The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-09

they have very inadequate way OF
doing business.
II do know that the United States In
lts judicial procedure Ia many decades
behind every other civilized Government
In the world and I say II has an inn
mediate and imperative call to rectify
that because the speedness OF justice,
the ineNpensiveness OF Justice, the ready
access of justice Is the greater part OF
Justice itself
eli you have 10 he rich 10 get Justice
because OF the cost Of the process itself
then there Il no justice about II. and 80
| saw there liz another direction In which
we ought to be very quick to see the
signs Of the times and help those who
need to be helped.
The Tariff.
"Theh there Is something else. The
Democrats have heard the Republicans
talk about the scientific way In which to
handle tariff. though the Republicans
have never given any exhibition of n
knowledge OF how 10 handle II scientif-
caly.
m it IL scientific to put additional
profits into the hands OF those who arc
already getting the greater part OF the
profits then they have been exceedingly
scientific.
1T has been a science Of selnshnees:
II has been a science OF privilege, but that
kind OF science ! do not care to know
anything about except enough to stop IL;
but n by scientific treatment Of the tarih
they mean adjustment TO the actual trade
conditions Of America and the world then
I am with them.
And | vast to call their attention. as
they apparently have not noticed IT,. that
In. t.shg lob, afa. slNan
mission does that very thing. That com
mission Is authorized and empowered to
enter into and report to Congress not
only upon the conditions OF trade in this
country hut upon the conditions OF trade.
the cost OF manufacture, the cost OF trans
portation--all the things that enter into
the question OF the tariff In foreign coun-
tries as well as the United States and
into all those questions of varied com
binations which affect international trade
between Europe and the United States.
at has full powers which Will guide
Congress In the scientific treatment OF
questions Of International trade.
Being by profession schoolmaster.
| am glad TO point that out to class
OF unlnstructed Republicans. though l
had not always taught in the primary
grades
AT every turn the things that the re-
pubiicans-that Is the progressive Repub-
licans-haye proposed that we're practi.
cal the Democrats either have done OF
are INN edlately proposing to do. IL that
Is not a bill OF particulars to satisfy
the independent voters of the country 1
would like to have one produced.
There are things that the Progressive
, programme contains which, we being con-
stitutional lawyers, happen 20 know cam
not be done by the Congress OF the
United States. That In a detail which
they seem TO have overlooked, but so far
as they can be done by state legislation
for one, speaking for one Democrat, am
heartily in favor Of their being done, be-
cause Democrats do not congregate merely
in Washington--they congregate also In
the State Capltol-and they congregate
there In very influential numbers and
with very influential organizations.
Tbe Last Election.
| Just before I came away from Wash
| ington | was going over some OF the hg
ures of the last election--the elections OF
November last. The official returns have
not all come In yet. / don't know why
they are so slow In getting to us. but SC
far as they have come In they have giver
/ me this useful information. that taking
| the States where Senators were elected
and where Senators were not elected TAX
ing the election Of Governors and wher,
| Governors were not elected. taking this
| returns for the State Legislature Jr fol-
! the Congressional delegation, the Demo
| Gratis, reckoning State by State, woulC
have had, II II had been a Presidential
year. a majority OF about eighty in thu
electoral college. Fortunately or unfor
tunately this lot not a Presidential year
but the thing is significant to me for thi,
reason
"a great many people have been speak
ing OF the Democratic party as IA minorit,
party. Well, II II Is II Is not so much q
minority party as the Republican party
and as between minorities / think we car
claim to belong to the larger minority
The moral of that is merely what | have
already been pointing out to you. tha
neither party In its regular membership
has a majority.
| snow, I don't want 10 make the indie
pendent voter too proud OF himself. but
have TO admit that ne II our boss, ana
am bound 10 admit that the things h
wants are, so far AS ] have seen then
mentioned, things that I want.
81 am not an Independent voter, but
hope l can claim to be an Independent
person. and want to say uhls distinctly
/ do not love any party any longer than I
continues TO serve the immediate an,
present needs OF America.
II have been bred In the Democrat,
| party. | love the Democratic party, bu
| love America a great deal more than
love the Democratic party.
when a party thinks that II is an en'
In itself, then rise up and dissent II 4
"A means TO the end, and It's power de
Ponds. and ought to depend, on its show
ing that he knows what America need
and is ready to give II what II needs
THAT Is the reason ! say to the indie
pendent voter: You have got us in tn
palm of your hand, | do not happen L
be one OF your number but ! recognize
your supremacy, because read the cleo
ton returns | have this ambition m
Democratic friends, ] can avow Il o
Jackson day:
~ want 10 make every Independent
voter Of this country n Democrat. II
a little cold and lonely out where he
because. though he holds the balance O
power. he is not the majority. | want hir
to come In where Il iS warm. | wan
him to come In where there is lot q
good society, good companionship wher
there are great emotions.
THAT ~ what ] miss In the Republca
party. They don't seem to have an
great emotion. They seem to think
lot OF things but they don't seem TO hav
any enthusiasm about anything
Nov there Is one thing that have
grent deal OF enthusiasm about, | Nigh
almost say a reckless enthusiasm, an
rhat rs human liberty
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