI hn ri fhA tvsvA
| when the court and the legislature
differ as to the proper Interpretation
of the constitution which the people
made.
I'VE know that it is folly to try to
make the fool the equal Of the wise
man, but we intend to control greed
and cunning and brutality in high
| cunning and brutality in low places.
I'VE intend to provide for the
mother whose husband, the bread
winner. has died.
I'VE intend to protect the right
of children to their childhood.
From the men and women who
work hard with clean hands we in
| tend to try to lift the burden of haunt
ing fear Of an old age Of undeserved
penury and misery.
I'VE intend that machinery shall
be the handmaiden and not the mis-
tress of humanity. ~
I'VE intend to make the govern
ment a most potent instrument in
working for the uplifting of man
kind
The Address.
Colonel Roosevelts speech was in
part, as follows:
1.-THE democratic movement is now sc
far as concerns civilized nations a we'll
nigh worldwide movement. I come
from one of the great democracies OF
| the present and the future. am speak
ing to another of the great democracies
Oh the present and the future. There are
many striking similarities. oh! my
hearers, between my own country and
this great country of yours Of which
at the moment 1 am the guest. In both
there is the same teeming fertility al
| the soil and variety of resources, and
therefore Of pursuits. In both there
has been the same astounding growth
! OF virile and energetic population. Ir
| both there has been the same pilfng uT
of material prosperity. In both side by
j side with the material progress we have
problems with which all of our latter
| day Industrial civilizations Throughout
the world are faced
"Of course each nation has it's owr
peculiar characteristics for good ana
! for evil. and therefore each nation has
Z " AdCc CcIldlu OTOOlcIlS WHICH are Pc
culiarly its own. But after all, oul
j HkenesSes are more important than oul
differences, and the chief and the mos
numerous of the questions with which
we are face to face are nearly the same
for all of lis. This is especially true Of
your country and. mine. both young
both OF vast physical area, both grow
| ing by leaps and bounds, both in tn;
| flush of an enormous material develop
| ment.
| There are nations so backward thai
| they are not as yet in any real senss
ment cannot be thrust upon nation.
from without. 1t must be developed
| from within. It cannot exist unless tn.
people have a strong and sound char
acter. Yet it's non-existence may no
mean lack of character. 1t may meal
merely that the people have been tor
| pid. Many nations in which the very
| name self-government would have beer
meaningless within the memory of mel
now living, are today preparing tt
achieve the actual fact In Asia itself
the Asia which our fathers regarded al
| fixed and immovable, there is a stir
ring which looks as II even in tina
ancient continent the people in mas
were awakening to a sense of theil
| rights.
But we must never forget that tn,
awakening to a demand for rights will
mean nothing unless the awakening t
a sense of duty goes with It, Self gov
eminent is the best of all governments
but 1t IL also the most difficult. Onl,
a very advanced people, a people o
sound intelligence. and above all of 70
bust character, il fit to govern itself
No gift of popular institutions will! avail
II the people who receive them do no
possess certain great and masterfu
qualities. and, above all. the combine
ton OF two Qualities-individual self