Show MR BARNES STANDS PAT W WILDIA WILLIAM ILLIAM ILDIA BARNES NES JU JR Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican leader of New York has forever placed liim himself elf beyond the reach ch of contemporary critics who would accuse him of pandering to public sentiment to i increase hi his popularity His championship o of ultraconservative ultra measures in the thee e constitutional convention of this the Empire Empire Em Em- pire state at least dem demonstrates hi his independence He has added to his reputation for forming his own opinions opinions opinions ions and adhering to them hem however they may may displease those wh whose sc support support support sup sup- port as a political leader he might de de- Legislation establishing minimum wages providing for old age pensions an and similar paternalistic provisions impresses es Mr Barnes as so socialistic and as tending towards the creation of an an n a autocratic state and as denying deny ing inS utterly the American theory o of equality He will have none nono o of them F Consequently he lie suggested a as as' of tho articles in the ih jm an amendment amendment- pdt pdt- ra biting f trig the l T legislature from rain minimum mini mini- mum mUnI mum wage nee old oM ag age pensions an and His position posit ion attacked attacked by George W W. Wickersham former forme I attorney general of or tho the United States Stales h by J cob Gould Schurman UI and president of Cornell University ty others ho d defended fended it is vigor b band and intellectuality he brings to his every f expression by voice or pen 1021 There Thero is doubtless a happy happ medium somewhere between tho ultra conser of or Mr rr Barnes and the radicalism radicalism radical radical- ism iBm that would deprive tho the individual u I of cr c every initiative by placing him wholly in the care of the state The rhe tendency of tho the times is plainly to towards towards towards to- to wards government paternalism in in a degree but there is ri a point between co conservative and radical at which it must ultimately stop Old ago age pensions pensions pen pen- arc are not yet et seriously contemplated contemplated contemplated plated b by any great number of Americans Ameri cans but bat the principle of a n minimum wage has a n largo following and rand has I already been introduced Mr Barnes Bares finds the German example example example ex ex- ample of individual subordination nation to tho state as something tho United States should avoid oid Not a few will willI I bo be 30 inclined to agree with him but not many will sharp share his apprehensions The Tho ho disinclination on of tho tiro average American to resent interference with hi his lis personal liberty will survive e many generations and defeat t those who vho would circumscribe personal ac- ac tion lon The American state still exists ts for or the individual it will be long before before be- be fore the individual exists merely merel for tho jo state |