The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-15

advised, with the evident conviction
and desire to establish the sinister re-
dictionary nature of the constitution
that the members of the convention
were owners of government ponds and
owned real estate and farms, and eVen
were rich enough to hold farm mort
cages, and the quod erat demOnstran-
dunn is that the constitution Is a one
sided and unjust instrument because
the bankrups and debtors and, by nat
ural inference, the ignorant and unsuc-
cessful did not have representatives in
the convention, n that thus the whole
plan organized by these plotters
against society was based on tho wick
ed principle that governments and men
should be made to pay their debts"
Know DISQUALIFICATION 1t Hard,
THE truth is" Taft continued, I'VE
have arrived at a time in our social
development and our freedom of
thought when we know everything, and
to make the rich moderately poor and
the poor moderately rich. We are GO
ing to rearrange human nature in such
a way that men will strain their minds
and muscles to the point of p~erspira-
ton to help other people, and that this
is not going to be confined to the few,
but Is to include everybody.
The line when drawn between the
good and the bad will be found to be
the same line that marks the distinc-
zion between the progressives. who are
the only good, and the rest of the world.
who are only bad; and one OF the sad
features of this ~momentary situation is
that while the generals of the
sive army are still with their flashing
swords and brilliant uniforms holding
conspicuous councils and shrinking
from public gaze, the rank and file OF
the army appear to be rapidly becOm-
ing a dlssolving view, a result doubt
less to be attributed to some evil, sub
terranean effort of the reactionaries
who would retard human progress"
Senator Sutherland Speaks.
Another speaker of the evening was
U. 3. Sen. George Sutherland of Utah.
Taking for his theme, The Law and the
People, Senator Sutherland severely de-
nounced the recall of the judiciary as
a wild dream" and dubbed those who
ers." Urging that the integrity and in
dependence OF the courts be preserved,
Senator Sutherland said, in part:
There is room, no doubt, for i'm
Proyement in many places upon the
bench, as there is room for improve
ment even among the sovereign people
themselves, who are, as a whole. al
ways honest and sincere, but as repre-
sented by the voice of the majority,
frequently unwise and sometimes un-
just.
Perhaps l may as well at once plead
guilty to being somewhat conservative
"a grave ofense in these strenuous
days. The democracy which preceded
the American revolution failed because
the people undertook the impossible
task of conducting the government by
their own direct action or because they
gave to their officials the outward tenn
blance Of authority and withheld its
substance by hanging over their heads
the perpetual menace of the recall.
New School of Politicians.
The last decade of our history has
witnessed the rise of q new school Of
politicians, whose philosophy appears
to be based upon the somewhat dubious
doctrine that the difficulty of solving
governmental problems decreases in the
inverse order with which their number
and ~complexity increase.
Having evolved a complete n eff
ficient governmental system under
which we have proceeded at least in
safety for a century and a quarter, it
Is now proposed in response to an arti-
ficially induced, hysterical sentiment,
to put in the place of the organic pro-
cesses of the government the disorgan-
lied operations of the multitude under
the all-enduring title, direct govern
ment by the people, and to substitute
for the orderly, trained and responsible
Judgment Of the courts. the u~nrespon-
sible n to a large extent uninstructed
Impressions of the numerical majority"
The dinner was the most elaborate
affair OF its kind held In New York
this season and 1t brought together
scores of prominent Pennsylvanians
and New Workers. Gov. Martin Glynn
OF New York and Governor Tener of
Pennsylvania We're invited as guests OF
honor.