The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-31

lives in the taking r money out OF her
treasury without service?
I'VE ran, when we are In q private
station. pass on without such attention
to inveterate abuses. We can say 10
ourselves: 4 know It is wrong, ] wish
II could he set right 1t cannot be set
right. | will d. nothing But here. here
we face the duty we cannot escape IT,
we are bound to do our work. face 70
face, In clear recognition OF the truth
unpaiatabie, depluiable as II may be,
and the truth is that what the unerrtng
instinct OF the democracy of our state
has seen in this government Is ina
a difficult standard OF morality Is applied
to the conduc, e AFFAIRS of state thar
that which Is applied in private anairs:
IL have been told forty times since this
convention met that you can't change
ii. We can try. can't We? ] deny that
we can't change 1t. I repel that cynical
assumption which IL born OF the lethargy
that comes from poisoned air during all
these years.
system Can Re Changed.
81 assert that this perversion OF
democracy. this robbing democracy oil
its virility. can be changed AS truly as
the system under which Walpole gov
erned the Commons Of England. py
bribery. as truly as the Atmosphere
which made the Credit Mobilier standal
possible in the Congress OF the united
states has been blown away py 'ne
force Of public opinion.
I'VE can't change II In a moment ou'
We can do our share. We can take th,s
n step toward not robbing the people
of their part In government. out towaru
robbing an irresponsible autocracy OF us
i~ndefensible and unjust u unaemo-
cratic control of government re.
storing II 10 the people 10 pe eNerc.Aeu
by the men of their choice n their
control.
~ ....n - a., ,his room A
body which sits but once in twenty years
to deal with the fundamental law or the
State deals not only for the present but
for the future. not only by It's results
but by its example. Opportunity knocks
at the door of every man In this as
semblage. an opportunity that Will never
come again to most of us.
While millions of men are fighting
and dying for their countries across the
ocean, while government Is become
serious. sober, almost alarming in its
effect upon the happiness Of all that are
dearest 10 us. IL Is our inestimable privi-
lese TO do something here in moving our
haloysd s,,,. along the halfway toward
better ard nurer government n more
nar,a.,n norait,, IA a more directive
sxaro,ss y, ,ba nowsrs NJ government
which nrss.rye the liher,v Of the people
.yr.an = no 49, 90 yonr hom.s ana
,.a .,nnar yo,,
~ w" -. or
W., ny !" 80 - ,.,i,
49, ~, 30, az ,a
,eNne" w eoINenlio" 80 "
nave Deeh reviewing 'ne WIZ
p'eSeuIns Von'e",'on' " e"s, ~ i"'".
my grahdiather he'peu 10 Ut 'hS "orH
lot our STATE
Tribute to Quigp.
Al the outset MI ROOT sara ne hau
great doubt as 10 whether or not ne
should ADDRESS the convention on this
question especially after my friend Mr.
Quigg in his speech or opposition TO the
bill had made 1t so difhcult for me TO
speak"
But ] have been so long deeply in
terested in the short ballot and the re-
storing or visible government In the
State that ! ind ] must address the peo-
pie now as ] shall have so few oppor-
tunities hereafter. perhaps never an
other continued Senator Root.
MIR. Bracket suggests that the short
paiot luea euihe up ou' U, the uarh
mended il to the Legislature in 1910. and
that United States Senator James W.
Wadsworth. Jr, favored IL when he was
Speaker OF the Assembly. SO you see,
Hughes and Wadsworth were its spon-
sors.