The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-02-27


but remain still and always govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people. When our party put
the interstate commerce act upon the
statute books this was denounced as
socialism and unavoidable. When it,
put the rebate act among our laws 1t
was decried as visionary and imprac-
ticable. When it enacted pure
food law it was criticized as the last
step in paternalism. When the Sher-
man, antitrust law was put upon the
books it was pronounced by great
lawyers as unenforceable, or If en-
forceable, unconstitutional. When
the party enacted a postal savings
bank law and parcels post law
these were regarded as further EVIL
dence of reckless and headstrong
paternalism. When the child labor
bureau was created a solemn plea
went, up for the integrity Of, the.
family and against the rude inter
ference of the state with family ties.
Now, sir, we ask for nothing more
and will be reconliled with nothing
less than the free, full expression,
and the full flow of opinion, in party
Organization and party affairs among
its voters and members, to the end
that this great code Of humane and
progressive laws, of wise and per-
manent institutions, may be extended.
that the work may go on until po-
litical freedom shall be at the be-
ginning and industrial freedom at
the end of the party story, until mo-
nopoly, ten thousand times worse
that black slavery, shall understand
that between it and republican insti-
buttons there is eternal war-Mexican
war, where all the captured are slain
without the benefit of clergy.
Mr.. President, have neither time
nor the disposition to go into a dis
/ cussion of particular issues. Perhaps
this is not the occasion, certainly not
at this late hour I can only say in
conclusion that republicanism as !
understand it in its real scope and
purpose, is q theory of government,
an organic and vital belief in liberty
and justice under the domination of
order and law, striving for the best
that can be had as fast as it can be
had in national growth and progress.
1t believes in our form OF government
and that under its faithful admins
tration, and in harmony with its tre-
mendous sweep and power, the hu-
man family may reach its highest
state of culture and contentment. tt
reveres the work of the fathers and
pays feeling tribute to those who
forfeited all for the Union, but it
lives not alone in the past. 1t looks
forward with eager confidence to the
d. ties and responsibilities of the fu-
ture. 1t will not tear down, it will
not destroy, but it will go forward
and meet the problems upon whose
solution depends the happiness and
Industrial freedom of countless thou
sands. 1t was upon no legitimate in
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nizes no distinction in race, but it
believes now, as it believed fifty
years ago, that this government, and
this goodly land, which a bountiful
providence has given us, belongs to
all, to the many and not the few,
white and black, rich and poor; and
that the supreme question of the
hour is not alone the making of
wealth, but also its fair and equit-
able distribution. 1t believes with
its first great seer and prophet that
capital has it's rights which are
worthy of protection" but that
labor is prior to and the superior
of capital" That life is more than,
riches and humanity more than ma
chinery. 1t rejects the Draconian
code based on modern materialism,
that human suffering and social mis-
cry are the natural fruits of human
progress. 1t repudiates the doctrine
of let we'll enough alone as the maxim
of intellectual towards and entrench-
ed privilege, concealing beneath its
gloss Of peace and contentment the
elements of class domination and
national decay. Finally, sir, it faces
the future not in pessimism and des-
pair, but with an unfaltering faith
in republican institutions, and the
Judgment and wisdom of the people,
as from time to time with brave and
patient step they measure up to the
work. When you reach down into
the hearts of the millions of repub-
lican voters, men and women whose
devotion and foresight and patriot
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