The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-24

lems of this country is to develop effective methods of conciliation.
 Taking Q dispute, after 1t gets into a tangle, and rushing 1t to the doorstep of the president is a bad way to handle Q labor situa- ton or any other situation.
 Peace, Justice
 In international affairs, also, the republican party has always worked for the advancement of justice and peace. Following the early tradition of our country, 1t was consistently urged the adjust- ment of international disputes in accordance with law, equity and justice. We have now again de- clared our continual loyalty to this principle.
 Republican presidents sent dele- gates to the Hague conference and one of them took the leading part in the termination of the Russo Japanese war. Another republican president called ( conference which, for the first time, pro- duced c reduction and limitation of arms on wide scale. Still an- other led in securing the treaty outlawing wars.
 In purpose and achievement, our party has Q record which points the way to further help full service in creating interna- tional understanding, in removing the'causes of war, and in reducing and limiting arms.
 We shall take every opportunity to promote among the nations Q peace based upon justice and hu- man rights. We shall join in no plan that would take from us that independence of judgment which has made the United States c power for good in the world. We shall join in no plan that might involve us in a war in the begin- ming of which we had no part, or that would build Q false peace on the foundation of armed camps.
 Human Rights
 turn now to the basic prin- cipleS upon which our nation is founded. America has always stood, and now stands, first of all for human rights, for "the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" of the great declaration. The prime needs of men have not changed since that declaration, though new means from time to time may be necessary to meet those needs. But the great safe- guards against tyranny and op- pression must not be cast away and lost. They must be saved that men may live free to pursue their happiness, safe from any king or exploitation.
 One cannot face this occasion and the prospect flowing from 1t without a sobering reflection upon the beginnings, growth, and des- tiny of our nation. Our govern- ment was founded to give life to ertain vital principles. The people embodied these basic principles of human rights in the federal and state constitutions. Thus, the peo- pie themselves, of their own free will, set up this government. And 1t is still the government of the people. Any change which the people want they can have by fol- lowing the procedure they them- selves laid down.
 Illegal Acts
 But for any official or branch of government to attempt such Q change, without authority from the people, is to do an unwar- ranted and Illegal act. It is a sub- stitution of personal for consti- tutional government. If added power is needed. the people have set out how that authority may be had from them if they wish to give 1t.
 This, in its broad essentials, is the basic structure of our govern ment.
 As our economic life has bee come more complex and specialized some need, real or apparent, has often been urged as an excuse for a further grant of power from the people. They have sometimes given, sometimes withheld, the desired power.
 There has now appeared in high places, however, a new and dan- gerous impulse. This is the impulse to take away and lodge in the chief executive, without the peo- ple's consent, the powers which they have kept in their state gov- ernments or which they have re- served in themselves.