The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-05

having 1t, too, by showing how it is
 possible to change from q system of
 protection for protected industries
 for one of tariff for revenue only,
 without affecting the industries 10 their detriment and without halting production or lowering wages.
 Tt is true that we are to witness an aleempt to satisfy the crying need for a new banking and currency sys-
 tenn by plan which is to embody as many as possible of the features Of
 he .Aldrich monetary commission
 plan, disguised as much as may be so, as to permit denial of any resem- hlance. It is true that we are too witness change of office holders from republican to democrats and we are to see how economical the new ad- ministration is to be as compared with the old. We have been through this before. It may be that this time they can do what they have not succeeded in doing heretofore and if so, and they can maintain the prosperity of the country at it's pres
 ent level, then we shall rejoice at their success.
 What is there in the present con iition that the progressive party rep resents which can lead us to suppose that human nature has so changed that no restraint is necessary in all society to prevent one man from op-
 lressing another or to prevent a ma iority of men from expressing an in- ilvidual or minority? What is it
 hat constitutional limitations are for in popular government? A popu- the people--that is, by a majority of the people who under the law are given the right to exercise the cleo toral franchise and constitutional
 limitations are imposed to prevent the misuse of the power of the ma lority so that the individual or the minority may not suffer injustice through the action of the majority
 Where is the security in present SO ciety that the majority may. not from time to time, do injustice to the minority and to the individual?
 Tt is said that we distrust the people if we assume that the major
 ny will ever do injustice In other words, the contention is that the vote of the majority is always right
 We'll, as the majority in passing up on a given question determines some times one way and some times an other in which case Is it right? If the wisdom of our fathers and of the long line of able men who have fought for popular government has led to the introduction into every scheme of government of restraints to prevent injustice by the majority to the minority and the. individual what IS there that has happened m | recent years to make Us feel that a change has come over the character of majorities so that they may not exercise the tyranny that they have exercised in the past and in respect to which they have been restrained by constitutional limitation?
 How are the inequalities in SO ciety to be wiped out? How Is gov ernment assure happiness to the in- dividual2 Is 1t by an equal distri- button of property? Is 1t by taking from one man that which is his and giving it to another who has not earned it? I submit that this is the ultimate result of a thorough analy- sis of all theories advanced by the progressive party. It is easily seen that under the progressive program the whole machinery that has been so carefully built up by the older statesmen of this country and of Eng land to save to the individual and the minority freedom, equality be- fore the law. the right of property and the right to pursue happiness, is 10 be taken apart and thrown into a junk heap and the preservation of such rights or privileges if you chose to call them such, is to be left to the charitable impulse of benevolent administration. No one at all familiar with the principles of free government and the tendency of erring and power loving human
 nature would be content to have his liberty or his right of property O. his right to pursue happiness dependent upon the benevolence of any one.
 Now, it has been suggested that the republican party can unite again with many of the progressive
 party if only a different rule can be put into force through the convention or national committee by which the reduction of southern representation
 would be secured and q fairer method of selecting the candidates for presi- dent by the republican party could be devised haven't any objection
 to any method which shall be fair. That is not a reason for joining or giving up the party. It is the princi- pie that the party advocates that should control one in it's support. It is not that the republican party is
 desirous of holding office Sr power, though neither is to be despised, but
 1t is that in this crisis we felt that
 we have the means of preventing the country from taking a step, which
 if taken. will precipitate us into gov ernmeHtal chaos. will set the com
 munity on a chimerical chase for an ideal that is impossible to realize and
 that in that chase the community will lose the inestimable benefits of a 1 permanent popular government that
 we have maintained and preserved inviolate for 125 years of national
 liberty