Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-11
wIurM,N's INuGrRAIs


Governor Whitman. on assuming
the executive chali. delivered an adj
dress that was notable 10 many par
tlcuiars First of an. Il took him just
twenty four minutes 10 tell the people
~ New York state that his inaugura-
zion was to mark return 90 sanity
ln respect 60 ihc enforcement ~ law.
Ne uttered no maguloquent
thoughts upon social justice" he
naae no snblime speech upon the
peoples rights" be rose 20 no sub
lime heights with the familiar up-
Hnr buncomhe. on the contrary, he
spoke plalnlY ana simply on necessity
for the enforcement ~ the laws u
thc land and the preservation II pub
lle Justice BOT bee us quote from him.
The growing Impotence of re-
straint moral aud legal. to be OBJ
sorTef every where in America. the IN
difference. s0rdidness and cumpia.
efncy Uf many 81 the educated and
wcil-to-do. the unchecked and un-
ffMHfAifN IIHFHhAiAH go ttiff ttftt.a
calculated 10 pre- iudica and poifon tine
minds of the ignorant and undermine
confidence in our Institutions. the
public opinion that iolerates iawless-
ness whether d boz the bnching -
the negro or TIE murder q the or
srnre ~ the violence attending near
Is am disputes between abor and
rapitai wiiI inevitably enEender q la-
- a. t.s. To-. ltF ftfffa anNH fnWa
sgieuce 1T the American people Snail
call halt no class can be above
the general law
There . but one way ~ meeting
The danger. and that way is through
the creation II i dominant and per
uading public sentiment in support ~
the enforcement 0f the law Where
that sentiment Is wanting, no devices
az the law can make up fer a."
Not IN many a day has there been
aunnder or slraighier counsel from
an American official IA a high place.
woodrow Wilson az his best has said
nothing better and u Governor
whitman has his eye on the presi-
dency be ia starting well on his course
toward showing his fitness for that
high office
but the irony Of q an is that these
words came from the lips OF a man
against whom the conservative pof-
ton 81 the New York press In their
election profandiy. warned the
ctlnns 81 an uncertain ana untrust-
worthy quantity
Il must bee refreshing 10 the
American public TO have an official
assume hlsh office without giving
out his remedies Tor an the ms TO
which flesh Is heir II there is one
thing porceptihle IN American cen.
seriousness today. o is feeling Of
WEAKNESS u the eure-all recipes
handed out hy nearly every man VINO
can command an audience. either
from the platform or IN the public
prints
There arc enough laws, there are
enough remedies. there are more
than enough mograms Of progress
nutas Governor Whitman BAYS, whore
tho sentiment for law ana order and
constitutional government Is lacking
600 theoretical devices can reform
mankind
Governor Whitman has no propos-
30 excerpt lo apply the principles of
business of SYSTEMATIC plan Of oper-
alton and scanunc plan 81 account
IuE and auditing to what he calis the
largest business IN the country
government And DE pledges himself
TO carry out economy ana apply the
laws Ia an endeaeor 10 serve tho
whole people ana not merely a par
N."
The legislature Of New Mexico.
about b convene Ga regulur secession.
would 90 wtH to consider carefully
Governor Whsmns words Right
action n a matters b ibe best pall-
fs fHr any wHy