The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-05

CIlloi VI tilC law W IldhlIlS
the government more economical and
more efficient.
And thus I find myself out OF
tune, because l cannot resist the de-
sire to ask for plans and specifica-
lions for actual statutes to do the
things which are promised. Yet, the
mere query, the mere attitude of In
quiry puts one at once In the ranks
of the doubters, dubs one at once a
r~eactinnary, places him at once among
, the aristocrats and prevents his being
| treated or regarded as a friend of the
people.
Misuse Of the Press.
Another feature of this period has
been the reckless misuse of the press
and the magazines for the misrepre-
sentation of motives of men engaged
in public life. The issues arising as
to the tariff upon print paper and
also upon the increase of postage for
second class mail matter. put those
who owned and controlled such agen-
cies in the attitude of partisans and
many of them improved their oppor-
tunities to assault those who opposed
| their particular interests.
The public have not been content
to weigh the things done at their
face value, but they have accepted no.
| stile statements that things We're done
either with an improper motive or
because I could not help it, or be-
cause they We're really done by some
! body else. and that on the whole /
was unfriend1y to the people.
l am not complaining about this Sit
uation. am hopeful that as time
rolls by the facts may disclose hem
selves and may lead people to believe
| that more real reform has been ac-
complished in my administration than
will ever flow from an attempt to put
into practical operation the promises.
which have been made in recent
party platforms to make the r,ch
moderately poo and the poor moder-
ately rich and to eliminate by statute
all sin. injustice, poverty and suffer-
ing.
1T g~rieves me to feel hat my going
out of office will remove this cause,
will end the 'Taftphobia' h a has
governed the action of some influ-
entail positions and hat will tend to
end these divisions that have been
caused by personal reasons rather
than on principle. There is much of
the personal about what is called
insurgency If one man advocated
3 principle it has been all right be-
cause he has shown himself an in
surgent.' On the other hand, If an
other advocated exactly the same
thing, it had to be condemned be-
cause of the source from which it
came. Now, of course, this is un-
reasonable, but it is a real feature of
the situation.
Il go out of office with deep APP
probation of the honors | have en-
joyed, with profound gratitude to the
American people, and without any
feeling of bitterness against anyone
l shall retain a very earnest desire as
a private citizen to help my country
n my fellow men in the struggle fol
continuance of free effective govern
ment.
We Were Beaten.
I'VE We're beaten in the last ele*c'
ton. We ran third in the race. VIII.
is it we gather here with so mucl
spirit, and with SO little humiliation
and disappointment. Is it not tina
in spite of the defeat recorded at tn
election in November we were still vic
toriou in saving our country from a
administration whose policy involve
the sapping the foundation Of demo
cratic, constitutional, representative
government, whose appeals were cal
culated to rouse class hatred tina
has heretofore been the ruin of pop
ular government and whose contemp
for the limitations of constitutions
law and the guarantee of civil libert,
promised chaos and anarchy?
The result of the Chicago conven
ton was a triumph for the permanenc
Of republican institutions, the resu'
of which cannot be exaggerated.
I'VE meet in no sense of despair
but rather to rejoice in a victory 70
law and order. 1t is true that W
We're defeated at the polls by GU
old-time opponents, the, Democrat
party. 1t is true hat we are to wor,
out again the problem of eating gu
cake and having it too, by shown
how it is possible to change from
system of protection for manufacture
industries to one of a tariff for rev
enue only, without affecting the in
dustries to their detriment and with
out hating production or lowerin
wages.
I'VE have been through this before
; 1t may be that this time they can d
what they have not succeeded in do
ing heretofore, and. if so, and the
can maintain the prosperity of tn
country at its present record leve
then we shall rejoice at their success:
What is there in the present con
dition that the progressive part
represents which can lead us to sup
= pose that human nature has S
changed that no restraint is neces
, sary in all society to prevent n ma
: from depressing another or to pre-
vent a majority of men from oppres
sing an individual or a minority
What is that constitutional limita
tons are for in a popular govern
: mentp
Popular Government.